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Arbitration Committee proceedings
- recent changes
- purge this page
- view or discuss this template
Currently, there are no requests for arbitration.
| Request name | Motions | Case | Posted |
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| Amendment request: American politics 2 | none | (orig. case) | 15 January 2025 |
No arbitrator motions are currently open.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
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!
Most recent poster here: [[User:|]] ([[User talk:#Top|talk]])
Mini-toolbox:
- My Wikimedia Library (journal access, etc.; to get your own, see WP:LIBRARY)
- Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Script (req. WP:AWB access and JWB installed or is just a normal redlink)
- Special:LintErrors
- Hunt down abuse of
{{em}}for non-emphasis italics [1] — and<em>[2] - Move and redirect articles with slashes in their titles when feasible (i.e. when not proper names that require them)
- NAC-at-ANRFC geekery to remember
- NAC-at-RM geekery to remember
- Ref consistency checker (use in preview or sandbox):
{{ref info|Manx cat|style=float:right}} - Reliably regex-match a single linebreak in wikicode (or elsewhere):
(\r\n|\r|\n) - Helpful links related to WP:MEATBOT, WP:COSMETICBOT, and code cleanup: WP:EDITORFRIENDLY (a.k.a. WP:EDITORHOSTILE), WP:COSMETIC (a.k.a. WP:SUBSTANTIVE), WP:SPECTRUM
- All WP:CUE project participants should watchlist this alerts page.
Articles for deletion
- 09 Jan 2025 – Ashley Wright (snooker player) (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Canary757 (t · c) was closed as delete by Liz (t · c) on 21 Jan 2025; see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
- 01 Jan 2025 – Jenson Kendrick (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Canary757 (t · c) was closed as redirect by Liz (t · c) on 22 Jan 2025; see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
Files for discussion
- 23 Jan 2025 – File:2025 Masters (snooker) logo.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on 2025 Masters (snooker)) was FfDed by Voice of Clam (t · c); see discussion
Featured article candidates
- 11 Jan 2025 – 2024 World Snooker Championship (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Lee Vilenski (t · c); see discussion
Featured list candidates
- 23 Jan 2025 – World Women's Billiards Championship (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by BennyOnTheLoose (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 24 Jan 2025 – 1951 World Snooker Championship (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by BennyOnTheLoose (t · c); start discussion
- 28 Dec 2024 – Mark Wildman (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by BennyOnTheLoose (t · c); start discussion
- 05 Oct 2024 – Tessa Davidson (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by BennyOnTheLoose (t · c); start discussion
Other:
- MW Editing team e-meetings, /wikimedia.org/edit-tasktriage via Google Hangouts (Tuesdays, noon–12:30pm PDT = 20:00 UTC during DST, 19:00 otherwise, but often half an hour earlier).
- MW Tech Advice e-meetings, via IRC at #wikimedia-tech connect (Wednesdays, 1–2pm PDT = 16:00–17:00 UTC).
- meta:Talk:Spam blacklist – global blacklist requests
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