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The Signpost: 6 November 2024

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Successful RFA

As you might have figured, your RFA was successful. Welcome to the team, and please feel free to reach out to me or another admin if you have any questions. Primefac (talk) 21:08, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations!

Congratulations on the successful RfA my friend. It was an honour to nominate you, and I look forward to seeing all the good that you'll continue to do. Hey man im josh (talk) 21:08, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for nominating me and advising me throughout the process. voorts (talk/contributions) 21:27, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations. I know vandalism isn't the highest level of admin work but your answer is what made my vote simple. I hope your work is light and your decisions are easy. Good luck.

RCSCott91 (talk) 09:27, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your new garb! Hope this fits and congratulations. When you get bored of scrabbling down the back of the sofa for the right blockmessage, have a look at my monobook - some kind soul put a nifty script there. Ϣere SpielChequers 21:44, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My congratulations as well. Cheers - Tim O'Doherty (talk) 21:58, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats! House Blaster (talk • he/they) 22:23, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm here to add to the pile! Well done, voorts, and good luck with the rest of your time here as an administrator. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 23:30, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well done, and welcome to the mop corps! Please feel free to write to me if I can help in any way - as I often say to candidates, the learning curve remained steep for a long time. Vanamonde93 (talk) 00:45, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, Voorts! Do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. You are part of the admin corps now. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:35, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats! Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 11:06, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you all (and those who posted below)! voorts (talk/contributions) 17:37, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats! May Wikipedia grow even better with your presence! owuh (talk | she/her) 17:40, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A kitten for you!

Congratulations on your successful RfA! May the kitten support you in future mop-related endeavours, I'm sure you'll do amazing! :)

Molecular Pilot 05:36, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

RFA

Thank you for your successful RfA! Kolano123 (talk) 13:38, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I thanked you because I know that being an admin can be hard and I don't bite new admins. Kolano123 (talk) 13:42, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"He who does not keep peace shall lose his hand."

	The axe of responsibility
	Shiny new tools might be used to mete out justice, mercy or a dose of reality. Let us commit to not losing our cool when using them. Our only armor is the entire community's trust. We wear it for each other, each new contributor, and each new generation to come. May you ever be the community's champion. BusterD (talk) 13:41, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"I kind of alternate between conducting and playing... but I don't use a baton" - Joshua Bell

	The new admin baton
	Congratulations on passing RFA! Peaceray passed the fabled baton to me and, and having given it a twirl or two (or three, actually I've taken my time a bit), I am passing it on to you! Once you are done appreciating its magnificence, do pass it to the next admin. Happy mopping!

Yours, FOARP (talk) 11:38, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

About your merger proposals

Hey there, I am currently working on updating and clearing up the ~~chaos~~ backlog at WP:PM, and I have noticed eight proposals by you about song articles that could be merged into their parent album articles. Since it has been two months, it does not look like the WikiProjects pinged are going to engage with the discussions (or any editor of these articles apparently for that matter). As you are the sole support as nominator, and the creator of the articles opposes, I think the merge discussions should be closed as "No consensus" ; however I did not want to mass close all your nominations before asking you if you thought something else should be done. Oh, and since I am there, congrats for the successful RFA! Choucas Bleu (T·C) 21:14, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the congrats. Do whatever with the proposed merges. The keep rationale is not based on the notability guideline and none of the sources provide SIGCOV. It's annoying that one obstinate editor can filibuster a very clear-cut case for merge, but here we are. voorts (talk/contributions) 15:00, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

November 22 + 26: Free Culture Friday and Wikicurious photo event!

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Thank you for participating in the October 2024 GAN backlog drive

	The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
	Your noteworthy contribution (10 points total) helped reduce the backlog by more than 250 articles! Here's a token of our appreciation. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 16:32, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	Thank you for dedicating your time to reviewing the sources and offering valuable insights in this content dispute. Hogo-2020 (talk) 10:56, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA nominator and reviewer indeffed

And TPA was revoked, and UTRS appeal declined. Tamara (given name) is heading for a second quickfail. The article has been unstable. I don't like that this article should fail twice. It's just a weird and unfortunate scenario. Could something be done about that? Unnominate at least? Substitute submitter? Talk:Technical geography/GA1 was undergoing a review. Do you have any thoughts on what should happen with that review? Regards, —Alalch E. 20:48, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Alalch, I would raise this at WT:GAN to see if another reviewer wants to take on the latter and if there's consensus to remove the nom for Tamara. Best, voorts (talk/contributions) 21:36, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]