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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Tagged with…
229		British Rail Class 170 (talk)	Add sources
214		Diesel multiple unit (talk)	Add sources
57		British Rail Class 456 (talk)	Add sources
70		South Western main line (talk)	Add sources
28		Stadler Citylink (talk)	Add sources
106		British Rail Class 323 (talk)	Add sources
452		Nissan Note (talk)	Cleanup
118		Politics of Iceland (talk)	Cleanup
9		St Philip's Marsh depot (talk)	Cleanup
162		London Underground rolling stock (talk)	Expand
443		Renault 5 (talk)	Expand
428		Renault Twizy (talk)	Expand
710		Operation Sea Lion (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
142		AMC Spirit (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
177		Clio Renault Sport (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
356		Greg James (talk)	Merge
18		125 Group (talk)	Merge
20		First Student Canada (talk)	Merge
34		Grant Stott (talk)	Wikify
5		South Wales Mineral Railway (talk)	Wikify
35		James Gillespie's High School (talk)	Wikify
4		Rolfo (talk)	Orphan
1		Kefallinia (1965 ship) (talk)	Orphan
4		Preserved EMUs of Southern Railway (talk)	Orphan
9		MS Stena Nordica (2000) (talk)	Stub
8		Hall i' th' Wood railway station (talk)	Stub
71		Dreambuilders (talk)	Stub
3		Godeok station (talk)	Stub
3		Ryde Traincare Depot (talk)	Stub
6		Chorku, Tajikistan (talk)	Stub

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).

Administrator changes Trialpears AGK • Eliz81 • Mulad • ThaddeusB • Vianello • Who Lacrimosus → Ikuzaf Interface administrator changes Ragesoss

CheckUser changes AGK • DGG Oversighter changes AGK

Guideline and policy news

• 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.

Technical news

• 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.

Arbitration

• 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.

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158		Siemens Desiro (talk)	Add sources
863		Kelly Bishop (talk)	Add sources
114		British Rail Class 165 (talk)	Add sources
269		Queer coding (talk)	Add sources
196		British Rail Class 319 (talk)	Add sources
116		British Rail Class 508 (talk)	Add sources
12		Liberton High School (talk)	Cleanup
1,064		Granny (video game) (talk)	Cleanup
271		Sunbeam Alpine (talk)	Cleanup
288		Thameslink (talk)	Expand
92		British Rail Class 143 (talk)	Expand
89		British Rail Class 144 (talk)	Expand
7		Car Design News (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
72		Mercedes-Benz W125 Rekordwagen (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
23		Tanyalee Davis (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
318		London Waterloo station (talk)	Merge
783		Children's literature (talk)	Merge
18		First Leeds (talk)	Merge
276		Rail transport in Great Britain (talk)	Wikify
4		London Underground coaching stock (talk)	Wikify
242		Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class (R171) (talk)	Wikify
2		Cannon River Stem School (talk)	Orphan
2		Argadin (talk)	Orphan
2		Anne Raikes Harding (talk)	Orphan
14		MS Stena Adventurer (2002) (talk)	Stub
14		Nissan MS platform (talk)	Stub
9		Festival Pier (talk)	Stub
24		Evans (retailer) (talk)	Stub
8		SR Class CP (talk)	Stub
11		British Rail Classes 341 and 342 (talk)	Stub

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).

Administrator changes BusterD Kees08 • Nickshanks • Protonk • Schissel • Ultraexactzz • Wknight94

CheckUser changes TheresNoTime Oversighter changes TheresNoTime ST47

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.

Technical news

• 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)

Arbitration

• 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.

Miscellaneous

• You can vote for candidates in the 2021 Board of Trustees elections from 4 August to 17 August. Four community elected seats are up for election.

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198		British Rail Class 153 (talk)	Add sources
93		British Rail Class 166 (talk)	Add sources
130		British Rail Class 67 (talk)	Add sources
148		British Rail Class 90 (talk)	Add sources
144		Gatwick Express (talk)	Add sources
2,251		La Marseillaise (talk)	Add sources
119		High-speed rail in Indonesia (talk)	Cleanup
81		George Davies (retailer) (talk)	Cleanup
993		Hank Green (talk)	Cleanup
213		Southern (Govia Thameslink Railway) (talk)	Expand
12		SBB-CFF-FFS RBDe 560 (talk)	Expand
54		Sprinter (British Rail) (talk)	Expand
25		One-person operation (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
42		Island Line (brand) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
154		Media portrayal of LGBT people (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
64		Waterloo International railway station (talk)	Merge
9,945		Timothée Chalamet (talk)	Merge
36		Sissy villain (talk)	Merge
2,145		Renault (talk)	Wikify
379		East Midlands Railway (talk)	Wikify
33		UNICEF UK (talk)	Wikify
2		Avion Ridge (talk)	Orphan
3		Andrej Arbuzov (talk)	Orphan
2		Bepi, Zahedan (talk)	Orphan
10		Cleanova (talk)	Stub
50		Transport for Wales (talk)	Stub
9		Today's Railways UK (talk)	Stub
11		Tribulus cistoides (talk)	Stub
9		MS Cruise Ausonia (talk)	Stub
54		Lake Granby (talk)	Stub

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Regarding removal of the collapsed section in an infobox, I agree with your edit summary, but perhaps see the talk, and don't be surprised if reverted, as it was meant to be a compromise. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:30, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).

