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			==Yep, it's me ==
			The one and only F-O-Z-Z-I-E. No, in all seriousness, I am editing sporadically (again, mostly about things that catch my attention.) I'm doing ok (a two+ year battle to get disability benefits is finally coming to an end). Nice to see somethings never change. ] (]) 20:18, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
	==Inactive==
			:Amongst the things that never change. Trying to get the last few years archived. (hey, you let something go uncleaned for a few years and let's see how you deal with all the dust bunnies :)) 20:22, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
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	:Slowly coming active, will try to get up to speed once I get home. ] (]) 17:57, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
			] from the past month (July 2020).
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	The deletion of the Senkaku Islands mediation threads was unexpected. For me, the surprise was untimely. I hope that Feezo will be willing to explain this edit:
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	Regardless, please consider using your administrator's tools to provide me with a copy of the missing threads.<p>In order help make this possible, I have created a new sub-page. Please recreate copies of these useful diffs at ].<p> Nihonjoe suggested that I may need to ask an arbitrator to do this. --] (]) 23:05, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
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	:Tenmei, please stop spamming this request everywhere. See ] - the mediation pages will be made available again after the RFAR closes. --] (]) 14:13, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
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	The structure of arbitration seems quite convoluted. How does it actually work in layman terms? So far, there is this initial statement stage that evers froyone writes some sort of introductory paragraph. And then I suppose there is a evidence stage where everyone provides diffs and such. After that, will there be any discussion/debate or will the arbitrators simply make decisions by looking at evidence?
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	Also, what's the X/X/X/X thing? Thanks --] (]) 20:13, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
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	: Hi, at this stage, everyone is making preliminary statements on the issue, and trying to convince the Arbitration Committee either to take the case, or decline the case. If a case is accepted (I'll explain more on that in the second part of my answer), it is opened, with pages being set aside for evidence ("Person X has gotten involved in edit-wars", with links to diffs showing the person edit-warring, for example), Workshop (which is proposals from parties, interested observers and sometimes arbitrators, on how to fix the issue, and Proposed Decision (where the Arbitrators post a proposed decision and vote on it)
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	:The X/X/X/X thing is a short hand on how the Arbitrators have voted so far on accepting the case:
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	:The first number is the number of arbitrators who have voted to '''Accept'''; the case (IE, they believe a case should be opened, the conduct of the parties should be looked at, etcetera.
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	:The second number is the number of arbitrators who have voted to '''Decline''' the case (in other words, they don't believe a case should be opened for various reasons. The Arbitration Committee looks at people's conduct, they try to avoid making content decisions, for example.. and it is a rare case that will be accepted if no other attempts at formal ] have been taken)
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	:The third number is the number of '''RECUSAL'''s from the case. Arbitrators recuse when they believe (or others reasonably believe) that they cannot arbitrate fairly in an area (for example, if someone has strong feelings in an area, or has previously tried to mediate or work in the area involved, for example.
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	:Hope this helps! ] (]) 20:43, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
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	Hello, SirFozzie. I was falsely accused of being a ], and the case is being closed without clearing my name. Could you clear it? Is there some step I should take instead? Thank you. ] (]) 04:53, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
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	::Please note, I would like to request independent administrative oversight into this SPI, as the responses by HelloAnnyong and DeltaQuad have been less than satisfactory. HelloAnnyong maintains that Cerejota's SPI was legitimate, even though he filed it to win a content dispute. HelloAnnyong also alleges that a Wikistalk query justifies his conclusion that Yopienso and Gise were allegedly meatpuppets, when in fact it does not show that at all, and there remains ''no'' evidence for such an allegation. To date, HelloAnnyong will not retract his conclusion, a false conclusion which has smeared the reputation of an editor in good standing. Furthermore, DeltaQuad has closed ranks and accused Yopienso of canvassing when all she did was contact him and express concern with being wrongly accused. This is not the kind of judgment and behavior that we should expect from administrators or clerks working on SPI. Yopienso was falsely accused and the SPI, which contains no actionable evidence of any kind, should be deleted to clear her good name and restore her reputation. At the very least, there needs to be a closing statment indicating that the clerking comments violated the presumption of innocence and demonstrated bias against Yopienso. ] (]) 06:21, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
	:::I have taken a look at this, in order to address this concern. There is *no* evidence of either sockpuppetry or meatpuppetry, and I have so noted on the SPI. What I see is evidence of collaboration, which is what this project is all about. ] (]) 06:41, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
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	Could you explain how you bestowed yourself the authority to extend an arbcom year long ban to indefinite? It is particularly confusing since no discussion is linked at the block log. --<small> ]</small> <sup>]</sup> 18:05, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
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	The Senkaku issues were not simple; but there you have it.
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	Right now, I'm in the middle of a regime of eye drops that leave my eyes constantly dilated so staring at the computer screen is a bit like ] attempting to read. This means that I'll be running slower, and using more of one of my techie toys where I can ramp up the text level to make things more readable, so I may make more mistakes. Please forgive any errors for the next few days. ] (]) 00:33, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
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	::(chuckles), thanks.. I actually was going to go update the article on the medical condition that requires the constant eye drops ((])) but turns out that's a pretty good article already. ] (]) 00:49, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
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	I have a feeling you are replying to Vecrumba's point, not mine. I do not recall a single instance I was ever involved in an i-ban being used to "own" a content area. What slight relevance this bears on my request for clarification is with regards to this specific AE topic, where, in FSP own words, if one party of the i-ban is involved, the other should stay away. This could be seen as (according to FSP) giving the first party "ownership" of the thread, which I do not believe should be the case. I have no idea how any topic ban would help here, and please note, with all due respect, that you did not answer my question(s) as posed in my request (if it helps, they are bolded). --<sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]&#124;]</sub> 22:29, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
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	Hey SirFozzie, I always double check it`s ok with the author before I repost comments, but I was wondering if I could put your comment re. the BASC endash on my userpage under the funnies section. And thanks for the laugh :) -- ]] <font color="blue">]</font></font></font> 21:00, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
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	== Regarding conflicts of interest ==
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	Hi Fozzie, just a mini-rant of sorts here, and potentially well off-topic to actual goings on. I assume ArbCom and yourself are involved in discussing the MSK unblock and the presence of a potential conflict of interest with the unblocking admin. I've supported MSK in the past so you may take what I say with a grain of salt, but I wanted to warn that conflict of interest is an inherently difficult thing to detect and prescribe against. I'm not concerned at this stage what happens with that entire situation, but I am concerned that if ArbCom is indeed looking at this as a COI situation, they are presented with a very slippery slope before them.
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	The main problem is where to draw the line. Is common membership of an external site sufficient to qualify as a conflict of interest? What about members of the same WikiProject? People editing from the same household? The same university? Married couples, de facto couples, girlfriends, associates? Members of the same Wikimedia chapter who work together? People self-identifying as belonging to the same club, group or political party? People from the same city, state or country? There is serious potential to create a precedent that bestows momentum to the issue, starting its movement down that slippery slope. If ArbCom is going to make a ruling on conflict of interest, it would be in ArbCom's best interests to establish as bright a line as possible in defining what does or does not constitute a conflict of interest. If such a line can't be defined, any decision ArbCom were to render on the matter would be at serious risk of being undermined by its own ambiguity. Precedents are even more subject to the ] than anything else. ] (]) 21:59, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
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	::Well, looking at involved, it's pretty cut and dried. SB Johnny even says flat out that he knows that he'll take heat because he's involved in the situation. I will say discussion with Johnny is continuing and we're looking at the full nature of things. ] (]) 23:10, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
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	== TM Arbcom / TimidGuy Appeal / Discretionary Sanctions ==
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	If you think that sanctions should be imposed on one or more editors under the terms of the TM ArbCom discretionary sanctions, as you stated here , then you should impose them. You don't need a new ArbCom or other proceeding to do so. Otherwise it is a vague, unsupported allegation against unnamed editors. Were an involved editor to make such a statement, it would be quickly labeled as harassment, a threat and a personal attack. ] (]) 16:49, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
	:Saying that in the context of dispute resolution that there are editors who may need to be removed from the editor is none of the things you say they are, but let me work on some proposed wording and you'll see some proposed findings and remedies shortly. ] (]) 17:23, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
	::I would not label them as such; in my experience, however, there are a number of editors actively participating on the TimidGuy Appeal Evidence, Workshop and talkpages who would so label them, and have taken just such an approach to labeling similar assessments, repeatedly, even on those very pages. ] (]) 17:39, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
	:::I'm waiting. The case is now closed. I never saw any proposed findings and remedies. I never saw any discretionary sanctions handed out. It hardly inspires any confidence that ArbCom is the least bit serious about enforcing its own decisions in the TMArbCom case. ] (]) 13:51, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
	:::::While I cannot speak for any of my fellow Arbs, I think it was decided that requests would better be handled at AE instead of in the case, since it would require adding new parties and then somehow getting them up to date with all the information. I do think that AE will see more action in the near future. ] (]) 14:27, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
