Firefly

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War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.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

---

• Discuss this newsletter
• Subscribe
• Archive

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:44, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

FireflyBot

Hello, Firefly,

Every few weeks I check on FireflyBot to see if it is posting CSD G13 notices to draft/sandbox creators and it looks like it stopped doing so on September 3rd. Could you check on it to see if there are any problems and get it up and going again? Many thanks for all of the work you and your bot do. All the best, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:13, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

@Liz sincere apologies for the delay here - this is now fixed. DreamRimmer has a BRFA to take up this task as well, which I think is good - we'll coordinate so that we can share this task and have some redundancy / reduce single points of failure. firefly ( t · c ) 14:02, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for restarting it. I have sent you a mail. – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:23, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello, Firefly,

Yes, I just noticed that FireflyBot is back in action. Hooray! Thank you. But you are totally allowed to take a break from the project. Maybe you should share bot operator status with Dreamrimmer. I know that works well with HaleBot. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:35, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

@Liz indeed, that is the plan! firefly ( t · c ) 14:27, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

You've got mail!

Hello, Firefly. Please check your email; you've got mail!
Message added 12:41, 21 September 2024 (UTC). It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

– DreamRimmer (talk) 12:41, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

RFA2024 update: Discussion-only period now open for review

Hi there! The trial of the RfA discussion-only period passed at WP:RFA2024 has concluded, and after open discussion, the RfC is now considering whether to retain, modify, or discontinue it. You are invited to participate at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase II/Discussion-only period. Cheers, and happy editing! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:38, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

YGM

Hi, I have sent you an email and am waiting for your response. Thanks! – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:32, 30 September 2024 (UTC)