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 * Thank you very much for the cookies, they go well with my black tea!Geysirhead (talk) 16:16, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Warm Showers


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 * Draft:Warm Showers is not unambiguously promotional, because Warmshowers.org already reached a certain level of fame, which exceeds the level of fame for hospitality networks with already existing Wikipedia articles. For instance, BeWelcome.org (alexa rank 507,989) with an already existing Wikipedia article BeWelcome has only half of the activity as can be measured on Warmshowers.org (alexa rank 184,760). Geysirhead (talk) 18:14, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

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 * Thank you for hint!--Geysirhead (talk) 08:53, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

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April 2020
Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Idiocracy, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. You may also want to review WP:FILMPLOT, as the information you added did not appear to be crucial to understanding the film's narrative. DonIago (talk) 15:49, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for your appreciation of my contributions! My problem is that there are actually some sources proving that Artificial intelligence is an issue in Idiocracy, and especially for its extensive use in gevornment and business. But, these sources are either recreational papers, presentations, blog posts or just comments — no reliable source. The fact that Idiocracy is partially about Artificial Intelligence appears to be so obvious that no serious source tries to prove it. My intention was to interconnect Idiocracy to Artificial Intelligence for those, who have not seen the movie yet. Geysirhead (talk) 16:53, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your thoughtful response. Unfortunately if it's true that no reliable source has discussed the connection between the film and AI, then as editors we really can't be making the connection ourselves; that would be the textbook definition of OR. I only saw the film once, and it was some time ago, so I'm not sure how helpful I can be here, but perhaps this might help? Good hunting, and please let me know whether there's anything I can do to help! Alternately, you might ask at the article's Talk page to see whether other editors might have better luck tracking down a source. Cheers! DonIago (talk) 20:13, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

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 * Thank you for the hint. Is it advisable for me to become an administrator? --Geysirhead (talk) 17:48, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

September 2020
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 * Nyook This is not true. There have been subsections with only one sentence each. Add more sentences, and you are welcome to make subsections! --Geysirhead (talk) 06:47, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Sorry, my bad. --Nyook ✉ 06:51, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

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26 October 2020
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 * The statement is supported by dozens of scientific papers. A consensus is not democracy WP:NOTADEMOCRACY, where unsound arguments like I just don't like it can negate scientific sources. Multiple editors interested in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict appear to be according to their contributions Single-purpose_accounts, writing frequently tendentious NPOV edits, supporting irredentist cause of a certain nation and participating in Talk page by expressing the earlier mentioned unsound arguments. Sorry, this is not a base for consensus.--Geysirhead (talk) 11:44, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

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Nomination of Anita Schjøll Brede for deletion
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 * Oppose This person has delivered 2 TED-talks. Important figure with connections to billionaires.--Geysirhead (talk) 20:40, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Page naming
Hey, Could you look into this: Talk:Government_by_algorithm --Genetics4good (talk)

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 * Thank you for deleting it! I wanted it to be deleted, but did not have any button for it.--Geysirhead (talk) 17:25, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

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Eutopia (disambiguation)
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 * Eutopia is an EP. How can an EP be a primary topic?--Geysirhead (talk) 08:25, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

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 * . Read the source, before reverting:"...We may note that the doctrines of Wahhabism are an important factor in the development of the complexity which is modern Islam. I have chosen another example for this study, the Libyan Arab Republic (L.A.R.) and its leader since the revolution of September 1st 1969, Mu'ammar al-Kadhdhāfī Here we find a reinterpretation of Islam and an explicit attempt to make this form of Islam the basis of a political ideology, the "Third International Theory". L.A.R. claims to be the model state, the Utopia, of the practical application of this ideology, in its institutions and in its political actions. When the Libyan monarchy was overthrown in the coup d'état of September 1st 1969, the consequences were not only constitutional changes, but a totally new policy, a policy which has been regarded as surprising and abstruse. al-Kadhdhāfī characterized the process of changes as a "cultural revolution", and the world outside noticed at least two features thereof: the application of quranic precepts in ..."

