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Administrators' newsletter – June 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2017).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Doug Bell • Dennis Brown • Clpo13 • ONUnicorn
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg ThaddeusB • Yandman • Bjarki S • OldakQuill • Shyam • Jondel • Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC proposing an off-wiki LTA database has been closed. The proposal was broadly supported, with further discussion required regarding what to do with the existing LTA database and defining access requirements. Such a tool/database formed part of the Community health initiative's successful grant proposal.
 * Some clarifications have been made to the community banning and unblocking policies that effectively sync them with current practice. Specifically, the community has reached a consensus that when blocking a user at WP:AN or WP:ANI, it is considered a "community sanction", and administrators cannot unblock unilaterally if the user has not successfully appealed the sanction to the community.
 * An RfC regarding the bot policy has closed with changes to the section describing restrictions on cosmetic changes.

Technical news
 * Users will soon be able to blacklist specific users from sending them notifications.

Miscellaneous
 * Following the 2017 elections, the new members of the Board of Trustees include Raystorm, Pundit and Doc James. They will serve three-year terms.

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Mass killings under Communist regimes
You indef-protected this article back in 2011, and reading through the mess that was, it seems like you made the right call at the time. Now after over five years, it's the longest-standing protected article. What are your thoughts on dropping this to semi or extended confirmed? —Guanaco 10:59, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
 * The full protection was not due to actions of inexperienced editors, so downgrading it doesn't make much sense. As long as the underlying consensus-required sanction remains (and I can't touch that unilaterally since it's not mine), I don't see much point in removing the full protection, since pretty much every edit requires a previous consensus anyway. (The two exceptions are not really relevant: there's only so many minor edits you can make to a page, and in all likelihood they've all been made already, and there shouldn't be any obvious vandalism/BLP violations on the page given the full protection.) T. Canens (talk) 21:42, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

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