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[edit]I'm pretty sure I'm not required to notify you but just in case, I mentioned you at ANI so could you have a look at WP:ANI#User:Emiya1980 Repeated Edit Warring and consider weighing in? Thank you. City of Silver 18:58, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- @City of Silver: Thanks for letting me know. I'll take a look. --Chris | Crazycomputers (talk) 19:01, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
Hey, so quick question. Would you be able to explain either here or via email why you revdel'ed an edit summary from an administrator as RD2 here? Given the reason you revdel'ed it, I think it's appropriate to question what kind of grossly insulting, degrading, or offensive edit summary an administrator is making that would require redacting the edit summary. EggRoll97 (talk) 21:54, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- @EggRoll97: The edit summary was generated by the software when Bishonen moved the page back after a vandal moved it to an egregiously offensive page name. Therefore, that page name showed up in the edit summary. --Chris | Crazycomputers (talk) 21:57, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- Ah, much appreciated. EggRoll97 (talk) 22:03, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- @EggRoll97: No problem. To clarify, the edit summary was
Bishonen moved page (Redacted) to User:CFA without leaving a redirect: fixing move vandalism
. There was no misbehavior on Bishonen's part, this is just what MediaWiki does when you move a page. --Chris | Crazycomputers (talk) 22:04, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- @EggRoll97: No problem. To clarify, the edit summary was
- Ah, much appreciated. EggRoll97 (talk) 22:03, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – January 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).
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- Following an RFC, Wikipedia: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.
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- 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!
Administrators' newsletter – February 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2025).
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- Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. T380846
- A '
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Arbitration
- The arbitration case Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.
Administrators' newsletter – March 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2025).
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- A request for comment is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.
- A series of 22 mini-RFCs that double-checked consensus on some aspects and improved certain parts of the administrator elections process has been closed (see the summary of the changes).
- A request for comment is open to gain consensus on whether future administrator elections should be held.
Technical news
- A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. T378488
- Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke tool. T376378
Miscellaneous
- The 2025 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, Arcticocean, Ameisenigel, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, Galahad, Nehaoua, Renvoy, Revi C., RoySmith, Teles and Zafer as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
- Following the 2025 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: 1234qwer1234qwer4, AramilFeraxa, Daniuu, KonstantinaG07, MdsShakil and XXBlackburnXx.