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Administrators' newsletter – October 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Blablubbs
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Alvestrand • Black Falcon • Deathphoenix • Dppowell • Mark Arsten • JGHowes (deceased)



Oversighter changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Callanecc
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Mkdw

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Galobtter

Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, extended confirmed protection may be used preemptively on certain high-risk templates.
 * Following a discussion at the Village Pump, there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.

Technical news
 * DiscussionTools has superseded Enterprisey's reply-link script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under.

Arbitration
 * A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
 * Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
 * The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

Miscellaneous
 * Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
 * The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:05, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Image request on North Platte Canteen
Hello! I was told you were the one who put an image request on the article North Platte Canteen and I think I might be able to fulfill this image request. I would just like to know what exactly you're looking for in the image. ― Blaze The WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 21:36, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Considering that there are no photos at all on the article right now, anything would be helpful. The lead photo of the article should show a broad overview of the subject, while additional detail shots showing anything discussed in the article would be great.  Being in the area, do you know of a local historical society that might have royalty-free or public domain photos of the site when it was in use?  A quick search of LOC.gov for the subject name doesn't return anything helpful.  Thanks! Slambo (Speak)  14:19, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
 * There's nothing that immediately comes to mind. There's a place that's dedicated to the history that's kinda out of town that might have something like that but otherwise the only other place I could think of would be the Visitor's Center. I was going to say I might be able to take some photos but looking at the coordinates the article says the Canteen was located at, it appears to now be some sort of memorial (which I think has now been demolished or replaced by an actual store) possibly dedicated to the Canteen (but the text is unreadable on Google Maps). So unless the coordinates are wrong, the only chance we have for getting an image would be public historical archives. Also please ping me when you reply ― Blaze The WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 16:07, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
 * It would probably still be there today, however the railroad no longer transports passengers and instead only appears to transport freight. Luckily it appears many other downtown buildings that might have historical significance are still there and have been preserved. ― Blaze The WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 16:18, 8 October 2021 (UTC)