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Administrators' newsletter – January 2026
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- All general sanctions imposed by the community may now be enforced at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard (WP:AE) as a result of a recent RfC.
- Due to the result of a recent RFC, the administrator recall process is amended to extend the deadline for a re-request for adminship to 30 days or the next administrator election, whichever is later.
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Arbitration
- Following the 2025 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Asilvering, Girth Summit, Guerillero, HJ Mitchell, HouseBlaster, Izno, Sdrqaz, SilverLocust.
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Books & Bytes – Issue 72
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Issue 72, November–December 2025
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2026
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February 2026
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Hello, I'm UtherSRG. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Cymbiola hughmorrisoni, but you didn't provide a reliable source. On Wikipedia, it's important that article content be verifiable. If you'd like to resubmit your change with a citation, your edit is archived in the page history. If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. I know you know better than this! - UtherSRG (talk) 17:06, 21 February 2026 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2026
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- Following an RfC, the web archival service archive.today has been deprecated; links to the site should be removed.
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Arbitration
- Following a motion, remedy 9.1 of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been amended to limit TenPoundHammer to one XfD nomination or PROD per 24-hour period.
- Following a motion, the Iskandar323 further POV pushing motion has been rescinded.
- The Arbitration Committee has passed a housekeeping motion rescinding a number of outdated remedies and enforcement provisions across multiple legacy cases. In most instances, existing sanctions remain in force and continue to be appealable through the usual processes, while some case-specific remedies were amended or clarified.
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- Following the 2026 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: A09, AmandaNP, Barras, Count Count, M7, SHB2000, Teles and VIGNERON.
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The article Cryoturris albida has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Both Polystira albida and Cryoturris albida are synonym to Pleurotoma albida, they are equal. The former should be kept. (World Register of Marine Species & bagniliggia.it)
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If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you may request undeletion of the article at any time. Labratscientist (talk) 09:35, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
- No, they are not all synonyms but rather homonyms. Pleurotoma was used in the 1800s as a massive "catch-all" category for hundreds of different sea snails. George Perry described in 1811 Pleurotoma albida in the family Turridae. This later became a a direct synonym of Polystira albida.
- In 1845, Charles Baker Adams described a completely different, much smaller snail also belonging to the family Turridae and also named his new shell Pleurotoma albida. This has now become an invalid junior homonym of Cryoturris albida, but WoRMS still regards Pleurotoma albida C. B. Adams, 1845 as an unsettled issue and gives Pleurotoma albida C. B. Adams, 1845 the status "uncertain - unassessed". This is adding to the confusion.
- Cryoturris albida is therefore, in my opinion, a distinctly separate, valid species. It is not a synonym of Polystira albida. JoJan (talk) 12:24, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
- I see. My original reasoning was definitely wrong, but I still think it should be removed. Based on my understanding now, the three most accepted database for gastropods should be WoRMS, WMSDB and GBIF. And WoRMS is generally regarded as more reliable. However, someone else should be making these decisions. I am surprised there's not a detailed WP:NSPECIES I can refer to.
- Labratscientist (talk) 14:14, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
- I didn't know you answered at wikiproject, let me copy there. Labratscientist (talk) 14:16, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
- As long as WoRMS still regards Pleurotoma albida C. B. Adams, 1845 as an unsettled issue, we cannot regard Cryoturris albida as an accepted name or not. I guess it's up to a malacologist to settle the question. As we in Wikipedia are forbidden to do original research, we cannot settle this question. JoJan (talk) 14:29, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
- True. I actually have nothing say about this... I always thought scientists are quite keen on revisiting unresolved issues. I guess maybe not so much on taxonomy. Labratscientist (talk) 02:15, 11 March 2026 (UTC)
- As long as WoRMS still regards Pleurotoma albida C. B. Adams, 1845 as an unsettled issue, we cannot regard Cryoturris albida as an accepted name or not. I guess it's up to a malacologist to settle the question. As we in Wikipedia are forbidden to do original research, we cannot settle this question. JoJan (talk) 14:29, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
Dude.... I know you can do better than this. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:57, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
- Don't ask too much. I'm already at my maximum and at my advanced age I can't take much more. I surely could use some help from interested people. JoJan (talk) 15:38, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
- Just slow down, then, and check your work. The ref you grabbed from WoRMS doesn't link to where you think it does, and I have no idea where you go the description from since the ref is wrong. Please fix it. - UtherSRG (talk) 16:31, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
- And if you can't handle this, why do you have the admin bit? You should turn in your mop. - UtherSRG (talk) 16:32, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
- I just tagged it as FV again. It's still not going to where you think it is going. I do not know where you got that description from. You could have made it up for all I can tell. Please click through the ref to the source and see that it is not what you think it is. - UtherSRG (talk) 17:37, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
- This link, provided by WoRMS, works fine with me. All you had to do is go to page 196 as prescribed in the link of WoRMS. Now I've changed the link to go directly to page 196. If you had any doubt about the text, I give you here the original text (together with the OCR mistakes):
