Hosta

I manage my talk page with the following guidelines to keep the high volume of posts and 230 active talk page stalkers in some sort of order: Please start new topics at the bottom of the page, even if it is related to a section above. Otherwise it is difficult to find the posting. I will reply to your posts on this page to keep threading unless requested or unless it is extremely urgent. I'm less active than I was before; if I haven't responded to something I should have, please ping me again. Unlike some other administrators, I generally do mind if you undo my administrative actions without discussing it with me, unless it was an obvious procedural error on my part. I sometimes close discussions when it is clear that nothing good will come out of them. I reserve the right to do so at my own discretion. I also reserve the right to rollback any further comments on that discussion topic.

With my diminished time to edit, my primary focus is on m:WGA2021.

Tech News: 2021-38

18:30, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 46

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The Signpost: 26 September 2021

Tech News: 2021-39

22:20, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, extended confirmed protection may be used preemptively on certain high-risk templates.
• Following a discussion at the Village Pump, there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.

Technical news

• DiscussionTools has superseded Enterprisey's reply-link script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features.

Arbitration

• A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
• Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
• The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

Miscellaneous

• Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
• The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.

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Tech News: 2021-40

16:29, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-41

15:29, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-42

20:52, 18 October 2021 (UTC)