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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.

@Stifle I assume you meant to redirect the AfD'd article 2025 Toluca Cessna Citation III crash to the proposed target Toluca International Airport#Accidents and incidents? It's currently circular. Chorchapu (talk | edits) 14:12, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Dang, I goofed up there. I'll fix it right now. Stifle (talk) 14:13, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, thank you. Chorchapu (talk | edits) 14:15, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there,

I'm leaving this message because you contributed to the recent RfC regarding the inclusion of airport destination lists. As promised, now that that RfC has closed, I've initiated a further discussion about the sourcing standards to be applied to these lists.

If you wish to contribute to the discussion, please do so at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Airport destination lists - sourcing requirements.

Cheers! Danners430 _{tweaks made} 15:41, 19 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Mo Shaikh. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. NBruns (talk) 15:19, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The redirect Template:Cleanup-since 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 23 § Template:Cleanup-since until a consensus is reached. 8BitBros (talk page • contributions) 07:01, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like you closed the wrong page. I think it's the emdash. Was trying to figure out why the bot hadn't closed the deletion discussion notice. Esolo5002 (talk) 22:23, 30 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Yeah, when pages get moved during AFDs the closure scripts can screw up. It looks like it's been fixed now. Stifle (talk) 08:59, 3 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.

You suggested at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comparison of version-control software to create a centralized discussion on the merits of "comparison of X" type articles. Where should such discussion be created? Could you create it? Dncmartins (talk) 13:00, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately I do not have the bandwidth to assist, but you will see some general guidance at WP:CD. Stifle (talk) 08:54, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]