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Arbitration Committee proceedings
- recent changes
- purge this page
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| Request name | Motions | Initiated | Votes |
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| Ongoing problems surrounding Yasuke | 16 September 2024 | 3/0/0 |
| Request name | Motions | Case | Posted |
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| Amendment request: Definition of the "area of conflict" Clause 4 (b) | Motion | (orig. case) | 26 July 2024 |
| Amendment request: Palestine-Israel articles (AE referral) | Motion | (orig. case) | 17 August 2024 |
| Clarification request: Conduct in deletion-related editing | none | (orig. case) | 8 September 2024 |
No arbitrator motions are currently open.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which
applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past
. - A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
Arbitration
- Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
- Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
- The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.
Miscellaneous
- Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in September 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,900 articles and 26,200 redirects awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
Most recent poster here: [[User:|]] ([[User talk:#Top|talk]])
Mini-toolbox:
- My Wikimedia Library (journal access, etc.; to get your own, see WP:LIBRARY)
- Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Script (req. WP:AWB access and JWB installed or is just a normal redlink)
- Special:LintErrors
- Hunt down abuse of
{{em}}for non-emphasis italics [1] — and<em>[2] - Move and redirect articles with slashes in their titles when feasible (i.e. when not proper names that require them)
- NAC-at-ANRFC geekery to remember
- NAC-at-RM geekery to remember
- Ref consistency checker (use in preview or sandbox):
{{ref info|Manx cat|style=float:right}} - Reliably regex match a single linebreak in wikicode (or elsewhere):
(\r\n|\r|\n) - Helpful links related to WP:MEATBOT, WP:COSMETICBOT, and code cleanup: WP:EDITORFRIENDLY (a.k.a. WP:EDITORHOSTILE), WP:COSMETIC (a.k.a. WP:SUBSTANTIVE), WP:SPECTRUM
- All WP:CUE project participants should watchlist this alerts page.
Today's featured articles
- 26 Sep 2024 – 2023 World Snooker Championship (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb
Categories for discussion
- 13 Sep 2024 – Category:LGBT cue sports players (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by BlasterOfHouses (t · c); see discussion
Redirects for discussion
- 01 Sep 2024 – Eight-Ball (talk · edit · hist) →Eight-ball was RfDed by Thryduulf (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 30 Aug 2024 – Thelma Carpenter (billiards player) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by BennyOnTheLoose (t · c); start discussion
- 08 Jun 2024 – 2024 World Snooker Championship (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Lee Vilenski (t · c); start discussion
- 07 Jun 2024 – 2024 Tour Championship (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Lee Vilenski (t · c); start discussion
Other:
- MW Editing team e-meetings, /wikimedia.org/edit-tasktriage via Google Hangouts (Tuesdays, noon–12:30pm PDT = 20:00 UTC during DST, 19:00 otherwise, but often half an hour earlier).
- MW Tech Advice e-meetings, via IRC at #wikimedia-tech connect (Wednesdays, 1–2pm PDT = 16:00–17:00 UTC).
- meta:Talk:Spam blacklist – global blacklist requests
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