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

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 * Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
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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.

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IP Block exemption request
Hello @Spencer Please can you assist me with IPBE for the following users. They are currently contributing to a campaign related to Africa Day.



Please do create wikipedia accounts for those who have accounts on other wikis but do not have accounts on english wikipedia. Hope to read from you soon. JDQ  Joris Darlington Quarshie (talk) 23:31, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi JDQ, this is not within my usual area of expertise. I would recommend you follow the instructions at Unblock Ticket Request System or if you have additional questions, at WP:AN. Best,  Spencer T• C 04:37, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Noted with lots of thanks  JDQ   Joris Darlington Quarshie (talk) 07:16, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

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



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 * 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
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rollback requests
I have a request for you to rollback Revision as of 23:14, 16 September 2021 Hydralisk 12345 (talk) 19:13, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
 * There have been a lot of changes since then, many of which appear helpful. What is your rationale for the proposal? Thanks,  Spencer T• C 03:30, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
 * This is an account that spammed these requests indiscriminately to multiple accounts (including bots). &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 16:57, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
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Louis DeJoy Business section addition
Hey there! Just stopping by to make sure you'd seen my reply on the Louis DeJoy Talk page, where I've replied to your suggestion that I add some details about the nature of New Breed Logistics' relationship with the Postal Service by revising the Business section passage I put forward. When you get a minute, let me know what you think. Thanks! Jonathan with U.S. Postal Service (talk) 17:44, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

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



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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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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.

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 * 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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Dahua Technology
Hi Spencer, I am reaching out about this old discussion at Talk:Dahua_Technology. As you have done previous work on Dahua Technology, I was hoping you may be able to weigh in and assist. Thanks so much, Caitlyn23 (talk) 16:48, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
 * I am not familiar enough with the article/company to have a position on the requested change. Best,  Spencer T• C 15:21, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

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Subway article
Hi Spencer, this is Paige from Subway. I wanted to see if you were you available to review this request on the Subway talk page? I am currently working on drafting an Operations section that would incorporate information on Subway's business model, corporate structure, and restaurant locations. I envision an Operations section that includes Business model, Corporate structure, and Restaurants and digital subsections. More details can be found on the talk page and I will be available there to answer any questions. Thanks PHSubway (talk) 14:40, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I will not be able to give this request the time it deserves in a timely fashion. I added edit COI to the top of your request so it can put out a broader request for review, and I recommend you use this to get the most timely response for edit requests.  Spencer T• C 02:57, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

User talk:Femzy nana
You may wish to revoke TPA. Cahk (talk) 08:09, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

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



Administrator changes
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 * There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

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 * 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.

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

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 * 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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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:54, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Jim Goetz proposal
Hi Spencer, hope you've been well. I very much appreciated your fair-minded approach to my Robert Rubin edit requests in the past. Currently I am working with Sequoia partner Jim Goetz and have proposed a short new section about his philanthropic giving. However after several weeks I have been unsuccessful finding someone via relevant WikiProjects to review it. If you might have a spare moment to review this request, I'd really appreciate it. WWB Too (Talk &middot; COI) 20:10, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Not sure when I'll have a chance to give it a review so I've added edit COI to the top of the section so that someone can give it a look; please use that to give it a larger call for requested edits with a conflict of interest. Best,  Spencer T• C 20:33, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks for getting back to me. I'll keep fingers crossed. Best, WWB Too (Talk &middot; COI) 20:54, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

December greetings
Thank you for your ITN work! - Today, I have a special story to tell, of the works of a musician born 300 years ago. - I wish you a good festive season and a peaceful New Year! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:35, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:54, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Polegåarden unblock request
Hi Spencer, I'm just reviewing the latest unblock request from Polegåarden and I'm minded to accept it. As blocking admin, just wanted to check with you if you have any comments/objections? <b style="color:#98F">W</b><b style="color:#97E">a</b><b style="color:#86D">g</b><b style="color:#75C">ge</b><b style="color:#83C">r</b><b  style="color:#728">s</b><small  style="color:#080">TALK  09:48, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Given the comments on their talk page, I think a second chance would not be unreasonable and no objection from me at present.  Spencer T• C 16:10, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:01, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest? Why are you deleting looted art related info on Cleveland Museum of Art?
You seem to have deleted (reverted) looted art related well-referenced text from Cleveland Museum of Art.