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January 2022
Hi Geysirhead! I noticed that you have reverted to restore your preferred version of Jezebel several times. The impulse to undo an edit you disagree with is understandable, but I wanted to make sure you're aware that the edit warring policy disallows repeated reversions even if they are justifiable.

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 * All editors are expected to discuss content disputes on article rules apply to everybody.--Geysirhead (talk) 17:34, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I am discussing on the talk pageof the article. You are ignoring WP:BRD and not waiting for consensus before restoring your editsUnbh (talk) 17:39, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Please, read my arguments carefully and reach a concensus with me. I am not ignoring WP:BRD. Your edit summary does not contain a reason. Rules apply to everybody.--Geysirhead (talk) 17:44, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I am reading your arguments. They are not convincing. We haven't found consensus so you need to wait for further input before restoring your additionUnbh (talk) 17:49, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Move to the talk page of the article! You have already shown by stalking, vandalism and some edit trickery that your goal is not to be convinced and not to improve wikipedia.--Geysirhead (talk) 18:18, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

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Hello, I'm Unbh. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Warm Showers, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Unbh (talk) 15:34, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

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 * 1) Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made;
 * 2) Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

From the talk page of Unbh
Please stop following me around and undoing my edits. You have done this respectively and without showing good reason, such as when I changed the page for Downfall to correct a mistake. The mistake was genuine- Hitler spoke with a Bavarian accent, not a standard Austrian one, as he grew up in Bavaria from the age of three. His accent was thus very distinctive, as many Germans struggle to comprehend Bavarian even today. The point is, mate, you're a newcomer, and you should learn to respect the changes people like I make, as it's purely out of concern that something is incorrect or needs additional information.--222.153.41.39 (talk) 11:31, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 * you've been reverted, you need to discuss on talk per WP:BRD. the language you are using is not encyclopaedic, and it's not all properly sourced either.Unbh (talk) 13:35, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

December 2021
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This does not lead anywhere
Please, stop this, read the source of the articles, before you delete everything out blind feeling.--Geysirhead (talk) 15:04, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Why are you stalking? --Geysirhead (talk) 15:05, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm not stalking. I was editing sites in the category Hospitality exchange services. They all have serious problems.Unbh (talk) 15:08, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Then discuss them in the talk page, stop edit war. You do not read the sources.--Geysirhead (talk) 15:11, 14 January 2022 (UTC)


 * "The IRS is not a reliable source to establish notability." What?--Geysirhead (talk) 15:15, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

Stop
Stop creating User:Unbh (or userpages for any other user) unless you can provide evidence that the user in question has specifically requested you do so. It's straightforward harassment for you to be doing this, and there's any more of it you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. &#8209; Iridescent 17:34, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Agree, Unbh should stop deleting my warnings on her/his talks site about her/his stalking and edit warring.--Geysirhead (talk) 17:41, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
 * No, that is what I'm saying. Except in a very few exceptional circumstances editors are entirely within their rights to delete comments from their own talkpages; it's taken as evidence of the message having been read. What editors are  allowed to do is to create talkpages in another user's userspace against their wishes, which is what you're doing. If you do it again, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. &#8209; Iridescent 18:18, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
 * No, that is what I'm saying. Except in a very few exceptional circumstances editors are entirely within their rights to delete comments from their own talkpages; it's taken as evidence of the message having been read. What editors are  allowed to do is to create talkpages in another user's userspace against their wishes, which is what you're doing. If you do it again, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. &#8209; Iridescent 18:18, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

