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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• Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.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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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:07, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for trying to help

Thanks for trying to help with the IP editor on the Kelly Clarkson article. I think this guy/gal really doesn't like that serial comma, and I'm not gonna fight with them over it. I might write 'em up on WP:AN3, though, if they keep doing it. Happy New Year! — UncleBubba ^{( T @ C )} 14:04, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

@UncleBubba: The thing I'll never understand about such guys is that they completely ignore consistency. There are at least three other serial commas in that lead, but somehow that first one is all that matters. I've seen cases where someone has gone through an article and added or deleted serial commas in every series or changed every instance of "CE" to "AD"; such a person may be misguided but at least is trying to preserve a uniform style. Deor (talk) 17:20, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Lol. Our buddy from Middlesbrough, England figured out how to get a different IP address. He must be extremely bored. — UncleBubba ^{( T @ C )} 02:14, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Maps

Thanks for your work on adding those maps/co-ords - much appreciated. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 20:53, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

De nada. That's pretty much what I do around here. Deor (talk) 20:56, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Trout!

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know you did something silly.

Actually, I don't know you, and to my knowledge you haven't been doing anything silly. This is just for laughs. Benevolent human (talk) 04:09, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

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.
• Wikipedia has now been around for 20 years, and recently saw its billionth edit!

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:09, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kappa Sigma (Philippines)

Just a heads up - in a reversal of the usual XfDcloser oddness, it appears this article managed to get deleted but the AfD wasn't closed. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 20:49, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

@Premeditated Chaos: Yeah, I did the deletion stuff before, rather than after, closing. My bad. Deor (talk) 20:56, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

Oh all good, I assumed it was technical issues :) Cheers! ♠PMC♠ (talk) 21:06, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

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 Wikipedia: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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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:13, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Tiny-house movement

Hi. I have a question on your edit in Tiny-house movement, especially of this edit on July 1, 2013. Please read my note here. Thank you. --直蔵 (talk) 17:34, 17 March 2021 (UTC)