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

Administrator changes

• Asilvering
• Significa liberdade

• Good Olfactory
• Hesperian
• I JethroBT
• TommyBoy
• Woody

CheckUser changes

• Barkeep49
• Izno

• Doug Weller
• Spicy

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.

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BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 19:22, 23 October 2024 (UTC) [reply]

Hello, thank you for your hardwork on "Water", you the best. If you have time, please scan Tyla (album) and point out any flaws you can spot. It is also on FAC by the way. Again, thank you so much. dxneo (talk) 20:48, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks; I finished that copyedit. However (as I say at the top of this page), I don't copyedit on demand. It's late in the day since the album article is already at FAC, but it was copyedited in July so hopefully the prose is still okay. Good luck and all the best, Miniapolis 22:00, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	Thank you for all your help with Allbirds. Especially with the citation fixes. Ornov Ganguly TALK 18:27, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]