	::::::If you (and I take it from the comment on the PD page, Risker as well) thought that there were editors who should be sanctioned under the TMArbCom discretionary sanctions, you did not need to add parties or remedies to the TimidGuy Appeal; you did not need to wait for someone else to request AE. You could have simply imposed the sanctions. That is how discretionary sanctions work, isn't it? ArbCom doesn't look like it takes discretionary sanctions seriously if Arbitrators opine that discretionary sanctions are in order for unnamed editors, but then do nothing. Who do you think is going to file an AE case over the TM articles after you've banned a senior administrator for complaining about the editors on those pages? ] (]) 14:46, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
	::::::::The Committee banned Will (note: I personally voted against the ban) because he went beyond Misplaced Pages's norms and policies and turned it into an outing/harassment situation. I actually have a lot of thoughts about that, which I'm writing up to post on just like a sandbox page.. I think the situation is sad myself. As for why Risker and I don't do it ourselves, well.. people are hesitant to take action in areas where it would mean their later recusal if/when it comes back to the Committee.. so in a lot of cases, the arbs don't use their tools in anything remotely controversial. ] (]) 14:50, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
	::::::::::Yes, I understand that it was the Committee's action, not yours. As for Arbitrators not generally using tools in controversial arenas, surely every Arbitrator knows plenty of other Administrators who have no such need to keep their hands unsoiled. ] (]) 15:40, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
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	Ah, there's the rub for you. if other administrators take action at our behest, all that really changes is the name on the action right? For example, if I asked a fellow administrator to block "User:X" for something and they go ahead and do it, then I'm still kinda responsible for it, right? I have my opinion, but I'm constrained by my role, and the fact that my fellow committee members voted against making user conduct review part of the existing case (or opening a review post-COI RFC), and instead recommended that editors use the AE board in conjunction with the existing sanctions. ] (]) 16:01, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
	:Two words: Plausible. Deniability. ] (]) 16:13, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
	::And then when it all comes out? Let's say I did that, then my email gets hacked. Or ArbCom-l leaks (not like that would ever happen... *SARCASM ALERT DETECTED*). Congrats, I've mot only destroyed my own reputation and standing here on Misplaced Pages, but dragged down my friend (who only took an action that I asked him to), but also damaged the Committee, etcetera. I'd love to let those who think arbitrators are super all powerful folks who can change Misplaced Pages on a whim try to do this job, we're just as constrained by Misplaced Pages's policies and norms as anyone else, and in a lot of cases, we can't use the power BECAUSE we have that power. :) ] (]) 16:18, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
	:::One can always say to another Administrator without fear of recrimination, "I have some concerns about this, but as an Arbitrator, I am constrained to not act on those concerns. Take a look at this for yourself, make your own decision, and take such action as you deem appropriate." If you want complete transparency, you say it publicly. ] (]) 15:14, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
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	There's a section on WP:ANI that deals with Jeff Merkey spamming copyvio edits into orchid articles using nearly 100 IP addresses. The IPs have been range blocked for 6 months, but, the fact remains, that there are nearly 1000 edits by Jeff Merkey with no citations and no sourcing. Given his past difficulties with copyvio editing, I'd think it prudent to have someone go over those contributions with a fine toothed comb. If I were a betting man, I'd wager they are cut and paste from a book Jeff Merkey has lying around his domicile.Direct link to the ANI conversation , look in the collapsed box labelled "Discussion moved from WT:PLANTS" Good luck. ] (]) 03:36, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
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	Hi, I saw you and block him for violation of a climate-change topic ban. I've checked the usual places (], ]) and done a quick search on the AN archives and Prioryman's talk page history for likely-looking keywords, but I'm stymied. Which case/process was it that placed the ban? (Was it under another username, or did I miss something obvious?)
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	Also, if the topic ban is the same as the one specified in ARBCC (or worded identically to it), has the ArbCom decided not to allow the editors topic-banned under that decision to participate in future topic-ban appeals by other editors? If so, that would be a departure from the way William M. Connolley's topic ban appeal was handled in October (), where the ArbCom had no qualms about letting topic-banned editors like Cla68 and ZuluPapa5, JohnWBarber, and (if a topic ban existed at that time) Prioryman have their say. ](]) 16:29, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
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	:I'm not sure I understand this block either. While I'm familiar with Prioryman's history and the block does fall under the letter of the ArbCom decision, it seems that other topic-banned editors have commented freely and extensively in same venue without any expression of concern (e.g. ). I'm a bit perplexed as to why Prioryman had the book thrown at him in this case, when this behavior hasn't been treated as a violation in the past. I assume I'm missing something? ''']'''&nbsp;<sup>]</sup> 16:47, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
	:: This was brought up on the ArbCom mailing list as a clear violation of Prioryman's restriction by another arbitrator (who couldn't take action because they were not at their home computer.) If I had been made aware of the violation, I would have blocked those as well at the time. But going forward, as the remedies state, parties topic banned under the restriction are not to comment on CC-related processes. If you find violations, let me know. As for "having thrown the book at him", I don't think a 24 hour block qualifies here. (Edit: TenofAllTrades: Prioryman is restricted from CC as a result of the case, but I cannot go into details, unfortunately.. but as MastCell states (as he is also familiar with Prioryman's history), this is a valid sanction.) ] (]) 16:55, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
	:::Also: The reason that an ArbCom member is doing this instead of the normal AE procedure is due to the special circumstances that apply in that account's case (as ToaT notes, Prioryman does not appear in the decision, but is restricted due to the additional information that the Committee has.) Normal violations can also be reported to AE (was this done in previous cases? I'm working and can't check at the moment) ] (]) 17:01, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
	::::Prioryman's unblock request: "I hadn't realised (though clearly I should have done) that processes were covered as well. It was an inadvertent error on my part, for which I apologise and accept full responsibility. It won't happen again. Prioryman (talk) 17:37, 14 March 2012 (UTC)." I think for a first violation, this is a reasonable statement. Could we go ahead and unblock? '''<font color="navy">]</font>''' ''(<font color="green">]</font>)'' 17:46, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
	::::::Um... As long as the unblock reason states that yes it was a violation, and not a "bad block", so to speak (there are too many who think that any block/unblock cycle meant it was an automatic bad block and shouldn't count. That's my personal opinion at least :) ] (]) 17:49, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
	:::::::Unblocked then. And I guess that's something to keep in mind for the future: Arbitration processes count for topic bans and the clerks should probably be removing posts in violation of such bans. '''<font color="navy">]</font>''' ''(<font color="green">]</font>)'' 17:55, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
	::::::::Of course, insisting Prioryman doesn't call it a bad block in his request to be unblocked won't stop anyone else from concluding that it was a bad block. ] (]) 18:01, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
	{{unindent}}The nice thing is that Prioryman did admit it was a violation, and promised to not do it again, which should settle THAT discussion (which is another of the reasons I went ahead with ok'ing the unblock) ] (]) 18:04, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
	:It wasn't a "bad block", but there's a clear and unmistakeable precedent for topic-banned users to be allowed to contribute in that venue. Looking at , I see no fewer than four topic-banned users commenting, ''including Prioryman''. That request was reviewed by a substantial number of Arbs and admins, none of whom seemed to see any violation of the topic ban.<p>If Arbs have now decided to take a hard line on the topic, then that's legitimate under the letter of the decision, but it represents a diametric reversal of precedent. Under those circumstances, it's probably worth clarifying this as a no-fault situation - it's really hard to fault Prioryman for believing he was permitted to comment. I think we all know that any blocks placed under ] are likely to be dredged up again in future proceedings, and institutional memory isn't a strong suit around here, so it would seem rather unfair to hold this against Prioryman in the long term.<p>As a technical matter, the block (and perhaps the unblock) should be logged at ]. ''']'''&nbsp;<sup>]</sup> 18:25, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
	::Thanks to all concerned for sorting this out so quickly. I'm a bit confused by what's been said here. I don't recall participating in the discussion pointed out by MastCell at - a quick search doesn't show my username anywhere - and I don't think I had any particular opinion about WMC's request. I was aware of it and I was also aware of Cla68 and other topic-banned users participating in it without attracting any complaints or blocks. That's what made me think that processes ''related specifically to the arbitration case'' were not covered by the topic ban. That would actually be a logical position - otherwise you couldn't discuss the case despite being covered by it, which would be somewhat ridiculous. Is it really intended that topic-banned editors cannot discuss matters concerning their cases? It is, after all, not a discussion about the subject matter ''per se'' but is purely a procedural discussion about an arbitration case. I would suggest that ] should be specifically exempted from subject matter topic bans. I'm also curious as to why a different standard was followed in my case than for the topic-banned users who commented on WMC's request. ] (]) 18:56, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
	:::My bad; the link to the full discussion, including your comments, is . I've fixed it in my comment above as well. ''']'''&nbsp;<sup>]</sup> 19:07, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
	::::Thanks for the corrected link! As I said, I wasn't particularly concerned about whether WMC's request was justified, but judging from my comment to you (which I'd forgotten about) I was concerned about the scope for wikilawyering, was curious about the rationale behind what was being proposed, and wanted to know more about it. I think those were reasonable questions to ask and obviously nobody objected at the time to me or to anyone else participating in the discussion. What made it different this time? ] (]) 19:56, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
	::(ec) I have to query this point as well, which I touched on in my initial post. The ArbCom seems to be being rather inconsistent in its treatment of the topic-banned editors on these requests for amendments; what has changed from five months ago (when WMC filed his amendment request)? That request appears to have had at least ''five'' topic-banned editors offering statements &ndash; Cla68, ZuluPapa5, JohnWBarber, Prioryman, and A Quest for Knowledge &ndash; to which the ArbCom offered no objection, along with one flat-out banned editor (Bookworm44) whose comment was retained, but boxed up. (Ironically, many raised concerns about a battleground attitude or a tendency to stretch the limits of Arbitration restrictions in their remarks.)
