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Guild of Copy Editors – September 2025 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors – September 2025 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Election news: Project coordinators play an important role in our WikiProject. Following the mid-year Election of Coordinators, we welcomed GoldRomean to the coordinator team. Dhtwiki remains as lead coordinator, and Miniapolis and Mox Eden return as coordinators. If you'd like to help out behind the scenes, please consider taking part in our December election – watchlist our ombox for updates. Information about the role of coordinators can be found here. June 2025 blitz: 10 of the 12 editors who signed up for the June 2025 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited a total of 26,652 words comprising 13 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. July 2025 drive: 30 of the 54 editors who signed up for the July 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited a total of 379,557 words comprising 151 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. August 2025 Blitz: 11 of the 17 editors who signed up for the August 2025 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited a total of 65,601 words comprising 25 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. September 2025 Drive: Sign up here to earn barnstars in our month-long, in-progress September Backlog Elimination Drive. Progress report: As of 06:43, 20 September 2025 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 222 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,010 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we do without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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AEW Title Tuesday

Thank you for adding cards to AEW Title Tuesday! Was just about to do it and you beat me to it in June, good job. Lemonademan22 (talk) 11:19, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

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Thank you for your work on this article. Unfortunately, it is not yet ready for main space. Please add sources and footnotes to back up each claim with a reliable source. Please also establish notability per WP:NSPORT. I will be moving it to draft space. Please feel free to republish once it meets the above criteria. Have a great day!

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Guild of Copy Editors – December 2025 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2025 Newsletter Hello, and welcome to the December newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since September. If you'd like to be notified of upcoming drives and blitzes, and other GOCE activities, the best method is to add our announcements box to your watchlist. Election news: The Guild's coordinators play an important role in the WikiProject, making sure nearly everything runs smoothly and on time. Editors experienced in drives or blitzes and in good standing (unblocked and without sanctions) are invited to nominate themselves or another editor (with their permission, of course) to be a Guild coordinator until 23:59 on 15 December (UTC). The voting phase begins at 00:01 on 16 December and runs until 23:59 on 31 December. Questions may be asked of candidates at any stage in the process. Elected coordinators will serve a six-month term from 1 January through 30 June 2026. September Drive: 43 of the 63 editors who signed up for the September Backlog Elimination Drive edited 693,541 words in 265 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. October Blitz: 14 of the 15 editors who signed up for the October Copy Editing Blitz edited 75,108 words in 31 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. November Drive: 38 of the 65 editors who signed up for the November Backlog Elimination Drive edited 590,816 words in 240 articles. Barnstars awarded are posted here. December Blitz: The December Blitz will begin at 00:00 on 14 December (UTC) and will end on 20 December at 23:59. Sign up here. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 01:49, 8 December 2025 (UTC), GOCE copy editors have completed 293 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 1,730 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators, Dhtwiki, GoldRomean, Miniapolis and Mox Eden. To stop receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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WIkiProject Doctor Who: December 2025 Newsletter

