Gadfium

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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)

Scorpions1325's vote

Hi Gadfium... Noticed you altered their vote and it now looks like they never voted in the current RfA. You could've discussed your concerns on their talk page without changing their vote. I've seen a vote like that before and think they meant it as a joke. This is just my honest opinion. But let me ping them here ~Scorpions1325 in case I'm wrong. Regards, Volten001 ^☎ 05:40, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

I did post to their talk page. Maybe they were joking, maybe they meant to type support, maybe they meant to put it in the oppose section. They have plenty of time to come back and clarify what they meant before the RfA finishes.-Gadfium (talk) 05:56, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. Since a bureaucrat has already reinstated the !vote, let's just leave it there. If the editor meant something else then they will respond and edit their !vote. Regards, Volten001 ^☎ 06:37, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

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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