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This page is for requests to have stewards grant or revoke administrator, bureaucrat, checkuser, and oversight rights on Wikimedia projects which do not have a local permissions procedure.

Old sections are archived. The list of archives is below.

  • Requests for bot flags are handled at SRB, and requests for global permissions are handled at SRGP.
  • If you are requesting adminship or bureaucratship, and your wiki has a local bureaucrat, submit your request to that user or to the relevant local request page (index).
  • For urgent requests, such as to combat large-scale vandalism on a small wiki, contact a steward in the #wikimedia-stewardsconnect IRC channel. In emergencies, type !steward in the channel to get the attention of stewards. Otherwise, you can type @steward for non-urgent help.

Other than requests to remove your own access or emergencies, please only make requests here after gaining the on-wiki approval of your local community.

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Using this page

1. Place the following code at the bottom of the appropriate section below: 

==== Username@xxproject ====
{{sr-request
 |status    = <!-- don't change this line -->
 |domain    = <!-- such as en.wikibooks -->
 |user name = 
 |discussion= 
}}
(your remarks) ~~~~

2. Fill in the values:

  • domain: the wiki's URL domain (like "ex.wikipedia" or "meta.wikimedia").
  • user name: the name of the user whose rights are to be changed (like "Exampleuser"). In case you're requesting access for multiple bots, leave this field blank and give a list of these bots in your remarks
  • discussion: a link to the local vote or discussion about the rights change (for example, "[[ex:Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship#ExampleUser]]"). This should normally be for at least one week, but no more than three weeks (if so, you'll need to restart the process).

3. If anything is missing from your request, a steward will request more information.

Confirmation of signing confidentiality agreement

Certain permissions (notably CheckUser and Oversight) additionally require users to sign a confidentiality agreement. Users requesting these permissions must make a request below, and must also sign the confidentiality agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation. The request is placed on hold temporarily, until the receipt has been formally confirmed by the Office.

Requests

COPY THE FOLLOWING CODE to the bottom of the appropriate section below: 

==== User name@xxproject ====
{{sr-request
 |status    = <!--don't change this line-->
 |domain    =
 |user name =
 |discussion= 
}}

Administrator access

See Administrator for information about this user group.

  • MediaWiki interface translations are done at translatewiki.net. Please do not request administrator access solely for that purpose; your request will be declined.
  • Stewards: Please use {{Systmp}} for approved temporary requests.

Requests for removal of access should be posted at the section below.

Please start a new discussion about requesting the permission on the local village pump, administrators' noticeboard or a designated page for requesting permissions each time you request or renew adminship.

  • Discussions should be open for seven days. Please request adminship here seven days after discussions started. This page is not the place for any discussions or votes. (For wikis with few active users, it is OK to have no comments.)
  • If you only want adminship for specific tasks, please state for how long and for which tasks you need it. Otherwise stewards will decide whether to assign permanent adminship and the duration of adminship. See Steward requests/Permissions/Minimum voting requirements.

7elteven@nawiki

Status:    Not done

After ending of my adminship, the only active admin (and in general a participant) was SHB2000. I didn't have any time because of exams. As soon as the time came, I decided to become an admin again and help SHB2000 to revive the Nauruan Wikipedia. --7elteven (talk) 14:43, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@7elteven: Welcome back SHB2000 (talk | contibs | en.wikivoyage | en.wikipedia) 22:44, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Oppose The requestor has spam-only edits on both Incubator and Lithuanian Wikipedia, and hence blocked on both sites. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 03:19, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
No, this user was blocked on the Incubator because they were suspected to contributing in languages they don't know, because it seemed like they were adding Russian words, but the language has a little bit of russian words in it. Also, votes don't go here, they're meant to go on the discussion page. Not sure about ltwiki though. SHB2000 (talk | contibs | en.wikivoyage | en.wikipedia) 03:25, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@SHB2000: Then how do you explain Steward_requests/Checkuser/2020-12#Mikhaliov_~_ltwiki@lt.wikipedia, especially
  •  Confirmed Group 1: Mikhaliov ~ ltwiki, 7elteven

--Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 03:27, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Makes sense for ltwiki, but not the incubator. SHB2000 (talk | contibs | en.wikivoyage | en.wikipedia) 03:30, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Liuxinyu970226: Hello. That was my past mistakes that I made more that a year ago on ltwikipedia. I don't make it anymore. Btw, this account was not my sock on Wikipedia, just the new account so I don't really know why admins blocked this account. I didn't do any contributions there so I can't be the sock puppet. - 7elteven (talk) 04:43, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Also Liuxinyu, have some grace. 7 eleven is still in school, and mistakes are expected. SHB2000 (talk | contibs | en.wikivoyage | en.wikipedia) 04:48, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
They never used and thus also never abused the other account on nawiki. Also it seems like they never abused his sysop permissions in nawiki in the past. So could you ellaborate why this is such a big problem? --Zabe (talk) 09:46, 24 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Agree. Additionally, 7elteven was a sysop for three months (and as you said, never abused them), and is one of our only few editors that know some Nauruan here. Also, 7elteven is still in school, so I expect mistakes. SHB2000 (talk | contibs | en.wikivoyage | en.wikipedia) 11:53, 24 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@SHB2000: If both the nominator and processor of that SRCU request @Nomad and Sotiale: agree, I don't oppose any more. Otherwise you should be one that need to "have some grace", not me.

About @Zabe:'s comments like "he never used another account/he never edited Lithuanian Wikipedia", and other comments like "they are in school", those questions are also to be answered by Sotiale or other Stewards, since they can try to confirm the "deleted contributions": Just copied from the {{CU request}}. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 03:15, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Another interesting thing: the requestor edited Lithuanian Wiktionary, Wikiquote and Wikisource, of which the Mikhaliov ~ ltwiki also edited the Wikiquote one, wondering if those edits are problemic or not. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 03:26, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
that does seem interesting to me. SHB2000 (talk | contibs) 12:33, 5 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Out of the checkuser policy:

Note that alternative accounts are not forbidden, so long as they are not used in violation of the policies (examples of violations include double-voting, increasing the apparent support for any given position, or to evade blocks or bans).

Also the only other user active on that wiki (User:SHB2000) is supporting the request. --Zabe (talk) 14:01, 12 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The main reason is that 7elteven is probably more active than me, but had been away for exams. I on the other hand, mainly revert the well known Jurisdrew, and block accounts when necessary. I do content work there as well, but not as much as 7elteven. (most are about geographic places in Australia). Now since 7elteven hasn't edited ltwikipedia since he's blocked, I don't think that's a violation of the alt account policy. SHB2000 (talk | contibs) 14:12, 12 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Zabe Yes, the reason why I oppose is just they violated the alternative accounts policy, the 7elteven has to explain what's the actual relations between Mikhaliov ~ ltwiki and him (or otherwise why they can be  Confirmed?), they didn't, hence a violation that support me to against this request. Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 07:25, 14 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I can't see them having violated the alternatative account policy on nawiki. --Zabe (talk) 08:41, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not assuming, I'm getting knowledges. Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 10:26, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, so could you share with us, where they violated the alternative account policy? --Zabe (talk) 10:55, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The Lithuanian Wikipedia. Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 12:23, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
But isn't that a problem for ltwiki, not nawiki? SHB2000 (talk | contibs) 05:30, 16 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@7elteven: are Special:CentralAuth/Sociaken and Special:CentralAuth/Nojucka also accounts from you or not? They were marked as Possible Possible in the cu request. --Zabe (talk) 17:09, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
No, they aren't — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 7elteven (talk)
All in one, I suggest stewards to just reject this for now till the problems regarding 7elteven completely resolved. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 08:23, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Liuxinyu970226 At worst, maybe waiting three months? I'd wish there was a new group created, just if the rollback tool is needed. SHB2000 (talk | contibs) 05:36, 16 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Comment Having a history of blocking due to multiple accounts is also an important factor, but in my opinion, the reason why this user was blocked from incubatorwiki is even more important. This makes it difficult to be sure that this user is doing well on the wiki without formed community, in a language project that only a few can use. If you think your block on incubatorwiki is a mistake, it is better to go through an unblock review on incubatorwiki first. Of course, other stewards may disagree with me, and may decide to +sysop for you, but I think the reason this request isn't being processed quickly is because they're not sure they can trust you. --Sotiale (talk) 11:10, 16 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If you're wondering about whether 7elteven known Dorerin Naoero, I can say that his is much better than mine, and most of his work has been cross checked with Delaporte's (a very reputable dictionary for Dorerin Naoero) my me.
Is it possible for stewards to create a new group called "patrollers" or is that not possible? SHB2000 (talk | contibs) 22:53, 16 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Well.. As Wikimedia recently experienced the Scots Wikipedia incident, we cannot trust him/her solely in your endorsement. Please understand that this is separate from trust in you. And creating a new user group on a wiki requires forming a consensus within the wiki. After the developers review it, they will change the wiki settings if appropriate. However, in my experience they may not accept creating new user groups if the community is not formed or so small. This is not ours, please contact the phabricator. --Sotiale (talk) 23:58, 16 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your response. It makes sense to me now. SHB2000 (talk | contibs) 00:30, 17 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not done. Currently, this request is not in progress; I don't want this request to be posted close to a month. I would like to decide not to process this request until the issue I raised is resolved. Other stewards are free to reverse my decision. --Sotiale (talk) 10:55, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Trezoo@kmwiki

