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245		British Rail Class 170 ( talk)	Add sources
217		Renault F-Type engine ( talk)	Add sources
77		Renault R-Type engine ( talk)	Add sources
30		Stadler Citylink ( talk)	Add sources
79		Renault Cléon-Fonte engine ( talk)	Add sources
139		British Rail Class 455 ( talk)	Add sources
397		Nissan Note ( talk)	Cleanup
688		Isuzu D-Max ( talk)	Cleanup
14		St Philip's Marsh depot ( talk)	Cleanup
175		London Underground rolling stock ( talk)	Expand
394		InterCity 125 ( talk)	Expand
6,627		The Wachowskis ( talk)	Expand
545		Drill ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
217		Red Rover ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
142		Clio Renault Sport ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
59		Faiveley Transport ( talk)	Merge
19		First Student Canada ( talk)	Merge
3		Para 66 ( talk)	Merge
90		Koss Corporation ( talk)	Wikify
20		Hyundai County ( talk)	Wikify
1,711		Windows Vista ( talk)	Wikify
4		Autolux Bus ( talk)	Orphan
30		Steve Ward (boxer) ( talk)	Orphan
5		Preserved EMUs of Southern Railway ( talk)	Orphan
26		British Rail Class 140 ( talk)	Stub
48		David Fynn ( talk)	Stub
5		As in Heaven ( talk)	Stub
292		Enrico Casarosa ( talk)	Stub
23		Latchkey Kids ( talk)	Stub
12		Bob Dobkin ( talk)	Stub

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

Administrator changes

A Train • Berean Hunter • Epbr123 • GermanJoe • Sanchom • Mysid

Technical news

• Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. ( T284642)
• The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. ( T293866)

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
• The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent.

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161		British Rail Class 319 ( talk)	Add sources
984		United Kingdom by-election records ( talk)	Add sources
64		British Rail Class 456 ( talk)	Add sources
244		Elihu Yale ( talk)	Add sources
6		Railways Illustrated ( talk)	Add sources
241		Diesel multiple unit ( talk)	Add sources
199		Sunbeam Alpine ( talk)	Cleanup
381		Leon Bailey ( talk)	Cleanup
308		M1 motorway ( talk)	Cleanup
272		Abellio ScotRail ( talk)	Expand
83		British Rail Class 143 ( talk)	Expand
300		Renault Twizy ( talk)	Expand
355		Nissan MR engine ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,776		Ford F-Series ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
134		AMC Spirit ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
291		Thameslink ( talk)	Merge
259		London Waterloo station ( talk)	Merge
13		First Leeds ( talk)	Merge
11		Communications in the Isle of Man ( talk)	Wikify
64		Piers Haggard ( talk)	Wikify
41		GPO telephones ( talk)	Wikify
2		Amanda Hickey ( talk)	Orphan
5		Binary Reed–Solomon encoding ( talk)	Orphan
2		Bernd Kaina ( talk)	Orphan
5		Ryde Traincare Depot ( talk)	Stub
6		SR Class CP ( talk)	Stub
2		MV Eurovoyager ( talk)	Stub
3		MV Star Fighter (2014) ( talk)	Stub
3		Punk Rock Is Your Friend: Kung Fu Records Sampler No. 6 ( talk)	Stub
2		Powellton, Virginia ( talk)	Stub

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

Guideline and policy news

• Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.

• Additionally, consensus for proposal 6C of the 2021 RfA review has led to the creation of an administrative action review process. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding advanced permissions.

Arbitration

• Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Cabayi, Donald Albury, Enterprisey, Izno, Opabinia regalis, Worm That Turned, Wugapodes.

Miscellaneous

• The functionaries email list (functionaries-enlists.wikimedia.org) will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.