The Space-Time Telegraph Volume III, Issue III — December 2025 Brought to you by the editors of WikiProject Doctor Who Help! We've been robbed... of a new Doctor Who Christmas special this year :( 2025... I Let You Go *vworp vworp, vworp vworp* The Space-Time Telepgraph is back again with our final issue of the year. With 13-episodes of Who-related content broadcast in 2025, it marked the biggest year in the Whoniverse since 2017! Take a quick read below for all the Wikipedia-related (and non-Wikipedia-related) Doctor Who news that you missed, and everything you have to look forward to. Happy New Year! 🥳🎉 Would you like a jelly baby Good or Featured article? It's been several months since the last newsletter, and a number of new GAs have been added to the quality content list. In total we have promoted nearly 50 Good Articles this year, on top of one Featured Article, making this the year with the largest amount of promoted Doctor Who-related content in Wikipedia history (Beating our previous record of 2012's 36 by a significant margin). Congratulations to all of our editors who have contributed to quality content this year, and we hope to see the number of quality articles under our project grow as time goes on. Intelligence Bulletin from the Subwave Network A five-part miniseries and spin-off of Doctor Who, The War Between the Land and the Sea concluded airing this month on BBC One. The series will release on Disney+ next year. The conclusion of that series on Disney+ will officially mark the end of the co-production deal between the Beeb and the Mouse House that was first announced in 2022. While Doctor Who has been confirmed to continue with a 2026 Christmas Special written by Russell T Davies, its status in international markets has yet to be announced. CBeebies has also found an animation partner for a 52-part animated spin-off set to begin production next year and air across two series from 2027–2029. The War Between will also receive a DVD and Blu-ray release on 27 February. A physical release of the soundtrack album for that series from Lorne Balfe will precede it on 30 January; however, it is already available on digital platforms. On 12 December, the long-awaited and long-requested tenth series soundtrack from Murray Gold was published. Season 21 will receive a "Collection" release on 16 March, featuring a remastered episodes with new special features. Additionally a plethora of new audio and print stories are due for publication in early 2026. Their songs have ended... but their stories never end 🌹 Since the previous issue was published, a number of people related to the Whoniverse have sadly passed away and some who passed away before the previous issue only had their deaths announced recently: 2019 19 April - Roger Minnis, 75, actor (Spearhead from Space, Doctor Who and the Silurians, The Ambassadors of Death, The Claws of Axos) 2020 19 April - Bernard Barnsley, 86 or 87, actor (The Ark, Doctor Who and the Silurians, The Time Monster) 11 September - Neil Sweetmore, 86, dresser (Warriors of the Deep) 2021 5 December - Peggy Sirr, 92, actress (Marco Polo) 2022 21 January - Terence Lodge, 85, actor (The Macra Terror, Carnival of Monsters, Planet of the Spiders) 9 May - Christopher Denham, 83, actor (The Savages) 1 June - Vaughan Collins, 74, actor (The Awakening) 17 November - Desmond McCarthy, production assistant (The Moonbase) Their songs have ended... but their stories never end 🌹 (continued) 2023 30 August - Jenny Doe, 76, director's assistant (Shada) and production associate (Terror of the Vervoids) 2024 10 March - Conrad Monk, 87, actor (The Daleks' Master Plan) 25 July - Brian White, cameraman (regular from 1960s onwards, work includes the Dalek POV at the end of The Daleks - "The Dead Planet") 2025 27 March - Ray Lavender, 85, actor (The Androids of Tara, The Horns of Nimon, The Leisure Hive, Snakedance) 5 April - Peter Noel Cook, 97, actor (The Ambassadors of Death) (death only announced in November) 17 May - Gawn Grainger, 87, actor (The Mark of the Rani) 14 June - Joanna Bacon, 72, actress (The Havoc of Empires, The Man at the End of the Garden) (death only announced in July) 6 July - Ralph Wilton, 86, production assistant (Shada), production manager (Arc of Infinity), and lighting crew (The Crusade) 4 August - Richard Ireson, 78, actor (The Mind Robber, The Krotons) 5 August - Stanley McGeagh, 88, actor (Colony in Space, The Sea Devils) 6 August - Christopher H. 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Thoughts about my Continental Classic bracket design concept

Hi! I tried creating a new design for the Continental Classic bracket a few months ago. You validly rejected them. I decided to have another go at it. I have made the colors more subtle. I, unfortunately, have not figured out how to incorporate the names of the winners of each match into the design but I think it's an improvement over my old design. Please check it out and give me your thoughts.

