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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

Technical news

• Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!

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Hi Xymmax, I hope all is well. I was wondering if you'd be willing to overturn to redirect. Three editors supported redirecting, two of whom provided reasoning based on P&Gs, while the one !keep vote basically amounted to WP:ILIKEIT. Best, voorts (talk/contributions) 15:16, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally, at the very least everyone in the discussion agreed (or did not contest) that the violin DAB page should be redirected. voorts (talk/contributions) 15:31, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings. I considered the My oh my/Mushy Yank contributions to be more substantive than ILIKEIT, as the editor was to a greater or lesser extent grappling with how to present searchers with the information that they most likely sought, which furthers the general purpose of redirects and DAB pages. The editor's view did not reach consensus, but it did not appear to me that redirect for the piano sonata DAB did either. However, on further reading I think you're correct about the violin sonata, and I will reclose that as redirect. Thanks for stopping by. Xymmax ^{So let it be written} _{So let it be done} 00:13, 3 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Guideline and policy news

• Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
• The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous

• WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).

Administrator changes

• Elli
• HouseBlaster
• Pickersgill-Cunliffe

• Brianga
• De728631
• Georgewilliamherbert
• Hyacinth (deceased)
• ProveIt
• The Night Watch

Technical news

• Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)

Miscellaneous

• The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more

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