	::Blanking Prioryman's comments and blocking him without warning is a remarkable about-face from the ArbCom's previous handling of amendments to this case. Is there a reason why the Committee didn't enforce this interpretation of their remedy until now (aside from being part of the generally sloppy, shabby way the ArbCom has historically treated WMC) or why an Arbitrator who has heretofore been recused from all climate-change-related decisions needed to take an emergency enforcement action here? ](]) 20:36, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
	:::If you want to blame someone, you can blame me. I was one of the drafters on the Climate Change case and therefore, of all people, should have noticed that several of the editors at the WMC request were topic banned. However, I didn't. There was no deliberate tolerance on that occasion, just oversight. Anyhow, the clerks have been alerted and will also be more vigilant in future. &nbsp;] <sup>]</sup> 22:19, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
	::::How exactly did you prevent all the other Arbitrators from reading the amendment request upon which they commented and voted, and thereby become blameworthy for the entire Committee's failure to manage their own process? Telling the community to 'blame' you is meaningless gesture unless there are real reasons behind it, and &ndash; for that matter &ndash; real consequences for failing to properly manage an ArbCom process. ](]) 02:19, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
	:::::Stuff falls through the cracks (both ArbCom's cracks and the community's) all the time, I'm afraid. And, of course, there was nothing to prevent any of the people watching the page raising the issue at the time. &nbsp;] <sup>]</sup> 10:41, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
	::::::Hang on a moment, we're talking about a discussion which every active arbitrator and the clerks saw, and in the case of the arbs actively participated in, so I don't really buy that it was an oversight. While individual arbs may not have realised, that surely can't be true for everybody. There are really only two explanations that I think are credible - that there was a tacit acceptance that topic-banned editors could participate, or that arbs literally don't bother to read anyone else's comments in amendment discussions. I had thought the former was the case but perhaps I was insufficiently cynical? ] (]) 07:50, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
	:::::::Perhaps no one recalled the policy and everyone kind of assumed that with so many topic banned editors participating, surely if it was against the rules, someone else would have raised the issue? I'm an Arbitration Clerk, and that was probably my assumption at least, though I can't really say for sure what I thought at the time.<p>I ''am'' surprised that the Arbitrators jumped straight to a block this time. Even giving the fact that the decided it would be best to start enforcing the policy, a simple boxing/removal and a note on your talk page would have sufficed. '''<font color="navy">]</font>''' ''(<font color="green">]</font>)'' 13:11, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
	::::::::One does wonder where the emergency was. The Arbs have tended to ignore these amendment requests for days and weeks at a time; what was so critical here that the unnamed Arb who requested the block couldn't just wait until he got home to deal with it? Why did SirFozzie &ndash; who had recused himself from both the climate change Arb case and WMC's amendment request due to an unspecified conflict of interest &ndash; need to be the one to take action here?
	::::::::I'll also say that the Arbs should be forehead-smacking quite themselves quite vigorously if they don't know or understand the implications of their own remedies. ](]) 15:26, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
	:::::::::There is no COI with me in CC. WMC and I have had uniformly negative interactions in the past (including him filing a RfC against me and others), so I recuse from a modicum of caution. I have no involvement in Climate Change (other than the actions I took as an administrator (note, not an arb) back then and now. Roger noted the violation on the mailing list, and another arbitrator (who also is not recused in this area stated that since he was not in a place where they could not block Prioryman (they have a "public" account for use on shared computers but that account does not have administrative priviliges). I was the one who made the block because A) I was available and B) I agreed that it was a violation. I did not know at the time about the previous violations (the CC topic ban is very specific in that excludes people not just from the topic area, but any processes relating to the topic, even DR such as the amendment request), or I would have done the exact same thing in just about any other case (once again noting that I would not take any action regarding WMC) ] (]) 15:50, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
	::::::::::The reason for your recusal wasn't noted on the CC case page, nor on WMC's amendment request, so I wasn't sure about the extent was of your involvement. That said, do you think it's a good idea for you to involve yourself in ''any'' amendments related to the case, given how pivotal a role WMC played in it, and given that you were not involved in the original case due to your recusal? More specifically, do you think it is a good idea for you to involve yourself in the current amendment request, given that Cla68 shares your history of &ndash; let us say, 'negative' &ndash; interactions with WMC, ''and'' that it appears that Cla68's relationship with WMC will enter significantly into the way that his amendment request will be evaluated? ](]) 16:28, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
	{{unindent}} I think it is stretching things a bit too far to say that negative interactions with ONE of the many many people involved in the "Great Climate Change Omnibus Case of 2010", as it was called at the time, (even one like Dr Connolley, who was a primary focus in this area) means that I have to recuse from the area so I don't see any reason to think I am involved, no. ] (]) 17:36, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
	:Just a gentle reminder that this block (and unblock) should be logged at ]. I'd do it myself, but I might struggle to come up with a dispassionately worded summary... :) ''']'''&nbsp;<sup>]</sup> 18:34, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
	::Taken care of. Tried to find a way to word it myself, but what can you do :) ] (]) 18:47, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
	:::I'd like to have the inadvertency of the violation noted - the no-fault situation MastCell mentioned above. ] (]) 18:51, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
	::::Done. ] (]) 20:30, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
	:::::Thank you for doing that, but I'm afraid the Misplaced Pages Review troll and serial harasser {{user|Delicious carbuncle}} is making trouble about it at ]. It is none of his business, of course - this is simply retaliation for my earlier highlighting of the way that he harassed Fae. Your input would be appreciated. ] (]) 18:57, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
	::::::Yes, because of your recent actions, I time-travelled back to the summer of 2010 where I started that touches on the same points. There was another discussion around that time where I detailed some of your violations of your ARBSCI sanctions and discussed the issue more specifically, but I'm having trouble finding it. ] (]) 19:06, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
	:::::::Let's be clear, I answered your questions in that discussion and you continued to harangue me - even after, as I recall, an arbitrator rebuked you about it. You contribute virtually nothing in article space and seem to regard yourself as some kind of some kind of vigilante enforcer. It's about time that you realised that you are not responsible for overseeing and enforcing sanctions. When I proposed in January that you be banned for harassing and outing another editor off-wiki (see ]), the closing administrator castigated what he called your "] behavior", which you demonstrate on a virtually daily basis with your attacks on other editors on Misplaced Pages Review. Unfortunately this is yet another example of it. ] (]) 19:14, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
	::::::::Sadly, it is next to impossible for me to do any serious work in article space with my work being attacked by trolling sockpuppets or those here who bear grudges against me. I have virtually stopped participating in AfD discussions because at least one person will magically appear there to vote in the opposite way. You seem to forget that I had nothing to do with your sanctions - you earned those by your self. I am merely asking for them to be properly recorded and logged. ] (]) 19:22, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
	:::::::::''It is not your business''. Let the admins do the administration and the arbitrators do the sanctioning. They don't need your help and haven't asked for it. I suggest you take the hint. ] (]) 19:53, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
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	On my talk page at ], there is a discussion between myself and your fellow Arb ], concerning an issue which came to the attention of Arbcom. As the various links and diffs show, many editors saw the recent RFC/U against ] as harassment, at best, and as homophobic harassment, at worst.
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	AGK firstly stated that he "voted" to ban Delicious Carbuncle, then has "corrected" himself to state that he merely was in favour of the Committee reviewing the case; either way there was opposition on the Committee to either banning Delicious Carbuncle or even reviewing the harassment that Fae was being subjected to.
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	As an Arb, the community elected you to represent the community for the community. The Committee time and time again pushes on editors who come before it that transparency is essential in our editing; in fact, transparency is one of the key tenets of this project, however the Arbcom often does not act in the same transparent way that it (and the community) expects of the community itself.
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	AGK states on my talk page that one can only expect a transparent hearing if a request for arbitration is filed, and states that most Arbcom business is conducted this way. This notion is somewhat correct, but it is also very wrong. As the committee time and time makes a point of stating that community transparency is essential, the community also expects the same of the Committee -- at all times. The Committee also makes many decisions "behind closed doors", and when pushed to explain decisions cites various "get out of jail free cards" to avoid being transparent to the community-at-large. This includes decisions such as banning editors for things done offwiki which can't clearly be attributed to that editor, or unbanning editors with a history of socking, etc, etc.
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	These are very simple questions which one is able to answer if they are truly for transparency both on the Committee and in the community in general, and I would expect that many in the community would be wanting transparent answers to these questions.
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	The last thing, it is of course Fae's choice if he wishes to request a case for Arbitration, but these questions are not being asked to have an end-run around the Arbitration process, but are being asked in the interests of transparency on a specific example that the Committee was aware of and refused to act upon. I would expect Fae and other editors (especially LGBT editors) would be wanting transparent answers here now, before deciding if they wish to act. ] <sup>]</sup> 07:54, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
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	==Back again==
	And let's hope no more issues that take me away from the wiki for a while. :) ] (]) 11:12, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
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	If you say you're "leaning oppose" but don't say why, it doesn't give me much to go on - could you be a bit more specific? ] (]) 06:43, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
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	Also, ''I will instruct the clerks to keep a close eye on this request, as Prioryman states in his request, folks who under sanction in this area are banned from commenting on this request.'' is odd. Topic-banned editors have commented on previous appeals. Why the change? ] (]) 08:44, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
