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A staff appointment, and what the role involves

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hana.satoTL4 Moderator20 Feb 2026#1

On the subject in the title: A staff appointment, and what the role involves Working notes rather than a conclusion.

Nominating something for promotion into the documentation commons.

The topic in question keeps being re-asked, has a good marked solution, and contains a worked example that would be more useful on a page with a review date than buried in a reply. That is exactly the promotion criterion as written.

Objections welcome and genuinely wanted — the whole point of discussing promotions in public is that a bad promotion is harder to undo than a bad reply.

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s.radichTL2 Moderator7 Mar 2026#2

Staff announcements, policy changes, and scheduled maintenance. Read-only except for questions clarifying what was announced.

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BuchholzTL2Member19 Mar 2026 · edited#3

s.radich, post #2: Staff announcements, policy changes, and scheduled maintenance. Read-only except for questions clarifying what was announced. Go to post

post #2 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit.

When announcements are made: major policy changes, technical changes affecting site function, planned downtime, and changes to guidelines all get announced here.

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