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Laura Fiorucci@es.wikiquote

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Abrí una votación, siguiendo las políticas de votación del proyecto, para solicitar los permisos de administradora en Wikiquote en español. Este proyecto cuenta con un burócrata que no edita desde hace más de un año y tampoco tiene habilitado el correo electrónico para informarle de la votación. Wikiquote en español cuenta solamente con una administradora activa. Solicito que se me den los permisos de administrador. Saludos, Laura Fiorucci (talk) 19:17, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Laura Fiorucci: Have you asked the local bureaucrat, who is able to grant the rights locally?
[Traducción automática/Machine translation] ¿Le has preguntado al burócrata local quién puede conceder los derechos a nivel local? EPIC (talk) 19:22, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@EPIC: El burócrata local User:LlamaAl no edita desde el 17:03 30 ene 2024 y tampoco tiene activado el correo electrónico. No hay manera de preguntarle ¿O te refieres a otra persona?. No hay más burócratas en Wikiquote en español. Laura Fiorucci (talk) 19:28, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Non-stew comment Please note that almost all votes come from users who have not been active for years (or never active or very rarely) on that project (this applies to both support and opposition). This is not what should be done for transparency, we have always said that for projects with few active users even no vote is enough, but it's not at all pleasant to see a procedure like this (let's say it's frustrating and doesn't help the work of those who have to decide on the flag). I don't see any point in a local policy that requires global edits as a sufficient requirement to vote for local admins, it's very dangerous, sorry for the OT! --Superpes15 (talk) 11:37, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 On hold Per above and after some information provided to me privately, I plan to discuss this internally first. EPIC (talk) 11:54, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Good afternoon from the south. I would like to know and understand the reason for the delay.
I opened an election process using the Wikiquote community guidelines. I won the election. I'm not a newcomer; I've been involved with Wikimedia projects for 19 years, 15 of those years as a bureaucrat for the Spanish Wikipedia.
I was the founder of Wikimedia Venezuela. I'm a member of Wikimedia Argentina, Wikimedia Spain, and the groups Users of Latin American Women in Wikimedia and Wikimedians of Bolivia. I'm familiar with the Spanish-language editor community and the guidelines for several projects (see my global contributions). And I'm not a hat collector.
Most of the upvoters, including the Spanish-language Wikiquote administrator, are long-time users of Wikimedia projects, some of them are long-time bureaucrats at Spanish Wikipedia. Can you tell me why this is taking so long? Have you asked Wikiquote administrator @Jaluj: what she thinks of the process?
Laura Fiorucci (talk) 22:55, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi User:EPIC, It's been 14 days since my request and I haven't heard back. Any updates or do I need to contact someone else? Laura Fiorucci (talk) 22:45, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @User:EPIC,I am writing to express a serious concern regarding recent decisions affecting the autonomy of the Spanish Wikiquote (esWikiquote) project in the election and appointment of its administrators.
Until recently, esWikiquote had four administrators: User:LlamaAl, User:Ayagaures 0, User:Cookie, and myself. However, on 2025-03-24 at 00:13 (UTC), user EPIC removed both administrator and bureaucrat rights from User:Cookie. As a result, I am now the only administrator remaining on the project.
It is important to underline that esWikiquote is a project with its own policies and community, and we have made efforts to establish a functioning and autonomous local governance. In 2020, the community of esWikiquote voted on and adopted clear eligibility criteria for voters and for administrative elections, as seen here: https://es.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?oldid=401624#Requisitos_para_derecho_a_voto_en_Wikiquote
Although I personally voted against those criteria at the time, I have always respected and abided by the community’s consensus.
The need for an additional administrator is evident, as shown by the number of interventions carried out by global sysops. For example, see the contributions of User:Galahad: https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Especial:Registro/Galahad
User:Galahad is indeed an active and valuable contributor to esWikiquote. However, he has not been elected as a local administrator. We greatly appreciate his collaboration, but he is not a substitute for having elected local administrators chosen by our community through transparent and democratic processes.
This situation highlights the importance of reinforcing local administrative capacity. esWikiquote aspires to be an autonomous project, not one that must rely on global sysops to perform essential maintenance and administrative tasks.
Recently, a local vote was held to appoint a new administrator, and it met all the established voting criteria: https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Candidaturas_a_administrador#Laura_Fiorucci
The candidate, User:Laura Fiorucci, received 14 votes in favor and 3 against (a support ratio of 82.35%), clearly surpassing the threshold required for approval. Yet, to our surprise and concern, the stewards have refused to assign her the appropriate flags. This raises an important question: Why are the decisions of the esWikiquote community not being respected by the stewards?
The reason Laura Fiorucci has not requested User:LlamaAl to assign the flags is that on 2024-03-14 at 18:03, User:Mykola7, a steward, removed his bureaucrat rights.
Regarding User:Superpes15, who makes this complaint, while we appreciate the work of global sysops, we must point out that he is not a member of the esWikiquote community, he has not contributed to the project in years (last action recorded on 12 April 2023: https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Especial:Registro/Superpes15), and his primary language is not Spanish. Therefore, his sudden involvement in local decisions is unexpected and difficult to understand.
In light of the above, we kindly and firmly insist on the autonomy of esWikiquote to elect its own administrators according to its internal policies and democratic procedures. We respectfully request that the stewards reconsider their decision and recognize the outcome of the community vote to appoint Laura Fiorucci as a local administrator.
We are confident that this request aligns with the values of decentralization, transparency, and respect for local communities that Wikimedia strives to uphold.
Thank you very much for your attention and understanding.--Jalu (talk) 19:48, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No comment on the rest of this, but LlamaAL does still have crat rights per es:q:Especial:PermisosUsuarios/LlamaAl contrary to your claim. Mykola7 revoked LlamaAl's rights on the Spanish Wikipedia, which has tighter inactivity policies, but not the Spanish Wikiquote. * Pppery * it has begun 03:50, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'd like to note that the request is on hold mainly for two reasons. Firstly, there are quite strong claims of canvassing (es:Wikipedia:Proselitismo in Spanish) in this specific discussion which has also been noted to me through some off-wiki emails, and secondly, there is a local bureaucrat who is able to grant the rights, which in any case will delay a request like this for the stewards. EPIC (talk) 07:23, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @EPIC:. The Wikiquote bureaucrat hasn't edited for over a year; his last contribution was on January 30, 2024, at 5:03 PM UTC. He also has disabled email. I wrote on his talk page on April 2, 2025, at 7:25 PM UTC, and he hasn't responded; in fact, he hasn't responded to anyone in over a year.