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	:Hi Dr Connolley, what happened was that Prioryman violated the topic ban (inadvertently, they had legitimately didn't realize that the topic ban was more broad then usual, the remedy specifically states that the topic ban also covers CC-related Misplaced Pages discussions) about six weeks ago and was briefly blocked, but he was unblocked after stating that it was an oversight and that he would abide by it in the future (you can see part of the discussion above as it happened here on my talk page).Basically, letting other CC-topic banned editors comment previously was an oversight and that we would be enforcing the stricter standards going forward (which is one of the reasons why I had no problem with Prioryman being unblocked). NuclearWarfare let the clerks know then that the Clerks would have to keep this in mind going forward (as tehy are the ones who usually enforce such things on Arb-related pages), and Prioryman rightly got it out front in his request so there would be no inadvertent violations this time around.
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	:Prioryman: The leaning oppose is a first reaction, that I have concerns that it would be hard for you to avoid conflict in a highly charged topic area, but I am willing to listen to other statements of neutrals in this area and be swayed. ] (]) 14:15, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
	::I have to say that I'm perturbed by your comments, which imply that you don't feel that there is any route back into the topic area for me. I can hardly be accused of making a premature request - it's been 18 months after all - and my record of contributions since the case has been exemplary. In fact, as a way of demonstrating that I had changed my approach, I specifically sought out a highly charged topic area area to bring an article up to FA standard - namely ] - and entirely avoided conflict, dealing in a sensitive way with the complexities of the issues involved. I was specifically complimented for that and was given multiple barnstars for my work in the area. Is the Arbitration Committee really now in the business of handing out lifetime topic bans with no parole? ] (]) 22:33, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
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	:::In response, no, we're not in the business, as you say of handing out lifetime topic bans with no parole. However, I considered the whole history (of both you personally, and the area), and my first thought was that the chances of renewed warring flaring up in this area at this time was too great to lean support.. that's why I posted what I did. ] (]) 22:41, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
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	::::Then that does amount to a lifetime topic ban with no parole. In that case what is the point of the standard remedy 3.2.1? "Editors topic banned under this decision may apply to the Committee to have the topic ban lifted or modified after demonstrating their commitment to the goals of Misplaced Pages and their ability to work constructively with other editors." I've demonstrated this in spades; in fact I've gone out of my way to demonstrate it. Now you're effectively saying that it doesn't matter how much I demonstrate it. How is that in any way reasonable or proportionate? You set out the standard that needs to be met for a lifting of the topic ban, but now you're saying that isn't actually applicable? It seems to me that if 3.2.1 has any meaning, topic-banned editors should at least be given the ''opportunity'' to demonstrate that the topic ban should be lifted. Put it another way: I've asked in the appeal for a full lifting of the topic ban. Is there anything short of that that you would consider supporting? For instance, permitting me to contribute DYKs relating to the topic - bearing in mind that I've had great success with DYK editing over the last 18 months, with no conflict at all - for a limited period, say six months, to demonstrate that I'm able to contribute positively to the topic area? ] (]) 23:18, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
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	Again, you've given no explanation for your reasoning in my ARBSCI amendment request: "would do more harm than good". Could you explain what you mean by that? ] (]) 20:27, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
	:My personal idea is that these areas are functioning better right now, but to drop ARBSCI and CC sanctions (as Roger suggests) would invite the same issues all over again with all parties. ] (]) 20:29, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
	::What do you perceive "the same issues" as being in the ARBSCI case? Bear in mind that I was essentially sanctioned for poor sourcing, rather than editorial interactions. ] (]) 20:50, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
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	I changed one of your block settings .. Ottava Rima ...
	An article he worked on, ] which went through FA recently had a ton of changes made to it. I gave him back his talk page access so he could help address some of the changes. I'm only concerned about the article .. and I've told him if he even thinks about misusing the talk page to address other editors then I'd be the first to remove it again. Risker is aware of the article - so it's not like it's not being monitored .. hopefully you'll understand the spirit in which I've done this. — <small><span style="border:1px solid #000000;padding:1px;"><b>]</b> : ]</span></small> 11:37, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
	::I understand the spirit, but please reinstate it. Ottava is banned by the Committee. We left him a sliver that we do not offer many other editors (working through other editors as proxies), and that's how it should work.. ] (]) 13:45, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
	:::Ottava can be a pain in the rear, but I would have thought that proxy editing is worse than talk page editing. '']&nbsp;]'', <small>03:15, 29 May 2012 (UTC).</small><br />
	::::In this case, Rich, Ottava's problem isn't in content editing, it's in his interpersonal skills. If it was a content issue, I feel fairly safe in saying that he would not be blocked at this time. It was suggested that this method would be a way if Ottava was interested in still contributing to get the benefit to the encyclopedia, while having someone to soften his.. rough edges let's say. In this case, not many people are willing to proxy for Ottava because again his interpersonal skills mean that not many people are willing to put up with what's necessary to do so. ] (]) 11:58, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
	:::::Seriously? Not many people? How odd. I see some 30 editors in good standing on OR's talkpage, writing both during and, mainly, after the arbcom case that got him banned, about the irreplaceable loss his content contributions are to the encyclopedia (far outweighing any little problem there might be with his communication style), lamenting the "unduly harsh" ban, or pointing out what a good thing it would be to give him a "second chance". I don't understand why all these people aren't falling over themselves to proxy for him. One person says explicitly that "it would be nice to be able to work with him." Are you telling me all that's just talk? ] &#124; ] 13:31, 29 May 2012 (UTC).
			] from the past month (October 2021).
	==ArbCom==
	I find your response very disappointing. As an arb who was absent you should be trying to verify if what I am saying is correct, not simply slamming a door shut in my face for the sake of it. I was informed in advance that this was how ArbCOm would act, but I chose not to believe it. Please prove the doubters wrong and act with rectitude and integrity. '']&nbsp;]'', <small>03:13, 29 May 2012 (UTC).</small><br />
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	"People are inherently flawed. No one is perfect (not even Arbs! (that's a joke)).. but I don't see a huge problem with a bot or high volume automated task if it makes OCCASIONAL errors.. as long as the person behind the bot/task owns up to the mistake, fixes the mistake and doesn't get into wars over the mistake."
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	I gave an example in the case where I had sifted 160,000 edits from 2 years ago to find and fix a handful of errors. This was totally ignored in favour of some poorly or totally unsubstantiated assertions. The unwillingness of people to own up to mistakes, is not limited to bot masters. '']&nbsp;]'', <small>03:22, 29 May 2012 (UTC).</small><br />
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	:Rich, the section that you miss is the following '''..as long as the person behind the bot/task owns up to the mistake, fixes the mistake and doesn't get into wars over the mistake'''. That also applies to your actions post case. Instead of realizing that you've made a mistake, and owning up to the mistake, you've argued that WE made the mistake. I'm trying to AGF on the repeat requests for allowing your own talk page bot. We generally believe that if someone is interested enough to file a request that they're also interested enough to keep an eye on the request, and there was no indication in the first request that there was any support at all for allowing a task like that, so to having declined one request and then to see another one immediately after that was.. aggravating let's say.
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	:I don't think any members of the Committee are willing to grant ANY level of automation at all at this time If I could make a recommendation, it's to forget the idea of running any level of automation at all for at least a few months, rebuild the requisite trust, and only then reapply. I'd say at least six, and let the new crop of arbitrators who will be coming on in the new year deal with it, but since I will no longer be an arbitrator at that point, I can't make any promises of how it will be received). ] (]) 11:52, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
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	::You have to realise that I'm working on an accelerated schedule here. Six months is a very long time, I've already lost two months out of my life to this.
	::So lets start at the top, and skip the irrelevancies.
	::"you've made a mistake" be explicit, I've made many mistakes. Encouraging the committee to accept the case was one. Which do you
	have in mind?
	'']&nbsp;]'', <small>03:20, 30 May 2012 (UTC).</small><br />
	:::PS I don't usually ''do'' talk pages and drama boards so you'll forgive me if I am intermittent coming back to chack for your reply. '']&nbsp;]'', <small>03:22, 30 May 2012 (UTC).</small><br />
	::::PPS I see that you only have 45 threads in a year on your talk page. That is a different world than I inhabit, and perhaps explains why you can't see the need for intelligent archiving. '']&nbsp;]'', <small>03:29, 30 May 2012 (UTC).</small><br />
	:::::Rich, I'm not going to play word games with you for endless discussion. The information that we consider mistakes is in the case. You may not agree with it, but that's what we saw in this case. As I said above, I don't think there's any way the Committee (as it stands) will see fit to relax the restriction on using automation is any meaningful manner for at least six months. If the archiving bots available to you are not suitable to your needs, you will need to do so manually. I'm sorry that this disappoints you, but it's not going to change. ] (]) 13:01, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
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	I don't want to do endless discussion. I just want to nail down what is going on here. I am asking for hard facts, I get people telling me to "internalise" this or that.
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	Six months is clearly some kind of punitive concept. There is no fear that talk page archiving would do any harm, therefore opposing it needs some other justification. If that is just "we don't like you anymore, go away" fine. Let us at least hear what it is, instead of dancing around the subject. All you express in the above paragraph purporting not to play word games is "No." I think asking for a reason is natural and right. '']&nbsp;]'', <small>13:19, 30 May 2012 (UTC).</small><br />
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	::No, six months is about normal for people to shown they've corrected the behavior that led to the sanction that folks want to have removed. Again, I'm sorry that you can't accept the evidence and findings that happened in the case, but continuing down this road won't lead you to the result you want. The door (on using automation) is firmly shut, and slamming yourself into it time and time again won't lead to the door swinging open again. Only time and showing better behavior then that which got you sanctioned will lead to the door opening again. ] (]) 13:48, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
