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Administrators' newsletter – November 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2020).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg John M Wolfson
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Bduke • Nilfanion • Philosopher • Rspeer • Yunshui

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ragesoss
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg TonyBallioni

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg EdJohnston • Oshwah • Yamla
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Yunshui

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Anarchyte
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Yunshui

Guideline and policy news
 * Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.

Technical news
 * Sysops will once again be able to view the deleted history of JS/CSS pages; this was restricted to interface administrators when that group was introduced.
 * Twinkle's block module now includes the ability to note the specific case when applying a discretionary sanctions block and/or template.
 * Sysops will be able to use Special:CreateLocalAccount to create a local account for a global user that is prevented from auto-creation locally (such as by a filter or range block). Administrators that are not sure if such a creation is appropriate should contact a checkuser.

Arbitration
 * The 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections process has begun. Eligible editors will be able to nominate themselves as candidates from November 8 through November 17. The voting period will run from November 23 through December 6.
 * The Anti-harassment RfC has concluded with a summary of the feedback provided.

Miscellaneous
 * A reminder that standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. (American Politics 2 Arbitration case).

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:51, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

Page mover granted
Hello, Interstellarity. Your account has been [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&user=&page=User%3A granted] the "extendedmover" user right, either following a request for it or demonstrating familiarity with working with article names and moving pages. You are now able to rename pages without leaving behind a redirect, move subpages when moving the parent page(s), and move category pages.

Please take a moment to review Page mover for more information on this user right, especially the criteria for moving pages without leaving redirect. Please remember to follow post-move cleanup procedures and make link corrections where necessary, including broken double-redirects when  is used. This can be done using Special:WhatLinksHere. It is also very important that no one else be allowed to access your account, so you should consider taking a few moments to secure your password. As with all user rights, be aware that if abused, or used in controversial ways without consensus, your page mover status can be revoked.

Useful links:
 * Requested moves
 * Category:Articles to be moved, for article renaming requests awaiting action.

If you do not want the page mover right anymore, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Thank you, and happy editing! – bradv  🍁  15:24, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I will use this right wisely. Interstellarity (talk) 18:36, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

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Archiving
I set my archive settings to archive after 2 weeks (14 days), however, it seems to archive after a month or so. I would like to change it to 2 weeks. Can you show me how to do that or do it for me please? Interstellarity (talk) 20:36, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I think it is working as intended, what you have is more or less what I've had for years now. I think just has a lesser checking rate. There are some items moved in less than a month, but it's never been an instant move once the date is hit in my experience. — IVORK Talk 21:32, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your response. I never thought it would be the bot's fault and I'll just keep things as intended. I'll leave a note on the operator's talk page so they can address this. Interstellarity (talk) 23:12, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:ShrekHuman.png
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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 18:58, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

Donald Trump
Howdy. We don't show the departure date, until the official's term is up. GoodDay (talk) 14:48, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
 * My apologies. I didn't know that. Interstellarity (talk) 15:35, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

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Stubs to Starts, Starts to C-class or B-class
Personally, after working to improve a Stub, I feel comfortable in regrading it to Start. Similar for Start to C-class. However, after working to improve a C-class article, rather than self-grade it to B-class, I leave a note on the Talk page that I have edited the article, but am leaving the decision to other editors. Whenever I intend to raise a C-class or B-class article to be worthy of a Good Article nomination, I state that intent on the Talk page. For an article as simple as Luna moth I did scores of edits before nominating (July 29-Aug 5, 2018) and then scores more in response to the reviewer. David notMD (talk) 10:36, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info. I'm assuming that you read my question at the Teahouse regarding good articles. Interstellarity (talk) 19:26, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes. And I will add that before any of my GA nominations, I checked every reference.David notMD (talk) 00:41, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

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