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Administrators' newsletter – January 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2025).

Administrator changes

• Epicgenius
• Left guide
• LEvalyn
• MPGuy2824
• The4lines
• Yue

Fathoms Below

• BaronLarf
• Firefly
• kelapstick
• Opabinia regalis
• Pbsouthwood
• Sethant
• UtherSRG
• Whouk

CheckUser changes

• Giraffer
• HouseBlaster
• SilverLocust

• Liz
• Worm That Turned
• Z1720

Oversight changes

• Asilvering
• Giraffer
• Girth Summit
• Guerillero
• HouseBlaster
• Izno
• SilverLocust

• Liz
• Worm That Turned
• Z1720

Guideline and policy news

• All general sanctions imposed by the community may now be enforced at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard (WP:AE) as a result of a recent RfC.
• Due to the result of a recent RFC, the administrator recall process is amended to extend the deadline for a re-request for adminship to 30 days or the next administrator election, whichever is later.
• Changes to the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy's disclosure rules include broadening the consecutive-blocks exception to cover all admin actions and removing the requirement to revision-delete permissible disclosures once they become unnecessary (instead requiring only their removal). See WP:TAIVDISCLOSE for more information.

Arbitration

• Following the 2025 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Asilvering, Girth Summit, Guerillero, HJ Mitchell, HouseBlaster, Izno, Sdrqaz, SilverLocust.
• The arbitration case Pbsouthwood has been suspended.

Happy New Year!

Thank you for your many fine edits.

One of my New Year's resolutions is to help get deserving subjects Good Articles. Among mathematicians Pierre de Fermat, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, G. H. Hardy are without GAs. Among physicists, Galileo Galilei, Michael Faraday and Max Planck. Among chemists, Antoine Lavosier, Dmitri Mendeleev and Linus Pauling. Among biologists, Gregor Mendel, R. A. Fisher and Rosalind Franklin...

The good news is we have our work cut out for us. Happy editing. Charlie Faust (talk) 21:14, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Jacob Provençal

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 07:07, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

A Branstar for you!

		The Organical Branstar
		For trying your best to comply with the topic ban, seeking clarification, and maintaining a level/civil head when interacting with other Wiki editors on the site and via other communications. 🙂 Wafflefrites (talk) 16:54, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 72

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 72, November–December 2025

• Renewed partnerships
• Spotlight: Strengthening Wikimedia Collaborations with and for Open Science

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2026).

Administrator changes

Vacant0

• Crisco 1492

• Deepfriedokra
• Hbdragon88
• Karl Dickman
• Worm That Turned

CheckUser changes

Daniel Quinlan

Vanamonde93

Mkdw

Oversight changes

Daniel Quinlan

Arbitration

• Due to the result of a recent motion, a rough consensus of administrators at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard may impose an expanded topic ban on Israel, Israelis, Jews, Judaism, Palestine, Palestinians, Islam, and/or Arabs, if an editor's Arab-Israeli conflict topic ban is determined to be insufficient to prevent disruption. At least one diff per area expanded into should be cited.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2026 Steward elections started on 06 February 2026 at 14:00 (UTC) and will end on 27 February 2026 at 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process for current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.

Catholic Church and Judaism

What did you think failed verification here?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Catholic_Church_and_Judaism&oldid=1338706072 FarFromTheMiddleEast (talk) 19:32, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

The Britannica link doesn't say that Rabbinic Judaism is also known as Talmudic Judaism. Also, the rest of the edit removes information and should be discussed on the article talk. Andre🚐 19:36, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

This is not controversial. Rabbinic Judaism is Talmudic Judaism. It says that both on the wiki page for Rabbinic Judaism and the Briticanica article. It's in small text. Look at the top:

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Philosophy & ReligionReligious Beliefs

Rabbinic Judaism

Also known as: Talmudic Judaism

Britannica Editors

History

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Rabbinic-Judaism

---

What information did you think was being removed and needs to be discussed further? FarFromTheMiddleEast (talk) 19:41, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

I see that now, but that might be considered a WP:HEADLINE, which is not reliable, and see WP:BRITANNICA. This is not the WP:BESTSOURCE. Please discuss further on the article talk page for your proposed edits. Andre🚐 19:44, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

I can put in lots of links from Google Scholar, but this is not controversial. Unless you have something else you can see that is wrong, I will put it back with additional academic citations. FarFromTheMiddleEast (talk) 19:48, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Please ensure you use good academic sources and discuss your changes at the article talk page if they are contested. Please do not discuss this further at my talk page but discuss it at the article's talk page. Andre🚐 19:50, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Sure, I only discussed it at your page because you reverted it and I was surprised. FarFromTheMiddleEast (talk) 19:51, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Antonio Gracias article

Hi AndreJustAndre, I saw that you are a participant in WP:BIOG. I recently shared some cleanup suggestions for the Antonio Gracias article here: Talk:Antonio_Gracias#Article_cleanup. I am hoping you can take a look and if you agree with these suggestions, please make the changes. Thanks so much! Stripedcroissant (talk) 14:49, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2026).

