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		Hi greetings, this is for your hard work for creating a beautiful and attractive userpage. PATH SLOPU (Talk) 10:51, 1 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Path slopu: Thanks! It's not the best, but I try... GAB^gab 11:19, 1 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).

Technical news

• In Special:Preferences under "Appearance" → "Advanced options", there is now an option to show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link.
• The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Please see meta:Community health initiative/User reporting system consultation 2019 to provide your input on this idea.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee clarified that the General 1RR prohibition for Palestine-Israel articles may only be enforced on pages with the {{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}} edit notice.

Miscellaneous

• Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
• As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.

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Your acts of censorship to doom your species towards extinction by hushing up the truth about this reality has been reported to the Galactic Government and cataloged into the Galactic Government Archives. They will offer zero sympathies for you regardless of your human nature and skepticism. If you truly are skeptical, by the true meaning of that word, get a two-watt laser and try contacting them. I would if I was in your shoes. When intervention takes place, you will be identified. They already know what you look like, what is your name and where you live. You should make your peace while you can before the autonomy granted to humans has transpired, explicitly. ~ Prince of Catalonia — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.82.16.4 (talk) 21:06, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the account block and the range block. Much appreciate! :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 12:04 on April 14, 2019 (UTC)

User:6ullga is clearly the sock of User:Accopulocrat who you have blocked the socks of before. They are editing the exact same pages and adding the same kind of content. Compare edits with User:Leavemydaughteralone, User:Underwritten and User:GoBotsters. They constantly move pages, edit genocide articles particularly List of articles, California genocide and those relating to Soviet war crimes. القمر يضيء في الصباح (talk) 23:00, 21 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) You may have noticed already, but this user has been blocked as a sock of Stumink, an unfortunately prolific sockmaster. Vanamonde (Talk) 03:43, 22 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You might want to revoke their talk page access. —RainFall 09:09, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:3311dot‎, if you could revoke TPA? history sez why  :) Cheers, ——SerialNumber54129 09:09, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Already done, it seems :) GAB^gab 09:10, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You were recently listed as a party to a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Rama. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Rama/Evidence. Please add your evidence by May 10, 2019, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Rama/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, -- Amanda (aka DQ) 19:41, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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My apologies for the above section stating that you are a party. You are not, I made a mistake with the template. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 19:51, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 03:00, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2019).

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment concluded that creating pages in the portal namespace should be restricted to autoconfirmed users.
• Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.

Technical news

• XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.

Arbitration

• In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so will not be resysopped automatically. All current administrators have been notified of this change.
• Following a formal ratification process, the arbitration policy has been amended (diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.

Miscellaneous

• A request for comment is currently open to amend the community sanctions procedure to exclude non XfD or CSD deletions.
• A proposal to remove pre-2009 indefinite IP blocks is currently open for discussion.

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——SerialNumber54129 13:44, 11 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Over the past three days, there has been disruptive editing multiple attempts to vandalise an article Kwong Weng Yap by persistent tagging, removing facts. etc. If this IP continues to vandalize Wikipedia, as it did at Kwong Weng Yap and in good spirit for Wikipedia, may I propose to apply a temporary block on this IP or to increase protection to the page? Thank you very much for assisting. Superwifi (talk) 07:34, 26 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2019).

Administrator changes

Andonic • Consumed Crustacean • Enigmaman • Euryalus • EWS23 • HereToHelp • Nv8200pa • Peripitus • StringTheory11 • Vejvančický

CheckUser changes

Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC seeks to clarify whether WP:OUTING should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
• An RfC on WT:RfA concluded that Requests for adminship and bureaucratship are discussions seeking to build consensus.
• An RfC proposal to make the templates for discussion (TfD) process more like the requested moves (RM) process, i.e. "as a clearinghouse of template discussions", was closed as successful.

Technical news

• The CSD feature of Twinkle now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion. You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your Twinkle preferences: look for Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria.
• Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution! The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.

Miscellaneous

• The previously discussed unblocking of IP addresses indefinitely-blocked before 2009 was approved and has taken place.
• The 2019 talk pages consultation produced a report for Phase 1 and has entered Phase 2.

