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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
• A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

Technical news

• Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
• The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Ajraddatz and Uzoma Ozurumba; they will serve for one year.

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23		British Rail Class 124 ( talk)	Add sources
151		British Rail Class 60 ( talk)	Add sources
130		British Rail Class 317 ( talk)	Add sources
16		British Rail Class 123 ( talk)	Add sources
236		British Rail Class 153 ( talk)	Add sources
602		How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming ( talk)	Add sources
91		High-speed rail in Thailand ( talk)	Cleanup
1,270		High-speed rail ( talk)	Cleanup
7,642		2020 Libertarian Party presidential primaries ( talk)	Cleanup
12		Northern Electrics ( talk)	Expand
115		A14 road (England) ( talk)	Expand
86		British Rail Class 159 ( talk)	Expand
722		James Gordon (character) ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
396		EMD SD70 series ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
575		Joël Robuchon ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
115		British Rail Class 52 ( talk)	Merge
22		Cardiff Bay railway station ( talk)	Merge
19		EMD SD75M ( talk)	Merge
23		EMD SD45T-2 ( talk)	Wikify
130		Airfix ( talk)	Wikify
122		Australian railway signalling ( talk)	Wikify
7		Carbon nanotubes for water transport ( talk)	Orphan
5		Rick Farmiloe ( talk)	Orphan
7		Aidan Meehan ( talk)	Orphan
28		Mashed Potato Time ( talk)	Stub
20		Shawn Dooley ( talk)	Stub
7		Kidwelly railway station ( talk)	Stub
11		Today's Railways UK ( talk)	Stub
69		Book of Dragons ( talk)	Stub
114		Esso Northumbria ( talk)	Stub

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/100% Capri, I'd appreciate it if you sorted it.

TheLongTone Looks like someone beat me to it. Night fury 18:11, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your response to my ‘help me’. I got the range block again today, but this time I was able to log on and edit. But I have an idea I’ll be following your advice and visiting the Tea Room or the Pump before long. My library access is diminishing daily: the nearest closed today ‘til first of April, and I don’t expect it to reopen then, so it makes a difference. Ragity ( talk) 04:37, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).

Guideline and policy news

• There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

Technical news

• There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.

Arbitration

• Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.

Miscellaneous

• The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.

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9		Railways Illustrated ( talk)	Add sources
26		British Rail Class 151 ( talk)	Add sources
55		British Rail Class 507 ( talk)	Add sources
13		British Rail Class 109 ( talk)	Add sources
173		Crufts ( talk)	Add sources
95		InterCity (British Rail) ( talk)	Add sources
16		Chortle Awards ( talk)	Cleanup
124		Grays ( talk)	Cleanup
4,292		Yakuza ( talk)	Cleanup
304		Abellio ScotRail ( talk)	Expand
42,072		2020 coronavirus pandemic in the Netherlands ( talk)	Expand
173		Thameslink ( talk)	Expand
30		London General ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
280		Rail transport in Great Britain ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
5		Gary D. Rhodes ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
41		ScotRail (brand) ( talk)	Merge
20		EMD SD75I ( talk)	Merge
24		Alliance Rail Holdings ( talk)	Merge
614		Jigme Singye Wangchuck ( talk)	Wikify
198		Catholic Church sexual abuse cases by country ( talk)	Wikify
66		Views of Lyndon LaRouche and the LaRouche movement ( talk)	Wikify
4		JKT48 Janken Competition 2016 ( talk)	Orphan
8		Cosmonautica ( talk)	Orphan
3		Barry Ferns ( talk)	Orphan
36		Electro-diesel multiple unit ( talk)	Stub
45		AKBingo! ( talk)	Stub
10		Freshwater East ( talk)	Stub
41		British Rail Class 29 ( talk)	Stub
156		Mynampally Hanmanth Rao ( talk)	Stub
7		Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology ( talk)	Stub