User:TheVoicelessWriter/sandbox TheVoicelessWriter (talk) 03:01, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

"Ide controller" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Ide controller has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 February 19 § Ide controller until a consensus is reached. 8BitBros (talk • edits) 19:43, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

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Guild of Copy Editors – April 2026 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors – April 2026 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the April 2026 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing. Election results: In our December 2025 coordinator election, incumbents Dhtwiki, GoldRomean, Miniapolis, and Mox Eden were reelected coordinators, and Wikieditor662 was newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC). December 2025 Blitz: 16 of the 31 editors who signed up for the December 2025 Copy Editing Blitz edited 116,064 words in 47 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. January Drive: 35 of the 55 editors who signed up for the January Backlog Elimination Drive edited 498,397 words in 183 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. February Blitz: 19 of the 23 editors who signed up for the February Copy Editing Blitz edited 83,969 words in 43 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. March Drive: 28 of the 48 editors who signed up for the March Backlog Elimination Drive edited 210,064 words in 87 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. April Blitz: Sign up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 12 to 18 April. Barnstars will be awarded here. Progress report: As of 09:10, 10 April 2026 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 81 copyediting requests since 1 January 2026. The backlog of articles needing copyediting stands at 1,794 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, GoldRomean, Miniapolis, Mox Eden and Wikieditor662. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Wikipedia:Destubathon of the Americas

You are invited to participate in the Destubathon of the Americas, a contest/editathon which will run from May 1 to May 31. The goal is to destub as many of our 475,000+ stubs for the Americas (from Alaska down to Chile) as possible. A good chance to have fun in expanding many of our old stale stubs and win up to £2000 ($2680) in Amazon vouchers for expanding stub articles. Sign up in the Contestants/participants section on the contest page if interested. Even if not interested in prizes you are still warmly welcome to participate in it as an editathon! Hopefully we can achieve something significant in the month of May together! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:32, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

About your recent RM close

You recently closed Talk:Persecution of transgender people under the second Trump administration#Requested move 1 May 2026 with consensus against moving. While I agree that the close reflected the outcome of the discussion, I request that you amend your close to state that many participants opposed the move on grounds of article scope instead of or in addition to grounds of neutrality. In other words, please edit your close to mention that some participants opposed a move because it would create problems with the scope of the article. SuperPianoMan9167 (talk) 20:01, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

I would also like to understand how you came to the conclusion that there was consensus for a 12 month moratorium on move requests when that was not even a question asked in the discussion. I'd ask you to strike that, or else this will definitely need to go to close review. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 20:51, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

@SuperPianoMan9167: happy to do so; whilst either concern is enough to form the basis for the consensus, it was the false balance one that was a little stronger. @Sirfurboy: I feel as if there's definitely a consensus for both. Moratoria may be added on to a closure if there is enough of an appetite for one, and determining consensus on imposing one is separate to determining consensus on the wider question. Sceptre (talk) 00:15, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

In your close, you say, I'm sad to see the motte-and-bailey tactics outwith Wikipedia show up here too. Are you aware, however, that the issue of the term "persecution" in this context was tested at RfC and the RfC has just been endorsed ? Core to those RfC findings were that sources do not describe the (very clearly anti-trans rhetoric and actions) as a persecution. That was the RfC finding. In this move request, no new sources were brought to the table, and only one source was discussed that even uses the word. But, as SuperPianoMan9167 points out, there was a good reason for rejecting this move request on grounds of changing the article scope, and many people explicitly stated that this was their reason for rejecting the move request. This is the weaker claim (the move to a specific title is weaker than a view that the word persecution ought not to be in the title), and now it will be used to attack the stronger claim. That is the classic motte-and-bailey, and cementing this in with a 12 month moratorium that was at the longest end, only asked for by a few of the one third of respondents who mentioned a moratorium, is clearly not a consensus on such a draconian measure. Indeed it looks like a supervote. If a moratorium is required (and here, it would be explicitly unhelpful, and disruption has not been demonstrated) then it should be decided by an RfC on that matter, not by suggestions by a minority of the participants. Again, requesting you revise that. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 08:22, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

I'd value your thoughts on this please. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 08:51, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing me to the RfC closure, I was genuinely not aware of it. Looking at the RfC and the close review, the closer of the RfC deliberately made no determination on whether it should apply to this article title (about actions taken by the Trump administration), but that there were suitable concerns about the appropriateness of the word in an article about Trump himself. In any case, in a closure, I can only follow roads suitably signposted by the RM. Bringing up the RfC post-close feels like a Hail Mary appeal to me. Sceptre (talk) 17:11, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