Status:    In progress

Because the Khmer Wikipedia has no active administrators, I decided to step up and apply for the position. I started the discussion seven days ago but have yet to obtain a response, since there are few active editors on the wiki. Regards, Trezoo (talk) 04:07, 17 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your account is fairly new. What do you know about the rights and responsibilities of administrators? Ruslik (talk) 20:41, 17 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I am mainly requesting for adminship because I want to be able to delete useless/test pages that are frequently being created on the Wikipedia (and other technical page deletions). I am aware that the role of administrators comes with other rights/powers that can cause problems if abused or used incorrectly. However, if my account is deemed to be not old enough for this role, please feel free to withdraw my request for the time being. Thanks, --Trezoo (talk) 07:37, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think there's any restriction, but it's just something unintentional that has happened. But I do think you'd be fine by October, and hope you become successful then :) SHB2000 (talk | contibs) 09:17, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Caribiana@pap.wikipedia

Status:    On hold

Please grant this user another six months of admin rights, per community vote. Ciell (talk) 19:17, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 On hold until 25 August 2021 Ruslik (talk) 20:54, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Frank Geerlings@pap.wikipedia

Status:    On hold

Please grant this user another six months of admin rights, per community vote. Ciell (talk) 19:17, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 On hold until 25 August 2021 Ruslik (talk) 20:54, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ciell@pap.wikipedia

Status:    On hold

Please also grant me another six months of admin rights, per community vote. Ciell (talk) 19:17, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 On hold until 25 August 2021 Ruslik (talk) 20:54, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Ruslik0, just so I know: why are these requests put on hold for another 5 days? The discussions on the wiki have been open since August 8th, longer than the week mentioned in Steward requests/Permissions/Minimum voting requirements? Ciell (talk) 18:41, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Ther previous term expires on 25 August. Ruslik (talk) 20:53, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Interface administrator access

See Interface admin for information about this user group.

  • If you are requesting adminship and the interface admin at the same time, you can file one request in administrator section and state you want interface adminship as well.
  • MediaWiki interface translations are done at translatewiki.net. Please do not request interface administrator access solely for that purpose; your request will be declined.
  • Since the end of 2018, all interface administrators are required to have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled. Please, enable it before posting your request here.
  • Stewards: Please use {{Systmp}} for approved temporary requests.

Requests for removal of access should be posted at the section below.

Please start a new discussion about requesting the permission on the local village pump, administrators' noticeboard or a designated page for requesting permissions each time you request or renew interface adminship.

  • Discussions should be open for seven days. Please request interface adminship here seven days after discussions started. This page is not the place for any discussions or votes. (For wikis with few active users, it is OK to have no comments.)
  • If you only want interface adminship for specific tasks, please state for how long and for which tasks you need it. Otherwise stewards will decide whether to assign permanent interface adminship and the duration of interface adminship. See Steward requests/Permissions/Minimum voting requirements.

Bureaucrat access

See Bureaucrat for information about this user group.
  • In principle, requests for temporary bureaucrat access are not granted.
  • A small project does not need bureaucrats. Currently whether a promotion is valid or not is decided by stewards. See here for a guideline.

Requests for removal of access should be posted at the section below.

CheckUser access

See CheckUser policy for information about this user group and the policy governing the use of this tool.
  • To request CheckUser information, see Steward requests/Checkuser. This is the place to request CheckUser access.
  • One-time CheckUser access is not permitted and temporary access is only used by Stewards or when the mandate of the CUs has an expiry date specified in local policies.

Oversight access

See Oversight policy for information about this user group and the policy governing the use of this tool.
  • To request to have content oversighted, ask for a steward in #wikimedia-stewardsconnect and contact a steward privately. This section is for requesting access to the Oversight tool.
  • For contact details about oversighters across the wikis, refer to this page.
  • Note that temporary Oversight access is not permitted and temporary status is only used by Stewards .
  • When a new user is assigned to this group, please add them to this list.

