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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes

Graham Beards

• Deskana
• Mets501
• Staxringold

Bureaucrat changes

• Deskana
• Warofdreams

Oversight changes

Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

• Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
• The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous

• WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).

Administrator changes

• Elli
• HouseBlaster
• Pickersgill-Cunliffe

• Brianga
• De728631
• Georgewilliamherbert
• Hyacinth (deceased)
• ProveIt
• The Night Watch

Technical news

• Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)

Miscellaneous

• The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more

I read that MOS tonight, I didn't see it in there that the title must be "verbatim" in the lead sentence to be bolded. It is the same as the title, just in a different tense, which the MOS does not touch on. TrueCRaysball ^💬|✏️ 07:41, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

@TrueCRaysball: Take a look at the examples provided in MOS:AVOIDBOLD (the ones for Iraq–Pakistan relations and 2011 Mississippi River floods; see the lead section of those articles too). Wherever the title of the article is descriptive and doesn't appear verbatim in the first sentence, the MOS examples show that bolding is unnecessary and should be avoided. Mz7 (talk) 17:55, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

There is also MOS:TITLEABSENTBOLD, which explicitly states:

In general, if the article's title (or a significant alternative title) is absent from the first sentence, do not apply the bold style to related text that does appear (example from 1999 Nepalese general election):

Mz7 (talk) 17:57, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Administrator changes

Isabelle Belato

• Ian.thomson
• Modussiccandi

Interface administrator changes

Izno

CheckUser changes

Barkeep49

Technical news

• Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
• Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