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Administrators' newsletter - February 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news
 * A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
 * Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
 * Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news
 * When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
 * Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
 * The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries
 * JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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13:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Kobi Arad's article was deleted
Hi, I realized that an article, which some time ago was useful to make an article about Kobi Arad was deleted from the wiki, I do not know the reason but I think it is unfortunate since the music of Mr. Arad provides a very important Contribution to musicians and (as myself) musicologists from all over the world. His works are worthy of the most rigorous studies for Western musicians due to the complexity they possess. His work is also well supported by several referents through the internet, and web press. Without further reference I would like the article on Kobi Arad to be republished for future reference by the different communities of academic musicians from all over America. Attached is a link of the article that was written by me, which contains the references of which I mentioned previously.

http://u.wn.com/2017/01/22/Insight_Into_Kobi_Arads_Masterful_Musicianship/ Josecarlostenor (talk) 02:58, 9 February 2017 (UTC)