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TheArbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting theWikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to imposesite bans,topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. Thearbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Happy Christmas
It is the festive time of the year so a happy Christmas to all members of the project. At this time some of the regulars are away so it is more important that those who are available look out for vandalism on articles that are supported by the project. We need to guard all of the hard work of members, also keep an eye out for those article been nominated for deletion so none are lost unnecessarily.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The November 2025 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to aclean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis, usually on a Tuesday.
Monitoring is essential Use thewatchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
Thanks
A very bigThank you to all the editors who labour away quietly and help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
To members who have added suggestions to the ToDo list atYorkshire Portal.
To the football and rugby editors who have done sterling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs.
To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol atwatchlist.
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Thanks Mz7. Seems like a long time since you took me through the CVUA course, but I still remember all the good advice you gave me. Here's to the next learning curve...GirthSummit (blether)19:50, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Doug - I wasn't so sure myself, what with the near-total lack of any direct experience with arbitration, but it seems like people have faith in me, which is gratifying. Hope you're keeping as well as possible, and that the dogs aren't getting wrapped up in the fairy lights?GirthSummit (blether)20:16, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations on your success in the elections and welcome to the 2026 Arbitration Committee. This is the first part of your induction onto the Arbitration Committee.
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Hi, I'm an old admin who is still trying to get back in the swing of things, so apologies if there are better venues for this. I was responding to a request for page protection onNational Iranian American Council due to suspected sockpuppeting, and I noticed that a previous contributor to this page,User:James Bertrand 8, had been blocked by you due to abusive editing (presumably sockpuppeting). However, I could find noWP:SPI page or other information, so I'm wondering if you might be able to look into this, especially the newer accounts that seem to all be agreeing with each other on the talk page. Thanks!RunningOnBrains(talk)23:03, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Runningonbrains, when you get a request like that at RFPP, my uncharitable but realistic assumption is that it's someone who knows page protection will win them an edit war and is hoping that RFPP won't look as hard at the sock claims as SPI would. So if I were you, I'd decline those and direct the reporting editor to SPI. --asilvering (talk)04:16, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hey - I agree with asilvering on this. I'm afraid I can't immediately bring to mind what led me to make that block, but if someone suspects sockpuppetry they ought to make a report that we can invetigate, rather than just ask for protection of a particular page.GirthSummit (blether)11:09, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Starting on November 4, the IP addresses of logged-out editors are no longer being publicly displayed. Instead, they will have atemporary account associated with their edits.
Administrators will now find thatSpecial:MergeHistory is now significantly more flexible about what it can merge. It can now merge sections taken from the middle of the history of the source (rather than only the start) and insert revisions anywhere in the history of the destination page (rather than only the start).T382958
AnArticles for Creation backlog drive is happening in December 2025, with over 1,000 drafts awaiting review from the past two months. In addition to AfC participants, all administrators and new page patrollers can help review using the Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in theGadgets settings.Sign up here to participate!
Hey - thanks for making the report. I'm making dinner at the moment, and I don't do SPI stuff from my mobile (it's hard enough not to screw up just writing a reply...). The case will be addressed in due course.GirthSummit (blether)20:59, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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