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90		British Rail Class 166 ( talk)	Add sources
57,930		Martin Luther King Jr. ( talk)	Add sources
2,314		A Nightmare on Elm Street ( talk)	Add sources
159		British Rail Class 90 ( talk)	Add sources
188		British Rail Class 153 ( talk)	Add sources
184		British Rail Class 180 ( talk)	Add sources
382		Dumfries ( talk)	Cleanup
193		Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles ( talk)	Cleanup
1,436		Hank Green ( talk)	Cleanup
479		Renault 5 ( talk)	Expand
45		Sprinter (British Rail) ( talk)	Expand
15,122		Hillsborough disaster ( talk)	Expand
21		Transport on the Isle of Wight ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
41		British Rail Class 117 ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
5		Car Design News ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
4		Tramlink route 1 ( talk)	Merge
2		Tramlink route 2 ( talk)	Merge
166		Arriva ( talk)	Merge
46		UNICEF UK ( talk)	Wikify
2,128		Renault ( talk)	Wikify
5		London Underground coaching stock ( talk)	Wikify
2		Albert Vexler ( talk)	Orphan
14		Andaseat ( talk)	Orphan
1		Antti Kuismala ( talk)	Orphan
2		Gymnopilus arenicola ( talk)	Stub
7		Today's Railways UK ( talk)	Stub
74		Transport for Wales ( talk)	Stub
4		1990 Bradford North by-election ( talk)	Stub
10		British Rail Classes 341 and 342 ( talk)	Stub
12		Renault Racoon ( talk)	Stub

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page.

Technical news

• The user group oversight will be renamed suppress in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
• The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.

Arbitration

• Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
• The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
• A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey is open until 11 February 2022.

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560		Scooter (motorcycle) ( talk)	Add sources
337		Northern Trains ( talk)	Add sources
148		British Rail Class 165 ( talk)	Add sources
566		British Rail Class 43 (HST) ( talk)	Add sources
184		British Rail Class 321 ( talk)	Add sources
36		Renault Energy engine ( talk)	Add sources
1,516		Kia Sportage ( talk)	Cleanup
72		Hello Kitty Online ( talk)	Cleanup
89		Hyundai Scoupe ( talk)	Cleanup
69		British Rail Class 357 ( talk)	Expand
1,292		Opel Astra ( talk)	Expand
124		British Rail Class 168 ( talk)	Expand
24		Big W (United Kingdom) ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
147		Electric truck ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
26		Tanyalee Davis ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
260		Variety store ( talk)	Merge
48		First Student (United States) ( talk)	Merge
61		Women in Shinto ( talk)	Merge
38		The Firm (novelty band) ( talk)	Wikify
32		Gerard Kenny ( talk)	Wikify
13		First Student UK ( talk)	Wikify
1		Aleksandra Satler ( talk)	Orphan
2		American Theological Society Midwest Division ( talk)	Orphan
1		Blydell Martin ( talk)	Orphan
7		MV Duc de Normandie ( talk)	Stub
9		Renault Be Bop ( talk)	Stub
30		Penny Mallory ( talk)	Stub
6		SR Class CW ( talk)	Stub
8		Cleanova ( talk)	Stub
8		British Rail Class 129 ( talk)	Stub

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
• A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.

Technical news

• The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. ( T296645)
• Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. ( T25020)
• The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. ( T295389)

Arbitration

• Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous

• The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
• Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
• The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.

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17		Renault Cléon-Alu engine ( talk)	Add sources
45		Golden Dragon (company) ( talk)	Add sources
502		Christopher Wren ( talk)	Add sources
16		Renault Billancourt engine ( talk)	Add sources
2,960		Albus Dumbledore ( talk)	Add sources
167		British Rail Mark 3 ( talk)	Add sources
748		Nissan Micra ( talk)	Cleanup
1,412		The North Water (TV series) ( talk)	Cleanup
65		Iveco Bus ( talk)	Cleanup
492		Contra Costa County, California ( talk)	Expand
58		British Rail Class 314 ( talk)	Expand
42		Llanfairpwll railway station ( talk)	Expand
270		Renault 4 ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
274		Gautrain ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,126		Truck ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
13		Transdev S.A. ( talk)	Merge
13		Non-inclined orbit ( talk)	Merge
33		Direct DNA damage ( talk)	Merge
35		Renault RS engine ( talk)	Wikify
131		John Varvatos ( talk)	Wikify
27		Michael Elliott (director) ( talk)	Wikify
2		Battle of Dodoma ( talk)	Orphan
4		Amy Wetherby ( talk)	Orphan
2		Apeksha Patil ( talk)	Orphan
47		Electro-diesel multiple unit ( talk)	Stub
4		Railfest ( talk)	Stub
6		British Rail Class 418 ( talk)	Stub
40		Hyundai A engine ( talk)	Stub
9		Race Against the Tide ( talk)	Stub
17		Evans (retailer) ( talk)	Stub

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