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Other uses
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 * Hey, you are wrong! You confused other uses of, which I used, with otheruses.--Geysirhead (talk) 07:36, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
 * OK, but it doesn't matter that there are two templates with similar names that show similar messages. The point is that it's incorrect at the the top of an article titled "German Mathematical Society" or "Deserted medieval village" to have a hatnote that reads For other uses of "DMV", see DMV. The title of the article the reader is looking it isn't itself a use of "DMV", so it doesn't make sense to talk of other uses of it. This doesn't change even when "DMV" is mentioned as an acronym or alternative name in the text. Relative to "DMV", the title of the article is already disambiguated. We don't put disambiguation hatnotes in the articles where the title is already disambiguated, either by being expanded (such as "Deserted medieval village"), or by having a disambiguator in their titles (such as "DMV (rock band)"), or by using the primary name. See WP:NOTAMB. Largoplazo (talk) 11:08, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but you are inventing your own rules now. other uses of is made for polysemic synonyms like DMV of Deserted medieval village.--Geysirhead (talk) 13:10, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I am not making up WP:NOTAMB (have you read it yet?) and the point is to put that tag, or similar tags, or tags that serve the same purpose, on the article that has the undisambiguated title that has polysemic synonyms. "German Mathemaatical Society" is not a polysemic synonym, nor is "deserted medieval village". And can you not see for yourself that "For other uses of DMV" makes no sense on top of an article whose title isn't "DMV"? I just don't understand your motivation here—you seem determined to do something that makes no sense. Largoplazo (talk) 15:46, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I read WP:NOTAMB, although I did not need to, since they don't apply here. DMV is a polysemic synonym and also an acronym of deserted medieval village. In general, acronyms often are polysemic synonyms and therefore fit the rules of other uses of.--Geysirhead (talk) 16:41, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Nomination of Trustroots for deletion
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Stalking and Harrassment
Consider this a friendly note but a warning nonetheless. I note you've been pulled up on ANI in January for stalking and edit-warring. You might take my advice and display signs that you learned from that encounter and have changed your conduct. You've started to stalk my edits making snarky comments. We've never crossed paths previously, I tend to operate exclusively at NCORP-related AfDs so I see no reason for your sudden interest in my activities other than to amuse yourself by harassing me. If I see you pop up again I'll open a case at ANI. Fair enough?  HighKing++ 19:10, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Calm down. I know you can do better. If I see a copy-pasted boilerplate no matter whose in discussions involving me again, I will react. "to amuse yourself" No, I amuse to learn new things and put them into wikipedia, talking to you is exhausting. I am not lying. Look into my two years of contributions before making claims of what I do amuse!--Geysirhead (talk) 12:49, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

February 2022
Hi, Geysirhead. I see you make a lot of helpful gnomish edits. Thank you for that. But when you enter into dialogue with people, you far too often speak aggressively to them, belittle them, and fail to assume good faith of them,. I have only linked to recent diffs. Sticking in the shortcut WP:LISTEN on the slightest provocation is inherently insulting. (Unbh is not failing to listen at Talk:Warm Showers, they are explaining what sources count towards notability, something you seem to have a poor grip on for a two-year-old account.) And don't tell people to calm down. It's extremely rude, especially when they appear perfectly calm. I suggest you have a read of Civility and pull in your horns. You're not a newbie any more, so a little more adjustment to Wikipedia's policies, guidelines, and culture is expected of you. Bishonen &#124; tålk 13:30, 17 February 2022 (UTC).
 * Thank you for appreciating my edits, dear ! Are you writing WP:NNC notability? If age matters, you are older than me in wikipedia terms, which is a fact. Unbh is a 2 months account, if age matters.--Geysirhead (talk) 19:20, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

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 * Stop stalking me! Here is the explanation Category talk:Rule by a subset of population--Geysirhead (talk) 07:12, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
 * A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.

Technical news
 * The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project.
 * Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022.
 * The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.

Arbitration
 * Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
 * Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
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Category:Lounge services has been nominated for deletion
Category:Lounge services has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:37, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.

Technical news
 * Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the  and   rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators.
 * When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present.

Arbitration
 * has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
 * A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
 * A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.

