Hi Seicer. It looks like you made Seph Lawless‎ both semi-protected and having pending change protection. Is there a reason for it having both? meamemg (talk) 14:38, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2016-12-14T14:38:00.000Z","author":"Meamemg","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Meamemg-2016-12-14T14:38:00.000Z-Meant_Seph_Lawless","replies":["c-Seicer-2016-12-14T16:52:00.000Z-Meamemg-2016-12-14T14:38:00.000Z"]}}-->

Meant one, not the other. Thanks! seicer | talk | contribs 16:52, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2016-12-14T16:52:00.000Z","author":"Seicer","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Seicer-2016-12-14T16:52:00.000Z-Meamemg-2016-12-14T14:38:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

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• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
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• When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
• Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
• The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

• JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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Respectfully, Anomalocaris (talk) 18:36, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2017-12-06T18:36:00.000Z","author":"Anomalocaris","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Anomalocaris-2017-12-06T18:36:00.000Z-Your_signature","replies":[]}}-->

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Hey S, say you have come back for a few edits this year, so before I went to WP:UNPROTECT, I was hoping you could unprotect Blue Buffalo from re-creation? General Mills just announced they will buy the company for $8 billion, and I want to start the article on the company. Thanks! UnitedStatesian (talk) 16:52, 23 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-02-23T16:52:00.000Z","author":"UnitedStatesian","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-UnitedStatesian-2018-02-23T16:52:00.000Z-Unprotection_request","replies":[]}}-->

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Awesome

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