 | This user is an articles for creation reviewer on the English Wikipedia. |
- A request for bureaucratship is open for discussion.
- Banning AI-generated images in articles
- Future administrator elections
For a listing of ongoing discussions, see the dashboard.
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2025).
Administrator changes
- Jarry1250
- Lethe
CheckUser changes
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- AmandaNP
- Drmies
Oversighter changes
- AmandaNP
Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.
- A series of 22 mini-RFCs that double-checked consensus on some aspects and improved certain parts of the administrator elections process has been closed (see the summary of the changes).
- A request for comment is open to gain consensus on whether future administrator elections should be held.
Technical news
- A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. T378488
- Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke tool. T376378
Miscellaneous
- The 2025 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, Arcticocean, Ameisenigel, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, Galahad, Nehaoua, Renvoy, Revi C., RoySmith, Teles and Zafer as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
- Following the 2025 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: 1234qwer1234qwer4, AramilFeraxa, Daniuu, KonstantinaG07, MdsShakil and XXBlackburnXx.
Quotes
I may or may not agree with these quotes.
| “ | There's some basic fundamental thinking skills you need to acquire and we clearly don't align on academic integrity. | ” |
| — HazzelDazzleDoDah, [1] | ||
| “ | let's be honest, like at least half of our editorbase is autistic and the other half is close enough to it | ” |
| — Tamzin, File:On_the_backrooms_(essay_by_Tamzin).oga 6:01 | ||
| “ | There is no right to edit, it is a privilege that can be revoked. Verbose filibustering and wikilawyering is an effective way to lose editing privileges; the volunteers who maintain the encyclopedia have better things to do than read walls of text. | ” |
| — Acroterion, [2] | ||
| “ | In a nutshell, discussing with an LLM is like talking to a parrot on steroids. | ” |
| — Johannes Maximilian, [3] | ||
| “ | Wikipedia editors are not your bitches. If you want to learn the basics, you need to do the work yourself. | ” |
| — Hob Gadling, [4] | ||
| “ | But let us acknowledge that President Trump is our leader. Let's stop bickering, put America first, and move forward. | ” |
| — BryanKaplan, [5] | ||
| “ | Just my two cents—well, more like two dollars, given inflation. | ” |
| — Spanishcheese31, [6] | ||
| “ | Multiple people pointing out that your behavior is a problem does not mean they are colluding against you. It means your behavior is a problem and you're stubbornly refusing to see that. | ” |
| — HandThatFeeds, [7] | ||
| “ | We're all friends here. "Friends" is assumed. | ” |
| — Alalch E., [8] | ||
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