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Administrators' newsletter – January 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).
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- A request for comment asks whether partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
- A proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
- Following a successful RfC, a whitelist is now available for users whose redirects will be autopatrolled by a bot, removing them from the new pages patrol queue. Admins can add such users to Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist after a discussion following the guidelines at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist.
- The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being
the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted
rather thanreasonably construed
. - Following the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Bradv, Casliber, David Fuchs, DGG, KrakatoaKatie, Maxim, Newyorkbrad, SoWhy, Worm That Turned, Xeno.
- The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being
- This issue marks three full years of the Admin newsletter. Thanks for reading!
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Speedy deletion nomination of Asekeyevo
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A tag has been placed on Asekeyevo requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either
- disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
- disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
- is a redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.
Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Grognard Extraordinaire Chess (talk) Ping when replying 08:46, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).
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- Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
- The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with
wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input
. No proposed process received consensus.
- Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
- When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [2]
- Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators
that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.
- Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators
- Voting in the 2020 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2020, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2020, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- The English Wikipedia has reached six million articles. Thank you everyone for your contributions!
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Happy First Edit Day!
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).
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- Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops
must not
undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather thanshould not
. - A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.
- Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops
- 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.
- 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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Title of Belogorsk
Hi. Since you’ve previously moved this article, perhaps you should add your opinion at Talk:Belogorsk (Crimea)#Article title. Thanks. —Michael Z. 2020-03-19 23:04 z
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).
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- There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.
- There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
- 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.
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a
- 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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Хотел бы посоветоваться с вами
Здравствуйте, Ezhiki! Хотел бы у вас совет насчёт правок в английской википедии. Дело в что в англоязычной версии статьи про якутов, название "якуты" заменили на самоназвание "саха" и впридачу переназывают статьи по такой же логике. Пытался исправить их правки, но всё вернули обратно, да к тому же Якутию вообще переименовали в Саха и впрадачу запретили переименовывать статьи. Даже не знаю с кем посоветоваться и кому обратиться. Знания английского языка нехватает что вести полноценные дискуссии и защитить статьи от неконструктивных правок.
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).
- 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.
- 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.
- A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Article titles for rivers in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
Hi, since you were involved in previous naming discussions, would you like to participate in the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Rivers#Article titles for rivers in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus? Markussep Talk 08:04, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
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Proposed deletion of Privokzalny (inhabited locality)
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The article Privokzalny (inhabited locality) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Set index isn't necessary. None of the links have an article at all.
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}}
notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}}
will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Koridas (...Puerto Rico for statehood!) 23:46, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
- I have added a comment on the talk page explaining why the prod request is invalid. I cannot decline the prod myself, being the article's author.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); May 21, 2020; 00:12 (UTC)
- Note on removing PROD;
Any editor (including the article's creator or the file's uploader) may object to the deletion by simply removing the tag; this action permanently cancels the proposed deletion via PROD.
-- Otr500 (talk) 16:43, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
- I removed the PROD, with an explanation. (At least, I think I did it right; the documentation of the template is confusing).Every-leaf-that-trembles (talk) 21:07, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
Administrative divisions of Moscow Oblast
Hi Ezhiki, I hope you are doing fine. I understand that you are taking a break and rarely appear here, but I will leave this in hope you may want to react. As you probably know, last year Moscow Oblast eliminates all the districts, converting them into cities under oblast jurisdiction. This means a lost of oir articles need to be moved, and a lot more need to be updated. I postponed it, but I feel now the info is outdetad, and needs to updated somehow. I started by moving Taldomsky District into City under oblast jurisdiction of Taldom, which now needs to be updated first, and I will try to do it, but I feel that I might have insufficient understanding of all the details. So if you at some point would feel like taking it up (cleaning even one article would already very helpful, since I can then apply the pattern to other articles), you are by all means welcome to do it. I do not think we even have separate articles on cities of federal subject significance, so I do not even know what would be the best way to approach this.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:33, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
- Hi, Yaroslav! Good to see you around. You are right, I was taking a break, then got another job which does not afford me much time to be useful around here, then got another one which is very much the same. And by now my knowledge is so out of date, I don't know how useful it can really be any more (I used to keep copious notes of all the changes, but as you imagine that's terribly behind after nearly two years of neglect). Anyway, if I get a chance to look into Moscow Oblast specifically, I will (those are quite significant changes, which definitely need to be covered), but I cannot unfortunately make any promises. Whatever you can do in the meanwhile is better than doing nothing and is very much appreciated. Please forgive me. I do hope to ultimately come back in full force; I just have no idea when it might be. Hopefully before retirement :)—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); June 1, 2020; 03:20 (UTC)
- Thank you for the response. I will continue moving forward, and feel free to join any time as your circumstances allow you to do it.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:54, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
- Hopefully, I have fixed not Taldomsky District, Taldom, Severny, Moscow Oblast, Verbilki, and Zaprudnya. I will now move to other districts.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:18, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
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User Валко and his original researches on the Bashkortostan topics
Hello, I need administrator's help in resolving the conflict over the topics related to Bashkortostan. Last few days there is edit war with user Валко participation on the pages Bashkortostan, History of Bashkortostan and Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The main discussion is here.
