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Election season begins again
On 8 November, the nomination period has begun for this year's Arbitration Committee Elections. Nominations will be accepted until 23:59 UTC, 17 November.

By the end of the year, the two-year terms of seven arbitrators will end:, , , , , and , while 's one-year term will end. But in an unexpected announcement,, another one-year arbitrator, has resigned from the committee and retired from Wikipedia. Posted on their talk page:

This is not the only arbitrator to be leaving their seat early. posted on their talk page back in September their plans to retire a year early. Because of the shakeups, this means there will be nine vacant seats in this year's election. If you're interested in putting your hat into the ring, you can go here to become a candidate. Best of luck to anyone running.

Neelix case
While the election for new Arbitrators is going on, a new case has been accepted on 10 November. The Neelix case was opened after a thread titled "Thousands upon thousands of unnecessary redirects" was made at WP:AN/I on 5 November, where an IP address pointed out how Administrator was creating unnecessary redirects. These redirects have been deleted but they included "Constructed titty", "Constructions of the booby", "Feminine shape", "Feminine build", and hundreds more redirects with the similar motif. The thread closed mentioning that Neelix was blocked back in 2010 for making redirects similar to this incident. He was unblocked four hours later and apologized for what he did. He became an admin the following year. An Arbitration Motion was made to have him desysoped but was decided to be made into a case. Neelix has since given up his administrator status. Because of his resignation, the case was closed on 13 November. Neelix has also been topic banned by the community from making redirects for one year.


 * Current cases
 * Editor conduct in e-cigs articles – in proposed decision phase.
 * Palestine-Israel articles 3 – in proposed decision phase.
 * Genetically modified organisms – in proposed decision phase.
 * Catflap08 and Hijiri88 – workshop phase closed and start of proposed decision phase pending.
 * Arbitration enforcement 2 – in proposed decision phase.