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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

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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.
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Another editor with "truth" in their username

Hi, JB. Check out Truthbetoldkz when you get a chance. –Skywatcher68 (talk) 23:00, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Skywatcher68: Well, yes & no. No edits for over 13 hours now, nor any since the last warning, so I don't think there's any need to step in now, unless they start up again. Also, unusually for Truther editors, the changes, although unexplained, don't look to me obviously inappropriate; is its inclusion justified? The first section the editor has been removing is just a report of one person's opinion, expressed in an interview. As for the second section, I really don't know what the point of it is intended to be. Apparently he is the largest shareholder in an investment company; so what? Why is that a "controversy"? Maybe there's a reason which would make sense to someone with relevant prior knowledge, but in its present form I can't see what its significance is. None of this is to deny that the editor, like so many Truth-editors, may be here to whitewash an article for which they have a conflict of interest; that is very likely, but I don't think there's any case for taking action on the basis of such general suspicions. Having said that, however, there is one aspect of their editing which is unacceptable and that they haven't been warned about, namely edit-warring, so I'll drop them a note about that. JBW (talk) 13:41, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion review for Professional wrestling school

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Professional wrestling school. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. McPhail (talk) 16:50, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Vitrua Fighter 5

The Vitrua Fighter 5 page has been getting somewhat vandalized for a while now[1], some user keeps stating that it's the "final" game, I don't know why this is so important to this person, but that type of statement should be left for the developer or the producer to state, since they of course own the game and they keep making updates to the latest game and those updates are office, they're not fan made. Maybe this is being a little drastic, but maybe the page should be locked for a time?--108.208.136.152 (talk) 05:10, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The updates Virtua Fighter 5 has been getting is not a strong reason not to call it last. It is possible to add more stuff to the most recent chapter of a series without ever adding a new chapter. In Virtua Fighter 5's case, the game is approaching 19 years old and the developers have no plans for a sixth game. With this, Virtua Fighter 5 pretty much fits the definition of final. 2603:8000:E800:5F4E:3CC7:3332:4049:F94D (talk) 14:42, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but Wikipedia policy is that disputed article content must not be included without a citation to a reliable source supporting it. The fact that someone who has chosen to edit Wikipedia thinks that something "must" be true, or that something "pretty much fits the definition" of something falls under Wikipedia's concept of original research, and is not acceptable as justification for article content. You can try to get the policies on the need for citations to sources and on original research changed if you like, but as long as they are Wikipedia policies, you need to comply with them. For years you have been dedicated to trying to force acceptance of this one word into an article, in the face of clear consensus against doing so, as evidenced by the number of editors who have reverted. It really looks obsessive. Anyone who edits Wikipedia is bound sooner or later to encounter situations where consensus is clearly against them; in that situation it's necessary to accept consensus, no matter how strongly one personally thinks that the consensus is wrong. I have had to do that many times, and when it happens I leave it and move on to other things, rather than spending years stubbornly trying to impose my preferences. JBW (talk) 15:14, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My edit to DailyOM

Howdy. I apologize for my edit to DailyOM that you reverted, I was trying to fix the title of a reference that had "500 Internal Server Error". I accidentally used the title of another reference in that article that also had a 500 error for its title. I see you removed the reference completely afterwards but there's still another reference to the same website with 500 Internal Server Error. Should that be deleted too? Thank you. CareerDoofus (talk) 14:40, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

PoTC "-agonists" again

One of the IPs returned. –Skywatcher68 (talk) 17:14, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]