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

Administrator changes

Sennecaster

• Daniel
• Hog Farm

• BozMo
• Ferret
• John M Wolfson
• MaxSem
• Panyd
• Tide rolls
• Titoxd

CheckUser changes

• Daniel
• Elli
• Liz
• ScottishFinnishRadish
• Theleekycauldron

Worm That Turned

Ferret

Oversight changes

• Daniel
• Elli
• Liz
• ScottishFinnishRadish
• Theleekycauldron

Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• Followingan RFC,Wikipedia:Notability (species) was adopted as asubject-specific notability guideline.
• Arequest for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature also nowprovides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.

Arbitration

• Following the2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee:CaptainEek,Daniel,Elli,KrakatoaKatie,Liz,Primefac,ScottishFinnishRadish,Theleekycauldron,Worm That Turned.

Miscellaneous

• ANew Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in thenew pages feed.Sign up here to participate!

Hello, this notice is for everyone who took part in theMarch 2024 AfD on lists of airline destinations. I have started a new RfC on the subject. If you would like to participate please follow this link:Wikipedia talk:What Wikipedia is not § RfC on WP:NOT and British Airways destinations.Sunnya343 (talk)01:06, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2025).

Administrator changes

• Arcticocean
• Wugapodes

Euryalus

CheckUser changes

• Firefly
• L235

Oversighter changes

• Firefly
• Guerillero
• L235
• Moneytrees

Technical news

• Administrators can nownuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days.T380846
• A 'Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter inSpecial:RecentChanges andSpecial:NewPages.T56145

Arbitration

• The arbitration casePalestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2025).

Administrator changes

• Jarry1250
• Lethe

CheckUser changes

• AmandaNP
• Drmies

Oversighter changes

AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

• Arequest for comment is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.
• A series of22 mini-RFCs that double-checked consensus on some aspects and improved certain parts of theadministrator elections process has been closed (see thesummary of the changes).
• Arequest for comment is open to gain consensus on whether futureadministrator elections should be held.

Technical news

• A new filter has been added to theSpecial:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below.T378488
• Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using theSpecial:Nuke tool.T376378

Miscellaneous

• The 2025 appointees for theOmbuds commission areだ＊ぜ,Arcticocean,Ameisenigel,Emufarmers,Faendalimas,Galahad,Nehaoua,Renvoy,Revi C.,RoySmith,Teles andZafer as members, withVermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the2025 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards:1234qwer1234qwer4,AramilFeraxa,Daniuu,KonstantinaG07,MdsShakil andXXBlackburnXx.

Happy adminship anniversary! Hi Stifle! On behalf of theBirthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of yoursuccessful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day!DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk)02:58, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy adminship anniversary! Hi Stifle! On behalf of theBirthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of yoursuccessful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day!NediaWanna talk?Stalk my edits04:00, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2025).

Administrator changes

• Giraffer
• Goldsztajn

Dennis Brown

• Cyclonebiskit
• Nohat
• Someguy1221

Bureaucrat changes

Barkeep49

CheckUser changes

0xDeadbeef

Oversighter changes

GB fan

Moneytrees

Miscellaneous

• Sign up forThe Core Contest, a competition running from 15 April to 31 May to improvevital articles.

Hi because you protected the topic can you tell me what is the problem with this article? I mean there are so many articles of actors in Wikipedia which are not as good as this article and those actors have not done as many roles as Priyanka has done.Iamaninnocentsoul (talk)05:16, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly, please seewikipedia:Deletion review/Perennial requests#Priyanka_Choudhary. 08:24, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

