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Administrators' newsletter – November 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2017). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Longhair • Megalibrarygirl • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Allen3 • Eluchil404 • Arthur Rubin • Bencherlite

Technical news
 * The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team is creating an "Interaction Timeline" tool that intends to assist administrators in resolving user conduct disputes. Feedback on the concept may be posted on the talk page.
 * A new function is now available to edit filter managers that will make it easier to look for multiple strings containing spoofed text.

Arbitration
 * Eligible editors will be invited to submit candidate statements for the 2017 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 12 until November 21. Voting will begin on November 27 and last until December 10.
 * Following a request for comment,, and  will serve as the Electoral Commission for the 2017 ArbCom Elections.

Obituaries
 * The Wikipedia community has recently learned that (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as . Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:49, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Your signature
Please be aware that your signature uses deprecated  tags, which are causing Obsolete HTML tags lint errors. Your signature is also causing Tidy bug affecting font tags wrapping links.

You are encouraged to change
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to
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Respectfully, Anomalocaris (talk) 08:57, 28 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the heads-up. I added the earlier code way back in 2004 when I started editing.  I've made the update today. Slambo  (Speak)  12:14, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Y'know, you can simplify that even more:
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 * -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 14:15, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Slambo! Redrose64: Thank you for your helpful suggestion! I am looking for ways to shorten signature markup, especially for users right up at the 255-character limit. —Anomalocaris (talk) 19:51, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * It's worth remembering that the  attribute is valid on all HTML elements, not just  and . So when two elements are nested, and one of them is a span, they can often be combined. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 21:42, 28 November 2017 (UTC)