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Welcome to the community bulletin board, which is a page used for announcements from WikiProjects and other groups. Included here are coordinated efforts, events, projects, and other general announcements.
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Updates for editors
Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts. [21]
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The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode. [22]
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The Resilient Barnstar For remaining tactically neutral even after mistakenly pissing off a meticulous bitch. (staying cool while in the line of fire) Ste4k 00:20, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
The Random-Acts-of-Kindness Barnstar CJC47 05:15, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
The Spamstar of Glory Presented to A. B. for diligence in fighting spam on Wikipedia -- ReyBrujo
The Working Man's Barnstar For your ongoing willingness to take on the laborious tasks involved in fighting spam, and for being a driving force at WikiProject Spam, I award you the Working Man's Barnstar. Keep up the excellent work! --AbsolutDan(talk) 17:44, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence Presented to A. B. For extraordinary diligence combating spam! Hu12 07:07, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar No one more deserving of the Defender of the Wiki Barnstar for fighting Spam on Wikipedia, is you. Thank You! Hu12 05:49, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
The Spamstar of Glory Presented to A. B. for extraordinary effort and diligence fighting spam on Wikipedia. That was some nest you uncovered there. Fantastic work! -- SiobhanHansa 13:56, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Smile For stepping in with such sensible suggestions to calm down the heat in the maritime quest discussion - and for the nice comments about valued long term contributor and good faith editor Viv Hamilton 17:14, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
Defender of the Wiki Ribbon as always, great work!--Hu12 23:39, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Anti-Spam Super Sleuth! Your thorough investigation of spammers is critical to our anti-spam efforts. Your hard work is greatly appreciated. --Versageek 04:16, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar Thanks for cleaning up all the modelsobserver.com spam! -- Ed (Edgar181) 15:13, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
The Random-Acts-of-Kindness Barnstar Thank you for removing a personal attack from my userpage, as well as blocking the user who made that attack for a week! Johnny Au (talk) 15:27, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar To A.B., for protecting "Mesothelioma" from spam. Axl (talk) 23:00, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diplomacy I just saw how you stood by me to ensure that the pages I created on Nigerian topics don’t get deleted. You’re appreciated. Amaekuma (talk) 09:18, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar Thank you for addressing an unfounded personal attack, both in the AfD and on the ANI page. You spoke up against injustice and went on and beyond expectations! gidonb (talk) 00:01, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar Thank you for all of the time you spend checking, rechecking and tracking down references in AFD discussions. You indeed seem tireless! LizRead!Talk! 02:57, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diplomacy For doing the right thing in multiple places after an initially unpleasant misunderstanding, and for calling me out when you suspected wrongdoing. Actualcpscm (talk) 19:27, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
A tiny token of recognition that you are one of the most conscientious editors around. The project is very fortunate to have you. — Athaenara ? 09:55, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
A kitten for you! Hi! The meta:Steward request/username change wasn't the right place for this, so I brought you a kitten. I just wanted to let you know that we genuinely appreciate your volunteer efforts. Keep up the awesome work; we see it and value it! – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:48, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
