User talk:Daniel

The Signpost: 1 May 2025

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2025

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

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Guideline and policy news

Following an RfC, administrator elections were permanently authorized on a five-month schedule. The next election will be scheduled soon; see Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections for more information. This is an alternate process to the RfA process and does not replace the latter.
An RfC was closed with consensus to allow editors to opt-out of seeing "sticky decorative elements". Such elements should now be wrapped in {{sticky decoration wrapper}}. Editors who wish to opt out can follow the instructions at WP:STICKYDECO.
An RfC has resulted in a broad prohibition on the use of AI-generated images in articles. A few common-sense exceptions are recognized.

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The Signpost: 14 May 2025

News and notes: WMF to kick off new-CEO quest as Iskander preps to move on — Supreme Court nixes gag of Wiki page for other India court row on ANI — code-heads give fix-up date for Charts in lieu of long-dead Graph gizmo

In the media: Wikimedia Foundation sues over UK government decision that might require identity verification of editors worldwide

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Obituary: Max Lum (User:ICOHBuzz)

Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 2)

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Happy First Edit Day!

Happy First Edit Day, Daniel, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 02:54, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Damien Costas AfD

Hello - I’d appreciate your input on an AfD discussion regarding the article Damien Costas. The article includes multiple reliable secondary sources from SMH, AFR, Men’s Health, and others. I’ve worked to improve it based on feedback, and a second opinion would be greatly appreciated. AfD link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Damien_Costas CharlotteMilic (talk) 09:37, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – June 2025

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

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Guideline and policy news

An RfC is open to determine whether the English Wikipedia community should adopt a position on AI development by the WMF and its affiliates.

Technical news

A new feature called Multiblocks will be deployed on English Wikipedia on the week of June 2. See the relevant announcement on the administrators' noticeboard.
History merges performed using the mergehistory special page are now logged at both the source and destination, rather than just the source as previously, after this RFC and the resolution of T118132.

Arbitration

An arbitration case named Indian military history has been opened. Evidence submissions for this case close on 8 June.

Miscellaneous

Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 17 June 2025. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!
An Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in June 2025, with over 1,600 drafts awaiting review from the past two months. In addition to AfC participants, all administrators and new page patrollers can help review using the Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!
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Template:Clerknote-accounttaken-usurp

Hi Daniel! Hope you are doing well—I'm wondering if you feel like Template:Clerknote-accounttaken-usurp is still useful? I'm cleaning up Category:Username changing and usurpation templates after Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations was shut down. It look like it is never used (Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations/Completed/44 is a false positive). I lean towards a TFD nomination, but I wanted to check in before charging off there in case you had some insight as the creator :) Best, House Blaster (talk • he/they) 16:05, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@HouseBlaster: feel free to G7 it and link to this comment. Cheers, Daniel (talk) 03:19, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome—thanks :) House Blaster (talk • he/they) 03:27, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 24 June 2025

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Recent research: Wikipedia's political bias; "Ethical" LLMs accede to copyright owners' demands but ignore those of Wikipedians

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Re: Comments on itwiki

Hi, sorry, I have nothing to add, I thought it was understood, the translations from Google translator are correct. If you want more information ask the questura di Milano, I can not disclose more. Hi, LukeWiller (talk) 22:36, 30 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – July 2025

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

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Guideline and policy news

Following a talk page discussion, speedy deletion criterion G13 has been amended to remove "Userspace with no content except the article wizard placeholder text."
WP:Manual of Style/Superscripts and subscripts was upgraded to a guideline following a RfC discussion.

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Administrator elections will take place this month. Administrator elections are an alternative to RFA that is a gentler process for candidates due to secret voting and multiple people running together. The call for candidates is July 9–15, the discussion phase is July 18–22, and the voting phase is July 23–29. Get ready to submit your candidacy, or (with their consent) to nominate a talented candidate!

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