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2012

January

January 23^rd

The General is up for re-evaluation. All users are encouraged to comment.

January 15^th

Revenant is up for re-evaluation. All users are encouraged to comment.

January 9^th

Karek is up for re-evaluation. All users are encouraged to comment.

January 6^th

A policy regarding changing the time frame for sys-op inactivity is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

2011

December

December 12^th

There is an open discussion on updating the DangerMap system. All users are encouraged to participate in the discussion.

December 11th

There is currently a debate going on about updating the suburb danger levels. All users are encouraged to give their opinion here.

November

November 29th

The November Bureaucrat Elections have begun with Revenant's crat seat being voted upon. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.

November 24th

A policy regarding text rape is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

November 9th

Due to server constraints, it has become necessary to delete wiki revision histories over one year old, again. This will occur in a few days' time, and will require the wiki to be offline for a short while.

October

October 22nd

Axe Hack has been retained by the community as a sysop, after his latest reevaluation.}}

October 11th

Axe Hack is currently up for Re-Evaluation by the community. Everybody is encouraged to voice their opinions here

September

September 26th

Cornholioo has been put up for permaban appeal on the de-escalations page. All interested users are encouraged to vote here.

September 24th

Izumi Orimoto has been put up for permaban appeal on the de-escalations page. All interested users are encouraged to vote here.

September 21st

Rosslessness has been kept on as a sysop by the community.

September 7th

Rosslessness is currently up for Re-Evaluation by the community. Everybody is encouraged to voice their opinions here.

August

August 29th

Congratulations to Boxy on his successful bureaucrat promotion!

August 15th

A scheduling request is underway to make Speedy Deletion criteria 9 (Prefix Rule) a scheduled deletion. All users are encouraged to vote.

August 15th

The August Bureaucrat Promotion is now open with Rosslessnes' seat being votedupon. All users are encouraged to vote.

August 1st

There is a rule change proposal in the suggestions section, related to the handling of humourous suggestions. All users are encouraged to cast their votes.

July

July 31st

There is an open discussion on a new suggestion system. All users are encouraged to participate in the discussion.

July 31st

A policy regarding the addition of a third bureaucrat is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

July 28th

Congratulations to Misanthropy for becoming a sysop!

July 23rd

Spiderzed is currently up for Re-Evaluation by the community. Everybody is encouraged to voice their opinions here.

July 18th

A policy regarding redirects to userspace pages has come up for a vote. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.

July 9th

Congratulations to Battle of the Bear Pit for being a Historical Event!

July 8th:

Congratulations to Channel 4 News Team for being a Historical Group!

July 8th

Katthew has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

July 8th

Misanthropy has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

July 8th

A policy regarding redirects to userspace pages is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

July 2nd

A policy regarding extending the A/RE discussion is being voted on. All users are encouraged to cast their votes.

June

June 26th

A policy regarding extending the A/RE discussion is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

June 25th

Battle of the Bear Pit has been nominated for Historical Events status. All users are encouraged to vote.

June 24th

Channel 4 News Team has been nominated for Historical Group status. All users are encouraged to vote.

June 17th

DanceDanceRevolution is currently up for Re-Evaluation by the community. Everybody is encouraged to voice their opinions here.

June 9th

hagnat has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

June 3rd

A policy regarding clarification on the validity of off-site requests is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

May

May 30th

A policy regarding off-site requests has come up for a vote. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.

May 27nd

The Reevaluation for Bureaucrats policy has been approved by the community.

May 23rd

Congratulations to The General for becoming a sysop!

May 17th

There is an open discussion on page ownership and copyright. All users are encouraged to participate in the discussion.

May 17th

A policy regarding clarification on the validity of off-site requests is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

May 14th

A policy regarding allowance for SysOps to choose to ignore SpamBot page creations is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

May 13th

A policy regarding adjusting the upper time limit for bureaucrats holding their seat without election has come up for a vote. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.

May 13th

A change to Recruitment advertising rules on the wiki has been proposed. All users are encouraged to stop by and vote.}}

May 8th

Congratulations to Karek for becoming a sysop!

May 5th

A policy on the requirement of signatures to contain a handle linking to the user's page has come up for voting. All users are encouraged to cast their vote

May 4th

The General has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

May 3rd

A policy regarding adjusting the upper time limit for bureaucrats holding their seat without election is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

May 1st

A policy is up for discussion on the requirement of signatures to contain a handle linking to the user's page.

May 1st

The new Bureaucrat Promotion has started, with DDR's spot up for grabs. All users are encouraged to give opinions here.

April

April 24th

Karek has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

April 22nd

Amazing has been unbanned due to the permaban appeal on the de-escalations page.

April 22nd

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

April 21th

UDWiki's wiki software has received its long awaited update. Thank you Kevan!

April 8th

Amazing has been put up for permaban appeal on the de-escalations page. All interestedmembers are encouraged to vote here.

