UDWiki:News

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Community Announcements

• WanYao has been nominated for promotion.
• The February round of Bureaucratic Elections has ended with Suicidal Angel winning the election and being promoted to bureaucrat.

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July 29	A policy regarding Historical Group voting requirements is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.
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2010

April

April 15th

The bureaucrat elections have come to a close. Rosslessness won. Congrats, Ross!

Apr 14th

The policy Altered Ban Lengths has gone to voting. All users are encouraged to vote here.

February

February 21st

Cyberbob has been nominated for re-evaluation as a sysop. All the community is invited to offer input here.

February 13th

The Rooster has been nominated for re-evaluation as a sysop. All the community is invited to offer input here.

February 6th

Another article has been nominated for Good Article status. All users are encouraged to vote on the article here.

January

January 12th

2 of the 3 Better Vandal Data policies have passed, meaning A/DE has been created and A/VD will now be more formalised for the Wiki's users.

January 9th

A new policy relating to shortening the time between re-evaluations is up for voting. All users are encouraged to vote here.

January 5th

Suicidalangel has nominated himself for sysop status. All users are encouraged to provide their input here.

January 5th

A guide has been put forward for evaluation at Guides/Review. All participants are encouraged to vote on the guide here.

2009

December

December 29th

A new open discussion relating to voting guidelines is currently under discussion. All users are encouraged to voice their opinion.

December 20th

A new Scheduled Deletion has been requested; all users are encouraged to vote on it here.

December 18th

An election is under way for the position of Bureaucrat on the wiki. All users are asked to vote for their preferred candidate.

December 15th

A new Scheduled Deletion has been requested; all users are encouraged to vote on it here.

December 11th

A group has been nominated for historical status. All users are encouraged to add their opinions here.

December 5th

A guide has been put forward for evaluation at Guides/Review. All participants are encouraged to vote on the guide here.

October

October 13

A user has been put up for promotion for System Administrator. Please voice your opinion here

August

August 4th

Even more guides are up for review. Input would be appreciated on all the survivor guides.

July

July 28th

A new Scheduled Deletions request has been submitted, to get rid of unusable images of 0x0 size. All users are encouraged to vote.

July 20th

An open discussion on Borehamwood has begun. Please contribute your opinions.

July 20th

A new Scheduled Protection request has been proposed. All users are encouraged to come and participate in voting.

• Policy Discussion

July 18th

A draft of a community sysop recall/demotion policy is up for discussion. All users are encouraged to share their opinions here.

July 18th

A policy regarding chatter on A/VB is being discussed.

May

• General News

May 4th

The wiki's Did you Know section is in need of some suggestions. A new best ten get featured every week.

February

• Policy Discussion

February 15

A policy relating to the wiki's sig policy is being discussed.

January

• Sysop Bid

January 29

Suicidal Angel was promoted to sysop.

2008

November

• Sysop Bid

November 4

J3D has submitted a promotion bid, discussion will occur for the next two weeks here.

• Sysop Promotion

November 1

Hagnat has been promoted to sysop. Congratulations Hag.

October

• New Policy under Voting

October 29

A new policy to place a timelimit on arbitration rulings is currently under voting.

• Cheese becomes new Bureaucrat

October 23

Bureaucrat Elections have concluded. Cheese has been promoted.

• More Policy Discussions

October 15

A new policy to place a timelimit on arbitration rulings is currently under discussion.

• Hagnat for Sysop!

October 15

Hagnat is currently re-running for sysop.

• New Policy Discussions

October 15

New policies on vandal amnesty, Misconduct changes, sysops being moderators and arbitration are currently under discussion.

• New Bureaucrat Voting

October 9

A new round of Bureaucrat Elections is called due to the demotion of the previous Bureaucrat. Community members are encouraged to go to the relevant page and vote for the candidate of their choice.

• Misconduct Trial

October 8

Unprecedented community opinion is being sought, calling for a vote on a sysop's position, as part of a Misconduct case. Please make your opinion known. Voting has now stopped. Thanks for the input.

• Bureaucrat Votings Ended

October 7

The latest Bureaucrat Promotions have ended, with AHLG being promoted to Bureaucrat. Congratulations Gnome!

• WikiProject Birthday!

October 1

The beloved wikiproject, The list of Amusing Locations in Malton is turning one today! Head over to ALiM today and over the coming month for your dose of birthday action!

September

• Policy Discussion

September 30

A new policy on arbitration is currently under discussion. Please come and air your thoughts on it.

• Historical Events Nomination

September 28

An event (the User:RadioSurvivor) has been nominated for Historical Status. All users are encouraged to vote here.

