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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.

16:58, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

User:Legobot removed my GA nomination here [3], with an edit summary of "Maintenance". How is removing GA nominations maintenance? The reason I put Katherine Hughes (activist) under Magazines and print journalism was because she was a journalist, and the topic area includes journalists. Still, I'm not sure why your bot would remove a GA nomination. If there's something I'm missing from this context, can you please explain? I'm kind of confused about why this happened. Clovermoss (talk) 15:32, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Clovermoss: It was removed because Talk:Katherine Hughes (activist) does not have a {{GA nominee}} template (and never has had one). Make sure that you follow the directions at the top of the page, including those at WP:GAN/I#Step 2: Nominating the article exactly; if you fail to do this, Legobot won't treat it as a GA nom. In this case, you would use {{subst:GAN|subtopic=Magazines and print journalism}}. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:31, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, Redrose64. I'll read it, and follow your advice! :) Clovermoss (talk) 22:34, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

@Clovermoss: Now that you've done that, Legobot has done this, along with some other housekeeping that users don't normally see. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 14:38, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

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