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Hello, so that was not a joke edit. While Bryan Cranston does play a parodic fictionalised version of himself in the sixteenth season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, that character is exclusively referred to as “Mr. Middle”, because the foolish main characters only know him from Malcolm in the Middle, and as they have never heard of Breaking Bad, and similarly mistake Aaron Paul for Frankie Muniz and so exclusively refer to him as “Malcolm”. Their real names are never used, and while implicitly meant to be celebrities based on themselves, those characters are never named, nor is Breaking Bad ever mentioned. 113.30.191.65 (talk) 12:16, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
Apologies fellow traveler! I checked and you are indeed correct. Although you might want to use a footnote to explain that nuance or I'm pretty sure people are going to assume what I did and think you're joking. Here's how you do that:
"Mr. Middle"/Himself{{efn|put your note here}}
All the way at the bottom, below the references section you'll put
(it doesnt work properly here but it will in the article)
Feel free to do that and consider the matter resolved although it would be best to just credit Cranston as "Walter White" and not "Walter "Walt" White / Heisenberg" for the sake of simplicity as it is just one character.— FenrisAureus ▲ (she/they) (talk) 12:46, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hi FenrisAureus, thank you for patrolling recent changes. Regarding the article about Garrett Geros, please start a talk page discussion and wait for a consensus to form before restoring such material (cf. WP:BLPRESTORE, WP:ONUS).
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Thank you for reaching out. I believe that you have made a mistake in overwriting my edit.
"At one time, there existed two dialects of the Inuttut language. The Inuit that reside south of the Davis Inlet in what is now known as Nunatuĸavut once spoke a divergent dialect known as "Nunatuĸavummiutut", indicated by differences in toponymy. [6] However, due to heavy European immigration into Nunatuĸavut, this dialect has since become extinct".[6]
Prior to 2010 NunatuKavut (Inuit) was the Labrador Metis Nation (a mix of First Nations Indians and Europeans. Two distinct groups.
How can the NunatuKavut dialect of "Nunatuĸavummiutut" go extinct when NunatuKavut only came into being in 2010?
http://www.southernlabrador.ca/home/rich_heritage.htm
"English is the language of Southern Labrador, but you'll be surprised when you hear it. It's not the English of Canadian television and radio, it's Newfoundland English, which has preserved many old words and turns of phrase, especially about the fishery, that the rest of the English speaking world has lost".
Information within Wikipedia should be an accurate and truthful account of historical events. I am working to correct the misrepresentation herein.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Logical Intervention (talk • contribs)
Apologies fellow traveller, I am not very well versed in this subject and am having a hard time following your argument. Could you please put this more simply?— FenrisAureus ▲ (she/they) (talk) 02:42, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
Check out the obvious inconsistency.
NunatuKavut claims to be a separate, distinct group - with a divergent language that went extinct - from the Inuit of Nunatsiavut in Northern Labrador.
Yet, when you go to the NunatuKavut home page of Wikipedia, if you click on the "NunatuKavummiutut" language link you are redirected to the Inuttitut page which is the language of the people of Nunatsiavut in Northern Labrador.
Furthermore, they list their country as "Inuit Nunangat", which is the territory of the Nunatsiavut people. Inuit Nunangat publicly denounced NunatuKavut in stating that they don't recognize NunatuKavut as an Inuit territory. Logical Intervention (talk) 03:20, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
I'm tired and this is still not making sense to me, but you seem to know what your talking about, so I'm just gonna take your word for this. Go ahead and make the changes. I won't interfere. — FenrisAureus ▲ (she/they) (talk) 03:26, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
I apologize. The NunatuKavut people changed their identities from Metis (mixed) to a distinctive full blood (Inuit). Metis are a mix, Inuit are not.
Timeline
1985 - Labrador Metis Association.
1998 - Labrador Metis Nation.
1998 - 2010 Labrador Inuit/Metis.
2010 - NunatuKvut Inuit.
Because they have changed their identities, you will find inconsistencies in their researchers information. They are not a distinct group of Inuit, in fact, they are not Inuit at all. Six NunatuKavut communities doesn't have one Inuk living in any of them. They claim to represent 6,000 Inuit from southern and central Labrador, yet it's only 6,000 when you combine the Metis and Inuit totals in those areas. They are reporting misinformation. All information regarding NunatuKavut needs to be reevaluated and corrected. Logical Intervention (talk) 03:50, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
Invitation to Cornell study on Wikipedia discussions
Latest comment: 11 months ago5 comments2 people in discussion
Hello FenrisAureus,
I’m reaching out as part of a Cornell University academic study investigating the potential for user-facing tools to help improve discussion quality within Wikipedia discussion spaces (such as talk pages, noticeboards, etc.). We wanted to invite you to join the study because we believe such user-facing tools could potentially be useful to you in your work as an administrator, where you occasionally have to interact with editors who are wondering why you reverted or blocked them (alternatively, it could be that these tools end up not being useful for this at all, in which case we would still want to know!).
