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Administrators' newsletter – June 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2019). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Andonic • Consumed Crustacean • Enigmaman • Euryalus • EWS23 • HereToHelp • Nv8200pa • Peripitus • StringTheory11 • Vejvančický

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC seeks to clarify whether WP:OUTING should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
 * An RfC on WT:RfA concluded that Requests for adminship and bureaucratship are discussions seeking to build consensus.
 * An RfC proposal to make the templates for discussion (TfD) process more like the requested moves (RM) process, i.e. "as a clearinghouse of template discussions", was closed as successful.

Technical news
 * The CSD feature of Twinkle now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion.  You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your Twinkle preferences: look for Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria.
 * Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution!  The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.

Miscellaneous
 * The previously discussed unblocking of IP addresses indefinitely-blocked before 2009 was approved and has taken place.
 * The 2019 talk pages consultation produced a report for Phase 1 and has entered Phase 2.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:49, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

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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. ★ Bigr   Tex  20:29, 13 June 2019 (UTC)


 * I see you've already uploaded and used a version of their current logo in color. Thanks for letting me know. Slambo (Speak)  10:45, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

Trains portal DYK
Hi, regarding - unfortunately the original text was somewhat misleading, I've had to  with sources. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 19:48, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Cool, thanks for the update. Do you think we need to update the DYK item too?  Slambo (Speak)  10:51, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes please, I should have mentioned that. Unfortunately, the key fact that I can't find is just where the fourth rail was to be positioned. The London Underground uses an outside conductor rail at +420 V (nominal) and a centre conductor rail at -210 V (nominal) for a total P.D. of 630 V - the running rails are at earth potential and not part of the traction supply. However, the SE&CR system would have had one conductor rail at +1500 V and the other at -1500V for a total P.D. of 3000 V, but the running rails would have provided a common return for both conductor rails, somewhat like the Edison three-wire DC system. I read somewhere (but can't find it) that both conductor rails would have been outside. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 19:06, 20 June 2019 (UTC)