Indeed, but in the light of that context - a context you were unaware of - perhaps you can now see that your close comments, and particularly the moratorium, create a motte-and-bailey attack on this high WP:CONLEVEL consensus, and, absent any demonstration of disruption, and absent any sourcing for the wording that is being frozen in, it would not, after all, be appropriate to freeze the discussion at this point, and that the process here clearly has further to travel? Thanks. Sirfurboy🏄 18:17, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

I don't strictly see how the RfC on Trump means that there's a consensus for further discussion on the actions of his administration. The consensuses aren't in conflict -- it is possible to describe an administration/the wider executive as persecutory but not the head of the administration themselves (q.v. the UK on this very issue, in fact). All I saw at the RM was people who wanted a bit of a break from discussing the title again and again. I'm opening to lowering it to six months, but I still believe there's a consensus for a moratorium. Sceptre (talk) 02:24, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

It's possible to describe an administration but not the head of it this way, yes. But sources don't. That's the point. As for consensus to do something that was not even the subject of the move discussion - again, a minority of the respondents requested that. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 06:28, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

I don't think it's honestly a winning argument to say the sources don't support the idea of the Trump administration's actions as persecutory, when we've got human rights organisations using much stronger language. Sceptre (talk) 17:31, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

But not that language. That's the point. I have no objection to using the language the sources are using. The assumption I want to soften the language is misplaced. The objection is that we are not doing that, and that sources don't use this language. It is Wikipedian editorialisation. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 18:26, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

It really isn't, unless you can think of a proto-genocide (as the Lemkin Institute are warning about, for example) that isn't persecutory. Sometimes, WP:SPADE just applies. Sceptre (talk) 18:50, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

The Lemkin institute are an advocacy organisation but if WP:BESTSOURCES use the term genocide then so should we. However, they don't. `Butler calls it "rights-stripping, eliminationist politics and forcible dispossession".. This paper says "administrative and legal frameworks are being weaponized against gender diversity." It is not hard to find BESTSOURCES that call out the politicised anti-trans agenda, and I am sure there are sources that would use "transphobia" instead of anti-trans in desrcibing that, but a lot of them major on the rollback of rights and the damage being done. Indeed there's a whole book on that: Mezey, S. (2026) Transgender Rights in Flux. Bloomsbury. This source talks about a deliberate strategy of anti-trans misinformation. There is a lot to say here, but actually we are not saying it, because instead we (not the sources) want to talk about "persecution". Again, this moratorium that only had minority support prevents the discussion. This is not a battle ground issue - it is a matter about writing articles that follow the sources and not framing the public agenda on Wikipedia. Again, I don't ask that you change the move close - just rescind the moratorium - or else pare it back to a month (because actually, no good will come from a move discussion in less than a month. There is a fuller discussion to be had before someone else jumps in with a new and potentially half-baked RM). Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 19:17, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

All you're saying to me is that "persecution" is perhaps too light of a term. But still, going back to the point: the question of an imposing a moratorium is different to the question of the move result. Plenty of people wanted to impose a moratorium, and there was little-to-no pushback on the issue. I also don't anticipate consensus on the page title changing any time soon. Both those points leans towards the imposition of a moratorium of meaningful length being correct, per WP:MORATORIUM. Sceptre (talk) 19:23, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Disappointed by this response. I'll take it to Close Review. Could you tell me whether this should be a normal move review (which is unusual in that I would think we would endorse the "not moved" and only discuss the moratorium) or whether this shouled be at WP:AN please? Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 19:27, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

I'm happy to cut the moratorium to six months, but given how long contentious RMs take, any shorter wouldn't be meaningful. Sceptre (talk) 20:15, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Hi Sceptre, thanks for your close. I agree with Sirfurboy here. By my count, there were ~40 users who commented at that RFC; 12 users who supported some form of moratorium; and multiple of those 12 either supported a shorter duration (6 months) or just mentioned "a moratorium". I don't see how that adds up to consensus for 12 months. Astaire (talk) 16:50, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