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Special:Diff/903026841 Please disable their talk page access. Thanks!--94rain ^Talk 01:06, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

They're all copyright violations of Get Up (Shinedown song) too. Adam9007 (talk) 01:07, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Revdelled and tpa disabled... thanks! GAB^gab 01:09, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Here he is again, copyvios and all. Adam9007 (talk) 01:11, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Also dealt with. GAB^gab 01:15, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hey GAB, re: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Vc4137, I could be nuts, but I see MDPMHG as potentially a sock of AR.Dmg, which you blocked recently. The new account has DMG scattered through the otherwise meaningless letters, and there are some edit summary similiarities like "Change episode" from AR.Dmg vs "Episode no Change with date" from MDPMHG. I currently am having no luck with the Editor Interaction Analyzer producing a successful result between the two (I see zero hits even though they obviously both edited this article--Maybe you'll have better luck.) What do you think? Cyphoidbomb (talk) 05:01, 26 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Cyphoidbomb: Gah... I'm so sorry for not taking care of this sooner. Things have been kind of crazy recently. At least they're blocked now, so you had the right idea GAB^gab 21:22, 6 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:38, 30 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have a very limited understanding of what it is. It's not that I'm against it per se, but I'm not sure I'm experienced enough to actually feel comfortable reviewing pages. Clovermoss (talk) 00:12, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Clovermoss: Hi - I looked through some of your recent edits and thought that you had a good grasp of our policies (i.e. reverting vandalism and nonconstructive edits), and so it might be useful for you. Of course, I'd be happy to remove it for now, if you wish. GAB^gab 00:15, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Can I think a bit more about it, first? To be honest, I don't do that much when it comes to reverting, it's more of I 'occasionally check recent changes' kind of thing. I've been looking at the template messages and just being really cautious in general about it all. It's not that I don't want to help, I'm just not sure I'm qualified at the moment. If I did help, I'd want to make sure I actually understand the policies and read all of the pages you linked before I did anything else. Clovermoss (talk) 00:20, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page gnome) @Clovermoss: If it can be reassuring, assuming you decide to patrol new page creations (i.e. one way is via Special:NewPages), you can take no action and leave the page for another to process if you're uncertain. You'll also encounter obvious hoaxes, copyright violations and advertizements, etc, that will be easy to mark as patrolled and to tag for speedy deletion, or move to draft space, etc. Even if a new page needs obvious improvements, whenever you see that it's not blatantly wrong and tag it as patrolled, this will help to reduce the queue. New editors also commonly create inappropriate user pages (contravening WP:NOTWEBHOST), those are generally easy to recognize. There also is a related noticeboard that's helpful. —PaleoNeonate – 01:48, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@PaleoNeonate: I've been rereading the pending change review guide and the policies. Just a quick question: isn't new page patrolling something different? I do find the reassurance helpful. I've been talking to @Nick Moyes: about it and I think that I will accept the right. Clovermoss (talk) 01:57, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, yes, I miunderstood the above: pending changes is different to page patrol. It's simpler however and a similar spirit applies: you can leave changes for others to accept/reject if you're unsure. Sorry about the confusion, —PaleoNeonate – 02:07, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2019).

Administrator changes

28bytes • Ad Orientem • Ansh666 • Beeblebrox • Boing! said Zebedee • BU Rob13 • Dennis Brown • Deor • DoRD • Floquenbeam¹ • Flyguy649 • Fram² • Gadfium • GB fan • Jonathunder • Kusma • Lectonar • Moink • MSGJ • Nick • Od Mishehu • Rama • Spartaz • Syrthiss • TheDJ • WJBscribe

¹Floquenbeam's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

²Fram's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment seeking to alleviate pressures on the request an account (ACC) process proposes either raising the account creation limit for extended confirmed editors or granting the account creator permission on request to new ACC tool users.

• In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the mitigation activity completed.

