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Administrators' newsletter – January 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).

Administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

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Oversight changes

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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

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Notifying blocked users

Could DatBot 12 please be told not to notify indefinitely blocked users like USer talk:BrownHairedGirl. Thanks. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 01:33, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I remember this was mentioned to Fastily once, and they replied with blocks being indefinite and not infinite, and it is better that they receive a notification (any talk page watchers can also respond to it) than it be deleted invisibly to the creator. The better question is why didn't it respect the {{bots}}, and the answer to that is because it seems to use the |optout parameter in place of |deny. I hadn't heard of this parameter prior, but will look into adding it to the bot (FastilyBot used to skip every page with the template, regardless of its arguments), and in the meanwhile also recommend adding |deny=all if so desired. DatGuy^Talk_Contribs 12:59, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]