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	:::Since the complain is apparently about using automation, showing a change of behaviour is impossible without access to automation. With things like talk page archiving the committee seems to be making my life difficult merely for the sake of it. '']&nbsp;]'', <small>22:24, 30 May 2012 (UTC).</small><br />
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	:::::Considering that at least two of your amendment complaints wished to regain the ability to use a bot on your talk page, I would say that it would appear that's at least part of your concern (the ability to use automation). We're not restricting you for using a bot to do talk page archiving, just disallowing you to RUN a bot. As for showing a change of behavior, there's no topic restrictions that you're on, so you can edit any article that strikes your fancy. Editing some articles and improving them (and showing evidence you can collaborate on others when issues arise) would go a long way towards showing an improvement in behaviour. ] (]) 22:30, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
	::::::Hm. Not complaints. And what got me sanctioned was not sticking up for myself back in 2010 or whenever it was. Generally my editing is non-controversial, except for a few slightly unusual editors. '']&nbsp;]'', <small>00:26, 31 May 2012 (UTC).</small><br />
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	By the way, thanks for establishing these rules. They should help smooth out the drama in the case. ''']]]''' 14:56, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
			] from the past month (November 2021).
	:This is what I would suggest: "In the past, user:x has made contentious statements without having evidence to back their claims. (link to the statement without evidence to back them up). As I said, keep it dry, factual and succinct. ] (]) 15:04, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
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	:Sir Fozie, accusations have been made by those harrassing Fæ which make claims about HIV +veness seem like nursery yard jibes by comparison. Yet you've discourage editors from referring to those accounts without supporting links. Personally Id refrain from linking to such claims under any circumstance, and dont think they have any credibility, as the witchhunters attacking Fae include several members who have previously launched deceptive attacks against other editors I know to have impeccable character. But others may have a different view, and if any of Fæ's defenders support accusations of harassment with links to the extreme accusations, it might cause additional distress to Fæ, especially as accounts have once again repeated their tactic of linking his username with his real name, as they did at the last RfC.
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	:As a precaution, can you please consider expanding your restriction so it forbids accounts to mention Fæ's real name on any of the Arb boards, regardless of whether he may have previously self-outed? ] (]) 13:26, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
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	::As you yourself note, Feyd, one of the defenses against charges of outing is self-disclosed information. There's no way we can "disappear" such information, or prevent people from using it, which is one of the reasons I urge people to be very careful with the information they self-disclose. ] (]) 13:51, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
	:::I wonder if the education system will ever follow your example, as its been fashionable for young people to self-disclose all sorts of personal info on the net for over 5 years now. Its in your gift to make harmful posts disappear from the Arb board if you wanted to. Still, even while complying with your restrictions it should be trivial to take the ball into the WR account's court. Witch hunting is not be tolerated! ] (]) 14:02, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
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	I wanted to call your attention to a response that I made at ]. You seemed to be saying that calling an editor a homophobe was not like accusing him of being in violation of other Misplaced Pages policies, because "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". So I'd like to ask you about a similar situation.
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	**Actually, as someone else mentions in the case text, there were accusations in the Muhammed Images of being anti-Islam that weren't backed up there either,and yes, in my thinking that they were falling under extraodinary claims. ] (]) 22:00, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
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	:::Hmmm... this was the source of some confusion to me. Usually I've heard that phrase applied to things in science that seem very unlikely, but you're saying that even if something is more likely than not it can be "extraordinary". What makes it extraordinary? ] (]) 22:04, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
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	::::The effect it has on the attempt to find consensus. Let's say the anti-Islamic thing going on. If you're in a discussion on a topic dealing with Islam and you personally are trying to find a good faith compromise, and the person you're trying to work with says "I don't agree with you, and you're obviously anti-Islamic" (where it's not immediately clear that you indeed are, well, that's going to break down any chance of consensus really quickly, right? Plus it becomes too convenient an out not to seek consensus or common ground. "Anyone who disagrees with X is (Anti-HotButtonTopic/Pro-HotButtonTopic)" is usually a sign that the whole thing's broken down isn't it? In this case, f you have proof that another person is indeed homophobic (statements that REASONABLY can be construed as homophobic) then that's one thing, but too often I'm afraid it became a convenient label for "People who had concerns with another editor" in this case. ] (]) 02:32, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
	:::::There's a subtle but very important distinction to be made here. If I say ''you're'' anti-Islamic, that is a general characterization of your personal mental state which I am not qualified to make. But if I say that a ''comment'' you make is anti-Islamic, that is an objective characterization of a particular piece of text which can be confirmed or denied by third party editors pretty easily. So the latter case is not a stopping point for discussion at all, but a chance to shed some light on the question of whether an editor is contributing in a way that may be biased or uncivil. This is merely an example of the the general principle "focus on the edit, not the editor". ] (]) 06:32, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
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	I don't know that this matters, but you said "Apologized (not to us.. but to his supporters)" - in fact I apoligɀed to both constituencies "I apologise to ArbCom for that".
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	*Hi Rich: While I personally appreciated the apology to us, but by what I said, apologizing to those who supported you was more important then that, I'm hoping that weverything will move forward better from here. ] (]) 02:27, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
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	I'd like to draw your attention to questions of scope that I posted and to a concerns about Fæ's answers to your questions that I have been expressing , , and without much success. I was hoping to stay out of this, but it seems likely that I will need to present evidence if only to effectively rebut claims that are being made about my actions and motivations. I will let you know if I wish to become a party. Thanks. ] (]) 19:20, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
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			== Administrators' newsletter – December 2022 ==
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			*] ] (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an ].
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			*Following ], the ] now requires that prior written consent be gained from the ] to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
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			*The arbitration case '']'' has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
			*In December, the ] was adopted which replaces the ]. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial ]. There is ] of the changes and ] for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at ].
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			* A ] is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving ] should be referred to the ].
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			* Some older ]s will not be able to use ] on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of ]. ({{phab|T178356}})
			* The ] has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
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			* Following ], editors indefinitely site-banned by ] will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
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			* The arbitration case '']'' 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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			* Following ], the ] has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to {{noping|Jimbo Wales}}.
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			* The tag filter on ] and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. ({{phab|T334338}})
			* ] is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing ]. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the ]. ({{phab|T337431}})
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			* Following ], ] will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
			* ] at ] about revision deletion and oversight for ] found that {{tq|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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			* ] now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. ({{phab|T324166}})
			] '''Arbitration'''
			* The '']'' case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in ] have been reminded to be careful about forming {{tq|local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus}}. Regular closers of ] forums were also encouraged to {{tq|note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful}}.
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			* The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to ]. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A ] until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
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			* Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand ].
			* {{noping|Xaosflux}}, {{noping|RoySmith}} and {{noping|Cyberpower678}} have been appointed to the ] for the ]. {{noping|BusterD}} is the reserve commissioner.
			* Following ], the contentious topic designation of ''Prem Rawat'' has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
			* Following ], 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 ], 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 ], remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the ''The Troubles'' case has been amended.
			* An arbitration case named '']'' has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.
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			* The ] 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 ]. ]
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			* Following a ], the ] has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have ] (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.
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			* Following a ], the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
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			* ] of the 2024 ] is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the ].
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			* The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. ({{phab|T353388}})
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			* ] of the ] has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in ].
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			* The ] feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. ]
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			* Following a ], ] (the topic and interaction bans on ], respectively) were repealed.
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).

