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• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
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• When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
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• The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

• JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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13:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Vanamonde (talk) 00:02, 10 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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I don't even know anymore what this was for, LOL. Thanks for cleaning up this outdated trash.—♦♦ AMBER^(ЯʘCK) 07:09, 26 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please look into SubRE's editing history, he is vandalising pages I've created and it all seems fishy, my full real details social networking profiles and phone number will be given to you if asked Asouko (talk) 10:48, 14 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I've looked into it. Now, I will have to disagree with you that SubRE is vandalizing articles you started. He's not: he is nominating them for deletion, which is something entirely else. His concerns seem to be centered around the theme of non-notability. Which is - in most of the cases - not unwarranted. You have responded with comments that do not always contain arguments to keep certain articles, but borderline on ad hominems (here, for example). Therefore: I'm very sorry, but I'm not inclined to interfere with SubRE's behaviour. What he's doing doesn't seem outrageous to me, so I have to apply good faith and say there's not something 'fishy' going on.

One thing he's contented and you haven't elaborated on, is that he said that you are a member of Phase (band). Is that true? —♦♦ AMBER^(ЯʘCK) 12:28, 14 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

So sorry about that, but I didn't use it in a derogatory way. We're I come from ignorant means lack of knowledge on a subject and it's within the limits of political correctness. MusicPatrol (talk) 19:22, 19 July 2017 (UTC) MusicPatrol (talk) 19:22, 19 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm aware of what ignorant means, and it's generally not a kind term to just toss at somebody because they want an article deleted you would like to keep. Differences of opinion happen, and that doesn't mean the other side is ignorant. But my warning wasn't just for that term: you also said an editor made it "personal" when he was simply citing Wikipedia policy. You told hem "You don't know anything about music" and you strongly implied that said person was not an expert. All of that is uncivil, and seems contrary to WP:AGF. —♦♦ AMBER^(ЯʘCK) 20:07, 19 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You are right on the fact that I was a bit harsh, but he would ignore the messages on his talk page and he would have tunnel vision on his thing... It seems that he only hanged around there only to remove that article not even knowing how to use the tags, that simply demonstrated bad faith to me... He would only reply to other editors comments and he would ignore me. And make accusations based on nothing, that I am member and promoter of the band, or whatever. It all started when I would remove one of his tags reasoning it and leaving him a message and then we would play the add remove game in loop, That's not respectful behaviour either... Anyway I do apologise, and thank you for taking the time to moderate the conversation! I deeply appreciate it. By the way, I didn't imply you don't know what it means, I meant semantics differ from country to country and region to region... All the best MusicPatrol (talk) 03:00, 20 July 2017 (UTC) MusicPatrol (talk) 03:00, 20 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No offense was taken, because none was given. Good luck with the articles! —♦♦ AMBER^(ЯʘCK) 20:02, 20 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for creating Konrad Mizzi, Amberrock!

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Boleyn (talk) 20:26, 8 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I got a message that I have a DYK proposal not connected:

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This is my submission: Template:Did you know nominations/Bazilije Pandžić. Can you please help me with step 3. I do not know what to do there. I know better in the German Wikipedia, unfortunately not in the English, where I have published only a few articles. Greets from Germany -- Triplec85 (talk) 18:25, 22 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Amberrock,

"In the 2009 election the party won 15 seats, its most to date, making it the third largest party in the antepenultimate Knesset". The way I understand this, the antepenultimate Knesset is the 19th Knesset that was formed after the legislative elections of January 2013. That's why, I chose to slightly amend the aforementioned passage. Are we on the same page here? Shams lnm (talk) 16:40, 13 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

At a second (more diligent) reading, I realized that the antepenultimate phrasing is correct (but, in my opinion, it is a tad confusing as well). Thus, I wrote: “In the 2009 election, the party won 15 seats, its most to date, making it the third largest party in the antepenultimate (i.e., 18th) Knesset”. Do you agree with this adjustment? Cheers, Shams lnm (talk) 17:27, 13 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a-okay with you being bold, don't worry!—♦♦ AMBER^(ЯʘCK) 23:22, 14 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Terrific! Thank you. Amberrock, you rock! Shams lnm (talk) 01:51, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 03:01, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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