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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Jim Norton - Trinkets I Own Made From Gorilla Hands cover.jpg

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Fair use rationale for Image:ATO Records logo.png

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Fair use rationale for Image:Bob Schneider I'm Good Now Album Cover.jpg

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Fair use rationale for Image:Bob Schneider Lonelyland Album Cover.jpg

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Hey

I was on WP:MW when I suddenly remembered that you departed back in January. I had to go dig out an old userpage revision to find it [1]; for some reason I thought your username was bbatsell15. It was good to see some recent edits from you. Hope you see you around more. That's all, I guess. hbdragon88 (talk) 06:25, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

People ganging up to disrupt an article

Hi,

I found you at Wikipedia:Editor assistance. If you can spare a few minutes of your time helping out at Indo-Aryan loanwords in Tamil, I would be thankful.

I am developing an article on words borrowed by Tamil from Indo-Aryan languages. I am citing a standard authoritative lexicon from which I find the words that are borrowed before including them at Indo-Aryan loanwords in Tamil. There are a few people who seem to be intent in damaging the article by adding "cite" tags, "disputed" and "dubious" tags for the article and threatening to delete it within 24 hours.

Could you please help?

Thanks. ­ Kris (talk) 19:02, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Axmann8

You zapped one of his socks earlier today, and if you're still in the mood, and if AIV hasn't taken care of it already, there's Hatchetguyfed (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) lined up and ready. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots 23:51, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Never mind, they got him. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots 01:00, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, just saw that Less got him. Sorry I was afk. —bbatsell ¿? ✍ 01:01, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

What? You don't have a Blackberry at your side so you can do admin work 24 x 7 ? Where's your dedication? Are they not paying you enough? ..... Oh. ..... Never mind. :) Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots 01:04, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Can his IP be blocked or something, to put an end to this continual mockery? Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots 20:50, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

That would require a checkuser, though he's obviously got a dynamic IP (otherwise the autoblock would get him) and depending on the range, may not be able to be blocked. He'll get tired of it eventually, methinks. Blocks take 2 seconds, it takes him significantly longer than that to lose his IP and go through the trouble he is. —bbatsell ¿? ✍ 21:01, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

There's already an open checkuser case, so maybe they'll take some action. And maybe he'll get tired of this childish game in a few more days. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots 21:05, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Check out User_talk:Nexanamight unblock request. Framed? I think not. Momusufan (talk) 20:51, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

He's merely mocking wikipedia, for the last 2 days, with at least 5 socks so far, all of them cognates of his original user ID. Basically getting some childish revenge by wasting everyone's time. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots 20:53, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Love your block template

I was left a little confused momentarily as to why your block template featured a black cube... then my similarly-shaped head managed to process the humor. Well played! —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 11:20, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! It used to be an actual block template before all of them got consolidated a few years ago, but I loved it too much and saved it for mahself. —bbatsell ¿? ✍ 21:02, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

216.48.130.33

Hello, thank you for your recent block of 216.48.130.251, however that anon was using a proxy, see 216.48.130.33, maybe a range block? Cheers Spitfire^Tally-ho! 17:51, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

I generally leave rangeblocks to CUs who can see how big an effect it will have, but the vandalism appears to have stopped. If it comes back, ping me here and I'll rangeblock. —bbatsell ¿? ✍ 18:07, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

One question, please answer

Hi, i really liked one of your photos. (Arthur Ravenel Bridge). I would like to use it on my company's webpage(legal services), as a header. Do you mind it? How should i do it in comliance with licensing rights? Can i include your name on the bottom, or in the corner. I am not sure how to do it the right way?

Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.15.95.72 (talk) 04:00, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

I released that image under CC-BY-SA 2.5. What that means is it is a Creative Commons (CC) license which requires that its use be attributed (BY) and any modifications to it (such as any editing done for a header) must be released under an identical or less restrictive license. (A simple explanation of the license can be found here.) To comply with the attribution requirement, I ask that you add a credit such as "Photo by Brock Batsell" with the link attached somewhere on all pages that use the image (it can be in the footer or anywhere else you'd like). Thanks for inquiring about licensing issues (many, many people would have just taken it without thinking twice), and I hope this helps, —bbatsell ¿? ✍ 04:16, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Haldo

It's good to see you back a bit these days, even if you still consider yourself semi-retired. I don't know that we knew each other in the old days, but your perspective on things was always refreshing when I saw it on talk pages. Hope we'll see you around more. Heimstern Läufer (talk) 05:53, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Just a thought

I've been completely censored. What the hell corp every one of my comments was valid. You should of let people judge for themselves what they thought of them. Censored by corp......makes perfect sense. Well I've read everyones comments so far and the only one who attacks me is the 100% atheist with a baby (shivers). Well I feel weakend because you cesored me so much. I don't even know what to say now. Its quite impossible to respond to all that hate in red. How in the hell would people follow it?? Unless I copied the entire blog and then wrote my responses in BLUE or something. Then knowing you and you megalomania you would do the same thing and respond to my Blue comments in YELLOW. Yellow for your skin color cause your a coward for censoring me. But anyways your freinds would be so confused and bored. It wouldn't be fair. But I do see that EVERYTHING you wrote can a have a rebuttal (and a funny one at that). Your a funny guy corpo. You do make me look foolish by taking apart a a perfectly good message and commenting on every word every second. Anyone can do that to anyones letters. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.157.50.142 (talk) 04:09, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

WIkiProject Mac

Hello Bbatsell,

There hasn't been much activity at WikiProject Mac lately, and I saw your name on the list of active participants. If you are willing to jump in again, please consider helping to revive the project!

• Put {{WikiProject Macintosh}} on the talk pages of articles involving Macintosh and Apple. This helps to categorize articles!
• Write, cleanup, or expand an article about Macintosh/Apple
• Source a Biography of a living person living in, born in, or otherwise affiliated with Macintosh/Apple
• Help spread the word about the project
• Update the project page or the portal
• Watchlist or check the project talk page for updates

If you know anyone who might be interested in Macintosh/Apple , please pass this message along to them! If you are still interested in the project but aren't currently active, please add yourself to the list of inactive participants at the bottom of this list. Thanks!

On behalf of the project, iBen 21:32, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Macintosh Revival

Hello, Bbatsell! You've listed yourself as an active member of WikiProject Macintosh, which is currently seeing very little activity. We are trying to revive the project and your help would be appreciated. To see who is active and who is not, we will be listing all active members under "status pending" in the project's participant list. Please move your name to either the "former members" section or "active" section. Hope to see you in the "active" column! For more information on how to help the project, visit the How to help section at our project page! · EdwardsBot (talk) 02:30, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Macintosh Role Call

Hello, Bbatsell! You've listed yourself as an active member of WikiProject Macintosh, which is currently being revived. Your help would be appreciated! To see who is active and who is not, we will be listing all active members under "status pending" in the project's participant list. Please move your name to either the "former members" section or "active" section. The role call will end May 31; please move your name now if you are still interested. For more information on how to help the project, visit the How to help section at our project page! &middot MonoBot04:15, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Recent unauthorized changes made using IP

I hope this is the right place for this! If not, I'm sorry; you can move it to wherever it needs to go. Today I visited Wikipedia. Once I reached the page, I noticed that it said I had a message from Wikipedia. I thought this was strange, but I clicked on it. The page showed a message from you telling me that I had recently made changes to Wikipedia's "Apple, Inc." page (under this IP address). I was very confused by how this happened under my IP address, because I did not make any changes to the "Apple, Inc." page and did not authorize any changes to be made. I thought I should contact you, because I'm concerned about the security of my browser (I suppose, if that's what to be concerned about) and if you could tell me if there was any other activity recorded under this IP. With this information, I could maybe narrow down the sources to find out how someone edited the page using my IP without my consent or knowledge.

If you have any other info to tell me about or anything, please let me know.

Thanks! 69.209.229.61 (talk) 16:17, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Editor assistance list

A problem has been identified at Wikipedia:Editor assistance/list. You may like to read Wikipedia talk:Editor assistance/list#Problem with inactive accounts on the list. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:30, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Diary-X

You were one of the editors who voted to keep Diary-X the last time it came up for deletion. It's been unsourced since it was created in 2005, and has been tagged since 2009. If no sources can be found it should probably be stubbed, since the material in there must all come from someone's personal knowledge rather than reliable sources. If you can do anything to improve it then now's the time.   Will Beback  talk  03:18, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear bbatsell,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.

• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)

• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.

• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.

• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead. If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you. Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely, Jonathan Obar

Chlopeck (talk) 13:12, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

(Delivered by Kevin (talk) 00:56, 14 February 2012 (UTC) via AWB by request)

Tim Cook article

What is wrong with my submission to Tim Cook article.I have given proper links and it's verified press release. No one can claim against it. Please suggest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Winchetan (talk • contribs) 03:55, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of List of papabili in the 2013 papal conclave for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of papabili in the 2013 papal conclave is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of papabili in the 2013 papal conclave until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Request for comment

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Bob Ezrin

Could you possibly contact me by email about the above page? I have been contacted by his management who are concerned about a possible threat which was apparently made during the recent flurry of editing. They would like to thank you for the help you have given so far, and discuss said threat, but they have no way of contacting you in a non-public manner. They are understandably reluctant to discuss such matters out in the open. Would you be OK with that? —Phil | Talk 17:47, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Extended confirmed protection

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Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.

In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

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A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi Bbatsell.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Bbatsell. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

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Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

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.

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Kobi Arad's article was deleted

Hi, I realized that an article, which some time ago was useful to make an article about Kobi Arad was deleted from the wiki, I do not know the reason but I think it is unfortunate since the music of Mr. Arad provides a very important contribution to musicians and (as myself) musicologists from all over the world. His works are worthy of the most rigorous studies for western musicians due to the complexity they possess. His work is also well supported by several referents through the internet, and web press. Without further reference I would like the article on Kobi Arad to be undeleted, for future queries by the different communities of academic musicians from all over America. Attached is a link of the article that was written by me, which contains some of the references of which I mentioned previously.

http://u.wn.com/2017/01/22/Insight_Into_Kobi_Arads_Masterful_Musicianship — Preceding unsigned comment added by Josecarlostenor (talk • contribs) 18:18, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

ArbCom 2017 election voter message

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Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

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ArbCom 2019 special circular

Administrators must secure their accounts The Arbitration Committee may require a new RfA if your account is compromised. Use strong, unique passwords for your Wikipedia account and associated email Change your password now if your Wikipedia account password or email password is reused on another website, exposed, or weak Enable two-factor authentication now for improved security

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Why have I received this message? All administrators are receiving it. What prompted you to send this message? Recently, several Wikipedia admin accounts were compromised. The admin accounts were desysopped on an emergency basis. In the past, the Committee often resysopped admin accounts as a matter of course once the admin was back in control of their account. The committee has updated its guidelines. Admins may now be required to undergo a fresh Request for Adminship (RfA) after losing control of their account. What do I need to do? Only to follow the instructions in this message. Check that your password is unique (not reused across sites). Check that your password is strong (not simple or guessable). Enable Two-factor authentication (2FA), if you can, to create a second hurdle for attackers. How can I find out more about two-factor authentication (2FA)? You can find out more about 2FA at m:2FA.

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:25, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled

A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:05, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users

Hi!

You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.

When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.

Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.

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We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.

Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

18:13, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Established policy provides for removal of the administrative permissions of users who have not made any edits or logged actions in the preceding twelve months. Because you have been inactive, your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to activity within the next month.

Inactive administrators are encouraged to rejoin the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for reengaging with the project are available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to rejoin the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 00:03, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

Imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Established policy provides for removal of the administrative permissions of users who have not made any edits or logged actions in the preceding twelve months. Because you have been inactive, your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to activity within the next several days.

Inactive administrators are encouraged to rejoin the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for reengaging with the project are available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to rejoin the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 00:00, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement

The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.

Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

1. Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
2. Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period

Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.

22:52, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Established policy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to the required activity level before the beginning of January 2023.

Inactive administrators are encouraged to engage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for re-engaging with the project are available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to re-engage with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 08:49, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

Imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Established policy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to the required activity level before the beginning of January 2023.

Inactive administrators are encouraged to engage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for re-engaging with the project are available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to re-engage with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 00:59, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Established policy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions have been removed.

Subject to certain time limits and other restrictions, your administrative permissions may be returned upon request at WP:BN.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — xaosflux ^Talk 02:48, 1 January 2023 (UTC)