Administrator changes

Red Phoenix

Euryalus • SQL

Jujutacular • Monty845 • Rettetast • Madchester

Oversight changes

GB fan

Keegan • Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Guideline and policy news

• There is an open request for comment to decide whether to increase the minimum duration a sanction discussion has to remain open (currently 24 hours).
• Speedy deletion criterion T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) has been repealed following a request for comment.
• Speedy deletion criterion X2 (pages created by the content translation tool) has been repealed following a discussion.
• There is a proposal to restrict proposed deletion to confirmed users.

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2020).

Administrator changes

Eddie891

Angela • Jcw69 • Just Chilling • Philg88 • Viajero

CheckUser changes

SQL

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the minimum length for site ban discussions was increased to 72 hours, up from 24.
• A request for comment is ongoing to determine whether paid editors must or should use the articles for creation process.
• A request for comment is open to resolve inconsistencies between the draftification and alternative to deletion processes.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2020 English Misplaced Pages Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
• An open request for comment asks whether active Arbitrators may serve on the Trust and Safety Case Review Committee or Ombudsman commission.

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2020).

Administrator changes

Ajpolino • LuK3

Jackmcbarn

Ad Orientem • Harej • Lid • Lomn • Mentoz86 • Oliver Pereira • XJaM

There'sNoTime → TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely 1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.

Technical news

• The filter log now provides links to view diffs of deleted revisions (phab:T261630).

Arbitration

• The 2020 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place from September 27th to October 7th.
• Following a request for comment, sitting Committee members may not serve on either the Ombuds Commission or the WMF Case Review Committee. The Arbitration Committee passed a motion implementing those results into their procedures.

Miscellaneous

• The Universal Code of Conduct draft is open for community review and comment until October 6th, 2020.
• Office actions may now be appealed to the Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee.

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2020).

Administrator changes John M Wolfson Bduke • Nilfanion • Philosopher • Rspeer • Yunshui Interface administrator changes Ragesoss TonyBallioni

CheckUser changes EdJohnston • Oshwah • Yamla Yunshui Oversight changes Anarchyte Yunshui

Guideline and policy news

• Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.

Technical news

• Sysops will once again be able to view the deleted history of JS/CSS pages; this was restricted to interface administrators when that group was introduced.
• Twinkle's block module now includes the ability to note the specific case when applying a discretionary sanctions block and/or template.
• Sysops will be able to use Special:CreateLocalAccount to create a local account for a global user that is prevented from auto-creation locally (such as by a filter or range block). Administrators that are not sure if such a creation is appropriate should contact a checkuser.

Arbitration

• The 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections process has begun. Eligible editors will be able to nominate themselves as candidates from November 8 through November 17. The voting period will run from November 23 through December 6.
• The Anti-harassment RfC has concluded with a summary of the feedback provided.

Miscellaneous

• A reminder that standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. (American Politics 2 Arbitration case).

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020).

Administrator changes

Andrwsc • Anetode • GoldenRing • JzG • LinguistAtLarge • Nehrams2020

Interface administrator changes

Izno

Guideline and policy news

• There is a request for comment in progress to either remove T3 (duplicated and hardcoded instances) as a speedy deletion criterion or eliminate its seven-day waiting period.

Technical news

• Voting for proposals in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey, which determines what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year, will take place from 8 December through 21 December. In particular, there are sections regarding administrators and anti-harassment.

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 7 December 2020 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).

Administrator changes Hammersoft Andres • Brion VIBBER • Rkitko • Thatcher

CheckUser changes Barkeep49 • BDD • CaptainEek • Primefac Oversight changes Barkeep49 • BDD • CaptainEek Joe Roe

Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.

Technical news

• You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.

Arbitration

• By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
• Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, BDD, Bradv, CaptainEek, L235, Maxim, Primefac.

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).

Administrator changes Hog Farm Mattflaschen • Nandesuka • Savidan • Wangi

CheckUser changes Berean Hunter • Xeno Oversight changes Someguy1221 • Xeno

Arbitration

• The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2021 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2021, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2021, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Misplaced Pages has now been around for 20 years, and recently saw its billionth edit!

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).

Administrator changes

TJMSmith

Boing! said Zebedee • Hiberniantears • Lear's Fool • Only • WGFinley

Interface administrator changes

AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
• A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
• A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Misplaced Pages:Page mover/delete-redirect.
• A request for comment asks if sysops may place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
• There is a discussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes protection.

Technical news

• When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
• When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
• There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).

Arbitration

• By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people. Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
• The Kurds and Kurdistan case was closed, authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2021 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AmandaNP, Operator873, Stanglavine, Teles, and Wiki13.

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).

Administrator changes

Alexandria • Happyme22 • RexxS

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
• Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.

Technical news

• When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
• Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)

Arbitration

• A community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure is open until April 25.

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).

Administrator changes

Enchanter • Carlossuarez46

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
• The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC was closed with no consensus. Consensus was found in a previous RfC for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.

Technical news

• The user group oversight will be renamed to suppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.

Arbitration

• The community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).

Administrator changes

Ashleyyoursmile • Less Unless

Husond • MattWade • MJCdetroit • Carioca • Vague Rant • Kingboyk • Thunderboltz • Gwen Gale • AniMate • SlimVirgin (deceased)

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus was reached to deprecate Misplaced Pages:Editor assistance.
• Following a Request for Comment the Book namespace was deprecated.

Technical news

• Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.

Arbitration

• After a Clarification request, the Arbitration Committee modified Remedy 5 of the Antisemitism in Poland case. This means sourcing expectations are a discretionary sanction instead of being present on all articles. It also details using the talk page or the Reliable Sources Noticeboard to discuss disputed sources.

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).

Administrator changes Trialpears AGK • Eliz81 • Mulad • ThaddeusB • Vianello • Who Lacrimosus → Ikuzaf Interface administrator changes Ragesoss

CheckUser changes AGK • DGG Oversighter changes AGK

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
• An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.

Technical news

• IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.

Arbitration

• The community authorised COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).

Administrator changes BusterD Kees08 • Nickshanks • Protonk • Schissel • Ultraexactzz • Wknight94

CheckUser changes TheresNoTime Oversighter changes TheresNoTime ST47

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.

Technical news

• Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)

Arbitration

• Following an amendment request, the committee has clarified that the Talk page exception to the 500/30 rule in remedy 5 of the Palestine-Israel articles 4 case does not apply to requested move discussions.