At first, the essence of the conflict and a brief background. In March 2019 Russian Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee imposed for this user ban for any edits related to the establishment date of Bashkir ASSR. After user was indefinitely blocked in RuWiki in particular for his contribution on Bashkir/Bashkortostan topics. After his blocking in RuWiki user introduces his original researches in English Wikipedia.
User claims that Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was not Autonomous Republic before 1925. Based on this, user removes Autonomous word from articles and changed Bashkir ASSR to Bashkir Soviet Republic (1, 2). His typical practice - give a bunch of links, none of which confirms his theories. For example, on the talk page of Bashkortostan article user gave seven links, which allegedly say that Bashkir ASSR was not Autonomous Republic before 1925. But no one of this links does not contain this statement. Moreover, this links indicates that the Bashkir Republic was autonomous since it's foundation in 1919 (1, 2 - links shown by him). I think this is an example of disruptive behavior of this user and an attempt to mislead other users.
Of course, Bashkir ASSR had different variants of names at the time of it's foundation. Among them were Autonomous Bashkir Soviet Republic (ABSR), Bashkir Soviet Republic (BSR) and others. But, firstly, user ignores the fact that Bashkir ASSR was Autonomous Republic since it's establishment and for this reason he removes Autonomous word from articles. Secondly, the variant BASSR is the most recognizable and widespread, and no reason to replace it with others variants. Google Books search-test: "Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic" (164 results), "Autonomous Bashkir Soviet Republic" (15 results), "Bashkir Soviet Republic" (BSR - ABSR = 29 - 15 = 14 results), "Autonomous Soviet Bashkir Republic" (9 results). User does not explain why from different variants of names (BASSR, ABSR, BSR, ASBR) he chose BSR. Obviously, he is confused by the presence of the word Autonomous in the name of Republic.
User also denies the fact that the BASSR was the first autonomous republic in RSFSR and removes this along with the source Great Soviet Encyclopedia. The GSE contains the following text: BASSR was the first autonomous Soviet republic in the RSFSR (Russian text: явилась первой автономной советской республикой в составе РСФСР). But Валко introduces original research that German Republic and Turkestan Republic founded earlier than Bashkir ASSR. But German Autonomy and Turkestan Republic were not autonomous republics on the time of their establishment, they became autonomous republics later. German Autonomy became autonomous republic only in 1923 (document by Soviet Govement). Turkestan Republic became autonomous republic in 1920 after approval of the Constitution on 9th Congress of Soviets of Turkestan. Great Russian Encyclopedia contains this information - Autonomous Republic since 1920 (Russian text: с 1920 – ТАССР). To prove his original research Валко brings the text from the GRE article where allegedly says that BASSR was second republic: В октябре 1918 в Поволжье возникло первое национально-государственное образование в РСФСР – Немцев Поволжья трудовая коммуна<...> В марте 1919 из южной части Уфимской губернии и северной части Оренбургской губернии организована вторая национальная автономия – т.н. малая Башкирская АССР.. But this fragment does not say that BASSR was a second Autonomous Republic.
Also user defends the idea that Bashkir ASSR was not established in 1919 (1, 2). But members of Russian Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee and mediators on Bashkir-Tatar topics found this theory false. 1919 year as a establishment date of BASSR is accepted in specialized scientific literature.
Probably, may be better if you find out opinion about this user, his original researches, his editing and discussion methods from Russian Wikipedia's administrators, mediators on Bashkir-Tatar topics and members of Arbitration Committee (Helgo13, La loi et la justice, Андрей Романенко, Vladimir Solovjev, Q-bit array).
If my request is difficult for you, I can find another administrator or mediator for this. Thank you. --Rg102 21:51, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).
CaptainEek • Creffett • Cwmhiraeth
Anna Frodesiak • Buckshot06 • Ronhjones • SQL
- 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.
- 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.
- A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).
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- A request for comment is in progress to remove the T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion.
- Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II (BRFA).
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an
RfC regarding on-wiki harassment
. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community. - The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for
all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles
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- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an
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2nd Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
Dear Ezhiki, AyodeleA2 has written this amazing article about a unit now in Kyrgyzstan which is heir to the Fighting Way of the 87th Guards Rifle Regiment. There is no similar article, it appears, in the Russian Wikipedia. I would like to translate it back into Russian, which I could do with G-Translate, but all the cases, nominative, etc would all be wrong. I could find the right categories, etc, but would you help me fix all the tenses etc etc, clean up the grammar? Buckshot06 (talk) 21:22, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).
