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Volume 20 Issue 7 16 May 2024 Single-page edition ← Previous issue Home About Archives Newsroom Subscribe Suggestions

Administrators' newsletter

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

Administrator changes

Nyttend

JohnOwens
Killiondude
MelanieN
Nihonjoe

Bureaucrat changes

Nihonjoe

CheckUser changes

Joe Roe

Oversight changes

GeneralNotability

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!

Tech News weekly
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Periodic table (dividing line between metals and nonmetals)

Template:Periodic table (dividing line between metals and nonmetals) has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:28, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:List of metallic elements

Template:List of metallic elements has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:30, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Periodic table (metalloid border)

Template:Periodic table (metalloid border) has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:31, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Script/Hebrew/testcases/doc

Template:Script/Hebrew/testcases/doc has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 10:29, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I can't believe you got banned

It's sad to see you get banned despite your extensive behind-the-scenes work with templates. The ANI thread didn't take into account your good contributions and whether you were a net positive. ANI is like a witch hunt. 123957a (talk) 05:17, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Ship/maintenancecategory

Template:Ship/maintenancecategory has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 09:59, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]