Miscellaneous

• You can vote for candidates in the 2021 Board of Trustees elections from 4 August to 17 August. Four community elected seats are up for election.

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).

Administrator changes

Jake Wartenberg

Emperor • Viridian Bovary

Ashleyyoursmile → Viridian Bovary

Guideline and policy news

• Feedback is requested on the Universal Code of Conduct enforcement draft by the Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee.
• A RfC is open on whether to allow administrators to use extended confirmed protection on high-risk templates.
• A discussion is open to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)
• A RfC on the next steps after the trial of pending changes on TFAs has resulted in a 30 day trial of automatic semi protection for TFAs.

Technical news

• The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is in progress to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Comments and new proposals are welcome.

Miscellaneous

• The 2021 RfA review is now open for comments.

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).

Administrator changes Blablubbs Alvestrand • Black Falcon • Deathphoenix • Dppowell • Mark Arsten • JGHowes (deceased)

Oversighter changes Callanecc Mkdw Interface administrator changes 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 Preferences → Beta features.

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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Administrators' newsletter – November 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).

Administrator changes Clpo13 Brian0918 • JDoorjam • Karanacs • MrDarcy • Mindspillage Interface administrator changes Evad37

CheckUser changes Dreamy Jazz • Ferret • GeneralNotability • Girth Summit • RoySmith Oversight changes Dreamy Jazz • LuK3

Guideline and policy news

• Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.

Technical news

• Toolhub is a catalogue of tools which can be used on Wikimedia wikis. It is at https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/.

Arbitration

• GeneralNotability, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections. Ivanvector and John M Wolfson are reserve commissioners.
• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves to stand in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections from 07 November 2021 until 16 November 2021.

Miscellaneous

• The 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of five new CheckUsers and two new Oversighters.

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).

Administrator changes

A Train • Berean Hunter • Epbr123 • GermanJoe • Sanchom • Mysid

Technical news

• Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
• The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
• The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent.

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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. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).

Administrator changes Amalthea • Ihcoyc (deceased) • Kateshortforbob • Kirill Lokshin • Rifleman 82 • Ryan Norton • Wrp103 Interface administrator changes Mr. Stradivarius

CheckUser changes Cabayi • Donald Albury • Enterprisey • Izno • Wugapodes Opabinia regalis Casliber • David Fuchs • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy Oversighter changes Cabayi • Donald Albury • Enterprisey • Izno • Wugapodes Opabinia regalis Casliber • David Fuchs • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy

Guideline and policy news

• Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.

• Additionally, consensus for proposal 6C of the 2021 RfA review has led to the creation of an administrative action review process. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding advanced permissions.

Arbitration

• Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Cabayi, Donald Albury, Enterprisey, Izno, Opabinia regalis, Worm That Turned, Wugapodes.

Miscellaneous

• The functionaries email list (functionaries-enlists.wikimedia.org) will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.

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How we will see unregistered users

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You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.

When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.

Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.

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We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.

Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).

Administrator changes AustralianRupert • Cimon Avaro • Euryalus • Jehochman • Nunh-huh 28bytes Bureaucrat changes 28bytes

Interface administrator changes Evad37 • Galobtter Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

• The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page.

Technical news

• The user group oversight will be renamed suppress in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
• The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.

Arbitration

• Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
• The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
• A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey is open until 11 February 2022.

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

Administrator changes Modussiccandi BOZ • Brookie (deceased) • Jackmcbarn • Jamesday • Jonathunder • Master of Puppets • Saravask

CheckUser changes Callanecc Oversighter changes Callanecc

Guideline and policy news

• A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
• A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.

Technical news

• The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Misplaced Pages talk:Talk pages project. (T296645)
• Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. (T25020)
• The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. (T295389)

Arbitration

• Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous

• The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
• Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
• The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

Administrator changes Firefly • Sdrqaz Ad Orientem Geschichte • Ryan Postlethwaite • Sabine's Sunbird • Wassupwestcoast

Interface administrator changes Evad37

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.

Technical news

• Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928)
• When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)

Arbitration

• Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
• A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
• A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.

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New administrator activity requirement

The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.

Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

1. Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
2. Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period

Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.

22:53, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

Administrator changes Colin M David.Monniaux • Fribbler • Grue • Kpjas • West.andrew.g

CheckUser changes Ks0stm Oversighter changes Ks0stm

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
• Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.

Technical news

• The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
• A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.

Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).

Administrator changes Tamzin Barek • Darkwind • Geometry guy • ProcseeBot • RoyBoy • Sean Whitton • Valereee • Visorstuff • WAvegetarian Sn0wflake → VersedFenrir

CheckUser changes Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news

• Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.

Technical news

• Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
• The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.

Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Misplaced Pages's biographies of living persons policy.
• An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).

Administrator changes AA • Gwalla • Ioeth • Laurascudder • Moriori (deceased) • Nat • Rfl Drilnoth → AFigureOfBlue Bureaucrat changes Lee Vilenski

Interface administrator changes Nihiltres

Technical news

• user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.

Miscellaneous

• The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).

Administrator changes

Valereee

Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
• An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news

• The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
• Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration

• The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
• Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
• Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).

Administrator changes DanCherek • DatGuy • Femke • Z1720 Aldux • Graham Beards • Nyttend

Interface administrator changes Mr. Stradivarius

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
• An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

Technical news

• The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Misplaced Pages has been released.
• The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
• The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
• Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.

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Pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Established policy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to the required activity level before the beginning of January 2023.

Inactive administrators are encouraged to engage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for re-engaging with the project are available at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to re-engage with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 08:53, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).

Administrator changes ScottishFinnishRadish Staxringold Ahoerstemeier (deceased) • Ched

Interface administrator changes Cyberpower678 CheckUser changes GorillaWarfare

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block.
• Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
• Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October.

Technical news

• The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

Arbitration

• Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
• A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
• The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October.

Miscellaneous

• An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their passwords are secure, and reminded that ArbCom reserves the right to not restore adminship in cases of poor account security. You can also use two-factor authentication (2FA) to provide an extra level of security.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections open 2 October and close 8 October.
• You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process.
• An RfC is open to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop.
• Tech tip: You can do a fuzzy search of all deleted page titles at Special:Undelete.

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).

Administrator changes

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  • Isabelle Belato
  • Whpq
• 
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  • Atama
  • Astronautics~enwiki
  • Athaenara
  • Eddie891
  • GraemeL
  • Marianocecowski
  • Natalya
  • Pratyeka
  • SB Johnny

Interface administrator changes

• TheresNoTime
• Ragesoss

CheckUser changes

• 
  • Blablubbs
  • Firefly
• Joe Roe

Oversight changes

• DGG

Guideline and policy news

• The article creation at scale RfC opened on 3 October and will be open until at least 2 November.
• An RfC is open to discuss having open requests for adminship automatically placed on hold after the seven-day period has elapsed, pending closure or other action by a bureaucrat.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 13 November 2022 until 22 November 2022 to stand in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The arbitration case request titled Athaenara has been resolved by motion.
• The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has entered the proposed decision stage.
• AmandaNP, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections. Xaosflux and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.

Miscellaneous

• The 2022 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of two new CheckUsers.
• You can add yourself to the centralised page listing time zones of administrators.
• Tech tip: Wikimarkup in a block summary is parsed in the notice that the blockee sees. You can use templates with custom options to specify situations like {{rangeblock|create=yes}} or {{uw-ublock|contains profanity}}.

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Imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Established policy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to the required activity level before the beginning of January 2023.

Inactive administrators are encouraged to engage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for re-engaging with the project are available at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to re-engage with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 01:01, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).

Administrator changes

• Eddie891
• Euryalus
• TheresNoTime

• Alex.muller
• Excirial
• RedWordSmith
• Ron Ritzman
• TheresNoTime
• Stephen

Interface administrator changes

TheresNoTime

TheresNoTime

CheckUser changes

TheresNoTime

Oversight changes

TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus has been found in an RfC to automatically place RfAs on hold after one week.
• The article creation at scale RfC has been closed.
• An RfC on the banners for the December 2022 fundraising campaign has been closed.

Technical news

• A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget. (T319449)

Arbitration

• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 12, 2022 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
• The proposed decision for the 2021-22 review of the discretionary sanctions system is open.
• The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has been closed.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 1 December 2022.
• A motion has modified the procedures for contacting an admin facing Level 2 desysop.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add /64 to the end of an IP in Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.

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Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Established policy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions have been removed.

Subject to certain time limits and other restrictions, your administrative permissions may be returned upon request at WP:BN.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — xaosflux 03:39, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).