The study centers around a prototype tool, ConvoWizard, which is designed to warn Wikipedia editors when a discussion they are replying to is getting tense and at risk of derailing into personal attacks or incivility. More information about ConvoWizard and the study can be found at our research project page on meta-wiki.
If this sounds like it might be interesting to you, you can use this link to sign up and install ConvoWizard. Of course, if you are not interested, feel free to ignore this message.
If you have any questions or thoughts about the study, our team is happy to discuss! You may direct such comments to me or to my collaborator, Cristian_at_CornellNLP. Thank you for your consideration.
Got it, sorry for the confusion! I think the original reasoning still applies in this case, so the offer to sign up remains open, that is if you're interested. Of course, if you're not interested you can feel free to ignore this. Have a nice day! Jonathan at CornellNLP (talk) 15:45, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
Thank you, I will absolutely sign up! this seems like a valuable and novel contribution to the project I just did not want to misrepresent my self as an admin by signing up as such behavior is expressly forbidden by WP:TALKNO. — FenrisAureus ▲ (she/they) (talk) 16:01, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 August 2023
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Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that [s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.
The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.
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Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.
An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.
Technical news
Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)
Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.
Miscellaneous
The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!
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Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
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Latest comment: 8 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion
I've brought the matter of the Penrose reversion up at the Physics WikiProject. I stand by the original edit, that the citation is of the poorest sort, unsuited to use to support the sentence to which it is appended, and arguing there for requiring its removal/replacement with a reliable scientific/biographical source that is not using Penrose's name in a self-serving fashion. Cheers.73.8.193.28 (talk) 15:31, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
Latest comment: 7 months ago5 comments2 people in discussion
Hi FenrisAureus, I just came across your GA review for Cisnormativity. Good Article reviews should inform the nominator and others looking back at the article history as to how the article in question meets the GACR at the time of the review. The GAN page here does not make that very obvious. It appears to be mostly just a copy of the GACR, and I can't tell what considerations were made towards broadness, which sources were checked for plagiarism, and similar. Would you be able to expand upon your thoughts as to how the article meets each of the GACR? Best, CMD (talk) 08:13, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
I have added more info on 2a,2b,2c,2d but for most of the others, an article either meets the criteria or it doesn't. How I (and others as I understand) deal with those is by either passing the criteria or explaining why it fails, and giving suggestions for remediation. Is there something I am missing? — FenrisAureus ▲ (she/they) (talk) 02:14, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for the changes. The source check is specifically required, but overall checklist reviews are not regarded as sufficient. Ideally there should be an explanation for why a criteria is passed, similar to there being an explanation for why it fails. Any other thoughts help others looking later to understand the review, and adds specific positive feedback to the nominator. CMD (talk) 02:41, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
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Dear @FenrisAureus,
I am no way related to sock(As I understood from Wikipedia page-Alternative account of someone).This is unique account without any sub account(I can furnish any details regarding the account) .Neither I have abused anyone nor against anyone.It May be your duty to doubt the user but reconsider mine.I messaged you directly as I don’t know that much regarding Wikipedia so I have least knowledge regarding this. Goyambab (talk) 08:30, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 23
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New year, new scripts. Welcome to the 23rd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering around 39% of our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. That’s right, we haven’t published in two years! Can you believe it? Did you miss us?
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
User:Alexander Davronov/HistoryHelper has now become stable with some bugfixes and features such as automatically highlighting potentially uncivil edit summaries and automatically pinging all the users selected.
To a lesser extent, the same goes for User:PrimeHunter/Search sort.js. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin is a rewrite of Ais's Watchlist Notifier with modern APIs and several new features such as not displaying watchlist items marked as seen (hence the name), not bolding diffs of unseen watchlist elements which doesn’t work properly anyways, displaying the rendered edit summary, proper display of log and creation actions and more links.
Alexis Jazz: Factotum is a spiritual successor to reply-link with a host of extra features like section adding, link rewriting, regular expressions and more.
