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RFA and RFB status
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No RfXs since 08:57, 27 September 2024 (UTC).—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online |
The first chart denotes the status of current requests for adminship and requests for bureaucratship, and is automatically updated by Cyberbot I. If the chart has only the title rows, it means there are no requests of one or both types.
FAC and FAR status
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The second chart lists the statuses of urgent featured article candidates and featured article reviews, and is also manually updated.
DRN status
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| 15.ai | In Progress | Ltbdl (t) | 18 days, 14 hours | Cooldudeseven7 (t) | 15 hours | BrocadeRiverPoems (t) | 26 minutes |
| Tuner (radio) | In Progress | Andrevan (t) | 14 days, 9 hours | Robert McClenon (t) | 3 days, 1 hours | Kvng (t) | 1 days, 3 hours |
| Wolf | In Progress | Nagging Prawn (t) | 9 days, 20 hours | NotAGenious (t) | 6 days, 15 hours | Moxy (t) | 5 days, 17 hours |
| Face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic | New | Randomstaplers (t) | 6 days, | Robert McClenon (t) | 4 days, 5 hours | Randomstaplers (t) | 3 days, 12 hours |
| Instant-runoff voting | New | Closed Limelike Curves (t) | 3 days, 5 hours | Robert McClenon (t) | 2 days, 7 hours | RobLa (t) | 1 days, |
| Sri Lankan Vellalar | Closed | 2409:40F4:200D:7C2B:BCDF:CF94:7E25:E27 (t) | 2 days, 12 hours | Robert McClenon (t) | 2 days, 7 hours | Robert McClenon (t) | 2 days, 7 hours |
| NDIS | New | ItsPugle (t) | 1 days, 16 hours | None | n/a | ItsPugle (t) | 1 days, 16 hours |
| Taiwan | Closed | 103.190.179.16 (t) | 1 days, 13 hours | Robert McClenon (t) | 1 days, 12 hours | Robert McClenon (t) | 1 days, 12 hours |
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Discussion
[edit]Voting for coordinators is now open!
[edit]Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election have opened. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting will commence on 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:41, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2024)
[edit] Hello, Sjones23. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Once Upon a Time in the West • Keygen Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 2 September 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2024
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which
applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past
. - A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
Arbitration
- Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
- Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
- The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.
Miscellaneous
- Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in September 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,900 articles and 26,200 redirects awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2024)
[edit] Map of the Caroline Islands Archipelago
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Cancel culture • Once Upon a Time in the West Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 9 September 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Guild of Copy Editors September Newsletter
[edit]Guild of Copy Editors September Newsletter
  Hello and welcome to the September newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: Project coordinators play an important role in our WikiProject. Following the mid-year Election of Coordinators, we welcomed Mox Eden to the coordinator team. Dhtwiki remains as Lead Coordinator, and Miniapolis and Wracking returned as assistant coordinators. If you'd like to help out behind the scenes, please consider taking part in our December election – watchlist our ombox for updates. Information about the role of coordinators can be found here. Blitz: 13 of the 24 editors who signed up for the June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 169,404 words comprising 41 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 38 of the 59 editors who signed up for the July 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 482,133 words comprising 293 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: 10 of the 15 editors who signed up for the August 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 71,294 words comprising 31 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: Sign up here to earn barnstars in our month-long, in-progress September Backlog Elimination Drive. Progress report: As of 05:14, 11 September 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 233 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,824 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we do without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Mox Eden and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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Message sent by Baffle gab1978 (talk) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:54, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2024)
[edit] Hello, Sjones23. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Caroline Islands • Cancel culture Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 16 September 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Voting for WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open!
[edit]Voting for WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open! A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. Register your vote here by 23:59 UTC on 29 September! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:35, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2024)
[edit] Hello, Sjones23. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Polling station • Caroline Islands Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 23 September 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Happy Birthday!
[edit] | Happy birthday! Hi Sjones23! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy birthday! Enjoy this special day! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 05:47, 29 September 2024 (UTC) |  |
This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2024)
[edit] Eight gold Spanish escudo (1687), issued during the reign of Carlos II of Spain
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Human geography • Polling station Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 30 September 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2024
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Guideline and policy news
- Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.
- Following a discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 to F2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
- A request for comment is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have an administrator recall process.
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Historical elections has been closed.
- An arbitration case regarding Backlash to diversity and inclusion has been opened.
- Editors are invited to nominate themselves to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until 23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC).
Miscellaneous
- If you are interested in stopping spammers, please put MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist and MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist on your watchlist, and help out when you can.
This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2024)
[edit] Hello, Sjones23. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Currency of Spain • Human geography Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 7 October 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2024)
[edit] Hello, Sjones23. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Navy • Currency of Spain Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 14 October 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2024)
[edit] Hello, Sjones23. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Longshore drift • Navy Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 21 October 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Editor experience invitation
[edit]Hi Sjones23. I'm looking for experienced editors to interview here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 01:18, 24 October 2024 (UTC)