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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
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Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:34, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers
Hi.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins) .MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:48, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Category:Categories by nationality has been nominated for discussion
Category:Categories by nationality, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:26, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news
 * A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
 * Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
 * Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news
 * When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
 * Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
 * The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries
 * JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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CfD
Hi there. I just wanted to let you know that I've listed Category:First Ministers of Northern Ireland at CfD for a name change. st 170  e  14:09, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare for deletion
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Proposed deletion of Ministry (collective executive)


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Orphaned non-free image File:Irishgreenlogo.png
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Category:Biota has been nominated for discussion
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ArbCom 2019 special circular
   

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:15, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)
ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:04, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Moving Minister of Agriculture (Canada)
Hi! I’m proposing to move the Minister of Agriculture of Canada page to Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food (Canada), to match the proper name of the article much like we do with other cabinet positions. I saw you made the article back in 2003 (and are still active on Wikipedia), so your input would be welcomed on the article’s talk page. ArmosNights (talk) 15:03, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

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Queens Park Rangers
In the scenario you provided, Wigan would get a 12-point deduction, which would push QPR up to 21st. In any scenario where QPR finishes 22nd before applying the 12-point deduction, the teams below them would be Barnsley and either Luton Town or Hull City (those teams play each other, so at least one will not have enough points to catch QPR). So Wigan would not finish in the relegation zone based on their match results in any scenario where QPR is in the relegation zone. Then their deduction would kick in this season instead of next season, which would place them below QPR. See: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/soccer-predictions/championship/ Cheers. Bmf 051 (talk) 21:52, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Pdlogo.png
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Karman
Hi. You should read the article here: https://airandspace.confit.dev/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/JSL-41.2.pdf It cites a lot of souces and parties involved in establishing what we know as a Karman line. This clearly shows that U.S and then Soviet Union agreed upon definition of space. Probably made it intentionally higher then what Karman calculations suggested, because they wanted to have bigger airspace. So you see Karman line is defined by FAI and have nothing to do with Karman calculations really. Also AFAIK there is only one Karman line, but there are multiple definitions of airspace / outer space boundary. Nux (talk) 08:58, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

Irish Election Summary Templates
Hello, The Tom, I've nominated five Irish election templates you've created for deletion for July 13, 2021. You can find it here. Feel free to participate. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 22:06, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Canadian federal election, 2006
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Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled
A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:07, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:German politics/party colours/CSU
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Nomination for deletion of Template:German politics/party colours/Green
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Nomination for deletion of Template:German politics/party colours/Left
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How we will see unregistered users
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Nomination for deletion of Template:European Council standings
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Current events/revisedlayout
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New administrator activity requirement
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Category:Anglican church buildings in Canada has been nominated for renaming
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Proposed deletion of Results of the 2006 Canadian federal election (Quebec and Atlantic Canada)


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