User:Aveaoz/AutoMobileRedirect: This script will automatically redirect MobileFrontend (en.m.wikipedia) to normal Wikipedia. Unlike existing scripts, this one will actually check if your browser is mobile or not through its secret agent string, so you can stay logged in on mobile! Hooray screen estate!
Deputy is a first-of-its-kind copyright cleanup toolkit. It overrides the interface for Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations for easy case processing. It also includes the functionality of the following (also new) scripts:
User:Elominius/gadget/diff arrow keys allows navigation between diffs with the arrow keys. It also has a version that requires holding Ctrl with the arrow key.
Frequently link to Wikipedia on your websites yet find generating CC-BY credits to be such a hassle? Say no more! User:Luke10.27/attribute will automatically do it for ya and copy the credit to yer clipboard.
User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft, a spiritual successor (i.e. fork) to Evad37's script, with a few bugs solved, and a host of extra features like check-boxes for choosing draftification reasons, multi-contributor notification, and appropriate warnings based on last edit time.
/CopyCodeBlock: one of the most important operations for any scripter and script-user is to copy and paste. This script adds a copy button in the top right of every code block (not to be confused with <code>) that will, well, copy it to your clipboard!
m:User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AceForLuaDebugConsole.js adds the Ace editor (a.k.a. the editor you see when editing JS, CSS and Lua on Wikimedia wikis) to the Lua debug console. "In my opinion, whoever designed it to be a plain <textarea> needs to seriously reconsider their decision."
GANReviewTool quickly and easily closes good article nominations.
ReviewStatus displays whether or not a mainspace page is marked as reviewed.
SpeciesHelper tries to add the correct speciesbox, category, taxonbar, and stub template to species articles.
User:Opencooper/svgReplace and Tol's fork replaces all rasterized SVGs with their original SVG codes for your loading pleasures. Tell us which one is better!
ArticleInfo displays page information at the top of the page, directly below the title.
/HeaderIcons takes away the Vector 2022 user dropdown and replaces it with all of the icons within, top level, right next to the Watchlist. One less click away! There's also an alternate version that uses text links instead of icons.
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.
An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.
Technical news
Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)
Arbitration
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.
Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.
A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. Uh-huh, we're finally covering the good ones among the rest! Aren't you excited? Remember to include a link in double brackets to the script's .js page when you install the script, so that we can see who uses the script in WhatLinksHere! The ScriptInstaller gadget automatically does this. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
Featured script
Making user scripts load faster by SD0001 is this month's featured script, which caches userscripts every day to eliminate the overhead caused by force-downloading the newest version of scripts every time you open a Wikipedia page. Despite being released in April 2021, our best script scouters have failed to locate it due to its omission from the US of L. For security reasons, the script only supports loading JavaScript pages.
Newly maintained scripts
After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...
Ahecht has created a fork of SiBr4/TemplateSearch, which adds the "TP:" shortcut for "Template:" in the search box, and updated it to be compatible with Vector 2022.
AquilaFasciata/goToTopFast is a much faster fork of the classic goToTop script that also adds compatibility for Minerva and Vector 2022.
Without caching. Each script takes 400–500ms. A particularly large script takes 1.11 s! Internet download speed is 50 Mbps.With caching enabled. Each script takes just 1-2 ms to load.
Improve a script
Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!
To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
Dragoniez/SuppressEnterInForm stops you from accidentally submitting anything due to pressing enter while in the smaller box, and works on almost anything... except the InputBox element itself, used in subscription lists and the Signpost Crossword! Oh, the humanity!
Doǵu/Adiutor(pictured) provides a nice, integrated interface to do some twinkley tasks such as copyvio detection, CSD tagging, and viewing the most recent diff.
Eejit43 has quite the aesthetically pleasing scripts, all made in TypeScript.
/afcrc-helper is a replacement for the unmaintained Enterprisey/AFCRHS and processes Redirects for Creation and Categories for Creation requests.
/ajax-undo stops the "undo" button from taking you to another page while providing a text box to provide a reason for the revert.
/redirect-helper(pictured) adds a much better interface for editing and redirects, including categorization, for which valid categories are dictated by /redirect-helper.json.
/rmtr-helper helps process technical requested moves without being able to actually move them.
Guycn2/UserInfoPopup(pictured) adds a flyout after the watchlist star on userspace pages that displays the common information you might use about a user.
Jeeputer/editCounter, under userspace, adds a portlet link to count your edits by namespace, put them in a table, and put that table in a hardcoded subpage, all in the background.
Hilst/Scripts/sectionLinks converts all section links to use the § sign, which are known to be preferred over the ugly # by 99% of the devils I've met.
