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Hello there. After my desysop request last month, I wanted to take a break from Wikipedia due to some stressful things that were happening behind the scenes. I was expecting to take a longer break, but an excellent support network of friends (including some Wikipedians) that I have gained off-wiki has been giving me generous help and advice. I'm going to be off work for at least a month soon, so I'll be attempting to get back into the swing of admin work. If anyone has questions, feel free to ask them here. Thanks, Fathoms Below (talk) 21:00, 11 December 2025 (UTC) Reply

That's good to hear. Starting the standard 24 hour clock, for ref this was the desysoprequest. Ϣere Spiel Chequers 22:18, 11 December 2025 (UTC) Reply

Welcome back!! House Blaster (talk • he/they) 22:40, 11 December 2025 (UTC) Reply

Huzzah! -Ad Orientem (talk) 03:48, 12 December 2025 (UTC) Reply

Done. Welcome back. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 23:03, 12 December 2025 (UTC) Reply

Hi 'crats! Please +sysop the following editors per the December 2025 EFA:

• Epicgenius (t · th · c · del · cross-wiki · SUL · edit counter · pages created (xtools · sigma) · non-automated edits · BLP edits · · · · logs ^{(blocks · rights · moves)} · rfar · spi · cci) (assign permissions)^{(acc · ap · ev · fm · mms · npr · pm · pc · rb · te · taiv)}
• The4lines (t · th · c · del · cross-wiki · SUL · edit counter · pages created (xtools · sigma) · non-automated edits · BLP edits · · · · logs ^{(blocks · rights · moves)} · rfar · spi · cci) (assign permissions)^{(acc · ap · ev · fm · mms · npr · pm · pc · rb · te · taiv)}
• Yue (t · th · c · del · cross-wiki · SUL · edit counter · pages created (xtools · sigma) · non-automated edits · BLP edits · · · · logs ^{(blocks · rights · moves)} · rfar · spi · cci) (assign permissions)^{(acc · ap · ev · fm · mms · npr · pm · pc · rb · te · taiv)}
• MPGuy2824 (t · th · c · del · cross-wiki · SUL · edit counter · pages created (xtools · sigma) · non-automated edits · BLP edits · · · · logs ^{(blocks · rights · moves)} · rfar · spi · cci) (assign permissions)^{(acc · ap · ev · fm · mms · npr · pm · pc · rb · te · taiv)}
• LEvalyn (t · th · c · del · cross-wiki · SUL · edit counter · pages created (xtools · sigma) · non-automated edits · BLP edits · · · · logs ^{(blocks · rights · moves)} · rfar · spi · cci) (assign permissions)^{(acc · ap · ev · fm · mms · npr · pm · pc · rb · te · taiv)}
• Left guide (t · th · c · del · cross-wiki · SUL · edit counter · pages created (xtools · sigma) · non-automated edits · BLP edits · · · · logs ^{(blocks · rights · moves)} · rfar · spi · cci) (assign permissions)^{(acc · ap · ev · fm · mms · npr · pm · pc · rb · te · taiv)}

Thanks, House Blaster (talk • he/they) 19:33, 16 December 2025 (UTC) Reply

In heavier news,

• UtherSRG (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · pagemoves · rights · RfA)

has not passed their EfA, which I believe means they have been recalled by the community. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 19:39, 16 December 2025 (UTC) Reply

On a side note, I'd like to urge the community not to use EFA as jargon to refer to administrator elections. There are plenty of other jargon terms already for admin elections. I appreciate it's one of the uppercase shortcuts listed on the administrator elections page, but jargon loses whatever its efficacy it has when there are too many synonyms. I would appreciate it! isaacl (talk) 19:57, 16 December 2025 (UTC) Reply

I have processed all the promotions as well as Uther's permission removal. Barkeep49 (talk) 20:06, 16 December 2025 (UTC) Reply