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Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

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

Administrator changes

Graham Beards

• Deskana
• Mets501
• Staxringold

Bureaucrat changes

• Deskana
• Warofdreams

Oversight changes

Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

• Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
• The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous

• WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:45, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you

Yamla, you certainly deserve a compliment from me for revoking the TPA of User:UltimateMikeSawyers. I was wondering when this would happen, and you finally stepped in. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 13:31, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Ribosome786

They are socking as ImperialDracula now, I've listed the evidence here, Thanks. Ratnahastin (talk) 10:40, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll take a look. --Yamla (talk) 10:42, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

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Transphobes

I blocked BloodSkullzRock as NOTHERE and POV editing after deleting their userpage as a WP:G10. BSR has made an unblock request. Could you please check Ghanimah, the creator (today) of Party of Women? They may just be two transphobes/members of the party (some apparently think so), but I think there's enough evidence to warrant a check. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:29, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

 Unrelated. They are geographically close, but the CU data doesn't even point to  Unlikely in this case. Based on gut instinct and not on CU data, I suspect two people from the same off-wiki forum somewhere. --Yamla (talk) 17:09, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:14, 8 June 2024 (UTC)