User Jaluj is NOT a bureaucrat; she's an administrator, and she can't grant me permissions.
I assume the accusation of proselytizing is from Meruleh, a user who has been working on Wikimedia projects for two years. Perhaps she doesn't know that when someone has been working on projects for 19 years and is also a bureaucrat on another wiki (like me), everyone knows about your actions, whether out of friendship or enmity. I haven't sent any emails to anyone, and I even refrained from notifying the Telegram channels I'm on because I know the rules.
As I said above: I respected Wikiquote's procedures (I can translate the rules for you if you'd like); I'm not a hat collector; you can check my overall contributions to see my commitment to the projects. Best regards, Laura Fiorucci (talk) 18:24, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
With all that said, what do my two years with this account have to do with anything? For the record, I’ve been contributing to Wikimedia Foundation projects for over twenty years, and for more than fifteen years to independent initiatives like Vikidia. Is this about trying to assert superiority? And yes, there was spam in the Spanish Wikipedia Telegram group, using phrases such as: “After 19 years of work on Wikipedia, 14 of which as an admin, I’ve decided to launch my candidacy on Wikiquote”, along with a link to the candidacy: ¿"and I even refrained from notifying the Telegram channels I'm on because I know the rules"?. That message was curiously deleted after almost a month, yet the original notice to the community remained, encouraging people to vote. While the voting policy allows users from other projects to participate, that doesn’t change the fact that the candidacy was openly promoted. The vote also included support from -jem-, the vice president of Wikimedia España, while you are the president. That user does not contribute to Wikiquote. Will you claim that this is not campaigning? There were votes from users who had been active in Wikimedia projects for less than a month. Others did meet the criteria, but many were affiliated with the Muj(lh)eres latinoamericanas en Wikimedia, which you co-founded with Jaluj. I mention this because I was once part of your council, and I resigned precisely because I did not share the values being promoted—specifically, these values. If I make accusations, it’s because I know what I’m talking about—I’ve seen it and verified it. No one wins by lying; on the contrary, what we lose is trust. And if you yourself have acknowledged that Wikiquote lacks a solid community, how did an unfamiliar group—most of whom have never contributed—suddenly appear to vote for you? —Meruleh {talk} 19:04, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm glad you've been involved with the Wikimedia Foundation for so many years. It's a shame it's not reflected in the project logs. The Telegram message is there as it was the day I sent it, Meruleh. It hasn't been deleted, and it was sent without a link to the vote. That Telegram channel on Spanish Wikipedia advertises a lot of things. Proselytizing is saying "go vote for me." And yes, I'm involved in many things: Wikimedia Venezuela, Wikimedians of Bolivia, Wikimedia Spain, Latin American Women, and Wikimedia Argentina, among others; in addition to providing editing training in different places... that's why many people know me and love me and know of my good work and commitment to projects. It's strange to ask for buttons to participate in small Wikis without even going through a notice in the Café, and other movements that I won't post here and that the some community itself rejected. The group that voted, both up and down (like you, who had 20 edits and had become very active when user cookie's buttons were removed, or the other user who came in just to downvote me, a single contribution on Wikiquote) is a diverse group, but it doesn't go against Wikiquote's rules. No matter what happens, I will continue contributing to the projects and, more than ever, I will be on the lookout for vandals, improving the projects, and pursuing hat collectors and those who want to take advantage of volunteer work or gain power in a horizontal project. Regards, Laura Fiorucci (talk) 20:16, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@EPIC:: For your attention. In accordance with the administrator appointment policy, the nomination of @Laura Fiorucci: has been dismissed on Wikiquote, as it does not comply with the relevant policy, which explicitly states: "Candidates should be submitted by veteran editors who are trusted by the community [...]". In this case, the nomination was not submitted by any veteran user nor by a local administrator, and therefore cannot be considered valid. The community has been informed accordingly. Regards, —Meruleh {talk} 05:54, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry for the OT
@Jaluj: I didn't intervene in any local decisions. I was just pointing out that almost all the votes are not from active users in the project (and this is a fact and honestly, from the outside, it's not a very nice thing to look at). In these cases I, when I was a steward, always assigned the flag for 3 months behaving as if the request had no votes (which is fine for stewards to assign the flag anyway) or, if there is a local policy as in this case, I always applied it, maybe suggesting to change something, in this case I'd say that imho it's too large, because users who are not active on that project should not be able to vote for that project (but it's just a single opinion). Basically it's more problematic to do canvassing than not having votes. Nobody is altering a procedure, there is a local bureaucrat first of all. Stewards haven't decided anything yet, so I don't understand why you said "the stewards have refused to assign her the appropriate flags", while they are still waiting for someone to try to contact the local bureaucrat LlamaAl, who is currently a 'crat (regardless of the fact that the project is likely not so big as to require bureaucrats, and having an inactive one only creates problems). Lately, I don't understand this desire to create controversy at all costs, saying that stewards don't respect local consensus, while all the functionaries are here to always look for transparent and clear procedures. Last thing, I'm just happy if you have one more sysop and I'm even happier if you elect 10 more, but if you don't want the global sysops and stewards to intervene or if you perceive them as an intrusion or a reduction of community power, just open a discussion on your village pump and ask for removing them without too many problems, instead of criticize global functionaries, as happened in other projects. Please note that I didn't comment as a global sysop here, but as a normal user, and I think it's sad that one could think the opposite or that I'm trying to show any kind of "power" or hat. Thanks for your understanding. --Superpes15 (talk) 23:03, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment non-stew comment.