PrimeHunter/Category source.js adds portlet links to tell you where a category for an article comes from and supports those from template transclusions.
Sophivorus's MiniEdit adds some nice, li'l buttons next to paragraphs to edit their wikitext with a minimal interface.
Edit-listings
Dragoniez/ToollinkTweaks adds more and customizable links next to users in page history, logs, watchlist, recent changes, etc.
Firefly/more-block-info optimizes the display of rangeblocks in contribution pages. Doesn't work outside the English locale of any wiki, unfortunately.
NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader makes paging links (e.g. older 50, 500, newest) load without refreshing and makes you realize how slow your internet actually is.
Appearance-ricing
Ahecht/RedirectID adds the redirect target to all redirects. For all the WP:NAVPOPS haters. (Do these exist?)
Dragoniez/MarkBLockedGlobal: Remember the "strike blocked usernames" gadget? Now you can use a red, dotted line to highlight rangeblocks and global locks!
Jonesey/common(pictured) has some styles to overhaul your Vector 2022 experience. It reduces padding everywhere, and makes the top bar animation faster.
Aaron Liu/V22 is a fork that narrows the sidebars instead of upheaving them, reverts the January 2024 dropdown changes, and restores the old page-link color for links that don't go outside the current wiki.
Nardog: SmartDiff is a spiritual successor to Enterprisey/fancy-diffs. It makes the page title part of links in diffs clickable, along with template and parser function calls. Unnamed parameters can be configured per template to also be linked. All links are styled based on the normal CSS classes of rendered links.
For the paranoid: Rublov/anonymize replaces your username at the top of the screen with the generic "User page" text. Remember, it is your duty to persuade everyone that editing is an honor.
/AjaxBlock provides a dialog box for easy input of reasons while blocking users.
/Selective Rollback(pictured) provides a dialog box to customize rollback edit summaries and does them without reloading the page. Seriously, why doesn't MediaWiki already do this?
/flickrsearch adds a portlet link to search for uploadable flickr images about the subject.
/randomincategory adds a portlet link when on Category pages to go to a random page in the current category.
Vghfr/EasyTemplates adds a portlet link to automatically insert some of the most common inline {{fix}} templates.
Yes, we're just doing 'em as we go now. Thanks for reading through this looong issue, if you did! I'm sure this'll send a record for the longest issue ev-ah. You may need to wait even longer for the last issue, as our reserve of old-y and goodie scripts have ran out... We encourage you to try and do some of the requests or improvement tasks. See you in Summer, hopefully!
RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase I
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Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:
Proposals 3 and 3b, initiated by Barkeep49 and Usedtobecool, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.
Proposal 5, initiated by SilkTork, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections.
Proposals 6c and 6d, initiated by BilledMammal, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting.
Proposal 7, initiated by Lee Vilenski, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings.
Proposal 9b, initiated by Reaper Eternal, provides for the requirement that allegations of policy violation be substantiated with appropriate links to where the alleged misconduct occured.
Proposals 12c, 21, and 21b, initiated by City of Silver, Ritchie333, and HouseBlaster, respectively, provide for reducing the discretionary zone, which currently extends from 65% to 75%. The first would reduce it 65%–70%, the second would reduce it to 50%–66%, and the third would reduce it to 60%–70%.
Proposal 13, initiated by Novem Lingaue, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections.
Proposal 14, initiated by Kusma, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote.
Proposals 16 and 16c, initiated by Thebiguglyalien and Soni, respectively, provide for community-based admin desysop procedures. 16 would desysop where consensus is established in favor at the administrators' noticeboard; 16c would allow a petition to force reconfirmation.
Proposal 16e, initiated by BilledMammal, would extend the recall procedures of 16 to bureaucrats.
Proposal 17, initiated by SchroCat, provides for "on-call" admins and 'crats to monitor RfAs for decorum.
Proposal 25, initiated by Femke, provides for the requirement that nominees be extended-confirmed in addition to their nominators.
Proposal 27, initiated by WereSpielChequers, provides for the creation of a training course for admin hopefuls, as well as periodic retraining to keep admins from drifting out of sync with community norms.
To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her), via:
The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)
Arbitration
An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
Miscellaneous
Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.
Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531
RFA2024 update: phase I concluded, phase II begins
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Hi there! Phase I of the Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review has concluded, with several impactful changes gaining community consensus and proceeding to various stages of implementation. Some proposals will be implemented in full outright; others will be discussed at phase II before being implemented; and still others will proceed on a trial basis before being brought to phase II. The following proposals have gained consensus:
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