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Hello, Scorpions13256! I am very glad to see that you added Template:User Confederate removal to your userpage. Having that in mind, I must ask you to consider endorsing a closely related essay, WP:NOCONFED, in which creation I participated. Of course, this is just a suggestion, nothing more. Cheers! — Sundostund mppria ^{(talk / contribs)} 12:28, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

Sundostund I am already listed as a non-endorser. Scorpions13256 (talk) 14:45, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

I am sorry! It was a completely unintentional mistake on my part, most likely because I have sent quite a few messages today. — Sundostund mppria ^{(talk / contribs)} 14:50, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

No worries. Scorpions13256 (talk) 14:52, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

Hello!

When swapping pages (such as Paracoedomea strandi) please remember to update the redirect. Thanks! :) ~ Eejit43 (talk) 15:32, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

Sorry. Thanks for letting me know. I had a feeling I was forgetting something. Scorpions13256 (talk) 15:40, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the administrator policy now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
• Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.

Technical news

• The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
• In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
• Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, F10 (useless non-media files) has been deprecated.
• Following a request for comment, the Portal CSD criteria (P1 (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated.
• A request for comment is open to discuss making the closing instructions for the requested moves process a guideline.

Technical news

• The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted.

Arbitration

• Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been rescinded.
• The proposed decision for the Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case is expected 7 March 2023.
• A case related to the Holocaust in Poland is expected to be opened soon.

Miscellaneous

• The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members.
• Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux.
• The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a [p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.

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Thank you for all of the time that you spent humbly making Wikipedia better. I'm sad to see you go, and I'm going to miss seeing you around. I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors, and I hope all is well. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 17:57, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

I also wish you well, and look forward to your return one day. You are good at this and we need you, but we want you rested and willing first. If that never happens, we honor your efforts to date. Take as long as you like, and please stay in touch. But don't feel like a stranger; you are a wikipedian and a good one. I'll look forward to seeing your datestamp again. BusterD (talk) 19:39, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

Scorpion, thanks for so many of the contributions you've done. I stumbled on this by routine and didn't know you were gone. So many of the great contributors from Pre-Pandemic era now leaving or blocked or runaway. Great Wikipedians gone. Take care Scorpion and stay healthy. Koplimek (talk) 18:18, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

		The Bio-star
		Thank you for your efforts converting manual taxoboxes to automatic taxoboxes. You've been the single biggest contributor to this effort over the last several months. Plantdrew (talk) 19:33, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

An article that you have edited or that may interest you, (Clitoris), has content that I have proposed to be removed and moved to another article, (Human clitorisHuman clitoris). If you are interested, please visit the discussion. Thank you. Peaceray (talk) 05:40, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Precious

Two years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:38, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

You are required to tag the process as humor. Because you failed to do this from the beginning, you got my blood up over a silly joke. Now I'm changing my position from not caring about April Fool's Day to caring intensely. Such "jokes" are in the eye of the joker only, IMHO. I have less sense of humor about this sort of disruption now. In the future, I'm going to be less forgiving of such actions and I'm going to work towards the gradual elimination of reckless edits on April 1 each year. Please consider the consequences of juvenile behavior. BusterD (talk) 23:32, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.

Technical news

• Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
• The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
• A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.

Arbitration

• The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
• A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

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I'm glad you're back, per that Miracle of the Sun edit alone. Why nobody has questioned it before seems hard to figure (haven't checked the entire history as yet), and I missed it when editing the page. Thanks. Then again, not glad you're back since you will pass me on the edits list. I'll hold to the top 200 for only a little awhile, as I purposely don't use tools except for Hotcat, which I see as more of a search engine, but your edit makes that fine with me. Randy Kryn (talk) 03:41, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.

Arbitration

• The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.

Miscellaneous

• The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.

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i wanted to ask why india rising was moved from the page, it is an essential part and i took efforts to make it not look copypasted 93.143.40.85 (talk) 21:35, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Hello. Thank you for taking the time to edit my talk page. I had to undo your edits because it was not sufficiently paraphrased. Despite your efforts, I could still tell that you copied from the source you cited. Please read WP:CLOP for more information. Scorpions13256 (talk) 21:47, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
• As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

Technical news

• Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

Miscellaneous

• Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).

Administrator changes

Novem Linguae

• Deckiller
• Electionworld
• MBisanz
• Penwhale
• Raul654
• Roadrunner
• Viridae
• Yannismarou

Bureaucrat changes

MBisanz

Guideline and policy news

• Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.

Technical news

• Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.

Arbitration

• Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.

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FYI. To actually "move to support", you need to register (add) your !vote in the Support section of the RfA. Best, wbm1058 (talk) 17:02, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

It took me a long time, but I did it. Scorpions13256 (talk) 17:09, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Scorpions, if you see people who are currently administrators do or say worse things without any consequences, please ping me to the discussion. That is something I don't want to see happening. Valereee (talk) 20:07, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).

Administrator changes

Firefangledfeathers

• AlisonW
• Amberrock
• Closedmouth
• Scottywong

Interface administrator changes

Novem Linguae

Technical news

• The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
• Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. (T337431)

Arbitration

• The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
• The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.

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Hey there, I noticed that you expressed Oppose at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/theleekycauldron 2. I moved it from the Support column to "Oppose" to maintain consistency, however it was reverted because your rationale is seemingly humorous. I just want to confirm if that's the case. GeraldWL 05:48, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

Yes. I intended to support. Scorpions13256 (talk) 12:51, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

You are recipient no. 2567 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:44, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Mind the date. - Miss you. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:35, 16 August 2023 (UTC)