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188		High-speed rail in the United Kingdom ( talk)	Add sources
16		British Rail Class 118 ( talk)	Add sources
23		C F Booth ( talk)	Add sources
31		Stadler Citylink ( talk)	Add sources
413		British Rail Class 43 (HST) ( talk)	Add sources
106		British Rail Class 315 ( talk)	Cleanup
227		British Rail Class 91 ( talk)	Cleanup
1,014		Hard Rock Cafe ( talk)	Cleanup
62		British Rail Class 357 ( talk)	Expand
66		British Rail Sprinter ( talk)	Expand
51,238		2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdom ( talk)	Expand
20,208		Tom and Jerry ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
503		Abandonware ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
160		Gautrain ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
201		Call for bids ( talk)	Merge
63		Political decorations of the Nazi Party ( talk)	Merge
455		Vertigo Comics ( talk)	Merge
118		GamesMaster ( talk)	Wikify
134		Roberto Merhi ( talk)	Wikify
207		Feltham ( talk)	Wikify
6		Nathan Cassidy ( talk)	Orphan
7		Preserved EMUs of Southern Railway ( talk)	Orphan
2		Amiraddin Masud Nakhchivani ( talk)	Orphan
1,962		Bhuvan Bam ( talk)	Stub
8		Ferryside railway station ( talk)	Stub
10		Ryoka Oshima ( talk)	Stub
32		British Rail Class 140 ( talk)	Stub
452		Satisfactory ( talk)	Stub
162		Inner Party ( talk)	Stub

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).

Administrator changes

Gnangarra • Kaisershatner • Malcolmxl5

CheckUser changes

Callanecc

Oversight changes

HJ Mitchell

Guideline and policy news

• Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
• Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
• A request for comment has been proposed to create a new main page editor usergroup.
• A request for comment has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements more strict.

Technical news

• The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. You can review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.
• Enterprisey created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, see User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.

Miscellaneous

• A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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There is a discussion going on at Talk:West Yorkshire Metro#TLC Travel about TLC Travel, currently a redirect to West Yorkshire Metro following a merger in which you took part. If you are interested, please consider taking part.-- YTRK ( talk) 13:06, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

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36		British Rail Class 252 ( talk)	Add sources
48		Big Bus Tours ( talk)	Add sources
41		Networker (train) ( talk)	Add sources
60		British Rail Class 322 ( talk)	Add sources
395		Northern Trains ( talk)	Add sources
615		Cylon (Battlestar Galactica) ( talk)	Cleanup
27		Bristol VR ( talk)	Cleanup
84		Flicker World Tour ( talk)	Cleanup
296		CrossCountry ( talk)	Expand
90		British Rail Class 385 ( talk)	Expand
21		Sprinter (British Rail) ( talk)	Expand
48		British Rail Class 117 ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
94		Alexander Dennis Enviro500 ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,019		Fashion design ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
161		Newport Jazz Festival ( talk)	Merge
89		John McAfee 2020 presidential campaign ( talk)	Merge
693		Locomotives of India ( talk)	Merge
730		Zardoz ( talk)	Wikify
22		Liss, Hampshire ( talk)	Wikify
7		Sanlaap ( talk)	Wikify
2		Antoni Arabí ( talk)	Orphan
2		Balrampur, Ambedkar Nagar ( talk)	Orphan
3		Bal Vikash Secondary School ( talk)	Orphan
6		Shu Yabushita ( talk)	Stub
3		George Francis Scott Elliot ( talk)	Stub
9		Fairwater railway station ( talk)	Stub
35		Boss Brewing ( talk)	Stub
61		Tim Johnson (film director) ( talk)	Stub
24		Macrogryphosaurus ( talk)	Stub

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).

Administrator changes

CaptainEek • Creffett • Cwmhiraeth

Anna Frodesiak • Buckshot06 • Ronhjones • SQL

CheckUser changes

SQL

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS) should allowed any unblock request or just private appeals.
• The Wikimedia Foundation announced that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.

Arbitration

• A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.

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