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

Administrator changes

• Asilvering
• Significa liberdade

• Good Olfactory
• Hesperian
• I JethroBT
• TommyBoy
• Woody

CheckUser changes

• Barkeep49
• Izno

• Doug Weller
• Spicy

Guideline and policy news

• Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.
• Following a discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 to F2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have an administrator recall process.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Historical elections has been closed.
• An arbitration case regarding Backlash to diversity and inclusion has been opened.
• Editors are invited to nominate themselves to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until 23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC).

Miscellaneous

• If you are interested in stopping spammers, please put MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist and MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist on your watchlist, and help out when you can.

Hello Matty, I made constructive edits to the Dimitar Mitov page. If you think that this information is false, you can look it up. I am a football expert. I politely ask you to please overturn the edits you made of undoing my edits of the page, or I will appeal to Wikipedia. Please. Thank you 2A02:C7C:75E2:EF00:312A:1F64:25A9:EFDD (talk) 12:09, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Matty, I promise you that I have double checked the edits I have just made and they are sourced and constructive. 2A02:C7C:75E2:EF00:312A:1F64:25A9:EFDD (talk) 12:14, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Matty, If you do not trust these edits because they are unsourced, then you can add a citation in for me, as I am unsure how to do so. 2A02:C7C:75E2:EF00:312A:1F64:25A9:EFDD (talk) 12:20, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@2A02:C7C:75E2:EF00:312A:1F64:25A9:EFDD: I'm afraid that's not how it works. Per WP:BURDEN, "the burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material". Mattythewhite (talk) 13:19, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I already added citations, thank you for your help 2A02:C7C:75E2:EF00:312A:1F64:25A9:EFDD (talk) 15:56, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See the "referencing for beginners" link Matty left on your Talk page. You might find that adding a citation isn't that difficult. Robby.is.on (talk) 14:59, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I already added citations, thank you for your help 2A02:C7C:75E2:EF00:312A:1F64:25A9:EFDD (talk) 15:58, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

• Crisco 1492

• Babajobu
• Daniel
• Elf
• Jayron32
• Thue
• Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

Maxim

Oversighter changes

Maxim

Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
• Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.

Technical news

• Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068

Arbitration

• RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.

Miscellaneous

• An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 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!