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

Administrator changes

Sennecaster

• Daniel
• Hog Farm

• BozMo
• Ferret
• John M Wolfson
• MaxSem
• Panyd
• Tide rolls
• Titoxd

CheckUser changes

• Daniel
• Elli
• Liz
• ScottishFinnishRadish
• Theleekycauldron

Worm That Turned

Ferret

Oversight changes

• Daniel
• Elli
• Liz
• ScottishFinnishRadish
• Theleekycauldron

Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RFC, Wikipedia:Notability (species) was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.

Arbitration

• Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: CaptainEek, Daniel, Elli, KrakatoaKatie, Liz, Primefac, ScottishFinnishRadish, Theleekycauldron, Worm That Turned.

Miscellaneous

• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!

Happy new year 2025, opened with trumpet fanfares that first sounded OTD in 1725 (as the Main page had it). My story today is about a composer who influenced music history also by writing. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:53, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

... and today, pictured on the Main page, Tosca, in memory of her first appearance on stage OTD in 1900, and of principal author Brian Boulton. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:51, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today, between many who just died, Tobias Kratzer on his 45th birthday who was good for an unusual DYK mentioning a Verdi opera in 2018, - you can see his work in the trailer of another one that I saw, and my talk page has a third (but by a different director). 2025 pics, finally. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:37, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today I have a composer (trumpeter, conductor) on the main page who worked closely with another who became GA yesterday, - small world! To celebrate: mostly flowers pics from vacation ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:10, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Hammersoft Shit Don't Delete Image 89.199.148.203 (talk) 08:55, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Since you've not made any edits from this IP to anything other than my talk page, I've no idea what you're talking about. --Hammersoft (talk) 13:41, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see now from the filter log that you are referring to the Cahit Irgat image. File:Cahit Irgat.jpg was deleted from Commons because it is a rather blatant copyright violation. We care about that sort of thing here. Your wanting to violate copyright doesn't mean we allow such violations to sustain here. Find a provably public domain or free license image instead. That an image exists on the Internet somewhere doesn't mean it's public domain, and uploading it here or at Commons doesn't mean it's your work. --Hammersoft (talk) 17:32, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies for not seeing your original message [1]. I was active at the time, but didn't see it. I thought that TP was in my watchlist, but evidently it wasn't (not sure if it was taken out on the move or what). Regardless, I didn't see your ping until this morning. Just wanted to apologize for and explain what might have appeared to be ignoring you (which was not my intention). I have responded to the content items at the article TP. ButlerBlog (talk) 14:48, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. I just wasn't sure you'd seen it. --Hammersoft (talk) 14:55, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

bandaragama.ds.gov.lk/index.php/en/about-us-2/historical-background.html Ashenmaneth (talk) 16:29, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:CITE. --Hammersoft (talk) 16:30, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I didn't know if you have ping disabled as many admins do. I saw that you'd recently given a final warning to a chronic abuser, Speakfor23 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). He then surpassed mere edit warring and into POV pushing of Confederate ideology. See the edit histories of the three articles I linked at the bottom of his talk page. Thanks. — Smuckola(talk) 07:53, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have my pings turned on, and I posted there. --Hammersoft (talk) 12:04, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

• Arcticocean
• Wugapodes

Euryalus

CheckUser changes

• Firefly
• L235

Oversighter changes

• Firefly
• Guerillero
• L235
• Moneytrees

Technical news

• Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. T380846
• A 'Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. T56145

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.