Miscellaneous
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
 * Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.

Technical news
 * The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.

Arbitration
 * Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).

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Guideline and policy news
 * Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.

Technical news
 * Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages.
 * The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under . Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.

Arbitration
 * Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
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 * @Pyrrho the Skipper I have added some of the links to her interviews in independent media and a link to a F.A.Z.-Postcast with participation. Geysirhead (talk) 16:58, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).

Administrator changes
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Arbitration
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Miscellaneous
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Speedy deletion nomination of Trustroots


A tag has been placed on Trustroots requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion discussion, at Articles_for_deletion/Trustroots. When a page has substantially identical content to that of a page deleted after a discussion, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).



Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
 * An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news
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 * Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration
 * The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous
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 * Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
 * Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.

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Thanks so much
Thanks so much for thanking me for my edit! The user (Unbh) who reverted the dates of rank thing repeatedly due to WP:NOTCV did the right thing. However, having looked through their history of their terse replying on talk pages, I got unnecessarily afraid and troubled about potentially getting into an argument with them. I'm very poor at handling terse, scolding or impatient language, especially terse replies which rarely carry sympathy or kindness in them. I was demoralized that this would end up becoming blanket removals/reverts which could result in heated exchanges on the WikiProject Military history talk page.

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 * Thank you for the cookie! Dear @SuperWIKI, you are not the first and unfortunately not the last victim of this special user (Unbh). Geysirhead (talk) 15:51, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't take it too personally in spite of the demoralization. Objectively, it seems that in spite of Unbh's style, his edit procedure-wise is perfectly correct as far as I know. Thank you again. SuperWIKI (talk) 15:56, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
 * "procedure-wise is perfectly correct" means that the user can read and understand English-language literature. I still see examples of opposite. For instance, Talk:Hospitality_Club Geysirhead (talk) 16:15, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, and please have another cookie
Thanks for the thanks :-) on my edits on Aspis. GMan552 (talk) 17:36, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).

Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
 * An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

Technical news
 * The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
 * The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

Arbitration
 * An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
 * The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous
 * The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
 * Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).

Administrator changes
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Interface administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block.
 * Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
 * Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October.

Technical news
 * The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

Arbitration
 * Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
 * A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
 * The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October.

Miscellaneous
 * An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their passwords are secure, and reminded that ArbCom reserves the right to not restore adminship in cases of poor account security. You can also use two-factor authentication (2FA) to provide an extra level of security.
 * Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections open 2 October and close 8 October.
 * You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process.
 * An RfC is open to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop.
 * Tech tip: You can do a fuzzy search of all deleted page titles at Special:Undelete.

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Category:Cricket player auction has been nominated for deletion
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).

Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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Oversight changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * The article creation at scale RfC opened on 3 October and will be open until at least 2 November.
 * An RfC is open to discuss having open requests for adminship automatically placed on hold after the seven-day period has elapsed, pending closure or other action by a bureaucrat.

Arbitration
 * Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 13 November 2022 until 22 November 2022 to stand in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections.
 * The arbitration case request titled Athaenara has been resolved by motion.
 * The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has entered the proposed decision stage.
 * , and  have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections.  and  are reserve commissioners.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2022 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of two new CheckUsers.
 * You can add yourself to the centralised page listing time zones of administrators.
 * Tech tip: Wikimarkup in a block summary is parsed in the notice that the blockee sees. You can use templates with custom options to specify situations like or.

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).

Administrator changes
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Oversight changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Consensus has been found in an RfC to automatically place RfAs on hold after one week.
 * The article creation at scale RfC has been closed.
 * An RfC on the banners for the December 2022 fundraising campaign has been closed.

Technical news
 * A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget.

Arbitration
 * Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 12, 2022 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
 * The proposed decision for the 2021-22 review of the discretionary sanctions system is open.
 * The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has been closed.
 * The arbitration case Stephen has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 1 December 2022.
 * A motion has modified the procedures for contacting an admin facing Level 2 desysop.

