Hello. I created the draft page and tagged it as "Brainstorming". You may contribute to this page. --George Ho (talk) 10:43, 18 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Can't say much given the public nature of this, but nonetheless: enjoy the cookie! Banedon (talk) 02:38, 21 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Are you able to tell me which account or SPI this CU block is related to? Special:Contributions/2602:306:C5E4:24A0:0:0:0:0/64. They're active again in a new range. EvergreenFir (talk) 00:02, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67

Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
• Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
• Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

• 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)
• Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
• 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.

13:37, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

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Hi, are you OK with them being granted the Standard Offer subject to CU review? Just Chilling (talk) 20:34, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Please take a look at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Disruptive anonymous user (Portuguese) — Take Seven. SLBedit (talk) 23:20, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in more than one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions have been removed pending your return. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated, please post to the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three-year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three-year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. — xaosflux ^Talk 17:47, 3 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 17:58, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome

Ten years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:12, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Mike V, you probably won't ever see this. But I wanted to message you nonetheless and tell you that I miss you, and to thank you. If it wasn't for your nomination on my RFA, I wouldn't be where I am today on Wikipedia. I was looking at an RFA today, and it made me think of mine, and it made me think of you. I just wanted you to know that I was thinking about you... :-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 05:41, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Right on, User:Oshwah. Take care, Mike V. Drmies (talk) 14:09, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

	The Original Barnstar
	I am very proud of you that you make reliable edits. Trinity112233 (talk) 05:11, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It has been a long time, since then that page was protected, but now everything has been resolved. So I request you to unprotect the page. Trinity112233 (talk) 20:44, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]