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I know this is your fresh start but can you please share your previous account?thanks42.106.196.192 (talk) 13:48, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

:(Replying here and at your talk page) I will to an admin if they deem it necessary. I do not plan to link this account with my previous account publicly as that would violate the entire point of creating this account. {{u|SamStrongTalks}} (Talk) 14:07, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

::This is a rather bizarre question to ask. Penultimately it defeats the purpose and lastly just comes off as rude especially when they have been contributing positively thus far. Celestina007 (talk) 15:26, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2024

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  • Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
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  • Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
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  • The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2024

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

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|Crisco 1492

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|Babajobu

|Daniel

|Elf

|Jayron32

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  • 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. {{phab|T366068}}

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2024

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|DoubleGrazing

|Dr vulpes

|FOARP

|Peaceray

|Queen of Hearts

|Rsjaffe

|SD0001

|SilverLocust

|Sohom Datta

|ThadeusOfNazereth

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|Ajpolino

|Fathoms Below

|Pppery

|Tamzin

|Worm That Turned

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|Aervanath

|Christopher Sundita

|Dank

|Dennis Brown

|Dragons flight

|Fastily

|Graham87

|JaGa

|Kbh3rd

|Marine 69-71

|Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington

|Yamamoto Ichiro

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|SD0001

|Sohom Datta

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|Spicy

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  • Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. [https://pretix.eu/wikimedia/hackathon2025/ Application for travel and accommodation scholarships] is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2025

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

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|Daniel

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|BozMo

|Ferret

|John M Wolfson

|MaxSem

|Panyd

|Tide rolls

|Titoxd

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|Daniel

|Elli

|Liz

|ScottishFinnishRadish

|Theleekycauldron

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|Daniel

|Elli

|Liz

|ScottishFinnishRadish

|Theleekycauldron

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  • The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.

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  • Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: {{noping|CaptainEek}}, {{noping|Daniel}}, {{noping|Elli}}, {{noping|KrakatoaKatie}}, {{noping|Liz}}, {{noping|Primefac}}, {{noping|ScottishFinnishRadish}}, {{noping|Theleekycauldron}}, {{noping|Worm That Turned}}.

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2025).

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|Arcticocean

|Wugapodes

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|Firefly

|L235

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|Firefly

|Guerillero

|L235

|Moneytrees

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  • Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. {{phab|T380846}}
  • A 'Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. {{phab|T56145}}

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2025).

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|Jarry1250

|Lethe

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|AmandaNP

|Drmies

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  • A new filter has been added to the {{#special:Nuke}} tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. {{phab|T378488}}
  • Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the {{#special:Nuke}} tool. {{phab|T376378}}

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2025