Miscellaneous
 * Tech tip: A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add  to the end of an IP in Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.

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Hello, Geysirhead. Thank you for your work on The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg (book). User:SunDawn, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

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Notice of neutral point of view noticeboard discussion
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Nomination of The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg (book) for deletion
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Andrew Yong · Dbenbenn · DESiegel · GlassCobra · Joe Decker · Nancy · Pathoschild · StuffOfInterest · William Pietri · Wwwwolf · Xdamr

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CheckUser changes
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 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ivanvector · SilkTork

Oversighter changes
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 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Guerillero · SilkTork

Guideline and policy news
 * Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.

Arbitration
 * Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee:, , , , , , ,.
 * The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
 * The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.

Miscellaneous
 * Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
 * Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2023
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 Miscellaneous
 * 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.
 * 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.
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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:37, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

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Merger of Abbasova to Abbasov
Why would you merge these? I suggest you restore these edits, as these are technically not the same name in English and the merger was poorly handled, not separating or listing the feminine version of the name in other aspects of the page like the title, wikidata and surname template (which gives less search-ability to the feminine version of the name). PigeonChickenFish (talk) 00:49, 6 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Dear @PigeonChickenFish, I looked into Category:Russian-language surnames before. Males and females are merged there. Ankudinov e.g. Geysirhead (talk) 00:54, 6 February 2023 (UTC)


 * There are many examples of surnames people separated by gender here, it has precedent in Category:Russian-language surnames and Category:Azerbaijani-language surnames. Please restore the former categories. PigeonChickenFish (talk) 00:58, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
 * There are much more precedents otherwise. Geysirhead (talk) 01:00, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
 * This is not a matter of opinion and if you disagree, we can have someone else take a look here. PigeonChickenFish (talk) 01:06, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
 * It is not an opinion. Females and males are merged in most cases. Geysirhead (talk) 01:10, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
 * @PigeonChickenFish "not separating or listing the feminine" everywhere else, they are nor separated. Putin (surname) e.g. Geysirhead (talk) 01:19, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
 * @PigeonChickenFish You confuse surnames with disambiguations! Geysirhead (talk) 01:22, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

, I am not confused between the two. It's a mistake that has happened and I will work to find the policy for you since you need confirmation. In the meantime I suggest you start looking too. One reason why we have some names are combined is because there are less WP articles about women in general, and the names get separated when there is enough names to create a standalone article (which is why we have feminine surname as a category for example). PigeonChickenFish (talk) 01:32, 6 February 2023 (UTC)


 * @PigeonChickenFish "why we have feminine surname as a category for example" This category does not make sense and has to be deleted, especially regarding all the different genders we have now. This Category:Irish-language_feminine_surnames is full whith redirects, does not make any sense. Geysirhead (talk) 18:16, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).

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 * Following a request for comment, F10 (useless non-media files) has been deprecated.
 * Following a request for comment, the Portal CSD criteria (P1 (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated.
 * A request for comment is open to discuss making the closing instructions for the requested moves process a guideline.

Technical news
 * The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted.

Arbitration
 * Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been rescinded.
 * The proposed decision for the Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case is expected 7 March 2023.
 * A case related to the Holocaust in Poland is expected to be opened soon.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members.
 * Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux.
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Category:Egalitarian communitities has been nominated for deletion
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Speedy deletion nomination of Seat of the pants


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Administrators' newsletter – April 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).

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Guideline and policy news
 * A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.

Technical news
 * Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11.
 * The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
 * A link to the user's page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on . This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.