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WIkiProject Doctor Who: April 2026 Newsletter

The Space-Time Telegraph Volume IV, Issue I — April 2026 Brought to you by the editors of WikiProject Doctor Who A new newsletter materializing? Quick, help us reverse the polarity of the neutron flow so it can safely land on your talk pages! Don't be lasagna (because there's a new newsletter to read) Hello, and welcome to our first 2026 issue of The Space-Time Telegraph. Inside you'll find plenty of information about recent happenings in our little Who corner of Wikipedia. We've also included a plethora of Doctor Who news you may have missed elsewhere in the last few months such as the finding of previously missing episodes, upcoming and recent product releases, a new streaming home for Who across the pond (and even a potential future partnership for new episodes). So what are you waiting for? Go ahead and jump on in! Into the Vortex! (Of Good and Featured Content) Since our newsletter last December, the Doctor Who WikiProject has seen a large amount of quality article improvement. So far, 16 Good Articles have been improved this year! We're at about the same pace we were last year, which is always good to see, especially given the twelve other articles nominated for GA status at present. Special shoutouts to users Rhain for their improvements on First Doctor serials, SkywalkerEccleston for their various improvements across a wide variety of articles, Lbal for their work on Full Circle (Doctor Who), and Doomitron for their work on Sixth Doctor. Additionally, since then, Ice Warrior has been improved to Featured Article status, List of Doctor Who creatures and aliens and List of Doctor Who characters have been improved to Featured List status, and three Good Topics focused on articles relating to the Midnight Entity, the Slitheen, and Doctor Who series 15 have been nominated and approved. Congratulations to all of the users who have improved quality Doctor Who articles in the past few months! A flabbergasting discovery In March, it was announced that episodes 1 ("The Nightmare Begins") and 3 ("Devil's Planet") of The Daleks' Master Plan were found by the charity Film is Fabulous! in a private collection among some films. The collector gave them permission to have them and sadly passed away not long after. Upon learning of the discovery through Toby Hadoke, actor Peter Purves, who starred in the episodes alongside William Hartnell and Adrienne Hill, said "My flabber has never been so gasted". The episodes were shown at a BFI screening (with Purves in attendance) in April and are now available on BBC iPlayer in the UK and the official Doctor Who Classic YouTube channel in the US. This means that episodes 1, 2, 3, 5 and 10 of The Daleks' Master Plan are now available. It has been hinted that more could be found in the near future as 95 episodes remain missing. Intelligence Bulletin from the Subwave Network The 1996 American-produced Doctor Who television film was remastered in 4K using the original film reels for a Blu-ray release this May. The restored version includes both the UK and U.S. broadcast versions and new special features. Big Finish Productions recently extended their contract with the BBC to continue licensing the Doctor Who franchise intellectual property for audio stories through 2035. The first new production to be confirmed following this announcement, is a fifteen-part box set featuring David Tennant set to begin releasing bimonthly next year. In February, the First Doctor serial The Rescue was published on vinyl record as a special release for Record Store Day in the United Kingdom. Circuit Breaker, a new multi-platform story starring Jo Martin as the Fugitive Doctor was announced by BBC Studios to launch this June. Spanning audio, books, comics, games, magazine, internet, and Blu-ray releases, tells a singular interconnected story about UNIT's Black Archive across several mediums. Seventeen years after its last release, Character Options is releasing a new five-part set of Doctor Who figures beginning in July. In the United States, AMC+ has secured rights to be the exclusive streaming video on demand host of all 2005–2022 Doctor Who episodes. This era of Who has been unavailable to stream in the States since its removal from HBO Max in July 2025. Noticeably absent from press releases are mention of spin-off series Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures; while these shows have historically been packaged with this era of Who in streaming deals on HBO Max, before that on Amazon Prime Video, as well as Netflix and Hulu in the ancient days, there is no confirmation if these will be included. Elsewhere in America, Classic Who has it's own streaming home on BritBox (yes, BritBox still exists on this side of the pond), while the 60th anniversary specials and Gatwa's era remain on Disney+ for the foreseeable future. Disney has also yet to release The War Between the Land and the Sea, a five-part miniseries previously marketed by the company as releasing outside of the UK and Ireland in "early 2026". There is also no news on where, if anywhere, future episodes of Who will air or stream in the United States (or elsewhere worldwide, for that matter); however, AMC Global Media (the owner of AMC+) owns BBC America, which it regularly licenses BBC content for and was the linear broadcaster of Who from 2009–2022, and a non-controlling ownership stake in