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

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.

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As you are a recently active admin, this is a ping for doing a revert of an undiscussed page move, filed at Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests#Administrator needed, initially under Requests to revert undiscussed moves, but shifted to the Administrator needed section. Original name 2025–2026 Iranian protests, undiscussed name 2025–present Iranian protests. This has been waiting for many hours, is a CTOP, and is linked from the main page. Boud (talk) 17:02, 9 January 2026 (UTC) (add subsection to link Boud (talk) 17:03, 9 January 2026 (UTC))  Done Boud (talk) 17:16, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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A tag has been placed on Category:Help articles by quality indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:06, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Racing video games has been nominated for renaming. 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. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:34, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Many thanks for taking some photos. I have also added yours of the corner view, which is a good one. I guess you weren't too happy with File:The Cumberland hotel, Great Cumberland Place (1).jpg, it isn't a great photo, but no doubt the traffic keeps on coming. If you are ever passing when you spot a clear view, do please try again! Moonraker (talk) 09:07, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Moonraker You're welcome, thanks for all the work on the article! (I spotted it in the most edited new articles list last week). Agree it's not a great photo: only had my phone not my proper camera, and the traffic was indeed fairly constant. There was a coach parked in front of the entrance for a while so I was pleased enough when that moved off and I could get a photo at all. the wub "?!" 17:11, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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

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.

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Precious

Five years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:37, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm contacting users who signed up as participants of the Wikipedia:Help Project, about a discussion on brainstorming and choosing the first help page to draft on editing Wikipedia pages assisted by AI.

If you are interested, I'll see you at Wikipedia talk:Help Project#Planning help for AI workflows.

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   12:46, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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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!

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		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Thanks for dealing with the vandals on AIV so quickly. VidanaliK (talk to me) (contributions) 00:35, 10 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I have been doing so after reverting vandalistic edits before reporting them on AIV. I'm not an admin. Am I allowed to do this? Am I at least allowed to do anything up to level 3 warnings (since I don't actually have the power to block)? I want to make sure I'm not misusing Twinkle on this. VidanaliK (talk to me) (contributions) 00:40, 10 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@VidanaliK Yes, you can certainly warn users at any level which is appropriate. You can even give a level 4 warning if it gets to that point. And thanks for the barnstar! I wasn't actually looking at AIV but came across the vandals while using Wikipedia:AntiVandal. Haven't done much anti-vandalism for a while but it seems to be a busy night tonight! the wub "?!" 00:50, 10 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the quick reply! Well, now I know my anti-vandal workflow: revert, warn, report. I had no clue it was possible to revert an edit so quickly until I did it myself using RecentChanges.

Also, another question; why do admins sometimes give blocks of only 31 hours (specific?) (and small) when it is often very disruptive and likely they will go back to vandalising immediately? VidanaliK (talk to me) (contributions) 00:55, 10 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

31 hours as the go-to block is an old Wikipedia tradition: someone started doing it, people copied them, and eventually it became the default option. There is some logic to it: most vandals are just bored kids who will move on. And if they do try to come back, 31 hours ensures they can't come back at the same time the next day. See User:Magister Mathematicae/31 hours. the wub "?!" 01:05, 10 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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