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Women in Red October 2024

Women in Red | October 2024, Volume 10, Issue 10, Numbers 293, 294, 318, 319, 320

Online events:

New: Women in STEM | Geofocus: Islands I-P | Women in archaeology

Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative)

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

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

Administrator changes

CheckUser changes

Guideline and policy news

Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.
Following a discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 to F2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
A request for comment is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have an administrator recall process.

Arbitration

The arbitration case Historical elections has been closed.
An arbitration case regarding Backlash to diversity and inclusion has been opened.
Editors are invited to nominate themselves to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until 23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC).

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Precious anniversary

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Help

Hi FormalDude. Could you take a look at the NYU Law Review's page? This user "Randykitty" for some reason feels the need to erroneously remove our logo from our page. You reversed him once already last year but he just removed the logo again (for the same reason you'd reversed him) claiming the logo isn't being used by the Law Review. Here is evidence of the Law Review using the logo that's on the Wiki page (that Randykitty will for some reason try to remove again): https://www.instagram.com/nyulawreview/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/nyulr/ https://twitter.com/nyulawreview Nyulrlogo (talk) 03:17, 4 October 2024 (UTC)Nyulrlogo[reply]

Feedback request: Religion and philosophy request for comment

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how to add a new wiki-box to box gallery

Dear Formal: I made this userbox

This user tries to reduce
Gender bias on Wikipedia.

, and I posted it in my profile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Walter_Tau , but I cannot figure out, how to place this userbox into a wiki-gallery, so that everyone else can use it. Could you please go ahead and do it? Just send me a link to the wiki-gallery , where you put it. Thank you in advance, Walt. Walter Tau (talk) 17:50, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Walter Tau: I've added your userbox to Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia/Wikilosophy/Editing#Wikipedia_editing_philosophy. ––FormalDude (talk) 00:58, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiProject Unreferenced articles November 2024 backlog drive

WikiProject Unreferenced articles | November 2024 Backlog Drive

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Women in Red November 2024

Women in Red | November 2024, Vol 10, Issue 11, Nos 293, 294, 321, 322, 323

Online events:

New: Asian women | Geofocus: Islands Q-Z | Women in engineering

Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative)

Announcements from other communities

Annual Wikipedia Asian Month (WAM) is an online campaign designed to boost
Asian content on Wikipedia each November.
Unreferenced articles backlog drive. These Wikiproject clean-up lists offer a start
to November's backlog drive, e.g. Women's History and Women writers

Tip of the month:

Looking for an image? Sometimes you can find openly licensed images at
search.creativecommons.org/

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--Lajmmoore (talk 20:46, 29 October 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

Hello Return request Handball player article

@FormalDude It appears that the article on Moslem Kazemi was moved to draft space because it currently lacks sufficient reliable sources. Wikipedia requires verifiable and credible sources to ensure the accuracy and notability of the information presented. Since Moslem Kazemi is a recognized handball player, adding citations from reputable sports publications, tournament records, and official handball league sources could help meet Wikipedia's standards.

If possible, please consider including more references to support his achievements and career details. This can help demonstrate notability and expedite the process for restoring the article to the main space.

Thank you for your assistance! Moslem Kazemi1 (talk) 08:48, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – November 2024

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

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.

Technical news

Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068

Arbitration

RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.

Miscellaneous

An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 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!

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