• The scope of CSD criterion G8 has been tightened such that the only redirects that it now applies to are those which target non-existent pages.
• The scope of CSD criterion G14 has been expanded slightly to include orphan "Foo (disambiguation)" redirects that target pages that are not disambiguation pages or pages that perform a disambiguation-like function (such as set index articles or lists).
• A request for comment seeks to determine whether Wikipedia:Office actions should be a policy page or an information page.

Technical news

• The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Community feedback is invited.

Miscellaneous

• In February 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) changed its office actions policy to include temporary and project-specific bans. The WMF exercised this new ability for the first time on the English Wikipedia on 10 June 2019 to temporarily ban and desysop Fram. This action has resulted in significant community discussion, a request for arbitration (permalink), and, either directly or indirectly, the resignations of numerous administrators and functionaries. The WMF Board of Trustees is aware of the situation, and discussions continue on a statement and a way forward. The Arbitration Committee has sent an open letter to the WMF Board.

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A tag has been placed on Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Karthipillaivellalar requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:49, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Liz: Deleted, thanks GAB^gab 00:50, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The user always adding unsourced genres after final warning. Can you block him/her?2402:1980:8252:7A67:9EEC:70E8:AFBA:3379 (talk) 01:22, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, GAB,

I use to forego notifying editors when I tagged empty categories because I thought editors were less invested in them than articles they created. But I angered one editor who took it to ANI and now I am! However, I've contacted a few editors who I noticed create quite a few categories to ask if they wanted me to skip notifications and have received some yeses. Would you like to be on the "Do not call" list? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:38, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Liz: Sure, not a big deal. Thanks, GAB^gab 01:14, 11 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No problemo. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:22, 11 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2019).

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the page Wikipedia:Office actions has been changed from a policy page to an information page.
• A request for comment (permalink) is in progress regarding the administrator inactivity policy.

Arbitration

• Editors may now use the template {{Ds/aware}} to indicate that they are aware that discretionary sanctions are in force for a topic area, so it is unnecessary to alert them.

Miscellaneous

• Following a research project on masking IP addresses, the Foundation is starting a new project to improve the privacy of IP editors. The result of this project may significantly change administrative and counter-vandalism workflows. The project is in the very early stages of discussions and there is no concrete plan yet. Admins and the broader community are encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page.
• The new page reviewer right is bundled with the admin tool set. Many admins regularly help out at Special:NewPagesFeed, but they may not be aware of improvements, changes, and new tools for the Curation system. Stay up to date by subscribing here to the NPP newsletter that appears every two months, and/or putting the reviewers' talk page on your watchlist.

  Since the introduction of temporary user rights, it is becoming more usual to accord the New Page Reviewer right on a probationary period of 3 to 6 months in the first instance. This avoids rights removal for inactivity at a later stage and enables a review of their work before according the right on a permanent basis.

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Hello. Thank you for blocking this IP. It seems to me that this new account is probably the same person continuing after the IP was warned. However, the account has not edited since a final warning, so I am not sure if it matters – maybe they have just got bored and gone away. Just thought I should mention it and leave it to your Special Magic Admin Powers to determine the right course of action! :) Cheers DBaK (talk) 08:47, 12 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered: No problem, glad I could help. Looks like they've stopped for now. Best, GAB^gab 00:45, 13 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

In the month of September, Wikiproject Military history is running a project-wide edit-a-thon, Backlog Banzai. There are heaps of different areas you can work on, for which you claim points, and at the end of the month all sorts of whiz-bang awards will be handed out. Every player wins a prize! There is even a bit of friendly competition built in for those that like that sort of thing. Sign up now at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/September 2019 Backlog Banzai to take part. For the coordinators, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:18, 22 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:38, 1 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019).

Administrator changes

Bradv • Chetsford • Izno

Floquenbeam • Lectonar

DESiegel • Jake Wartenberg • Rjanag • Topbanana

CheckUser changes

Callanecc • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Oversight changes

Callanecc • Fox • HJ Mitchell • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Technical news

• Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
• The advanced version of the edit review pages (recent changes, watchlist, and related changes) now includes two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2019 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

Miscellaneous

• A global request for comment is in progress regarding whether a user group should be created that could modify edit filters across all public Wikimedia wikis.

