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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
• The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

Arbitration

• Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
• The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• The New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

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

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
• Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
• Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
• The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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If I'm not mistaken, doesn't WP:G8 explicitly exclude user talk pages? Thanks! ChaotıċEnby(talk · contribs) 13:58, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@ User:Chaotic Enby, Oops, yes you're correct, looks like my mistake. More haste, less speed etc. Thanks for bringing this to my attention, I have now restored the page. --Cactus.man ✍ 14:25, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I saw you declined the G4 deletion of Ayaz Sheikh as the page was speed-deleted earlier. However, the page is just a copy of the recently deleted one following AfD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ayaz Sheikh, which was closed just a few hours ago. Should I open a second AfD, even it it's rather clear that the page is a recreation of a deleted one? Broc (talk) 16:47, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi User:Broc, thanks for your message.

I understand your point and agree to some extent, but technically a new Speedy nomination falls afoul of the G4 criteria. I'm not a big fan of process wonkery and generally frown upon it, but the "rules" have evolved over time, usually for a good reason. So I think the best course of action in this instance is to take the article to AFD.

Best wishes --Cactus.man ✍ 18:40, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Cactus.man. In the future I think you can accept a G4 in this situation, per Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion#Repeated Speedy Deletions (or: is AfD sovereign?). Hope this clarifies things. –Novem Linguae (talk) 02:58, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Novem Linguae.thanks for the note. I still find the wording of the G4 criteria a bit confusing, no matter how many times I read it. To my simple brain, it veeers into the semantic complexity and impenetrability of logical thinking involving Double negatives. I'll ponder over this longer, but thanks to User:Thryduulf, whose commentary in that thread on the interpretation of the wording I found the most helpful.

Thanks again. --Cactus.man ✍ 12:04, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
• Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

Technical news

• The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

Miscellaneous

• The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.

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

Administrator changes

• Kbdank71
• Kosack
• NrDg
• TLSuda

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

Technical news

• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

Miscellaneous

• Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

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hello sir i found that you have deleted my wiki page. If you don't mind can i know the reason. Madhav6763 (talk) 11:48, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello User:Madhav6763 your page Draft:Madhav (Founder & CEO) had been nominated and tagged for Speedy Deletion by User:SafariScribe under criteria G11 of the deletion policy. The policy allows for deletion at any point in time after a page has been nominated if the deletion is uncontested. You would have been notified on your userpage of the tagging for speedy deletion. To assist you in understanding the process I have reproduced the contents of the page tagging prior to its deletion below:

I hope that explains matters for you. --Cactus.man ✍ 13:36, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Cactus.man, please undelete User talk:Wow9. As far as I know, only the user page had promotional content. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 17:15, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done, as requested. -Cactus.man ✍ 17:23, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Per WP:DELTALK, I'd advise being more careful when deleting user pages in the future — make sure you don't take the talk pages with them! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 17:28, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]