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DYK for James Ross Mellon
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On 1 July 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article James Ross Mellon, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Suzy Knickerbocker called James Ross Mellon one of the world's most eligible bachelors? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/James Ross Mellon. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, James Ross Mellon), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Gatoclass (talk) 00:03, 1 July 2025 (UTC)
DYK for McMenamins Hotel Oregon UFO Festival
[edit]On 2 July 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article McMenamins Hotel Oregon UFO Festival, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the McMenamins Hotel Oregon UFO Festival (parade pictured) was established in 2000 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the McMinnville UFO hoax? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/McMenamins Hotel Oregon UFO Festival. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, McMenamins Hotel Oregon UFO Festival), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Gatoclass (talk) 12:02, 2 July 2025 (UTC)
DYK for David Wilcock
[edit]On 2 July 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article David Wilcock, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a 2018 film by David Wilcock has been described by Vice as making the case that space aliens "occupy large swaths of Antarctica [and] are massing for an invasion"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/David Wilcock. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, David Wilcock), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Gatoclass (talk) 12:03, 2 July 2025 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – July 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2025).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following a talk page discussion, speedy deletion criterion G13 has been amended to remove "Userspace with no content except the article wizard placeholder text."
- WP:Manual of Style/Superscripts and subscripts was upgraded to a guideline following a RfC discussion.
Miscellaneous
- The 2025 Developing Countries WikiContest will run from 1 July to 30 September. Sign up now!
- Administrator elections will take place this month. Administrator elections are an alternative to RFA that is a gentler process for candidates due to secret voting and multiple people running together. The call for candidates is July 9–15, the discussion phase is July 18–22, and the voting phase is July 23–29. Get ready to submit your candidacy, or (with their consent) to nominate a talented candidate!
Len Blavatnik (follow-up)
[edit]Hi Chetsford. Welcome back! We were briefly in touch at the end of May concerning the lengthy discussion at Talk:Len Blavatnik#Philanthropy sections. At the time, you advised me to ping some of the other recently active editors, which I did to no avail. And since that time, the sole other editor in the dispute made it clear that they no longer want to participate in the discussion - but consensus was never reached. Would you mind stepping in now, as an uninvolved editor, and settling the matter? Thanks! C at Access (talk) 14:25, 11 July 2025 (UTC)
- Hi C at Access - thank you for your patience. I'll review it now. Please standby. Chetsford (talk) 23:32, 12 July 2025 (UTC)
- C at Access - the Marlowe sentence seems to be the only sticking point on the basis of an objection. So that this doesn't hold-up the entire section, I'm going to implement everything but that and then will separately contact the editor who objects to that sentence to assess the strength of their objection. However, can you please post a fresh version of the entire page, inclusive of the proposed philanthropy section, in draft space so I can just copy/paste the whole thing in? I just want to make sure I don't misplace the proposed section within the article. (Go ahead and leave the Marlow sentence as you've proposed it and I'll manually address that.) Chetsford (talk) 23:39, 12 July 2025 (UTC)