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Administrators' newsletter – June 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Deskana · Mets501 · Staxringold

Bureaucrat changes
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Oversight changes
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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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WikiCup 2024 July newsletter
The third round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 June. As with Round 2, this round was competitive: each of the 16 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 256 points.

The following editors all scored more than 400 points in Round 3:


 * with 1,059 points, mostly from 1 featured article on DeLancey W. Gill, 11 good articles, 18 did you know nominations, and dozens of reviews;
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Ancestry of monarchs
Hello Victoria, I'm also very interstered in study of genealogy of medieval european royalty and want to ask about ancestry of monarchs isn't this obviously to add ancestors even without direct sources referencies because I don't always know there I can take them except web sources like Britannica, encyclopedia fmg.ac and geni.com and it can be very easily bring out from other articles parents of monarchs which are good sourced? And in other wiki like French, Spanish and Russian there are no such strict rules about sources referencies in royal ancestry and in them there no limit usually only in 4 generations. Dmitry Azikov (talk) 14:36, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
 * What other wikipedia's do is not relevant to what the rules are here on English wikipedia. In general, we are not a genealogical source - we should not aim to present genealogical information. See WP:NOTGENEALOGY. And unsourced information is also not acceptable - please do not introduce unsourced information. And you shouldn't combine unrelated sources to produce family trees - if the sources for a subject's life do not give a four or five generation ancestral tree, then per WP:UNDUE and WP:OR, we should not combine unrelated sources to produce information that sources about a subject do not consider important about that subject. Ealdgyth (talk) 16:54, 30 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Dmitry Azikov has started using FMG(Foundation for Medieval Genealogy) for sourcing their editing. That site isn't considered a reliable source, per this discussion. --Kansas Bear (talk) 20:48, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Also Frederick Lewis Weis's Ancestral Roots - and some others, but its impossible to tell which editions of those sources he's using. And frankly, the ancestry tables are pretty much cruft anyways - no serious academic biography would put in a full ahnentafel because so much of it is not germane to the subject - someone is very unlikely to have much influence or interactions with their great-great-grandmother, if they even have a clue who most of their remote ancestors are. He's spreading them all over and it's hard to keep up with the additions. Ealdgyth (talk) 21:51, 30 June 2024 (UTC)