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ArbCom 2019 special circular

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Why have I received this message? All administrators are receiving it. What prompted you to send this message? Recently, several Wikipedia admin accounts were compromised. The admin accounts were desysopped on an emergency basis. In the past, the Committee often resysopped admin accounts as a matter of course once the admin was back in control of their account. The committee has updated its guidelines. Admins may now be required to undergo a fresh Request for Adminship (RfA) after losing control of their account. What do I need to do? Only to follow the instructions in this message. Check that your password is unique (not reused across sites). Check that your password is strong (not simple or guessable). Enable Two-factor authentication (2FA), if you can, to create a second hurdle for attackers. How can I find out more about two-factor authentication (2FA)? You can find out more about 2FA at m:2FA.

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:14, 4 May 2019 (UTC) Template:Z152

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC) Template:Z83

Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society

Dear Heron,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more. ​

Best regards, Urhixidur (talk) 02:08, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, Urhixidur. Invitation accepted. I'm proud to be a member. Heron (talk) 10:25, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

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Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago

Awesome

Ten years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:46, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

I had forgotten about Heron's Day. Thank you for reminding me and giving me a pleasant start to my day. --Heron (talk) 08:23, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

You are welcome! - Remembering some reasons to thank is a good start in the day for me. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:41, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Three years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:55, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

Los Solidos

Hello,

  I noticed your Latin King edit and thought the subject might be of some interest to you and I was wondering if you could help me clean up Los Solidos page? I've been working on it for quite some time and can't figure how or what has to be done to remove the clean up noticed and such. Veddernarian (talk) 23:00, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

Hi Veddernarian. I know nothing about this subject but I've cleaned up the article for you. The main things were to add more wiki links and move the references to the right places in the text. Maybe you could help me by checking that I put the references in the right places. All the best --Heron (talk) 13:21, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Looks good, thank you! Veddernarian (talk) 13:46, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

James Le Mesurier

I have removed the Wikitree cite because it is an open wiki, which are not WP:RS. I hope you've learned anything from this. ミラP 17:08, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

Fair enough :) --Heron (talk) 17:32, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

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Precious anniversary

Precious

Four years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:56, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you again! --Heron (talk) 10:20, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

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