Administrator changes

Jake Wartenberg

Emperor • Viridian Bovary

Ashleyyoursmile → Viridian Bovary

Guideline and policy news

• 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.

Technical news

• 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.

Arbitration

• 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.

Miscellaneous

• The 2021 RfA review is now open for comments.

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Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

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437		British Rail Class 43 (HST) (talk)	Add sources
695		Lada Niva (talk)	Add sources
22		Renault Cléon-Alu engine (talk)	Add sources
132		British Rail Class 321 (talk)	Add sources
37		Renault Energy engine (talk)	Add sources
102		InterCity (British Rail) (talk)	Add sources
89		Hello Kitty Online (talk)	Cleanup
41		The Firm (novelty band) (talk)	Cleanup
28		Gerard Kenny (talk)	Cleanup
810		Dacia Duster (talk)	Expand
1,516		Opel Astra (talk)	Expand
59		British Rail Class 357 (talk)	Expand
96		South West Main Line (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
127		Electric truck (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
822		American Motors Corporation (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
64		First Student (United States) (talk)	Merge
37		Pa Sheehy (talk)	Merge
1,803		Warhammer 40,000 (talk)	Merge
54		Rolling stock of the Watercress Line (talk)	Wikify
1,051		Wheeler Dealers (talk)	Wikify
13		First Student UK (talk)	Wikify
2		Alley of Immortality (Taganrog) (talk)	Orphan
2		Adrien Sathler (talk)	Orphan
3		Biological wood oxidation (talk)	Orphan
25		Penny Mallory (talk)	Stub
50		Tom Ford (presenter) (talk)	Stub
18		Soreen (talk)	Stub
4		SR Class CW (talk)	Stub
38		Go Fish Pictures (talk)	Stub
8		Reading TMD (talk)	Stub

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).

Administrator changes Blablubbs Alvestrand • Black Falcon • Deathphoenix • Dppowell • Mark Arsten • JGHowes (deceased)

Oversighter changes Callanecc Mkdw Interface administrator changes Galobtter

Guideline and policy news

• 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.

Technical news

• DiscussionTools has superseded Enterprisey's reply-link script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features.

Arbitration

• 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.

Miscellaneous

• 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.

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38		Golden Dragon (company) (talk)	Add sources
20		Renault Billancourt engine (talk)	Add sources
28		Renault EF-Type engine (talk)	Add sources
3,637		Albus Dumbledore (talk)	Add sources
63		Douvrin engine (talk)	Add sources
570		Christopher Wren (talk)	Add sources
738		Nissan Micra (talk)	Cleanup
68		Iveco Bus (talk)	Cleanup
134		John Varvatos (talk)	Cleanup
423		Contra Costa County, California (talk)	Expand
792		Mark Rober (talk)	Expand
160		Liverpool Lime Street railway station (talk)	Expand
1,128		Baby Shark (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
294		Renault 4 (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
198		Southeastern (train operating company 2006–2021) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
12		Constant Gardener Trust (talk)	Merge
12		Transdev S.A. (talk)	Merge
41		H5 Series Shinkansen (talk)	Merge
30		Hyundai A engine (talk)	Wikify
159		British Rail Class 769 (talk)	Wikify
130		Rambler Classic (talk)	Wikify
1		Albert Smith (cricketer) (talk)	Orphan
5		American River Bank (talk)	Orphan
4		Basilica of St. Anthony, Santos (talk)	Orphan
58		Electro-diesel multiple unit (talk)	Stub
5		Renault Type Y (talk)	Stub
31		London Trams (talk)	Stub
7		British Rail Class 418 (talk)	Stub
80		Race Against the Tide (talk)	Stub
13		Renault Towncar (talk)	Stub

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).

Administrator changes Clpo13 Brian0918 • JDoorjam • Karanacs • MrDarcy • Mindspillage Interface administrator changes Evad37

CheckUser changes Dreamy Jazz • Ferret • GeneralNotability • Girth Summit • RoySmith Oversight changes Dreamy Jazz • LuK3

Guideline and policy news

• Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.

Technical news

• Toolhub is a catalogue of tools which can be used on Wikimedia wikis. It is at https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/.

Arbitration

• GeneralNotability, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections. Ivanvector and John M Wolfson are reserve commissioners.
• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves to stand in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections from 07 November 2021 until 16 November 2021.

Miscellaneous

• The 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of five new CheckUsers and two new Oversighters.

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