User talk:MBisanz

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

Administrator changes

Firefly • Sdrqaz

Ad Orientem

Geschichte • Ryan Postlethwaite • Sabine's Sunbird • Wassupwestcoast

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.

Technical news

• Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928)
• When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)

Arbitration

• Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
• A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
• A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:13, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement

The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.

Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

1. Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
2. Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period

Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.

22:53, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Updates to bureaucrat minimum activity requirements

Hello MBisanz.

Following a discussion at the Bureaucrats' noticeboard, the minimum activity requirements for bureaucrats have been updated to also include the the recently updated minimum editing requirements for administrators (i.e. at least 100 edits every 5 years). This will be enforced beginning in January 2023. Should you no longer wish to volunteer as a bureaucrat you may request removal at SRP and.or let us know at WP:BN.

Best regards, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:37, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

"Wonthaggi Human Powered Grand Prix" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Wonthaggi Human Powered Grand Prix and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 April 26#Wonthaggi Human Powered Grand Prix until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. A7V2 (talk) 06:06, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

Always precious

Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:42, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

XFD Closer

Just a heads up, XFD Closer has a bug right now where it does not always carry out the closure (at RfD at least, I'm not sure about elsewhere). You'll need to go through the closes you just made and make sure that they are carried out (which is a good idea to double check anyway). -- Tavix ^(talk) 20:22, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

These have been closed as Delete, but have not been deleted: Clean team, Baksı, Baksi, 1–2 finish, History of zoology (disambiguation), Bigamy (in Civil Law). Jay (talk) 20:30, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. MBisanz ^talk 00:48, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

It would have been much more helpful to delete those with a link to the discussion instead of "XfD". The discussion has handy links for closure [ Closure: keep/retarget/delete ] where if you click the delete button it will prefill the deletion screen with a link to the discussion. You still need to go through discussions you closed as keep and make sure the RfD tags are removed, and discussions you closed as retarget and make sure they are retargeted properly and the tags removed. -- Tavix ^(talk) 00:57, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, I just did the manual review. I do not think I missed anything. MBisanz ^talk 01:15, 1 May 2022 (UTC)