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Administrators' newsletter – May 2024 edit
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).
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!
Precious anniversary edit
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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:02, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
Reply to your recent message (now removed) edit
Hi Jpgordon, I noticed that you left a message on my talk page regarding my edit to User talk:149.19.60.180, which you subsequently removed after a few minutes. I understand where this could get confused and concerned when I removed one of the blocked IP range's unblock request, added a suggestion and readded the "Requests for unblock" category. Following the post of your message, I have now realized that reinserting that category (just so that some action can be taken if necessary) is not exactly correct and that there are better and more helpful ways to handle these kind of situations, such as by reporting it to WP:ANI. I would like to thank you for the advice you gave me, and I am sorry for any inconvenience I may have caused in this situation.~ SG5536B (talk) 12:59, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
- Well, I reverted it because you were right, just in the wrong place, and the message seemed overly snarky, and it was late enough in the day that I didn't feel like rewording it to be more civil. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 14:03, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi, edit
Hello,
What kind of verification do you need for reliable sources? @Jpgordon.
Andjela.
AndjelaTodorovic21 (talk) 15:03, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Go read WP:RS. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 15:07, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Marcus Garvey and "the strange Loop" edit
Sorry but this musical has escaped my attention. I am not a great follower of modern musicals. I see it had a limited run in London last year and so far as I can see it has not been performed anywhere else in Britain. I didn't have a great deal of time to check out sources and I half expected the post to be spam or vandalism. Is it too much to expect somebody to give a source when they make such an edit as this? or to have it ready to put it in if asked ? And as for almost every article about it including the reference to Garvey a quick check of Google just now shows the 2 most reliable sources on it do not mention Garvey. They were The Guardian review of the London production and the piece on the Pullitzer Prize site.. The Wikipedia article on the show doesn't mention Garvey and I think the New York Times is behind a paywall. ( I may be wrong) You obviously didn't understand my little joke about composting.. Spinney Hill (talk) 23:41, 3 June 2024 (UTC)Spinney Hill (talk) 23:47, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- I understood the compost joke, I mess around with words all the time. I like 21th century composters. Sorry for being snippy. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 02:46, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2024 edit
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
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!