• Historical Group Nomination

September 28

An event (the Malton Block Party) has been nominated for Historical Status. All users are encouraged to vote here.

• Historical Group Nomination

September 25

A group (the Eastonwood Ferals) has been nominated for Historical Status. All users are encouraged to vote here.

• New Bureaucrat Election

September 22

A new Bureaucrat Election has been called. All users are asked to vote.

August

• New WikiProject

August 18

Help keep the wiki up to date by participating in The Great Suburb Group Massacre. Let us know if your group is still active.

• Policy Discussion

August 03

Two policies concerning Soft warnings have been put up to discussion. Users are encouraged to discuss them here and here

July

• Policy Discussion

July 24

A new policy on adding a new level of sysopship is now under voting.

• Historical Event Nominee

July 24

An event is up for historical voting. All users are encouraged to vote here.

May

• ParserFunctions extension: Arguments for-and-against

Saturday, May 17

An Open Discussion regarding Arguments for-and-against the ParserFunctions extension is underway.

2007

November

• Suggestions discussion page re-organisation

Monday, November 26

A new policy regarding a possible re-organisation of the suggestions discussion page is currently up for voting

• Obnoxious Sigs Policy Vote

Monday, November 21

A new policy to vote on obnoxious sigs, that are not covered by current policy, is being voted on. Voting ends December 5th.

• Bureaucrat Promotions Round

Monday, November 19

A new Bureaucrat Promotions round has begun. Voting ends on December 3rd.

• Policy Discussion: No Autobans Allowed

Sunday, November 18

A new policy concerning Sysops autobanning themselves is currently under discussion

• Suggestions Policy Voting: Justifications

Sunday, November 18

A suggestion policy change for modifying justifications is under voting}}

• Suggestions Discussion: Dupe Reform

Friday, November 16

A new policy of Dupe Reform, pretaining to the Suggestion Page is under discussion.

• Policy Voting: Automatic Sysop Cycling

Friday, November 16

A new policy concerning reviews for Sysops is currently under voting

• Policy Discussion: Obnoxious Sigs

Sunday, November 10

A new policy to vote on obnoxious sigs, that are not covered by current policy, is under discussion.

July

• Defining NPOV

Sunday, July 8

A discussion has been started to formalise how neutral contributions to community pages should be. All interested users are asked to contribute to the discussion.

June

• Bureaucrat Elections

Saturday, June 30

A position as bureaucrat is under election, Eligible candidates for bureaucrat are the current bureaucrat Boxy and the sysops Conndraka, Daranz, Dux Ducis, Hagnat, Matthewfarenheit, Max Grivas, The General, Vantar, Vista and Zombie slay3r. All users are asked to Vote.

• Suburb Danger Colors under discussion

Thursday, June 28

A new way to grade the danger level for suburbs is under discussion. After 15 months in use, the old system no longer is capable of rating the new tactics used by survivors and zombies.

• Mall Tour '07 voted Historical

Wednesday, June 27

The zombies of the Mall Tour '07 are now part of the UrbanDead history. Barhah!

• St. Valentine's Cherubs voted Historical

Wednesday, June 20

A new chapter in the history of <alton is written. St. Valentine's Cherubs voted historical.

• New Historical Events page!

Monday, June 18

After a month of discussion and voting, a new category was created to list the most important events ever ocurred in UrbanDead.

• Matthewfarenheit promoted!

Friday, June 16

After two weeks, Matthewfarenheit was promoted to SysOp, with 27 votes for, and 7 votes against.

• Mall Tour '07 for Historical Group

Wednesday, June 13

Two months after Xyu disbanded the group, the Mall Tour '07 tries for the second time to get it historical status.

• New Clothes Suggestions page

Monday, June 4

After Kevan added Clothes to UrbanDead, many where thinking about suggestion some more. A new suggestions page was created then, only for suggesting new clothes for Malton.

• Matthewfarenheit for SysOp

Saturday, June 2

Matthewfarenheit tries for the third time to get promoted to SysOp.

May

• Dulston Defense Death Squad voted Historical!

Wednesday, May 30

After two weeks of voting, the Dulston Defense Death Squad was promoted to Historical Group, with 18 votes for, and 4 against.

• Cyberbob240 demoted after voting

Monday, May 28

After a failed re-promotion process, long term Wiki Mod Cyberbob240 was demoted from its powers and returned to be a regular wiki user.

• St. Valentine's Cherubs for Historical Group

Friday, May 25

The group famous for this year valentine's day massacre tries to get its historical status

• Gage requests his own demotion

Thursday, May 10

Long term Wiki Mod Gage requests his own demotion. So long, and thank you...