You did the same for the article regarding the museum director William Griswold with a comment "discussed in body". The well-referenced information (now deleted by you) is NOT discussed in the body in the way the main section claims "In the two instances that museum staff discovered the questionable provenance of one of its objects, he has personally led negotiations resulting in their return to their respective countries of origin." which paints a very positive picture of William Griswold. Whereas,the text (with credible references) deleted by you points to a different picture. That is; Cleveland Museum of Art has acquired the looted statue when no other museum wanted to touch it because of its dubious origins and even after it was recently confiscated by the law enforcement, the museum under the direction of William Griswold tries to cling on the looted material, yet alone "personally leading negotiations resulting to return to the country of origin".

Please could you explain why nave you deleted well-referenced counter-argument text?

Regs. Lightingci (talk) 02:48, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I have no relationship with the Cleveland Museum of Art or to William Griswold. Please note my edit at Cleveland Museum of Art here that sought to include additional information regarding this topic in the body that was included in the reference, and I added information from the edit with neutral fashion. As for the William Griswold (museum director) article, the article must adhere closely to the Biographies of living persons policy. Neither reference mentions Griswold, and thus would be most appropriate for the CMA article rather than Griswold's, unless reliable sources mention a clear connection. I was mistaken in my edit summary and meant the main CMA article rather than the body of Griswold's article. I agree that the information can also be added to Griswold's article if a reliable sources makes a clear connection between his role in this, and you are welcome to go ahead and make such edits. Best,  Spencer T• C 08:27, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

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February music
Thank you for bringing Seiji Ozawa to the Main page! I thanked him, and have the story of Helga Paris today, a photographer of houses and faces. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:19, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

The image, taken on a cemetery last year after the funeral of a distant but dear family member, commemorates today, with thanks for their achievements, four subjects mentioned on the Main page and Vami_IV, a friend here. Listen to music by Tchaikovsky (an article where one of the four is pictured), sung by today's subject (whose performance on stage I enjoyed two days ago). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:50, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

more music and flowers on Rossini's rare birthday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:36, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

Administrator changes
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 * Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

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RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase I
Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:


 * Proposal 2, initiated by, provides for the addition of a text box at Requests for adminship reminding all editors of our policies and enforcement mechanisms around decorum.
 * Proposals 3 and 3b, initiated by and, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.
 * Proposal 5, initiated by, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections.
 * Proposals 6c and 6d, initiated by, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting.
 * Proposal 7, initiated by, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings.
 * Proposal 9b, initiated by, provides for the requirement that allegations of policy violation be substantiated with appropriate links to where the alleged misconduct occured.
 * Proposals 12c, 21, and 21b, initiated by, , and , respectively, provide for reducing the discretionary zone, which currently extends from 65% to 75%. The first would reduce it 65%–70%, the second would reduce it to 50%–66%, and the third would reduce it to 60%–70%.
 * Proposal 13, initiated by, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections.
 * Proposal 14, initiated by, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote.
 * Proposals 16 and 16c, initiated by and, respectively, provide for community-based admin desysop procedures. 16 would desysop where consensus is established in favor at the administrators' noticeboard; 16c would allow a petition to force reconfirmation.
 * Proposal 16e, initiated by, would extend the recall procedures of 16 to bureaucrats.
 * Proposal 17, initiated by, provides for "on-call" admins and 'crats to monitor RfAs for decorum.
 * Proposal 18, initiated by, provides for lowering the RfB target from 85% to 75%.
 * Proposal 24, initiated by, provides for a more robust alternate version of the optional candidate poll.
 * Proposal 25, initiated by, provides for the requirement that nominees be extended-confirmed in addition to their nominators.
 * Proposal 27, initiated by, provides for the creation of a training course for admin hopefuls, as well as periodic retraining to keep admins from drifting out of sync with community norms.
 * Proposal 28, initiated by, tightens restrictions on multi-part questions.

