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Administrators' newsletter – January 2025

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

Administrator changes

Sennecaster

• Daniel
• Hog Farm

• BozMo
• Ferret
• John M Wolfson
• MaxSem
• Panyd
• Tide rolls
• Titoxd

CheckUser changes

• Daniel
• Elli
• Liz
• ScottishFinnishRadish
• Theleekycauldron

Worm That Turned

Ferret

Oversight changes

• Daniel
• Elli
• Liz
• ScottishFinnishRadish
• Theleekycauldron

Worm That Turned

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

• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!

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ACC Tool User Access

Hi Firefly! Long time no chat! I just needed to give you a quick FYI that I suspended your ACC Tool User access from the interface. It's only because you've been inactive for over 90 days; nothing else. Should you wish to rejoin, just let us know and we'll let you back in! ;-) Cheers - ~Oshwah~^(talk) (contribs) 23:21, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you for your outstanding contributions to Wikipedia. Your hard work and dedication are greatly appreciated! NK7411 (talk) 07:18, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

'splinetools' on toolforge

Hello! My understanding is that you are the owner of the 'splinetools' tool account on Toolforge.

Every few months I run a report on the largest files using toolforge NFS storage, and a file in the 'splintetools' directory comes up every time; right now it is the #1 largest file: enwiki-20141106-pages-articles.xml. I've emailed your registered email address several times about this over the year but have never gotten a response.

Can you please either 1) respond to my email, or 2) update the email account associated with the 'reticulated spline' toolforge user? And also please delete that file if it is not in use. I have just gzipped it to avoid permanent damage; if the file is useful to ongoing work then you can just unzip it and let me know. Thank you! Andrewbogott (talk) 20:51, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]