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

Administrator changes

• Epicgenius
• Left guide
• LEvalyn
• MPGuy2824
• The4lines
• Yue

Fathoms Below

• BaronLarf
• Firefly
• kelapstick
• Opabinia regalis
• Pbsouthwood
• Sethant
• UtherSRG
• Whouk

CheckUser changes

• Giraffer
• HouseBlaster
• SilverLocust

• Liz
• Worm That Turned
• Z1720

Oversight changes

• Asilvering
• Giraffer
• Girth Summit
• Guerillero
• HouseBlaster
• Izno
• SilverLocust

• Liz
• Worm That Turned
• Z1720

Guideline and policy news

• All general sanctions imposed by the community may now be enforced at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard (WP:AE) as a result of a recent RfC.
• Due to the result of a recent RFC, the administrator recall process is amended to extend the deadline for a re-request for adminship to 30 days or the next administrator election, whichever is later.
• Changes to the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy's disclosure rules include broadening the consecutive-blocks exception to cover all admin actions and removing the requirement to revision-delete permissible disclosures once they become unnecessary (instead requiring only their removal). See WP:TAIVDISCLOSE for more information.

Arbitration

• Following the 2025 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Asilvering, Girth Summit, Guerillero, HJ Mitchell, HouseBlaster, Izno, Sdrqaz, SilverLocust.
• The arbitration case Pbsouthwood has been suspended.

Category:People by nationality, populated place and occupation has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Fram (talk) 08:20, 12 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The redirect Pre-recorded music has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 January 13 § Pre-recorded music until a consensus is reached. 42-BRT (talk) 20:49, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 January 15 § Category:Death in the Republic of China on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mclay1 (talk) 01:37, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Artemis Records logo.gif, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. JayCubby 20:48, 19 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of squid-faced humanoids is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of squid-faced humanoids until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 05:08, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Pokelego999: Thank you for making a calm and factual nomination, casting no aspersions on other editors' competence. AFD would be nicer if everyone behaved like that. – Fayenatic London 11:24, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your contributions to List of twin teammates in sports. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing as a live article at this time because it has no sources. I have converted it to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 17:09, 3 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I responded at Talk:List of twin teammates in sports. – Fayenatic London 13:06, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2026).

Administrator changes

Vacant0

• Crisco 1492

• Deepfriedokra
• Hbdragon88
• Karl Dickman
• Worm That Turned

CheckUser changes

Daniel Quinlan

Vanamonde93

Mkdw

Oversight changes

Daniel Quinlan

Arbitration

• Due to the result of a recent motion, a rough consensus of administrators at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard may impose an expanded topic ban on Israel, Israelis, Jews, Judaism, Palestine, Palestinians, Islam, and/or Arabs, if an editor's Arab-Israeli conflict topic ban is determined to be insufficient to prevent disruption. At least one diff per area expanded into should be cited.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2026 Steward elections started on 06 February 2026 at 14:00 (UTC) and will end on 27 February 2026 at 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process for current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.

Hi!

Re this, there was an edit conflict. Of course the multiple CFDS submission tool does not manage multiple targets, which should be the default for C2F. They need to be added manually, which I now did. In the end I removed your comment because I re-submitted my own version. I hope you don't mind. Place Clichy (talk) 10:53, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Great, thank you for doing it, and for explaining your workflow. Happy re comment removal. – Fayenatic London 11:10, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Courtesy note that I just closed Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 February 2#Category:Surinder Films, in case you wanted to do what you mentioned in your !vote. And whilst I'm here, I'd like to also drop thanks for your deft alts with those murder categories, and appreciation for all you do here w.r.t categorization :). Cheers, GoldRomean (talk) 13:25, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, could you please care to elaborate why "Środa County" is ambiguous? Artemis Andromeda (talk) 23:31, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Although there is only one Piotrowice in a county with that name, there are now two counties called Środa County. – Fayenatic London 23:35, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Fayenatic london Stop moving articles this instant. This is vandalism and I will report it if you continue and do not revert your edits. I know you moved them because there's more than one Środa County, but this is not the reason. Sroda County is fine enouth distinction if there's no two locations of the same name in two different counties named Środa. What you did caused mess for houndrets of articles. Please stop no and go fix it. Artemis Andromeda (talk) 23:37, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This is vandalism and I will report it if you continue and do not revert your edits.
Yeah this is absolutely not vandalism. – LuniZunie_(talk) 23:43, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

So far there is consensus at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Poland-related_articles#Disambiguating_town_names for what I am now doing.

Please let me know what mess you are referring to. Special:WhatLinksHere/Piotrowice, Gmina Kostomłoty looks neat to me. I am in the middle of changing my incorrect renames using the pattern Grabowiec, Opole County, Lublin Voivodeship to Grabowiec, Gmina Łaziska which follows the guideline.

I might ask you why you did not update the county name within the article when you moved Piotrowice, Gmina Kostomłoty to the new county name. – Fayenatic London 23:48, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

For the record, Artemis Andromeda has not given any explanation about what I was supposedly doing wrong, and a couple of other editors seem to think I'm working on the right lines, so I will carry on. – Fayenatic London 22:35, 24 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2026).

Administrator changes

• Brendanconway
• Calmer Waters
• Hut 8.5
• Joe Roe
• VersedFenrir

CheckUser changes

Ks0stm

Oversight changes

Ks0stm

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the web archival service archive.today has been deprecated; links to the site should be removed.
• A request for comment is open to discuss retiring CSD criterion R3 in favour of handling such redirects through RfD.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, remedy 9.1 of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been amended to limit TenPoundHammer to one XfD nomination or PROD per 24-hour period.
• Following a motion, the Iskandar323 further POV pushing motion has been rescinded.
• The Arbitration Committee has passed a housekeeping motion rescinding a number of outdated remedies and enforcement provisions across multiple legacy cases. In most instances, existing sanctions remain in force and continue to be appealable through the usual processes, while some case-specific remedies were amended or clarified.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2026 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: A09, AmandaNP, Barras, Count Count, M7, SHB2000, Teles and VIGNERON.
• An Unreferenced articles backlog drive is taking place in March 2026 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!

Here is the translation of the Bengali text into English:

• কোনও সম্পাদনার সারাংশ নেই: No edit summary [1]
• {{সংক্ষিপ্ত বিবরণ|ব্যক্তিদের সংগঠন বা সংগ্রহ}}: {{Short description|Organization or collection of individuals}} [2, 4]
• {{অন্যান্যব্যবহার করে}}: {{About}} (Template used for "Other uses") [3]

Contextual Notes

• Edit Summary: The first phrase is commonly seen on Wikipedia when a contributor saves changes without providing a description of their edits [1].
• Short Description: This is a standard metadata template (Shortdesc) used to define the subject of an article [2, 4].
• Other Uses: This template is typically used for hatnotes to redirect readers to pages with similar titles [3].

~2026-14667-72 (talk) 11:36, 7 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I have contributed to Bengali Wikipedia mainly to fix templates or improve linking between Wikipedias, and my last edit there was a year ago. I have no idea what this message is about. – Fayenatic London 09:28, 8 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]