Administrator changes

• Brendanconway
• Calmer Waters
• Hut 8.5
• Joe Roe
• VersedFenrir

CheckUser changes

Ks0stm

Oversight changes

Ks0stm

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the web archival service archive.today has been deprecated; links to the site should be removed.
• A request for comment is open to discuss retiring CSD criterion R3 in favour of handling such redirects through RfD.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, remedy 9.1 of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been amended to limit TenPoundHammer to one XfD nomination or PROD per 24-hour period.
• Following a motion, the Iskandar323 further POV pushing motion has been rescinded.
• The Arbitration Committee has passed a housekeeping motion rescinding a number of outdated remedies and enforcement provisions across multiple legacy cases. In most instances, existing sanctions remain in force and continue to be appealable through the usual processes, while some case-specific remedies were amended or clarified.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2026 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: A09, AmandaNP, Barras, Count Count, M7, SHB2000, Teles and VIGNERON.
• An Unreferenced articles backlog drive is taking place in March 2026 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

Concern regarding Draft:Joseph Rosh ha-Seder

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 17:11, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 73

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 73, January–February 2026

• Four new partnerships
• User survey thanks

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Your American flag gif

I really like it. Please, may I have one too? How do I add one to my user page like you have? I tried to figure it out on my own, but I failed. FeralOink (talk) 18:15, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

{{top icon

| imagename = Animated-Flag-USA.gif

| description = This user is American

| id =

| width = 30

}} Andre🚐 19:26, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2026).

Administrator changes

• ARandomName123

• Biblioworm
• Causa sui
• Djsasso
• Espresso Addict
• Fenix down
• Firefangledfeathers
• GeneralNotability
• NawlinWiki
• Northamerica1000
• Smalljim

Checkuser changes

Giraffer

Oversight changes

Kj cheetham

Giraffer

Guideline and policy news

• The content of Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models has been updated following a request for comment. It now prohibits using LLMs to generate content, with exceptions for translation and copy-editing.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the GSCASTE extended-confirmed restriction in the Indian military history case has been narrowed. It now applies to caste-related topics in South Asia, and the preemptive protection remedy has been amended accordingly.
• The arbitration case Pbsouthwood has been closed.
• The arbitration case Maghreb has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 7 April.

Arbcom evidence

Just a heads up, I believe M.Bitton uses they/them pronouns; at least that is what results from the {{they}} template when used on their username; they. Katzrockso (talk) 23:06, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Eh, well, M. is a typical Francophone version of "Mr." Is it possible that Bitton simply hasn't configured that feature and it defaults to that? Andre🚐 23:12, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Anyway, I converted to neutral just in case. Andre🚐 23:23, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. Without clarification, it seems most prudent to just use whatever they have set in their Wikipedia preferences rather than make assumptions. I didn't know that M. was a French version of Mr. so you very well may be correct. Katzrockso (talk) 23:30, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Destubathon of the Americas

You are invited to participate in the Destubathon of the Americas, a contest/editathon which will run from May 1 to May 31. The goal is to destub as many of our 475,000+ stubs for the Americas (from Alaska down to Chile) as possible. A good chance to have fun in expanding many of our old stale stubs and win up to £2000 ($2680) in Amazon vouchers for expanding stub articles. Sign up in the Contestants/participants section on the contest page if interested. Even if not interested in prizes you are still warmly welcome to participate in it as an editathon! Hopefully we can achieve something significant in the month of May together! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:39, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Thank you, good Doctor Andre🚐 19:00, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Notification of proposed decision

Hi AndreJustAndre, in the open Maghreb arbitration case, which you have commented on, a proposed decision has been posted. You can review the proposed decision and draw the arbitrators' attention to any relevant material or statements. Comments may be brought to the attention of the committee on the proposed decision talk page. For a guide to the proposed decision, see Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Party Guide/Proposed decision. For the Arbitration Committee, EggRoll97 ^(talk) 04:39, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2026).

Administrator changes

• Deepfriedokra

• EvanProdromou
• Wouterstomp

Interface administrator changes

L235

Chaotic Enby

CheckUser changes

• TheresNoTime
• Versageek

Oversight changes

Moneytrees

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

• Changes to user permissions made from Meta are now included in the local user permissions log (T6055).
• The autoconfirmed user group will soon be modified such that the four-day account age requirement begins when an account makes its first edit (T418484).

Arbitration

• The arbitration case SchroCat has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 15 April.
• Per a recent motion, appeals of blocks from the conflict-of-interest VRT queue are, by default, appealed on-wiki through the normal unblock process. However, they may be heard by the Committee if COIVRTers disagree on the interpretation of the evidence or believe ArbCom would be better suited to hear the appeal. Administrators are also advised that loosening or lifting such blocks without the consent of someone with access to the queue or ArbCom can be grounds for desysopping.
• Per a recent motion, restrictions issued directly by the Committee may now be enforced with blocks which work exactly like contentious topic blocks.
• The arbitration case Maghreb has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• The May 2026 administrator elections are scheduled to run from April 29 to May 19. The call for candidates ends May 5.
• The 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is scheduled to run from April 25 to June 1. Candidacy submissions close on May 10.
• A new noticeboard for non-urgent, batch page protection requests has been created, primarily for the enforcement of contentious topic restrictions.

BLPOPINION?

I can't find it. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 15:22, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

You're right, that's not a real policy. Just WP:BLPSOURCES, WP:BLPSELFPUB, WP:BLPGOSSIP Andre🚐 17:24, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 18:44, 4 May 2026 (UTC)