User talk:Daniel
Administrators' newsletter – November 2024[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024). 
Desysoped?[edit]If I may ask, why did you desysop yourself? You were one of the best admins around. Can we still count on you for closing DRVs that don't require the sysop bit? Owen× ☎ 15:15, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 6 November 2024[edit]
Reminder to participate in Wikipedia research[edit]Hello, I recently invited you to take a survey about administration on Wikipedia. If you haven’t yet had a chance, there is still time to participate– we’d truly appreciate your feedback. The survey is anonymous and should take about 10-15 minutes to complete. You may read more about the study on its Meta page and view its privacy statement. Take the survey here. Kind Regards, BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 00:18, 13 November 2024 (UTC) Question for article[edit]Hey Daniel, my name is Ben Dreyfuss. I’m a journalist. I’m writing an article about Wikipedia and for the lede I’m mentioning this discussion that you and some other editors had earlier this year that led to deleting the pages about me and my sister. The article isn’t me whining about how I don’t have a page but it’s the hook for a different topic relating to Wikipedia editing culture. I was hoping I might be able to ask you some questions about the general process you guys use for this stuff. Nothing “gotcha” or anything. But I don’t know any Wikipedia editors and s that deletion page was just brought to my attention I thought you’d be a good person to reach out to. My email is bendreyfuss at gmail dot com if you’re open to chatting with me! best, ben 2600:8804:2311:2E00:94DC:B34F:99E7:53D6 (talk) 02:34, 17 November 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 18 November 2024[edit]ArbCom 2024 Elections voter message[edit] Hello! Voting in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 2 December 2024. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2024 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add cand q[edit]Thank you for standing for arbitrator. I am far away from it all (travel, mourning), not in the mood, so just an informal question you can answer or ignore:
What does this 2024 DYK tell you about infoboxes for classical composers in 2024? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:27, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – December 2024[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).
Congratulations[edit]Congratulations on your appointment to Arbcom! Andre🚐 00:22, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
Welcome to the 2025 Arbitration Committee[edit]Congratulations on your success in the elections and welcome to the 2025 Arbitration Committee. This is the first part of your induction onto the Arbitration Committee. Please use the EmailUser function to indicate the email address you'd like to use for ArbCom and functionary business. Before you can be subscribed to any mailing lists or assigned CheckUser or Oversight permissions, you must sign the Wikimedia Foundation's confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information (L37) and the VRT users confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information (L45). Please confirm that your username is listed on the Access to nonpublic personal data policy/Noticeboard. If isn't, and you haven't signed the agreements, please do this promptly and let me know when you have signed them. Instructions for signing can be found here. Again, you must sign both agreements listed in the instructions. If you have signed but your username is not listed on the noticeboard, please let me know. Over the coming days, you will receive a small number of emails as part of the induction process. Please carefully read them. If they are registration emails, please follow any instructions in them to finalise registration. You can contact me or any other arbitrator directly if you have difficulty with the induction process. Thank you for volunteering to serve on the committee. We very much look forward to introducing ourselves to you on the mailing list and to working with you this term. For the Arbitration Committee, KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 01:58, 9 December 2024 (UTC) | ||||
- @L235:
Over the coming days, you will receive a small number of emails
Has this always said this? That's a joke. He's going to get boatloads of emails in the next few days. Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 02:02, 9 December 2024 (UTC)- Yes it's always said small number. That number refers to the orientation emails which are reasonably small in number (for a new non-CUOS arb you have: AC mailing lists (though this message can be skipped depending on how it's setup), arbwiki, cu email list, os mailing list, and functionaries; perhaps also VRT if they're new there and that's the worst case). But those then lead to an ongoing cavalcade of emails. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 02:08, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
- Should be all done and email sent, thanks Kevin. Cheers, Daniel (talk) 06:13, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
You have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee
[edit]The Electoral Commission is pleased to announce that you have been appointed for a two-year term to the Arbitration Committee effective January 1, 2025. Congratulations on the appointment.
On behalf of ElectCom: —CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 14:03, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
Activity in January
[edit]Just a quick note from me—
I was fairly open and transparent in my nomination statement and answers to questions, regarding my planned inactivity between October 2024 and mid-January 2025; it is the reason why I handed back the tools in October. (Speaking of, I will be requesting the tools back in late December; context as to timing).
November & December have largely been spent on vacation in North & Central America (plus transiting home via Europe) or, when at home, dealing with what we call "wedding season". Upcoming in January, I have a further two weddings, a jam-packed international trip and a week-long vacation to the Australian Open in the first three weeks.
Due to this, I will start the 2025 Committee on the "Inactive" list, and will ask the Clerks to move me to Inactive on all matters that are open on 1 January. I will still be active on emails and behind-the-scenes (especially important, I imagine, for the on-boarding processes), but will not have the time to dedicate to being totally informed on case matters during this short period.
I intend to return to full activity on or around Monday 20 January, which is when I return to my home city. From there, my next vacation plan is a couple of weeks in August, which is fortunately (for activity purposes) / unfortunately (for wanting to sit on a beach drinking cocktails purposes) a long way away.
I am very aware of some of the challenges the '24 Committee faced with activity, and will do my best to a) be active for extended periods and whenever possible; and b) be as transparent as possible with both the Committee and the community regarding periods of inactivity, and err on the side of caution in moving myself to the Inactive list for planned vacations or unplanned periods of inactivity to keep Committee business moving.
Cheers,
Daniel (talk) 19:05, 9 December 2024 (UTC)