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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).
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I'm so sorry, your emails came through, I'm just desperately trying to remember my password. I think I hid it from myself. I don't keep up my email and it's been about two months since I've checked them. I'll remember it. Just wanted you to know it isn't you. You can delete this if you want. --ARoseWolf 13:40, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
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another Did not, did too venue on Wikipedia. You know - cause we don't have enough places here. — Ched (talk) 20:24, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).
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Thank you for improving article quality in December. If you like Advent music, check this out. If you like Christmas music and wishes, watch my user talk until 27 December ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:19, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
See: Chinese covid coverup 8 support v 9 oppose. The closing rational makes it obvious that this was nothing more than a supervote[1]. Pitiful; even more so coming from an experienced editor. — Ched (talk) 04:45, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:05, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for improving articles in October! - Today: see yourself, read about a hymn praying to not be on earth in vain, about a comics artist whose characters have character (another collaboration of the "perennial gang", broken by one of us banned - as if blocked wasn't enough), and in memory of the last prima donna assoluta, Edita Gruberová. I had to go to two grave sites last week, one who died now, one who died 10 years ago, so standing upright and in black seems appropriate. More colours - but subdued - can be had on hikes, - click on songs. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:22, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).
deletelogentry
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rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928)April: Easter - resilience - Spring - thank you for being around --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:33, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
dance and singing, peace doves and icecream --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:18, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
Dove sono (Where are those happy moments ...?) - concert with Kyiv orchestra and Aleksey Semenenko (quite a story!) tonight, Symphony with war and peace in the subtitle --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:09, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).
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I like my talk today (actually mostly from 29 May - I took the title pic), enjoy the music, two related videos worth watching! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:05, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
My song collection in June is especially rich, look, and the hall where I first heard DFD, Pierre Boulez and Murray Perahia. Do you find the baby deer in the meadow (last row)? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:57, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
Today is a birthday. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:53, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for improving articles in July. Did you know that we had 3 FAs by QAI members this month? - I was away, for hiking in the Swiss Alps and a funeral, more on my talk. Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:43, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).
Hey there! I noticed you were a contributor to the Fearless Fagan article (where I again noticed this) so I'm taking a liberty of checking in with you. I edit a lot of old movie articles and every once in a while I see a film article infobox with budget numbers which are sourced to an unlinked "The Eddie Mannix Ledger." It seems User:Dutchy85 was in the habit of adding this sort of detail, always citing in an identical way. In answer to a query about this (in their talk archive 9) Dutchy85 claimed they had gotten access through the Margaret Herrick Library in Los Angeles. This would be cool if true, but it's a primary source. The library does list a photocopy of that document in their archives, on microfiche. Given that this user has been blocked indefinitely for several instances of copyright violation, how can I trust this claim of sourcing? Apparently there are several reliable sources which seem to draw from this source and count on it as reliable. Could we use such data if it were republished in analysis like this study, beginning on page 97? BusterD (talk) 08:35, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
The Arbitration Committee is considering an unban appeal from Lightbreather (talk · contribs). You are being notified as you participated in the last unban discussion. You may give feedback here. For the Arbitration Committee, Barkeep49 (talk) 15:32, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for improving articles in August! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:20, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
I noticed you did some minor updates on this article fairly recently, so I was hoping you might provide feedback on my suggestion (in the Talk section) that the article needs a pretty comprehensive re-write. And, of course seeing as you know this topic already maybe you would even help or lead the re-write.
I'd love your feedback, positive or negative. I'm proactively reaching out to recent editors of the article to get a group consensus before undertaking any editing of the article.
ZeroXero (talk) 20:56, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for improving articles in March. Music if you like. Prayer for Ukraine. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:10, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
The Prayer is on the Main page, finally + new flowers, and btw: the TFA is a young writer's first --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:01, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.
Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:
Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.
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