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December 2025 administrator elections - schedule

Administrator Elections | Schedule

• The December 2025 administrator elections are set to proceed.
• We plan to use the following schedule:
  • Nov 25 – Dec 1: Candidate sign-up
  • Dec 4 – Dec 8: Discussion phase
  • Dec 9 – Dec 15: SecurePoll voting phase
• If you have any questions, concerns, or thoughts before we get started, please ask at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.

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ArbCom 2025 Elections voter message

Hello! Voting in the 2025 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 1 December 2025. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 71

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 71, September–October 2025

• Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref 2025 in Nigeria
• Frankfurt Book Fair
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Articles for Creation backlog drive

Hello Vanderwaalforces:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive in December!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than half a month of outstanding reviews from the current 2+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 December 2025 through 31 December 2025.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is a backlog of over 3000 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:07, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

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Administrator Elections - Call for Candidates

The administrator elections process has officially started! Interested editors are encouraged to self-nominate or arrange to be nominated by reviewing the instructions at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/December 2025/Candidates.

Here is the schedule:

• November 25 – December 1 - Call for candidates
• December 4–8 - Discussion phase
• December 9–15 - SecurePoll voting phase

Please note the following:

• The requirements to run are identical to RFA—a prospective candidate must be extended confirmed.
• Prospective candidates are advised to become familiar with the community's expectations of administrators, which are much higher than the minimum requirement of having extended confirmed status. This includes reviewing successful and unsuccessful RFAs, reading the essay Wikipedia:Advice for admin elections candidates, and possibly requesting an optional poll on their chances of passing.
• The process will have a seven day call for candidates phase, a two day pause, a five day discussion phase, and a seven day private vote using SecurePoll. Discussion and questions are only allowed on the candidate pages during the discussion phase.
• The outcome of this process is identical to making a request for adminship. There is no official difference between an administrator appointed through RFA versus administrator elections.
• Administrator elections are also a valid means of regaining adminship for de-sysopped editors.

Ask any questions about the process at the talk page. Later, a user talk message will be sent to official candidates with additional information about the process.

If you are interested in the process, please make sure to watchlist the appropriate pages. A watchlist notice will be added when the discussion phase opens, and again when the voting phase opens.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:49, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

Closed Move: House of Mathrafal

Hello,

I would like to relist the move of this page to Lleision, as it would appear that the association of the dynasty with the location of Mathrafal is both thirteenth century and not even how the dynasty thought of themselves. Professor Huw Pryce of Bangor wrote thirty years ago that the identification of Mathrafal as the chief court of Powys was an invention of jurists from Gwynedd. SeeSee Pryce, Huw, ‘Mathrafal: the evidence of written sources’, in C. J. Arnold and J. W. Huggett, ‘Excavations at Mathrafal, Powys, 1989’, Montgomeryshire Collections, 83 (1995), 61–5. Indeed, the only book on the dynasty, as I have mentioned in the previous talk discussion, only refers to the family as the Lleision (followed by mainstream academic sources), as this is a contemporary, accurate term. Tipcake (talk) 13:35, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

@Tipcake Mind providing a link? I can barely grasp what this is about. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 06:57, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

@Vanderwaalforces Hi, yes, you closed my request to move the page presently titled House of Mathrafal a royal dynasty of Powys, since there was little discussion on it being moved. I wished to change the name of the page to Lleision, as that is the medieval name of the family and what they are usually specifically referred to as in modern sources, as you can see in my discussion on the talk page. However, I furthermore found reference to this paper by a distinguished author who argues that the connection of the kingdom with Mathrafal (a place in Powys) is not even internal to the area but was an invention of lawyers from North Wales. You can see yourself here. Tipcake (talk) 18:06, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

@Tipcake I think you can simply open a new requested move discussion, if anything. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 18:13, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

@Vanderwaalforces Oh, ok. I thought the page said something about discussing it on the closer's talk page. Tipcake (talk) 18:28, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Administrator Elections - Discussion Phase

The discussion phase of the December 2025 administrator elections is officially open. As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

• Dec 4–8 - Discussion phase (we are here)
• Dec 9–15 - SecurePoll voting phase
• Scrutineering phase

We are currently in the discussion phase. The candidate subpages are open to questions and comments from everyone, in the same style as a request for adminship. You may discuss the candidates at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/December 2025/Discussion phase.

On December 9, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close to public questions and discussion, and everyone will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote totals cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's totals during the election. You must be extended confirmed to vote.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which typically lasts between a couple days and a week. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page (you may want to watchlist this page) and transcluded to the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate who has not been recalled must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and must also have received a minimum of 20 support votes. A candidate that has been recalled must have at least 55.0% support. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").

Any questions or issues can be asked on the election talk page. Thank you for your participation. Happy electing.

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