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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2019).

Administrator changes Johnuniq • Kosack • Valereee Ad Orientem • Ched • Gadfium • Jonathunder • Nick • Yelyos Bald Zebra • Beetstra • Doug Bell • Journalist • Ruud Koot • Splash • Voice of Clam Interface administrator changes Dinoguy1000

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Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the page Wikipedia:Office actions has been changed from a policy page to an information page.
• A request for comment (permalink) is in progress regarding the administrator inactivity policy.

Arbitration

• Editors may now use the template {{Ds/aware}} to indicate that they are aware that discretionary sanctions are in force for a topic area, so it is unnecessary to alert them.

Miscellaneous

• Following a research project on masking IP addresses, the Foundation is starting a new project to improve the privacy of IP editors. The result of this project may significantly change administrative and counter-vandalism workflows. The project is in the very early stages of discussions and there is no concrete plan yet. Admins and the broader community are encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page.
• The new page reviewer right is bundled with the admin tool set. Many admins regularly help out at Special:NewPagesFeed, but they may not be aware of improvements, changes, and new tools for the Curation system. Stay up to date by subscribing here to the NPP newsletter that appears every two months, and/or putting the reviewers' talk page on your watchlist.

  Since the introduction of temporary user rights, it is becoming more usual to accord the New Page Reviewer right on a probationary period of 3 to 6 months in the first instance. This avoids rights removal for inactivity at a later stage and enables a review of their work before according the right on a permanent basis.

Hi Miniapolis, thanks for doing the GOCE task for my Rockstar San Diego article. I'm currently reviewing the changes and you did really great work, though stumbled over some minor grammatical issues I wanted to ask about (since I'm not a native speaker): In some instances, you removed or left out a comma prepended to a part-sentence beginning in "which". I usually add the comma (or, alternatively, use 'that') to follow guides like Grammarly and Writer's Digest. Furthermore, you sometimes replaced "video game" with "video-game" when used within a larger context (e.g. "video-game designer"). Is the hyphen required? Both words are nouns, and it matches the video game design(er) article title (or any other video game X article). Similar applies to "critical-reception scores" and "supporting-development role". I c/e'd the c/e in these two edits. Please let me know if I made a mistake. Lordtobi (✉) 18:06, 7 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for picking up that space between words which I left out; in edit mode, sometimes it's hard to tell if there's a necessary space at the end of a line (the line breaks are different in the actual article). I think WP's house style is based on the Chicago Manual of Style; what I did mainly were adjustments for American English (my native dialect), where collective nouns ("the company") are singular—in British English, they're plural. I hyphenated compound adjectives; IMO "video-game designer" should be hyphenated, but I don't care enough to make an issue of it. Language has a fair amount of wiggle room, and is always changing. Make whatever changes you want, and good luck with GA. All the best, Miniapolis 20:28, 7 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there

Sorry for disturbing your talk page, but just wanted to let you know that I came back to Wiki editing recently and your old feedback and encouragement posts really helped me gain some confidence.

Thanks again, and I'll be rejoining the GOCE with full force! Mathijsvs (talk) 12:39, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No apology needed; my TP is there for the disturbing . Glad you're back! Have fun and all the best, Miniapolis 23:22, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your support in my recent, albeit unsuccessful, RfA. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:25, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry it didn't work out, Hawkeye7; this place has been weird lately. Have fun and all the best, Miniapolis 23:25, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]