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You closed the sockpuppet invesigation on A Nobody due to the IP being blocked at the time, but it was just temporary. He's back to the same nonsense currently, not even denying that he's A Nobody. TTN (talk) 17:10, 10 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@TTN: And... reblocked. Thanks for letting me know. GAB^gab 22:43, 10 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:15, 11 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

G'day everyone, voting for the 2019 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 03:37, 15 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Has there been an SPI opened about the socks on this page? I see you blocked a few in August. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 02:00, 16 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@HickoryOughtShirt: Hm... not that I know of. The earliest account seems to be Nomunomuumdy (talk · contribs · count). GAB^gab 20:21, 16 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

G'day everyone, the voting for the XIX Coordinator Tranche is at the halfway mark. The candidates have answered various questions, and you can check them out to see why they are running and decide whether you support them. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:36, 22 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).

Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.

Technical news

• As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.

Arbitration

• The 2019 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place October 4th to 10th.
• The arbitration case regarding Fram was closed. While there will be a local RfC focus[ing] on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future, there is currently a global community consultation on partial and temporary office actions in response to the incident. It will be open until October 30th.

Miscellaneous

• The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:33, 3 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC was closed with the consensus that the resysop criteria should be made stricter.

• The follow-up RfC to develop that change is now open at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/2019 Resysop Criteria (2).

• A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors may now nominate themselves as candidates for the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections. The self-nomination period will close November 12, with voting running from November 19 through December 2.

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Hello! Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 on Monday, 2 December 2019. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2019 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:18, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).

Administrator changes

EvergreenFir • ToBeFree

Akhilleus • Athaenara • John Vandenberg • Melchoir • MichaelQSchmidt • NeilN • Youngamerican • 😂

CheckUser changes

Beeblebrox

Deskana

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC on the administrator resysop criteria was closed. 18 proposals have been summarised with a variety of supported and opposed statements. The inactivity grace period within which a new request for adminship is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally, Bureaucrats are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
• Following a proposal, the edit filter mailing list has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.

Technical news

• Wikimedia projects can set a default block length for users via MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry. A new page, MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip, allows the setting of a different default block length for IP editors. Neither is currently used. (T219126)

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous

• The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.

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Hi GAB, will you please block user Charlie Smithers. There is a report at AIV but they committing rapid fire vandalism. S0091 (talk) 21:17, 8 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@S0091: Thanks,  Done. GAB^gab 21:19, 8 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! S0091 (talk) 21:20, 8 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Mirzefilankes requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian (talk) 15:56, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Damon Runyon's short story "Dancing Dan's Christmas" is a fun read if you have the time. Right from the start it extols the virtues of the hot Tom and Jerry This hot Tom and Jerry is an old-time drink that is once used by one and all in this country to celebrate Christmas with, and in fact it is once so popular that many people think Christmas is invented only to furnish an excuse for hot Tom and Jerry, although of course this is by no means true. No matter what concoction is your favorite to imbibe during this festive season I would like to toast you with it and to thank you for all your work here at the 'pedia this past year. Best wishes for your 2020 as well GAB. MarnetteD|Talk 11:52, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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	Time To Spread A Little Happy Holiday Cheer!!
	I decorated a special kind of Christmas tree in the spirit of the season. What's especially nice about this digitized version: *it doesn't need water *won't catch fire *and batteries aren't required.
	Have a very Merry Christmas - Happy Hanukkah‼️ and a prosperous New Year!! 🍸🎁 🎉

– Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year}} to user talk pages.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
• A proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
• Following a successful RfC, a whitelist is now available for users whose redirects will be autopatrolled by a bot, removing them from the new pages patrol queue. Admins can add such users to Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist after a discussion following the guidelines at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist.

Arbitration

• The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted rather than reasonably construed.
• Following the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Bradv, Casliber, David Fuchs, DGG, KrakatoaKatie, Maxim, Newyorkbrad, SoWhy, Worm That Turned, Xeno.

Miscellaneous

• This issue marks three full years of the Admin newsletter. Thanks for reading!

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).

Guideline and policy news

• Following a