So a new article on Priyanka Choudhary cannot be created?--Iamaninnocentsoul (talk)08:52, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The consensus is that there should not be an article about her at the current time. The above link explains what would need to be done if one was to be created.Stifle (talk)07:57, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Stifle. Sorry if this is a nuisance, but I sort of... unilaterally overturned your AfD close atWikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mohamed Sy Savané by turning the page into a redirect? I know there was a consensus to navify, but I was clicking through the listed pages and getting really confused as to why I couldn't find this guy mentioned in 2/3 of them? After going back into article history and looking at the sources, I realized he'd competed under two different names. While I was doing that, given that BLP applies to him, I also had to check the sources to confirm the categories somebody had assigned to him after the close were accurate. They seem to be, which is good, but I couldn't really add information to confirm that to any of the major sporting articles. I then went to check his brother's page,Amadou Sy Savané, and realized that the information I'd been looking for was there all along. So I decided to pull a bit more from the page history, and just BLAR the nav page there instead. Hopefully that's okay? No idea if that's one of the cases you're meant to take to DRV - I thought it would seem a bit silly to, given that I wasn't really questioning the close so much as realized I'd found a good target not previously discussed. If you'd like me to self revert, let me know and... I guess I'll start a new AfD? RfD? Talkpage discussion? No idea! It feels sort of fun to be in these uncharted territories! Anyways, just thought I'd give you a heads up and an update. Thanks for all you do and I hope you're having a nice evening!GreenLipstickLesbian💌🦋03:56, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds like you've done the B inWP:BRD. If someone else does the R, then you all do the D. If nobody does, then you've taken an editorial action which nobody disagreed with, and we carry on. All good!Stifle (talk)07:27, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2025).

Administrator changes

Rusalkii

NaomiAmethyst(overlooked last month)

• Master Jay
• Orderinchaos
• Roger Davies
• Tinucherian

Interface administrator changes

Galobtter

Guideline and policy news

• Followingan RfC,administrator elections were permanently authorized on a five-month schedule. The next election will be scheduled soon; seeWikipedia talk:Administrator elections for more information. This is an alternate process to theRfA process and does not replace the latter.
• An RfC was closed with consensus to allow editors to opt-out of seeing "sticky decorative elements". Such elements should now be wrapped in{{sticky decoration wrapper}}. Editors who wish to opt out can follow the instructions atWP:STICKYDECO.
• An RfC has resulted ina broad prohibition on the use of AI-generated images in articles. A few common-sense exceptions are recognized.

Miscellaneous

• ANew Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles in thenew pages feed.Sign up here to participate!

Hello Stifle. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion ofMusic Venue Properties, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Presence of sources about the org is a credible assertion of importance. Thank you.Whpq (talk)14:07, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2025).

Administrator changes

• DDima
• Gimmetrow
• Huon
• Johan Elisson
• Spangineer
• The Land

Interface administrator changes

0xDeadbeef

CheckUser changes

L235

Oversight changes

L235

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to determine whether the English Wikipedia community should adopt a position on AI development by theWMF and its affiliates.

Technical news

• A new feature calledMultiblocks will be deployed on English Wikipedia on the week of June 2. Seethe relevant announcement on the administrators' noticeboard.
• History merges performed using themergehistory special page are now logged at both the source and destination, rather than just the source as previously, afterthis RFC and the resolution ofT118132.

Arbitration

• An arbitration case namedIndian military history has been opened. Evidence submissions for this case close on 8 June.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for theUniversal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 17 June 2025. Read thevoting page on Meta-Wiki andcast your vote here!
• AnArticles for Creation backlog drive is happening in June 2025, with over 1,600 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!
• TheUnreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in June 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with{{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles.Sign up to participate!

I think this has been improved enough (by another user) to keep as perWP:HEY. If you don't mind, I was bold enough to deprod it. Of course, you are free to take it toWP:AfD. Thank you.Bearian (talk)01:56, 14 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2025).

Administrator changes

NuclearWarfare

Interface administrator changes

L235

Guideline and policy news

• Following atalk page discussion, speedy deletioncriterion G13 has beenamended to remove "Userspace with no content except thearticle wizard placeholder text."
• WP:Manual of Style/Superscripts and subscripts was upgraded to a guideline followinga RfC discussion.

Miscellaneous

• The 2025Developing Countries WikiContest will run from 1 July to 30 September.Sign up now!
• Administrator elections will take place this month. Administrator elections are an alternative toRFA that is a gentler process for candidates due to secret voting and multiple people running together. The call for candidates is July 9–15, the discussion phase is July 18–22, and the voting phase is July 23–29. Get ready to submit your candidacy, or (with their consent) to nominate a talented candidate!