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- There is an open request for comment to decide whether to increase the minimum duration a sanction discussion has to remain open (currently 24 hours).
- Speedy deletion criterion T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) has been repealed following a request for comment.
- Speedy deletion criterion X2 (pages created by the content translation tool) has been repealed following a discussion.
- There is a proposal to restrict proposed deletion to confirmed users.
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Speedy deletion nomination of Kobylenka
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A tag has been placed on Kobylenka requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a disambiguation page which either
- disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
- disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
- is an orphaned redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.
Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Koridas 📣 22:55, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
- I've unspeedied it, but one of the village in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast doesn't appear to be mention in the linked article, and I can't seem to find it on the Russian Wikipedia either (assuming it's spelt Кобыленка). – Uanfala (talk) 11:08, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
- OSM knows it (Pochinkovsky District) but it seems to suggest Kobylinka as an alt spelling. One would need to check OKTMO or smth like this.--Ymblanter (talk) 13:36, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
- The spelling was per the Registry of the inhabited localities of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, the most recent iteration of which seems to be the January 2020 edition (available here; Kobylenka is listed on page 71). If someone could add it as a reference; I would greatly appreciate it (I'm on mobile connection right now, so doing this properly would be quite a pain :)). Thanks all!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); August 28, 2020; 15:51 (UTC)
- OSM knows it (Pochinkovsky District) but it seems to suggest Kobylinka as an alt spelling. One would need to check OKTMO or smth like this.--Ymblanter (talk) 13:36, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
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No activity since June of 2020. I think he has gone to that great hedge in the sky ... 50.111.19.2 (talk) 12:31, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
- Nah, still in the regular old hedge on the ground :) Good hearing from you; cheers!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 1, 2020; 15:38 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2020
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2021
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2021
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- Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
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Feedback request: Wikipedia policies and guidelines request for comment
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Feedback request: Geography and places Good Article nomination
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Wikidata weekly summary #466
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).
Interface administrator changes
- Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
- The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC was closed with no consensus. Consensus was found in a previous RfC for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.
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- The community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.
Talk:Political divisions of Russia
Hello, can you look at my new questions at the bottom of the Talk page for Talk:Political divisions of Russia? Someone added another municipal formation called a "municipal okrug." But translating the law I was able to find, it doesn't seem that there was a new formation added, rather that the naming of "municipal districts" changed to "municipal okrugs"; is this correct? --Criticalthinker (talk) 08:13, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Chetuk (disambiguation)
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Feedback request: Politics, government, and law request for comment
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Feedback request: Wikipedia proposals request for comment
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Feedback request: Wikipedia technical issues and templates request for comment
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Feedback request: Geography and places Good Article nomination
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).
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- Consensus was reached to deprecate Wikipedia:Editor assistance.
- Following a Request for Comment the Book namespace was deprecated.
- Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.
- After a Clarification request, the Arbitration Committee modified Remedy 5 of the Antisemitism in Poland case. This means sourcing expectations are a discretionary sanction instead of being present on all articles. It also details using the talk page or the Reliable Sources Noticeboard to discuss disputed sources.
Feedback request: Politics, government, and law request for comment
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Feedback request: Wikipedia proposals request for comment
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Feedback request: History and geography request for comment
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).
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- Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
- An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.
- IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.
- The community authorised COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.
Feedback request: Geography and places Good Article nomination
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Feedback request: Politics, government, and law request for comment
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Nomination of Height 611 UFO incident for deletion
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Feedback request: Wikipedia style and naming request for comment
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).
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- An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.
- Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)
- Following an amendment request, the committee has clarified that the Talk page exception to the 500/30 rule in remedy 5 of the Palestine-Israel articles 4 case does not apply to requested move discussions.
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Feedback request: Geography and places Good Article nomination
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Feedback request: Politics, government, and law request for comment
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Speedy deletion nomination of Sretensky, Russia
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Feedback request: Wikipedia proposals request for comment
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).
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- Feedback is requested on the Universal Code of Conduct enforcement draft by the Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee.
- A RfC is open on whether to allow administrators to use extended confirmed protection on high-risk templates.
- A discussion is open to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)
- A RfC on the next steps after the trial of pending changes on TFAs has resulted in a 30 day trial of automatic semi protection for TFAs.
- The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.
- A request for comment is in progress to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Comments and new proposals are welcome.
- The 2021 RfA review is now open for comments.
Feedback request: Geography and places Good Article nomination
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Proposed deletion of Zainski
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Speedy deletion nomination of Zainski
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).
- Following an RfC, extended confirmed protection may be used preemptively on certain high-risk templates.
- Following a discussion at the Village Pump, there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.
- DiscussionTools has superseded Enterprisey's reply-link script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features.
- A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
- Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
- The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.
- Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
- The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.
Feedback request: Geography and places Good Article nomination
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Proposed deletion of Krasninsky (rural locality)
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