Gadfium

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Crimson Education Page

Hi Gadfium, would you mind taking a look at the Crimson Education talk page? I’ve posted a discussion there as requested, but I’m not sure if user Jack4576 is being unreasonable or if my points are actually biased. An admin’s input would surely be helpful. 47.63.202.171 (talk) 13:15, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2024

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

Administrator changes

Nyttend

• JohnOwens
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• MelanieN
• Nihonjoe

Bureaucrat changes

Nihonjoe

CheckUser changes

Joe Roe

Oversight changes

GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

Technical news

• Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:25, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

RFA2024 update: phase I concluded, phase II begins

Hi there! Phase I of the Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review has concluded, with several impactful changes gaining community consensus and proceeding to various stages of implementation. Some proposals will be implemented in full outright; others will be discussed at phase II before being implemented; and still others will proceed on a trial basis before being brought to phase II. The following proposals have gained consensus:

• Proposals 2 and 9b (phase II discussion): Add a reminder of civility norms at RfA and Require links for claims of specific policy violations
• Proposal 3b (in trial): Make the first two days discussion-only
• Proposal 13 (in trial): Admin elections
• Proposal 14 (implemented): Suffrage requirements
• Proposals 16 and 16c (phase II discussion): Allow the community to initiate recall RfAs and Community recall process based on dewiki
• Proposal 17 (phase II discussion): Have named Admins/crats to monitor infractions
• Proposal 24 (phase II discussion): Provide better mentoring for becoming an admin and the RfA process
• Proposal 25 (implemented): Require nominees to be extended confirmed

See the project page for a full list of proposals and their outcomes. A huge thank-you to everyone who has participated so far :) looking forward to seeing lots of hard work become a reality in phase II. theleekycauldron (talk), via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:09, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Pepeha

Hi G,

I've just created a stub for the Māori concept of pepeha. Could you have a look to make sure I haven't made too many stuff-ups on it please? :) Grutness...wha? 12:24, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

That looks good. I particularly appreciate the "Use by non-Māori" section where the ref is likely to be useful to us pākehā.-Gadfium (talk) 21:03, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Cheers Grutness...wha? 04:09, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Disambiguator for Gordonton, New Zealand

Hi Gadfium. A few years back you merged Gordonton into Gordonton, New Zealand. I'm wondering whether we need the disambiguator or whether we could move the article to Gordonton. Was there any partic reason you kept the disambiguator? ta, Nurg (talk) 01:06, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

@Nurg: I suspect it was because the standard practice at the time was to keep the older title. I have no problem with moving it to the simpler name. If you concur that this is an uncontroversial move, I'll just go ahead and do it.-Gadfium (talk) 01:44, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I concur. Go ahead, and thanks for volunteering. Nurg (talk) 01:48, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

 Done.-Gadfium (talk) 02:44, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. Nurg (talk) 03:15, 17 May 2024 (UTC)