Arbitration
 * The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
 * A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:11, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Saffar vs Safar
I don't think that having a page on an "Arabic surname" and puting the rest of Safar stuff on the dab page is a successful approach. While the spelling of surnames is easily verifiable, it is not verifiable which people have an Arabic surname as opposed to a different etymology (Peter Safar, for example, is more likely Germanized from the Czech or Hungarian spelling). I would be fine putting all the variations of Safar and Saffar surnames (including diacritical variations such as Šafár, Šáfár, Sáfár, Safár etc) on one page but then it is not an exclusively Arabic surname, it has multiple etymologies. (t &#183; c)  buidhe  14:17, 13 April 2023 (UTC)


 * @Buidhe Partitially agree. The arabic Safar/Saffar صفر comes from zero/void/second-month/yellow/brass and starts with an [s]. The East-European Šafář (Czech), Sáfár (Hungarian) and similar are all pronounced with [ʃ] in the beginning. The correct germanized form should have been Peter Schafar. Anyway, I would still separate the disambiguation Safar from Safar (surname) and explain in the surname the two etymologies. Geysirhead (talk) 04:26, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes the pronunciation is different but diacritics are often dropped in written English so someone looking for someone with the surname "Safar" could mean any of them. (t &#183; c)  buidhe  06:43, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).

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 * Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.

Arbitration
 * The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.

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 * The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.

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CS1 error on Utopian architecture
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).

Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
 * As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

Technical news
 * Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

Arbitration
 * The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

Miscellaneous
 * Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:33, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Game theory category
Hello. I see that you've again removed the Game Theory category from the Tragedy of the anticommons page. I'd like to understand your reasoning. I understand that Tragedy of the Commons is in the Game Theory cat, but why does that make the "anti-commons" categorization redundant when the two are separate and distinct theories and arguably not very clearly related. The former is established scientific theory, for which Ostrom was awarded the Nobel Memorial prize. The latter is a far less rigorous and less widely discussed or accepted idea, named to refer to but not to incorporate the former. SPECIFICO talk 22:55, 17 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Redundant categories should be avoided to reduce WP:OC. is a topic category, which is entirely within the topic category . Either "Tragedy of the commons" or "Game theory" is kept as a category for Tragedy of the anticommons, not both. Geysirhead (talk) 08:06, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I would say that Game Theory should be kept rather than Tragedy of the Commons, which is not really related in substance. SPECIFICO talk 17:04, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
 * done Geysirhead (talk) 18:28, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

Move
Hi, why did you make this move? Now the title doesn't represent the content Marcelus (talk) 19:31, 25 June 2023 (UTC)


 * the previous title was to long, the new title was a mistake. The final title is List of massacres of Poles by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and reprisals Geysirhead (talk) 19:34, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
 * It wasn't "too long", and the new title is still wrong, because it's not a "list of massacres". Marcelus (talk) 19:36, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
 * sorry, I added a lead. I would replace it with "List of quantitative estimates of massacred Poles by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and reprisals" Geysirhead (talk) 19:42, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Wait a moment, the proposed title isn't grammaticaly proper. Just roll it back to the previous title. And start a move discussion to a shorter, yet grammatically proper title. Marcelus (talk) 19:51, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Also a title can be long, there is nothing wrong with that Marcelus (talk) 19:51, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

Category:Political slurs for people has been nominated for discussion
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).



Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.

Technical news
 * Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.

Arbitration
 * Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).



Administrator changes
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 * The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools.
 * Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist.

Arbitration
 * The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
 * The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:54, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Ways to improve Rail suicide
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Thank you for creating Rail suicide.

I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

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 * Thank you. It is fixed so far. Geysirhead (talk) 13:23, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Seat of the pants
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).

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Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
 * A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that [s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.

Technical news
 * Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date.

Arbitration
 * The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

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Your draft article, Draft:Seat of the pants


Hello, Geysirhead. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Seat of the pants".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 17:40, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).



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Technical news
 * The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
 * There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

Arbitration
 * Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
 * , and  have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections.  is the reserve commissioner.
 * Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
 * Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
 * Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
 * Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
 * An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous
 * The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

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Category:Fictional doomsday scenarios has been nominated for merging
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

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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.
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Category:Rule by a subset of population has been nominated for discussion
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