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Administrators' newsletter – January 2025

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

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Your GA nomination of IMac (Apple silicon)

The article IMac (Apple silicon) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:IMac (Apple silicon) and Talk:IMac (Apple silicon)/GA2 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Sammi Brie -- Sammi Brie (talk) 06:41, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RFC Notice

Hello, this notice is for everyone who took part in the 2023 RfC on lists of airline destinations. I have started a new RfC on the subject. If you would like to participate please follow this link: Wikipedia talk:What Wikipedia is not § RfC on WP:NOT and British Airways destinations. Sunnya343 (talk) 01:14, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Undo help?

Hi David. A newish editor has moved [[Sieges of Berwick (1355 and 1356) without any discussion. Actually, they have moved Talk:Sieges of Berwick (1355 and 1356) to Talk:Sieges of Berwick (1355-1356), which has caused its own problems. Plus it is in the middle of an FAC. The combination has made me reluctant to attempt to undo them. So I was wondering if you, with your almighty admin tools, could sort it out? No, no, that's fine; no need to thank me. Gog the Mild (talk) 23:00, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Gog the Mild sorry for the delay, I've been out of the country for a wedding. I moved it back to the title used at the FAC; curiously the previous move isn't shown in the move logs. Dunno what that's about. (Also the new title I'm pretty sure fell afoul of MOS:DASH given it used a hyphen and not an en dash.) Got to catch up on everything I've been missing, cheers. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ^talk Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ^talk 15:42, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, it wasn't urgent. Thanks for fixing it. Gog the Mild (talk) 15:50, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of IMac (Apple silicon)

The article IMac (Apple silicon) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:IMac (Apple silicon) for comments about the article, and Talk:IMac (Apple silicon)/GA2 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Sammi Brie -- Sammi Brie (talk) 21:00, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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FAC mentor?

Hi there, I saw you on the FAC mentor page, where you mentioned your interest in media. Let me introduce you to a quintessential part of media history - One Direction. The boy band is considered one of the best-selling and most successful music acts in the world, have been attributed towards forming part of the new "British invasion" in the United States, and their impact on fan hysteria has had them compared to The Beatles and Beatlemania. I am looking forward to promoting this article to FA by the band's 15th anniversary this July, so all help is appreciated. Thank you! :) jolielover♥talk 15:59, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jolielover Hey I'll take a look at the article and give you my thoughts. If I haven't posted anything in a couple of weeks feel free to ping me again. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ^talk 16:17, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! :) you can post comments on Wikipedia:Peer review/One Direction/archive1 if you would like jolielover♥talk 16:30, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Addressing Issues from a previous GA review

Hey there! I'm not at all new to reading edit histories and talk pages (to understand why large edits were made, and to understand suggestions for future edits) but I'm a bit new to actually editing myself. I'm specifically looking at the Eve Online article+talk, and noticed that it had been nominated for GA way back when, and you were the one who basically said "not right now". Looking at the article's more recent talk as well as discussion on your "GA on Hold" notification (here), as well as the current state of the article, it appears that many of the issues you noted have been addressed, the main exception being the numerous "Citations Needed" tags. Once I hit 4d of this account existing (for autoconfirm - the article is under Semi-Prot) I'll start finding adequate sources for those tags and adding them, but I'd be curious to see if there are any other issues you notice right off the bat that would disqualify the article from GA - I feel the article is generally well-written and comprehensive, and I am interested in re-nominating it for GA once the citation issues are addressed.

Thanks for your time. Alligator0323 (talk) 18:36, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]