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Arbitration Committee proceedings
- recent changes
- purge this page
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Currently, there are no requests for arbitration.
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Open cases
| Request name | Motions | Case | Posted |
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| Clarification request: Race and intelligence | none | (orig. case) | 4 July 2025 |
| Clarification request: Indian military history | none | (orig. case) | 22 July 2025 |
| Amendment request: PIA Canvassing | none | (orig. case) | 31 July 2025 |
No arbitrator motions are currently open.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2025).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment is in progress to determine whether a new speedy deletion criterion should be added regarding pages that exhibit signs of being generated by a large language model (LLM) without human review.
- Following a request for comment, there is a new policy outlining the granting of permissions to view the IP addresses of temporary accounts. Temporary account deployment on the English Wikipedia is currently scheduled for September 2025, and editors can request access to the permission ahead of time. Admins are encouraged to keep an eye on the request page; there will likely be a flood of editors requesting the permission when they realize they can no longer see IP addresses.
Technical news
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Indian military history has been closed.
- South Asia (WP:CT/SA) is designated a contentious topic. The topic area is specifically defined as
All pages related to the region of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal), broadly construed, including but not limited to history, politics, ethnicity, and social groups.
- The contentious topic designations for Sri Lanka (SL) and India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan (IPA) are folded into this new contentious topic.
- The community-authorized general sanctions regarding South Asian social groups (GS/CASTE) are rescinded and folded into this new contentious topic.
- South Asia (WP:CT/SA) is designated a contentious topic. The topic area is specifically defined as
- The arbitration case Article titles and capitalisation 2 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 31 July.
- The arbitration case Transgender healthcare and people has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 11 August.
Miscellaneous
Most recent poster here: [[User:|]] ([[User talk:#Top|talk]])
Mini-toolbox:
- My Wikimedia Library (journal access, etc.; to get your own, see WP:LIBRARY)
- Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Script (req. WP:AWB access and JWB installed or is just a normal redlink)
- Special:LintErrors
- Hunt down abuse of
{{em}}for non-emphasis italics [1] — and<em>[2] - Move and redirect articles with slashes in their titles when feasible (i.e. when not proper names that require them)
- NAC-at-ANRFC geekery to remember
- NAC-at-RM geekery to remember
- Ref consistency checker (use in preview or sandbox):
{{ref info|Manx cat|style=float:right}} - Reliably regex-match a single linebreak in wikicode (or elsewhere):
(\r\n|\r|\n) - Helpful links related to WP:MEATBOT, WP:COSMETICBOT, and code cleanup: WP:EDITORFRIENDLY (a.k.a. WP:EDITORHOSTILE), WP:COSMETIC (a.k.a. WP:SUBSTANTIVE), WP:SPECTRUM
- All WP:CUE project participants should watchlist this alerts page.
Good article nominees
- 28 Jul 2025 – 2025 Tour Championship (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Lee Vilenski (t · c); start discussion
- 26 Jul 2025 – 2025 World Snooker Championship (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by HurricaneHiggins (t · c); start discussion
- 27 May 2025 – Jimmy White (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Canary757 (t · c); start discussion
- 16 May 2025 – 2022 UK Championship (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Alavense (t · c); start discussion
- 03 Mar 2025 – 2025 Masters (snooker) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by HurricaneHiggins (t · c); start discussion
- 01 Feb 2025 – Bernard Bennett (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by BennyOnTheLoose (t · c); start discussion
- 30 Jan 2025 – Gary Owen (snooker player) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by BennyOnTheLoose (t · c); start discussion
- 28 Dec 2024 – Mark Wildman (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by BennyOnTheLoose (t · c); start discussion
Other:
- MW Editing team e-meetings, /wikimedia.org/edit-tasktriage via Google Hangouts (Tuesdays, noon–12:30pm PDT = 20:00 UTC during DST, 19:00 otherwise, but often half an hour earlier).
- MW Tech Advice e-meetings, via IRC at #wikimedia-tech connect (Wednesdays, 1–2pm PDT = 16:00–17:00 UTC).
- meta:Talk:Spam blacklist – global blacklist requests
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