Removal of access

  • If you're requesting the removal of your own permissions, make sure you're logged in to your account. If you have multiple flags, specify which you want removed. Stewards may delay your request a short time to ensure you have time to rethink your request (see previous discussion on 24 hour delays); the rights will not be restored by stewards once they are removed.
  • To request the removal of another user's permissions, you must gain consensus on the local wiki first. When there is community consensus that the user's access should be removed, provide a link to the discussion, with a brief explanation of the reason for the request, and summarize the results of discussion. However, as bureaucrats of some wikis may remove users from the administrator or bureaucrat group, please see also a separate list of these specific wikis.
  • To request the removal of another user's permissions for inactivity, link to your local inactivity policy. If your site does not have inactivity policy, the global policy Admin activity review applies.
  • See the instructions above for adding new requests. Please post new requests at the bottom of the section.

Jusjih@zh.wikisource

Status:    In progress
  1. Using wrong reasons to blame me in s:zh:Wikisource:写字间#2021年5月29日Zhxy_519禁封用戶妥善否. Jusjih never listened to my explain. And when another sysop s:zh:User:Gzdavidwong stated Jusjih's mistake in this discussion, Jusjih used an impeachment as a weapon against Gzdavidwong. Of course, Jusjih is using the same threat against me now.
  2. As above, Jusjih seems to consider him or herself as the sysop of sysop in zh.wikisource. Jusjih don't listen to others and always acting big like saying "I'm sysop for 13 big wiki projects, I don't care."[2].
  3. Now Gzdavidwong has opposed Jusjih's impeachment against me, and Jusjih is threating again: "Stop in 24hrs or I will send you both to urgent removel in meta." [3] While I was just asking other sysops opinions as in their talk pages, Jusjih said "Meta won't deal with urgent request" [4]. What a double standard.

As these, Jusjih is seriously and continuing w:WP:POINTing and became a threat to all other sysops in zh.wikisource. Zhxy 519 (talk) 01:29, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

FYI: Jusjih is the nominator of RFDA of Zhxy 519 s:zh:Wikisource:申请成为管理员#User:Zhxy_519_2. Also admin User:Midleading disagreed with emergency removal of administrator right for Jusjih s:zh:Topic:Wecpdtyy4bkll5a0. SCP-2000 01:45, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Please know that the requestor has a conflict with the requested person. They are all sysop in zh.wikisource. Now they are threatening each other, because of the ban of @user:Longway22 by the requestor and some other things about the discussion.落花有意12138 10:03, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A steward needs several conditions to trigger an emergency action, which is not fully explained in this request. First of all, it must be a situation that cannot go through the normal process of your community, and it must be urgent; For example, wheel warring using admin bit (when user blocking and unblocking are repeated), blocking the community users opposite the admin during the normal process and interrupting normal process by using admin bit (deletion of RFP). Although not all of the circumstances have been accounted for yet, it is generally assumed that the policy violations presented by you are situations in which it is possible to revoke the admin's flag through the normal process. --Sotiale (talk) 11:36, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Sotiale, thank you for your confirmation. What we are having in Zh.wikisource are mainly 2 issues for a "normal process". 1st is we need 25 votes, which is high and also a rule imported by Jusjih; 2nd is by doing above, I can say now Jusjih gained support from potential trolls and avengers, not coming to decide right or wrong but only for impeachment. If you can, please share your opinions.--Zhxy 519 (talk) 16:31, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
If the policy violation you are claiming actually exists and is accepted by the community(I haven't verified that your claim is true yet, so I cannot say whether it violates local policy.), I think they can handle the desysop guideline as well. And since the admin is not currently abusing the admin bit's button, it's not urgent at this point. --Sotiale (talk) 22:00, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sakhalinio@tr.wikipedia

Status:    On hold
Doesn't trwiki have some local 'crats? SHB2000 (talk | contibs) 09:24, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
SHB2000, indeed, but it is only in select few wikis that bureaucrats can not only grant but also remove sysop flag, and trwiki isn't one: tr:Special:ListGroupRights#bureaucrat. --Base (talk) 10:06, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
 On hold for one day. Sakhalinio , please feel free to withdraw the request at any point until it is completed. SHB2000--Base (talk) 10:06, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

VasilievVV@global

Status:    In progress

VasilievVV hasn't edited any wikimedia wiki in over 2 years, thus, by policies, their global rollback and their abuse filter helper permissions should be removed. Regards --Zabe (talk) 22:18, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Miscellaneous requests

Requests for permissions that don't fit in other sections belong here. Importer rights can be granted on most wikis by stewards only. Please gain local community consensus before posting a new section here.

Note that the following types of permissions requests belong on separate pages:

  • SRB — Local or global bot status
  • SRGP — Global permissions

See also

Cooperation requests for: comments (local) (global) · translation

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