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Administrators' newsletter – October 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).

Administrator changes

Barkeep49

Beetstra • KillerChihuahua • Kusma

Arcadian • Extraordinary Machine • Xeno

JamesBWatson → JBW

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

CheckUser changes

Courcelles • SilkTork • Timotheus Canens

Oversight changes

Courcelles • SilkTork • Timotheus Canens

Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.

Technical news

• As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.

Arbitration

• The 2019 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place October 4th to 10th.
• The arbitration case regarding Fram was closed. While there will be a local RfC focus[ing] on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future, there is currently a global community consultation on partial and temporary office actions in response to the incident. It will be open until October 30th.

Miscellaneous

• The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:55, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

Thank you for your excellent copyedit at Mandate for Palestine. Onceinawhile (talk) 20:44, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

And thank you for the baklava! Good luck and all the best, Miniapolis 21:01, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

Akane Yamaguchi

Hello. This article is too long, need to omit some unnecessary paragraphs, help summarize this article (and copy edit). Thanks you. Olascf (talk) 13:37, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

As the top of this page says, I don't answer individual copyedit requests. What is your interest in the article? Your only contributions under this username are multiple, identical user-talkpage requests. Miniapolis 13:47, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

I had this too; it's probably Fdery. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 20:30, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

WP:DUCK, and CU-blocked by Berean Hunter. All the best, Miniapolis 20:39, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	Your contributions have absolutely not gone unnoticed; I award you this Copyeditor's Barnstar to thank you for copyediting Roar! I want to also thank you for wishing me the best on the article's peer/FA review. NowIsntItTime(chats)(doings) 23:40, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

Glad to help. Good luck and all the best, Miniapolis 23:51, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 October 2019

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Important request

The article Shinya Kogami is being reviewed for GA. Despite having its prose revised, the reviewers says the article needs a copyedit. If you could give it a look I would appreciate it. Cheers.Tintor2 (talk) 02:03, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

I'll do what I can, time permitting. In the future, please have an article copyedited before nominating it for GA. All the best, Miniapolis 02:10, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

The copyedit is done. Good luck and all the best, Miniapolis 20:52, 31 October 2019 (UTC)