BritBox. AMC+ was also previously the next-day streamer of Who episodes during the Jodie Whittaker/Chris Chibnall-era as a transitional period between their broadcast on BBC America and release on HBO Max. Given this, and the global reach of AMC+, it's a feasible home for future new episodes and even the rumored potential of a co-production deal to fill the funding deficit left by Disney. Succession The oldest-living person associated with the Whoniverse since Arnold Yarrow's death in December 2024, Laurie Webb, sadly passed away on 29 March aged 101 years, 327 days. He remains the fifth longest-lived person associated with the Whoniverse and the tenth to become a centenarian. The title of oldest-living person associated with the Whoniverse is now held by 97-year-old Peter Cellier (Time-Flight). Contributors Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) Spectritus (talk) TheDoctorWho (talk) Their songs have ended... but their stories never end 🌹 Since the previous issue was published, a number of people related to the Whoniverse have sadly passed away and some who passed away before the previous issue only had their deaths announced recently: 2022 October – Tony Scoggo, 86, actor (Terror of the Vervoids) 2023 25 March – Douglas Sheldon, 87, actor (The Daleks' Master Plan) 2024 Q1 – Susanna Carroll, 90 or 91, actress (Galaxy 4) 9 December – Julia Burnett, 70, actress (The Hand of Fear) 29 December – Nick Hobbs, 78, actor (The Curse of Peladon, The Ark in Space, "Amy's Choice" and more) 2025 Before 15 February – Geoffrey Keep, 76 or 77, convention regular and First Doctor cosplayer Before 14 April – Harriet Philpin, 73, actress (Genesis of the Daleks) 30 June – Jim Shooter, 73, editor-in-chief (1984–86 Doctor Who comic series by Marvel Comics) 11 August – Mike Winser, 83, OB cameraman (The Ultimate Foe) 14 August – Carol Sadler, 62, camerawoman (some unspecified 1980s serials) 28 August – John J. Johnston, 60, contributor to Doctor Who Magazine 3 September – Keith Hodiak, 75, actor ("The Five Doctors") 7 October – Tony Handy, 91, actor (The Underwater Menace) 1 November – Aidan White, 56, actor ("Partners in Crime") 7 November – Clemente Rezzónico, 90, artist (Daleks, invasión a la Tierra año 2150) 8 November – Geoff Beech, 81, studio cameraman (some unspecified 1960s and 1970s serials) 11 November – Nigel Walters, 84, camera assistant (The Ambassadors of Death) 11 November – Peter Sowerbutts, 76, actor (multiple audio stories) 16 November – Quenton Annis, 84, assistant floor manager (The Ice Warriors) 28 November – Carol Lawrence, 81, costume designer (Chute!) 3 December – John Dillon, 92, actor (The Savages) 8 December – Tony Van Silva, 75, stunt performer ("Tooth and Claw") 19 December – Richard Barnes, 81, actor (Nightmare of Eden) December – Roger Bamford, unknown age, floor assistant (The Daleks' Master Plan) 2025 – Rita Dunn, 92, production assistant (Snakedance) 2025 – George Reed, 91, visual effects assistant (The Seeds of Doom, The Talons of Weng-Chiang, Castrovalva, and many more) 2025 – Jan Spoczynski, 76 or 77, designer (Snakedance) and design assistant (Revenge of the Cybermen) 2026 1 January – Gregory de Polnay, 82, actor (The Robots of Death) 2 January – Colin Bell, 80, actor (The Sea Devils, Invasion of the Dinosaurs) 9 January – Tina Packer, 87, actress (The Web of Fear) 10 January – Derek Martin, 92, actor (Image of the Fendahl, The Romans, The Massacre and more) and stuntman (The Ambassadors of Death, The Mind of Evil, The Claws of Axos) 11 January – Marcus Gilbert, 67, actor (Battlefield, UNIT: Brave New World: Knightfall) 13 January – Paul Grist, 86, actor (The Claws of Axos) 14 January – Donald Douglas, 92, actor (The Sontaran Experiment) 16 January – Hazel Ellerby, 67, actress (Torchwood: Cadoc Point) 31 January – Lorne Martin, 79, props buyer (Doctor Who: The Tom Baker Years) and head of BBC Exhibitions 9 February – Tony Millier, 85, studio sound provider (The Enemy of the World, Colony in Space, The Dæmons and many more) 7 March – Paul Seed, 78, actor (The Ribos Operation) 17 March – Mike Smith, 87, helicopter pilot (Fury from the Deep, The Dæmons) 18 March – Tom Georgeson, 89, actor (Genesis of the Daleks, Logopolis) 25 March – Sheila S. Tomlinson, 100, film editor (Revenge of the Cybermen) 29 March – Laurie Webb, 101, actor (The Three Doctors) 6 April – Angela Pleasence, 84, actress ("The Shakespeare Code", The Curse of Clyde Langer) 10 April – Jan Williams, 87, actress (The Ark) April – Jill Curzon, 87, actress (Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.) 2 May – Barbara Kinghorn, 81, actress (The Caves of Androzani) 3 May – Joyce Hawkins, 95, costume designer (Horror of Fang Rock) 14 May – Alan Rothwell, 89, actor (The Twilight Kingdom) 18 May – Tom Kane, 64, actor (LEGO Dimensions) May – Michael Keating, 79, actor (The Sun Makers, The Twilight Kingdom, Year of the Pig, The Evil One, The End) Unknown year Tom Reeve, unknown age, dresser (Full Circle, Paradise Towers, Delta and the Bannermen) Brian Holloway, unknown age, cameraman (some unspecified serials in the 1960s and 1970s) Dave Carter, unknown age, actor (Doctor Who and the Silurians, Inferno, Terror of the Autons, and many more) If you wish to contribute to future editions of the newsletter, leave a message on the WikiProject talk page or reach out to one of the current contributors listed above. 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Wikiproject feminism revive