Administrator changes

• ComplexRational
• Extraordinary Writ

Stephen

• Andrew Yong
• Dbenbenn
• DESiegel
• GlassCobra
• Joe Decker
• Nancy
• Pathoschild
• StuffOfInterest
• William Pietri
• Wwwwolf
• Xdamr

Interface administrator changes

Nihiltres

CheckUser changes

Moneytrees

• Ivanvector
• SilkTork

Oversighter changes

• GeneralNotability
• Moneytrees

• Guerillero
• SilkTork

Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.

Arbitration

• Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, CaptainEek, GeneralNotability, Guerillero, L235, Moneytrees, Primefac, SilkTork.
• The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
• Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).

Administrator changes Gimmetrow Bjelleklang Bob the Wikipedian Leithp WhisperToMe 100 inactive admins

CheckUser changes BDD Bradv Donald Albury Maxim MusikAnimal Oversighter changes BDD Bradv Donald Albury Maxim

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the administrator policy now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
• Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.

Technical news

• The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Misplaced Pages.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
• In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
• Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).

Administrator changes The Wordsmith Fuhghettaboutit Spinningspark (deceased)

CheckUser changes Callanecc Oversighter changes Callanecc

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, F10 (useless non-media files) has been deprecated.
• Following a request for comment, the Portal CSD criteria (P1 (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated.
• A request for comment is open to discuss making the closing instructions for the requested moves process a guideline.

Technical news

• The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted.

Arbitration

• Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been rescinded.
• The proposed decision for the Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case is expected 7 March 2023.
• A case related to the Holocaust in Poland is expected to be opened soon.

Miscellaneous

• The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members.
• Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux.
• The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).

Administrator changes Aoidh KillerChihuahua

CheckUser changes Ferret

Guideline and policy news

• A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.

Technical news

• Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
• The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
• A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.

Arbitration

• The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
• A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

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Infobox ideas and changes

In light of recent debate on modifications to Template:Infobox rugby biography, I've expanded it to include other issues that demand attention. As you frequently contribute to rugby union articles, please feel free to respond with your suggestions for improving the most recent discussion on the templates talk page. Kidsoljah (talk) 08:37, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).

Administrator changes Spicy Ale jrb Dbachmann DGG (deceased) Jimbo Wales

CheckUser changes Jimbo Wales Oversighter changes Jimbo Wales

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.

Arbitration

• The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.

Miscellaneous

• The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).

Administrator changes Ingenuity Ddstretch Prodego Resolute

CheckUser changes Courcelles

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
• As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

Technical news

• Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Misplaced Pages until some time in 2024.

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.

Miscellaneous

• Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).

Administrator changes

Novem Linguae

• Deckiller
• Electionworld
• MBisanz
• Penwhale
• Raul654
• Roadrunner
• Viridae
• Yannismarou

Bureaucrat changes

MBisanz

Guideline and policy news

• Contributions to the English Misplaced Pages 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

• Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).

Administrator changes

Firefangledfeathers

• AlisonW
• Amberrock
• Closedmouth
• Scottywong

Interface administrator changes

Novem Linguae

Technical news

• The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
• Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. (T337431)

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).

Administrator changes Pppery Theleekycauldron Dwheeler G.A.S Royalbroil Ssd

CheckUser changes Bradv Oversighter changes Bradv

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 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.

Technical news

• Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)

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.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).

Administrator changes

0xDeadbeef

Tamzin

Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

• Ragesoss
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

• The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
• There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
• Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
• 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.

Miscellaneous

• 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).

Administrator changes

• Ganesha811
• JPxG

• Ajpolino
• Lourdes
• Mairi
• RockMFR
• Somno
• WilyD

Beeblebrox → Just Step Sideways

CheckUser changes

• Beeblebrox
• Opabinia regalis

Oversight changes

• Beeblebrox
• Opabinia regalis

Guideline and policy news

• Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.

Arbitration

• 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.
• The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

Administrator changes

Clovermoss

Dennis Brown

• Julia W
• Marasmusine
• PBS

CheckUser changes

• Aoidh
• HJ Mitchell
• Sdrqaz
• Spicy
• ToBeFree
• Vanamonde93
• Z1720

Maxim

• Enterprisey
• Izno
• SilkTork

Oversighter changes

• Aoidh
• Firefly
• Sdrqaz
• ToBeFree
• Z1720

Maxim

• Enterprisey
• Izno
• SilkTork

Arbitration

• Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
• The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• The New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

Administrator changes

• Red-tailed hawk
• Robertsky

• Ameliorate!
• Ancheta Wis
• Anthony Bradbury (deceased)
• Cobi
• Ev
• Moondyne
• Worm That Turned

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

CheckUser changes

Wugapodes

Interface administrator changes

• Enterprisey
• Izno

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
• Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
• Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
• The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

Administrator changes Sdkb The Night Watch East718 Isabelle Belato Mzajac Staecker Stan Shebs Sugarfish Tamzin

Bureaucrat changes SilkTork

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
• Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

Technical news

• The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

Miscellaneous

• The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

Administrator changes

• Kbdank71
• Kosack
• NrDg
• TLSuda

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

Technical news

• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

Miscellaneous

• 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 Misplaced Pages.

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

Administrator changes

Nyttend

• JohnOwens
• Killiondude
• MelanieN
• Nihonjoe

Bureaucrat changes

Nihonjoe

CheckUser changes

Joe Roe

Oversight changes

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 Misplaced Pages. 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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Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes

Graham Beards

• Deskana
• Mets501
• Staxringold

Bureaucrat changes

• Deskana
• Warofdreams

Oversight changes

Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

• Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
• The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous

• WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).

Administrator changes

• Elli
• HouseBlaster
• Pickersgill-Cunliffe

• Brianga
• De728631
• Georgewilliamherbert
• Hyacinth (deceased)
• ProveIt
• The Night Watch

Technical news

• Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)

Miscellaneous

• The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Administrator changes

Isabelle Belato

• Ian.thomson
• Modussiccandi

Interface administrator changes

Izno

CheckUser changes

Barkeep49

Technical news

• Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
• Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Administrator changes

Pppery

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

Oversighter changes

Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

• Courcelles
• GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
• Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
• The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.

Miscellaneous

• Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in September 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,900 articles and 26,200 redirects awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

Administrator changes

• Asilvering
• Significa liberdade

• Good Olfactory
• Hesperian
• I JethroBT
• TommyBoy
• Woody

CheckUser changes

• Barkeep49
• Izno

• Doug Weller
• Spicy

Guideline and policy news

• Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Misplaced Pages talk:Administrator elections.
• Following a discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 to F2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have an administrator recall process.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Historical elections has been closed.
• An arbitration case regarding Backlash to diversity and inclusion has been opened.
• Editors are invited to nominate themselves to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until 23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC).

Miscellaneous

• If you are interested in stopping spammers, please put MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist and MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist on your watchlist, and help out when you can.

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Nomination of Stanford Super Series for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Stanford Super Series is suitable for inclusion in Misplaced Pages according to Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Stanford Super Series until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 03:41, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).

Administrator changes

• Crisco 1492

• Babajobu
• Daniel
• Elf
• Jayron32
• Thue
• Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

Maxim

Oversighter changes

Maxim

Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
• Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.

Technical news

• Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068

Arbitration

• RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.

Miscellaneous

• An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).

Administrator changes

• Ahecht
• DoubleGrazing
• Dr vulpes
• FOARP
• Peaceray
• Queen of Hearts
• Rsjaffe
• SD0001
• SilverLocust
• Sohom Datta
• ThadeusOfNazereth
• Voorts

• Ajpolino
• Fathoms Below
• Pppery
• Tamzin
• Worm That Turned

• Aervanath
• Christopher Sundita
• Dank
• Dennis Brown
• Dragons flight
• Fastily
• Graham87
• JaGa
• Kbh3rd
• Marine 69-71
• Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington
• Yamamoto Ichiro

Interface administrator changes

• SD0001
• Sohom Datta

Pppery

CheckUser changes

• Spicy
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Misplaced Pages:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
• Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.

Technical news

• Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Yasuke (formerly titled Backlash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
• An arbitration case titled Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).

Administrator changes

Sennecaster

• Daniel
• Hog Farm

• BozMo
• Ferret
• John M Wolfson
• MaxSem
• Panyd
• Tide rolls
• Titoxd

CheckUser changes

• Daniel
• Elli
• Liz
• ScottishFinnishRadish
• Theleekycauldron

Worm That Turned

Ferret

Oversight changes

• Daniel
• Elli
• Liz
• ScottishFinnishRadish
• Theleekycauldron

Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RFC, Misplaced Pages:Notability (species) was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.

Arbitration

• Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: CaptainEek, Daniel, Elli, KrakatoaKatie, Liz, Primefac, ScottishFinnishRadish, Theleekycauldron, Worm That Turned.

Miscellaneous

• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!

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