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DreamWorks Pictures

yeah the reason why I made that edit was because why do former subsidiaries and divisions matter? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:448:102:37C0:61E7:60DC:77BE:1762 (talk) 08:21, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

@2601:448:102:37C0:61E7:60DC:77BE:1762: That's a question that should be discussed at Talk:DreamWorks Pictures (For help, see how to use a talk page). ~ Matthewrbowker ^{Comments · Changes} 08:25, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2020).

Administrator changes

Ajpolino • LuK3

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Ad Orientem • Harej • Lid • Lomn • Mentoz86 • Oliver Pereira • XJaM

There'sNoTime → TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely 1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.

Technical news

• The filter log now provides links to view diffs of deleted revisions (phab:T261630).

Arbitration

• The 2020 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place from September 27th to October 7th.
• Following a request for comment, sitting Committee members may not serve on either the Ombuds Commission or the WMF Case Review Committee. The Arbitration Committee passed a motion implementing those results into their procedures.

Miscellaneous

• The Universal Code of Conduct draft is open for community review and comment until October 6th, 2020.
• Office actions may now be appealed to the Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee.

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Future changes

• You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [5]

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Changes later this week

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Future changes

• A new stable version of Pywikibot is coming soon. [11]

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Pages Created

Hallo, I'm user mainly in the Polish Wikipedia. I founded on my user page with ceated pages (xtools.wmflabs.org/pages/pl.wikipedia.org/Czyz1) information that to pages has been deleted: nr 39 (Szkoła Podstawowa w Zaraszowie) and nr 66 (Tajna agentka (film). It has to be mistake. I never created that pages. Can you help me with it and correst it? Thank you in advance. --Czyz1 (talk) 13:46, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

@Czyz1: Hello! I've filed a task for you: T266894. Feel free to watch that page as I investigate the issue. ~ Matthewrbowker ^{Comments · Changes} 17:38, 30 October 2020 (UTC)