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Move review for Persecution of transgender people under the second Trump administration

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Guild of Copy Editors – June 2026 Newsletter

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Recent article-move decision

Greetings, Sceptre. In presenting yourself here in Wikipedia, you have written, inter alia: "My editing tends to fall into one of two areas, and I'm particularly interested in expanding Wikipedia's poor coverage of transgender issues and helping to reduce the amount of cisgender, heterosexual and male systemic bias on the encyclopedia." I did not fail to notice the sentence immediately following this ("However, I do understand the importance of not letting my queer politics getting in the way and compromising the neutrality of our queer coverage") but, in all honesty, I cannot see how you took it upon yourself to close down the discussion in this Request to Move the article previously named "Critical-gender feminism" -- in a non-admin closure, moreover. I have two strong objections: One that the self-evident importance and controversial nature of the titling practically demands closure by an administrator (I'd personally prefer three admins, acting in tandem, so as to have a robust precedent), and not a non-admin contributor by any stretch of goodwill. And, two, that the justification objectively reads as a straight-up adoption of the arguments for moving the article. I do not intend to go into details on the latter. I can only ask you to reconsider. And possibly to revert the move. Respectfully, The Gnome (talk) 13:06, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

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You wouldlike create this page? I Want translate after after, but not know german. Congrats ~2026-39554-11 (talk) 13:59, 14 July 2026 (UTC)