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Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)

Of the 7 WP:RECALL petitions so far, at least three have some concerns at least adjacent to WP:INACTIVITY - Master Jay, Gimmetrow and Night Gyr (ongoing).

Currently admins are desysopped procedurally if they haven't made any edits/admin actions for 1 year OR have made less than 100 edits in 5 years. According to WP:RESTORATION, adminship is generally restored at WP:BN unless there were 2 years without edits OR 5 years since last tool usage.

Clearly, many editors believe we need to update WP:INACTIVITY but there has been no RFCs attempted on how.

This is an WP:RFCBEFORE to ask two main questions -

• Q1: Do the thresholds for procedural desysoppings ( WP:INACTIVITY ) need changing? If yes, to what?
• Q2: On return from inactivity, when do they generally get the tools back? ( WP:RESTORATION )

I'm hoping this narrows solutions down sufficiently that a future yes/no proposal can gauge consensus later.

Soni (talk) 16:53, 16 July 2025 (UTC)

Talk:Killing of Austin Metcalf

The prior RfC ended in "no consensus" when the suspect was a minor and uncharged. He is now eighteen and was indicted for first-degree murder. Should their name be included in the article? FrodoMarsh (talk) 17:32, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Temporary account IP-viewer

What should the minimum criteria for granting the TAIV user right right be? 17:01, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

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