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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!

A quick (but more extensive) thanks for your bold revisions to this article. I've been greatly frustrated with it for a long while, especially the abundance of flaky material and citations that don't meet WP:MEDRS. It needed exactly this kind of bold treatment - so thanks again! 45154james (talk) 16:12, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I was looking for an article with poor readability, as I'm trying to draft some text about this in WP:MTAU (or somewhere else). Trying to figure out what I do when I rewrite a text to be understandable. Apparently, one of the key things I do I do is replacing all the unreadable text cited to unreliable sources with more concise text.

I'm quite surprised how poorly that article is writing. It gets almost as many reads as climate change, but it's an utter mess in structure and sources. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 19:34, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Femke,

I'm conducting my first GA review, and as a listed mentor at WP:GAMENTOR, I was wondering if you could quickly check my review just to ensure I've done it correctly? It's at Talk:WLOK/GA1. I'm quite confident that the article is an easy pass, but I've held off on formally promoting it for now. No worries if you aren't up for it—I can pick another mentor. Thanks, Giraffer (talk) 00:00, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy to have a look User:Giraffer. I'll try to make some time after work today. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 08:52, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot for your help! I added a couple more suggestions which have now been addressed as well. Are you happy for me to close the review? Giraffer (talk) 19:19, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, great work! —Femke 🐦 (talk) 19:25, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RE Copyvio. Subject text was rewritten and submitted. Tried to avoid Frontiers per your sugs, but they appear to be more interested in sharing ALS investigative progress than any USA sources. No alternative easily found. TomStonehunter (talk) 21:39, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello TomStonehunter. Thanks for your new edit!

I imagine nobody has ever shown you how to find sources that meet WP:MEDRS more easily? The two main criteria for medical papers is that (a) it should be a review and (b) it should have been published in the last 5 years. Pubmed allows you to constrain searches to this completely, for instance see this query for ALS risk factors. You should see I've ticked "meta-analysis", "review" and "systemic review" in the options. In your recent edit, you added a small primary study to ALS. As small studies usually show larger effects (f.i. due to publication bias) or random results (due to their small statistical power]), these studies shouldn't be cited on Wikipedia. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 08:21, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good knowledge. Thankful and appreciative for your assists. Now (bad news) just discovered that the surviving citation had content that mentioned both ALS and MS. ALS' first use of this cite was appropriate; the second use, not. The OR\CI info needs pulled; it applied to MS not ALS. I will fix ALS and put a future MS update on my do-do list. I apologize for pulling you into this vortex whilst I spun in circles. TomStonehunter (talk) 16:17, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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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.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:20, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Femke, Since I don't have right to roll, could you merge this WP:Orphanage article Daud Bisinle — Daud Mohamed Omar. Thank you QalasQalas (talk) 06:47, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello User:QalasQalas. You don't need rollback for a merge. After you've copied over relevant text with attribution, you can simply replace the article text with a redirect (WP:MERGETEXT). Rollback is mostly useful for those who work with WP:Huggle and WP:UltraViolet to fight vandalism. For other types of edits, WP:edit summaries are preferred. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 08:04, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

• Jarry1250
• Lethe

CheckUser changes

• 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.