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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).

Administrator changes Clpo13 Brian0918 • JDoorjam • Karanacs • MrDarcy • Mindspillage Interface administrator changes Evad37

CheckUser changes Dreamy Jazz • Ferret • GeneralNotability • Girth Summit • RoySmith Oversight changes Dreamy Jazz • LuK3

Guideline and policy news

• Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.

Technical news

• Toolhub is a catalogue of tools which can be used on Wikimedia wikis. It is at https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/.

Arbitration

• GeneralNotability, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections. Ivanvector and John M Wolfson are reserve commissioners.
• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves to stand in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections from 07 November 2021 until 16 November 2021.

Miscellaneous

• The 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of five new CheckUsers and two new Oversighters.

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Hi Legoktm, in two recent edits ([7] and [8]) Legobot created working templates while updating the index, which I don't think its supposed to do. Could you look into that? -- Asartea ^{Talk | Contribs} 08:26, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

It's also creating edit requests on archiveindex pages, i.e. Talk:American_Revolution/Archive_index#editsemiprotected, Talk:Steve_Jobs/Archive_index#editsemiprotected, Talk:Mexican–American_War/Archive_index#editsemiprotected, and several others. I'm hesitant to remove or close the edit requests in case there's an issue with upsetting the bot's machine spirit. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 11:44, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

There's also some CSDs it opened. I assume the bot realizes it's almost a holiday and wants to create a mess for people to clean up when they should be brining their turkeys and cutting turnips. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 11:57, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

(Non-bot operator comment) I also ran into this earlier, and I think I’ve identified the reason why it’s happening. I’ve explained here. GMX^{(on the go!)} 17:17, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Ah-ha. Thanks for the info. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:38, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Sorry for the mess everyone, I'll look into this now. Legoktm (talk) 18:25, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

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