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Administrators' newsletter – September 2024
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War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.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!
Feedback request: History and geography request for comment
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GJOLEKA
Hi. Thanks for your help [1]. Can you also activate the need for CU? It doesn't write CU requested in the SPI central page with the lists, only case open. 62.74.14.48 (talk) 02:09, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
Done, Given that the page is now created, you should be able to edit it personally in the future. I have made the requested changes. Geardona (talk to me?) 02:17, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
Voting for WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open!
Voting for WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open! A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. Register your vote here by 23:59 UTC on 29 September! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:34, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
Possible improper "Blackheart" redirect
On September 19th you made a redirect change for the search Rio Vidal which leads to the Blackheart#televison page. Claiming "Creating redirect to Blackheart#Television as requested at WP:AFC/R" Unless you know something we as viewers of Agatha All Along do not, I do not believe Aubry Plaza's character in "Agatha All Along" known as Rio Vidal is actually Blackheart, Son of Mephisto as your redirect implies. During episode 2 there is a reference to "blackheart" and it is presumed by the audience that is referring to the Rio Vidal character, but technically we don't even know that for sure. Now it could be possible that is the correct blackheart reference, but I do not believe that we as the public have any solid evidence of that at this time. PaisleyMartin (talk) 05:19, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
- Hello!
- Would you suggest redirecting it to Agatha All Along (miniseries)#Characters instead? Geardona (talk to me?) 10:59, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- At this current point, I would agree that Agatha All Along (miniseries)#Characters would be the best place for that to redirect to. Sorry for not proposing anything in my first post, brand new to wiki editing. PaisleyMartin (talk) 17:15, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- Done, Special:Diff/1247113820 Geardona (talk to me?) 18:07, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
List of dog breeds Wikipedia page
Why would we change it to a table? Just asking for clarification JimmyCarterLover1 (talk) 20:18, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
- In general, it is more readable, and sortable. Geardona (talk to me?) 21:29, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – October 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
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.
Redirects for discussion
Once (adverb), Twice (adverb) are listed at redirects for discussion: Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 October 15 § Once (adverb). Hyphenation Expert (talk) 11:37, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
Guduru Gopal Rao page
Hi Geardona, Thanks so much for your feedback on my page Guduru Gopal Rao. Could you guide me on the sources/references and let me know if there are any specific that I need to revise? Many thanks in advance. MillieBob MillieBob (talk) 11:01, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
- No problem, the BBC and Guardian sources are good, I would recommend getting more of your information from those two. One more high quality source, such as those two, should pass notability. If you can attempt to phase out https://gbss.org.uk/about/who-we-are/medical-advisory-panel/, as the subject is involved with that group. Let me know when you are done, and ill look over it again.
Thanks Geardona (talk to me?) 14:08, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks so much! I'll get on with updating and let you know when I'm done :) MillieBob (talk) 06:15, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2024 November newsletter
The 2024 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round being a very tight race. Our new champion is 
AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who scored 2,283 points mainly through 3 high-multiplier FAs and 3 GAs on military history topics. By a 1% margin, Airship beat out last year's champion, 
BeanieFan11 (submissions), who scored second with 2,264 points, mainly from an impressive 58 GAs about athletes. In third place, 
Generalissima (submissions) scored 1,528 points, primarily from two FAs on U.S. Librarians of Congress and 20 GAs about various historical topics. Our other finalists are: 
Sammi Brie (submissions) with 879 points, 
Hey man im josh (submissions) with 533 points, 
BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 432 points, 
Arconning (submissions) with 244 points, and 
AryKun (submissions) with 15 points. Congratulations to our finalists and all who participated!
The final round was very productive, and contestants had 7 FAs, 9 FLs, 94 GAs, 73 FAC reviews, and 79 GAN reviews and peer reviews. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!
All those who reached the final will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field.
Generalissima (submissions) wins the featured article prize for 3 FAs in round 4, and 7 FAs overall.
Hey man im josh (submissions) wins the featured list prize for 23 FLs overall.
MaranoFan (submissions) wins the featured topic prize for 9 articles in featured topics in round 1.- Hey man im josh (submissions) wins the featured content reviewer prize for 110 FA/FL reviews overall.
BeanieFan11 (submissions) wins the good article prize for 58 GAs in round 5, and 70 GAs overall.
Fritzmann (submissions) wins the good topic prize for 6 articles in good topics in round 2.
Sammi Brie (submissions) wins the good article reviewer prize for 45 GA reviews in round 2, and 78 GA reviews overall.- BeanieFan11 (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 131 Did you know articles overall.
Muboshgu (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 15 In the news articles in round 1, and 36 overall.
Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2025 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement!
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
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!