MediaWiki message delivery 22:22, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

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!

MediaWiki message delivery 01:39, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 01:34, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi, please can you change your bot so that it doesn't use |living=yes in {{WikiProject Biography}}? The current usage is to use |blp=yes in {{WPBS}}. Thank you — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:39, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi @MSGJ: Will do. Thank you for reporting and best wishes to you. --Meno25 (talk) 12:17, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

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