Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.
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.
Link to Wikipedia Day Minnesota User Group Meeting - 6pm(ish) January 15
Sorry for the late notice. We will try to have a live feed going but no promises. We went from a meeting of 7 people to a meeting of over 30. A nice problem to have but getting an internet set up going at an untried location with all that is happening may be hard to do.
Use the following link to a Google Meet space to join in and cross your fingers: https://meet.google.com/qak-efto-vbv
