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Administrators' newsletter – October 2025
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2025).
Administrator changes
- Billinghurst
- Crisco 1492
- DarkFalls
- Spike Wilbury
- Valereee
- Ergo Sum
CheckUser changes
- Vanamonde93
Arbitration
- After a motion, arbitration enforcement page protections no longer need to be logged in the AELOG. A bot now automatically posts protections at WP:AELOG/P. To facilitate this bot, protection summaries must include a link to the relevant CT page (e.g.
[[WP:CT/BLP]]), and you will receive talk page reminders if you forget to specify the contentious topic but otherwise indicate it is an AE action.
Administrators' newsletter – November 2025
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2025).
Administrator changes
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- Elahrairah
- Juliancolton
- Magnus Manske
CheckUser changes
- asilvering
Guideline and policy news
- The speedy deletion criteria U5 has been repealed, with U6 and U7 replacing it. See the FAQ for more clarifications.
- Community-designated contentious topics may now be enforced and appealed at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard (AE) as a result of an RfC.
Technical news
- You can enable a handy user info card next to usernames, which when clicked displays edit count, blocks, thanks, and other information. To enable this feature, visit Preferences → Appearance → Advanced options →
Enable the user info card
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Transgender healthcare and people has been closed
- Uninvolved administrators may impose an AE participation restriction on any thread at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard.
Miscellaneous
- An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2025 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!
Administrators' newsletter – December 2025
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2025).
Administrator changes
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- Chaotic Enby
- Rjjiii
Valereee-
- Fathoms Below
- Tamzin
CheckUser changes
- Spicy
Technical news
- Starting on November 4, the IP addresses of logged-out editors are no longer being publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account associated with their edits.
- Administrators will now find that Special:MergeHistory is now significantly more flexible about what it can merge. It can now merge sections taken from the middle of the history of the source (rather than only the start) and insert revisions anywhere in the history of the destination page (rather than only the start). T382958
Miscellaneous
- The December 2025 administrator elections are scheduled from Nov 25 – Dec 15.
- An Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in December 2025, with over 1,000 drafts awaiting review from the past two months. In addition to AfC participants, all administrators and new page patrollers can help review using the Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!
Administrators' newsletter – January 2026
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2025).
Administrator changes
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- Epicgenius
- Left guide
- LEvalyn
- MPGuy2824
- The4lines
- Yue
- Fathoms Below
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- BaronLarf
- Firefly
- kelapstick
- Opabinia regalis
- Pbsouthwood
- Sethant
- UtherSRG
- Whouk
CheckUser changes
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- Giraffer
- HouseBlaster
- SilverLocust
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- Liz
- Worm That Turned
- Z1720
Oversight changes
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- Asilvering
- Giraffer
- Girth Summit
- Guerillero
- HouseBlaster
- Izno
- SilverLocust
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- 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.