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

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Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the administrator policy now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
• Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.

Technical news

• The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
• In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
• Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.

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Sent by Baffle gab1978 using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:30, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently, every character in Japanese refer to each other by their last name unless they are younger or have a nice relationship. For example, Akane Tsunemori is usually called Akane due to her being the youngest one in the series but in the third season which takes around 8 years later, she is simply referred as Tsunemori. Kogami was once friendlier to Nobuchika Ginoza so there are some episodes where he calls him Gino. Hope this makes sense.Tintor2 (talk) 22:15, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not really, Tintor2, because an encyclopedia article (unlike a fan site) can't assume that much familiarity with character name changes on the part of a reader. I got very confused because the same character (Akane Tsunemori) was sometimes called by her first name and other times by her last; I thought there were two separate characters. If you're thinking of GAN in the future, I think the character names need to be consistent for clarity. All the best, Miniapolis 23:45, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm still confused. Is it okay to use first names? I mean in a formal way, real people's names tend to use their last names but what about also fictional people who are formal? I remember watching the tv series in English Akane always called Shinya "Mr. Kogami" even in the 2015 movie. Sorry for bothering.Tintor2 (talk) 15:34, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, Tintor2. In a plot summary of a fictional work, characters – especially young ones – are generally known by their first names in third person (when talking about them). Akane calls Shinya "Mr. Kogami" in second person (as a sign of respect, I think) when she talks to him in the story. Hope this helps. All the best, Miniapolis 15:55, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]