- Just slow down, then, and check your work. The ref you grabbed from WoRMS doesn't link to where you think it does, and I have no idea where you go the description from since the ref is wrong. Please fix it. - UtherSRG (talk) 16:31, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
"Tiara RuBRA. Tiara testd minutd, longitudinaliter costatd, transversim minutissimé striatd, rubrd albo fasciatd; canali subreflexo columella quadriplicatd"
- Now you can rest assured I didn't make it up. JoJan (talk) 14:18, 11 March 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you. That is the minimum needed - that you check your work and correct errors - instead of complaining that you are too old. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:25, 11 March 2026 (UTC)
- Now you can rest assured I didn't make it up. JoJan (talk) 14:18, 11 March 2026 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 73
editIssue 73, January–February 2026
- Four new partnerships
- User survey thanks
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FYI you deleted this as "making way for a move" but then didn't actually do the move. * Pppery * it has begun... 14:36, 15 March 2026 (UTC)
- @Pppery: After I deleted it, I found out that this Pusia multicostata H.-J. Wang, 1982 is actually a homonym of Pusia multicostata (Broderip, 1836), itself a synonym is of Vexillum multicostatum (Broderip, 1836). I have send an email to WoRMS to signal this homonymy. I'm awaiting their response so that question can be resolved. JoJan (talk) 15:54, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
Metric fractions
editThanks for your many contributions to plant articles! I happened to be cleaning up special characters, and noticed mixing of vulgar fractions with millimeters on Auriculella cerea. MOS:FRAC says decimal fractions should be used with the metric system. I've been tidying this up a fair amount in older plant content, but this was a newer contribution. -- Beland (talk) 08:00, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2026
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- The content of Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models has been updated following a request for comment. It now prohibits using LLMs to generate content, with exceptions for translation and copy-editing.
Arbitration
- Following a motion, the GSCASTE extended-confirmed restriction in the Indian military history case has been narrowed. It now applies to caste-related topics in South Asia, and the preemptive protection remedy has been amended accordingly.
- The arbitration case Pbsouthwood has been closed.
- The arbitration case Maghreb has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 7 April.
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Volutella
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A tag has been placed on Category:Volutella indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 23:08, 7 April 2026 (UTC)
- I've deleted the category:Volutella as an empty category. The accepted category is Category: Volutella (gastropod). JoJan (talk) 11:54, 8 April 2026 (UTC)
Happy First Edit Day!
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Category:Norrisia has been nominated for merging
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Category:Volutinae has been nominated for merging
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Category:Aegistohadra has been nominated for merging
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Category:Caliendrula has been nominated for merging
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- Changes to user permissions made from Meta are now included in the local user permissions log (T6055).
- The autoconfirmed user group will soon be modified such that the four-day account age requirement begins when an account makes its first edit (T418484).
Arbitration
- The arbitration case SchroCat has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 15 April.
- Per a recent motion, appeals of blocks from the conflict-of-interest VRT queue are, by default, appealed on-wiki through the normal unblock process. However, they may be heard by the Committee if COIVRTers disagree on the interpretation of the evidence or believe ArbCom would be better suited to hear the appeal. Administrators are also advised that loosening or lifting such blocks without the consent of someone with access to the queue or ArbCom can be grounds for desysopping.
- Per a recent motion, restrictions issued directly by the Committee may now be enforced with blocks which work exactly like contentious topic blocks.
- The arbitration case Maghreb has been closed.
Miscellaneous
- The May 2026 administrator elections are scheduled to run from April 29 to May 19. The call for candidates ends May 5.
- The 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is scheduled to run from April 25 to June 1. Candidacy submissions close on May 10.
- A new noticeboard for non-urgent, batch page protection requests has been created, primarily for the enforcement of contentious topic restrictions.
New Page Patrol Newsletter - May 2026
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Backlog update
At the time of this message, there are 15,282 articles and 32,951 redirects awaiting review.
After the January–February drive the article backlog was reduced to 15,179 articles and the redirect backlog to 19,053 respectively. Great job! However, both queues are growing rapidly and any additional reviews are highly appreciated.
2024 and 2025 NPP Awards
Hey man im josh and MPGuy2824 won the Redirect Ninja Master Award for 2024 and 2025 respectively, for reviewing the most redirects.
Overall in 2024, one Platinum, two Gold, eight Silver, 12 Bronze and 45 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 66 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year. In 2025, one Platinum, ten Silver, 13 Bronze and 38 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 38 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year.
BoyTheKingCanDance, Rosiestep, SunDawn, and Vanderwaalforces were inducted into the NPP Hall of Fame for having two separate years of 2,000+ article reviews.
January–February backlog drive
The experimental two-month long backlog drive concluded with 183 reviewers patrolling over 27,761 articles and 35,309 redirects, earning over 36,836 points. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 6,484.6 points in this drive.
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2026
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- Following an RfC, the "persistent usage of large language models" has been included as a common reason for a block.
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Arbitration
- The arbitration case SchroCat has been closed.
- The arbitration case Michael Jackson has opened. Evidence submissions in this case closes on 1 June.
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- Voting for the 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election closes on 1 June.
Books & Bytes – Issue 74
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- New partnership: Swissdox
- User survey results
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