April 7th

The Permaban Appeal policy has been approved by the community.

March

March 31st

Cheese has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

March 29th

Revenant has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

March 21st

DevilAsh has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

March 6th

A poll for determining community opinion on suburb group classifications is open. All users are encouraged to participate in the poll. The poll will conclude on March 16th.

March 1st

A policy which discusses a system for long-time permabanned wiki users to appeal their bans is under discussion. All users are encouraged to have their say here.

March 1st

A poll for determining community opinion on suburb group classifications is under discussion. All users are encouraged to discuss the poll here before it opens. The poll will open on the 5th.

February

February 21st

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

February 20th

A policy regarding the unbanning of User:Amazing has come up for a vote. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.

February 17th

A policy regarding the unbanning of Amazing is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.}}

February 17th

Axe Hack has been promoted to the position of sysop. Congratulations Axe Hack!

February 15th

The Update Promotion Procedure(2) policy has been approved by the community.

February 14th

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

February 14th

A proposal to adopt the wiki Terms of Service as official rules is under discussion. All users are invited to discuss it here.

February 13th

Congratulations to Spiderzed for becoming a sysop.

February 13th

A discussion regarding the point of view of the Suburb Map is taking place on the Suburb talk page. All users are encouraged to discuss.

February 11th

Nominations and discussion regarding redefining / renaming the Suburb Group Listings is currently taking place on the template talk page. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions / suggestions there. Yeah.}}

February 11th

A policy regarding the bias of group listings is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

February 9th

Congratulations to MisterGame for becoming a sysop!

February 7th

There is an open discussion on the idea of a new wiki project. All users are encouraged to participate in the discussion.

February 6th

Big Bash 3 has been nominated for Historical Group status. All users are encouraged to vote.

February 5th

A policy regarding preventing harrasment is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

February 3rd

Axe Hack has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

February 1st

A policy regarding promotion procedure has come up for a vote. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.

January

January 30th

Spiderzed has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

January 28th

Big Survivors Little Survivor has been nominated for Historical Group status. All users are encouraged to vote.

January 24th

Thadeous Oakley has nominated himself for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

January 24th

A policy regarding promotion procedure is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

January 20th

Cheese is up for re-evaluation. All users are encourage to give their opinion.

January 19th

Vapor has been promoted to sysop. Congratulations!

January 19th

The policy on removing the 20-vote requirement has Passed.

January 17th

The new Bureaucrat Promotion has started, with Rosslessness' spot up for grabs. All users are encouraged to give opinions here.

January 9th

Rosslessness has submitted himself for re-evaluation. All users are encouraged to comment.

January 5th

Vapor has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

January 5th

A discussion has been opened regarding the "Current Status" section on location pages.

January 2nd

A policy proposal removing the 20-vote requirement for policy votes is being voted on here. All users are encouraged to vote.

January 1st

Yonnua Koponen has submitted himself for re-evaluation. All users are encouraged to comment.

2010

December

December 23rd

A policy proposal removing the 20-vote requirement for policy votes is being discussed here. All users are encouraged to comment.

December 12th

A policy proposal for better protection of User talk: Kevan has been put up for discussion here. All users are encouraged to discuss it.

December 9th

A policy proposal for an update of the sys-op promotion procedure has been put up for vote here. All users are encouraged to vote on it.

November

November 28th

A policy discussion is being held about an update of the sys-op promotion procedure. All users are encouraged to comment.

November 23rd

A discussion is being had about an "In Real Life" Urban Dead Convention. All interested parties are requested to provide input here.

November 21th

Blackmore 4(04) has been nominated for Good Article status. All users are encouraged to vote on its status here.

Several new guides are up for review. Users are encouraged to weigh in on their addition to the Guides page here.

November 11th

Dezonus has nominated himself for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

October

October 13th

Thadeous Oakley has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

October 3rd

The new Bureaucrat Promotion has started, with the spot of Boxy up for reevaluation by the community. All users are encouraged to give opinions here.

August

August 10th

Misanthropy has been kept on as sysop following his Re-evaluation.

July

July 15th

Red Hawk One is having his re-evaluation as a sysop. The community is encouraged to give their input here.

July 12th

An update to The Community Portal Template, which will add Featured articles to the template, has been proposed. All users are encouraged to weigh in on the proposal here.

July 11th

The new Bureaucrat Promotion has started, with the spot of Boxy up for reevaltuation by the community. All users are encouraged to give opinions here.

July 10th

An open discussion has been started regarding the formatting and use of welcome templates on the Wiki. Users are encouraged to comment on the talk page.

June

June 28th

An open discussion regarding Copyrights, citations, and attributions, has been started. All users are asked to contribute here.

May

May 22nd

A policy enforcing hate speech as vandalism is now under discussion. All users are welcome to voice their opinion.

April

April 23rd

Yonnua Koponen has nominated himself for sysop status

April 15th

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

April 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...