To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her), via:

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Editor experience invitation
Hi Spencer :) I'm looking for people to interview here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss 🍀  (talk) 07:10, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks ! Just done.  Spencer T• C 00:58, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).



Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Kbdank71 · Kosack · NrDg · TLSuda

Guideline and policy news Technical news Arbitration Miscellaneous
 * An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.
 * The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes.
 * An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
 * Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:48, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Ask for help
Hi, firstly my english are badly because I'm from Hong kong. Hopefully you don't mind. I want to ask you for help because user Monerals delete some information in United States at the Winter Olympics and United States at the 2022 Winter Olympics. His edit behavior same as 81.19.139.24 and 185.42.163.210. I'm not sure nor they're the same person. But I think he did a disruptive edit. Also the pages in United States at the 2016 Summer Olympics, United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics and United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics, he delete some information and say that bad english. But I don't think it's not a problem. Can you help me to see it? Thanks. Stevencocoboy (talk) 06:01, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I see this is being discussed at User_talk:Monerals and don't have anything in particular to add. Best,  Spencer T• C 04:25, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
 * It have been already solved. Thanks. Stevencocoboy (talk) 06:17, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Disruptive IP again
Hi, Spencer. Can you block this IP that continues to rapidly revert my edits on Talk:Reddit and using it as a forum? This is the IP: 2003:DC:CF35:AC00:7724:8D7B:E601:A1CB. Thanks. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 13:30, 22 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Okay, Scottish already did it. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 13:54, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Nyttend
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg JohnOwens · Killiondude · MelanieN · Nihonjoe

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Nihonjoe



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Joe Roe

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news
 * Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

Technical news
 * Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

Arbitration
 * The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

Miscellaneous
 * This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
 * A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
 * Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:24, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

RFA2024 update: phase I concluded, phase II begins
Hi there! Phase I of the Requests for adminship/2024 review has concluded, with several impactful changes gaining community consensus and proceeding to various stages of implementation. Some proposals will be implemented in full outright; others will be discussed at phase II before being implemented; and still others will proceed on a trial basis before being brought to phase II. The following proposals have gained consensus:

See the project page for a full list of proposals and their outcomes. A huge thank-you to everyone who has participated so far :) looking forward to seeing lots of hard work become a reality in phase II. theleekycauldron (talk), via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:09, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Proposals 2 and 9b (phase II discussion): Add a reminder of civility norms at RfA and Require links for claims of specific policy violations
 * Proposal 3b (in trial): Make the first two days discussion-only
 * Proposal 13 (in trial): Admin elections
 * Proposal 14 (implemented): Suffrage requirements
 * Proposals 16 and 16c (phase II discussion): Allow the community to initiate recall RfAs and Community recall process based on dewiki
 * Proposal 17 (phase II discussion): Have named Admins/crats to monitor infractions
 * Proposal 24 (phase II discussion): Provide better mentoring for becoming an admin and the RfA process
 * Proposal 25 (implemented): Require nominees to be extended confirmed

In the news
Where can I find the archives of former In the news entries from January 2023? I'm preparing for an exam. I find it useful. 157.44.145.74 (talk) 15:03, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't think there is a particular page; an incomplete archives for 2008-2011 can be found at ITN archives. Archives of nominations can be found at In the news/Candidates/Archives. Best,  Spencer T• C 03:41, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

IKEA Foundation request
Hi Spencer, I'm Altaf with the IKEA Foundation. I had a request for the article and was wondering if you might be willing to take a look since you had reviewed another one of my requests in the past. I'd really appreciate it! AMfromIKEA (talk) 07:01, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

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DYK for Joel Breman
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