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19:50, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2017).

Administrator changes

Karanacs • Berean Hunter • GoldenRing • Dlohcierekim

Gdr • Tyrenius • JYolkowski • Longhair • Master Thief Garrett • Aaron Brenneman • Laser brain • JzG • Dragons flight

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has clarified that user categories should be emptied upon deletion, but redlinked user categories should not be removed if re-added by the user.
• Discussions are ongoing regarding proposed changes to the COI policy. Changes so far have included clarification that adding a link on a Wikipedia forum to a job posting is not a violation of the harassment policy.

Technical news

• You can now see a list of all autoblocks at Special:AutoblockList.
• There is a new tool for adding archives to dead links. Administrators are able to restrict other user’s ability to use the tool, and have additional permissions when changing URL and domain data.
• Administrators, bureaucrats and stewards can now set an expiry date when granting user rights. (discuss, permalink)

Miscellaneous

• Following an RfC, the editing restrictions page is now split into a list of active restrictions and an archive of those that are old or on inactive accounts. Make sure to check both pages if searching for a restriction.

Hello, Legoktm. You have new messages at Legobot’s talk page.
Message added 01:09, 5 May 2017 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

—MRD2014 📞 contribs 01:09, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

02:25, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Wishing Legoktm/May 2017 a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Lepricavark (talk) 13:23, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Please see Template talk:AF Cite Book#Further improvements — PBS (talk) 06:59, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

21:48, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

22:08, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

12:18, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Hello Legoktm, I’m doing an audit/cleanup of old bot accounts that may no longer need the bot flag. It looks like the following bots of yours have had their tasks transferred to another bot account, do you still need the bot flag on these accounts?

• User:One bot , last edit: 20100102225021
• User:GA bot , last edit: 20100102094726
• User:RFC bot , last edit: 20070112024643

(Please use ping if replying here) Thank you, — xaosflux ^Talk 14:56, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Xaosflux, I don’t control those bot accounts, I think Chris G or harej does. Legoktm (talk) 16:34, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you, will check over that way! — xaosflux ^Talk 17:37, 30 May 2017 (UTC)