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

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

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War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.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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Hi Tyrol5 👋🏻 🙂

I am Gryllida, a reviewer at English Wikinews.

I am seeing that you have been more active here at English Wikipedia than at English Wikinews, where you last edited in May. It saddens me to see you go -- there is a lot of entertaining stories being worked on, where your help would be greatly appreciated.

(If there was something that disappointed you, specifically, please let me know.)

As a version which is more lightweight on time, I would like to invite you to check one page, where reviewers might be collaborating and asking questions. So instead of doing lengthy exhausting reviews and being frustrated by the effort required to get the author to revise the story quickly, you could contribute by sharing advice in situations that are confusing or controversial, which have already been researched and detailed in a question.

There is a Subscribe button at the top right of the n:Wikinews:Water cooler/assistance page. If Notifications are readable for you, could you please click it? Then you will be notified -- including here at English Wikipedia -- of each new added section at that page. (It would help me a lot, as this is the place where I ask for help with my reviewing.)

Thank you in advance for your time reading me, and for your help.

Gryllida (talk, e-mail) 20:26, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I suggested doing mire exclusive interviews. Seems more fun and easier. Maybe next time you read a news story and think of some engaging questions to ask, I would be happy to help. :-) How does this sound? I can do the writeup amd help with editing questions. -- Gryllida (talk, e-mail) 12:15, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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 Wikipedia 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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