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Administrators' newsletter – September 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which
applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past
. - A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
Arbitration
- Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
- Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
- The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.
Miscellaneous
- Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in September 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,900 articles and 26,200 redirects awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
ANI notice about the bot
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Ahri Boy (talk) 08:47, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
5.228.36.20
5.228.36.20 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)
Can you change this to a proxy block (similar to the other ones you just blocked). Thanks. 73.67.145.30 (talk) 20:13, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
- They're globally blocked regardless, modifying the local block won't have any effect. DatGuyTalkContribs 20:14, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
- Ah you're right. They moved onto another IP already anyway (61.247.28.12) :-/ 73.67.145.30 (talk) 20:15, 22 September 2024 (UTC)