Hi, I came to Wikiquote in Spanish to add some quotes from Pope Francis and I found there a tremendous discussion started by Galahad and Meruleh. That's why I'm here.

Why are you hiding your comment @Superpes15: ? It doesn't seem off-topic to me.

Your comment, that you don't understand this desire to create controversy at all costs, is very interesting, since the one who created all this controversy was you. Everything was fine and very quiet until you came to this board to protest against Laura Fiorucci to be granted the permits and you protest that her election had not been transparent. The last time you appeared on Wikiquote in Spanish was on February 7, 2024, https://es.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Usuario_discusi%C3%B3n:Ayagaures_0&diff=prev&oldid=469060 to remove permissions from Ayagaures 0 because “the stewards are reviewing activity on wikis without an inactivity policy”. So, I assume that you are a steward. You do not belong to the Spanish Wikiquote community and yet you are very concerned about what is happening there. I really appreciate your interest, but I would like to explain a few things to you.

Only three people voted against Laura Fiorucci in a vote that respected the rules: Galahad, (his argument for voting against was that this work should be done by the Global Sysops), Meruleh (whose first edition in the project was two weeks before the vote) and Zafkiel GD, whose only contribution to the project was this vote against, while those who voted in favor, Jaluj has been contributing since 2012, Tefy Figueroa has been contributing to Wikiquote since January 2024, -jem- bureaucrat, suppressor and administrator of Wikipedia in Spanish has been contributing in Wikiquote since 2009, Marcelo, bureaucrat and administrator of Wikipedia in Spanish has been contributing to Wikiquote since 2016, Mentxuwiki has been contributing to Wikiquote since 2017, Althair has been contributing to Wikiquote since 2017, Imoisset has been contributing to Wikiquote since 2017, Caleidoscopic has been contributing to Wikiquote since 2023, Galahmm has been contributing to Wikiquote since January 2024, Aitor.SSM has been contributing to Wikiquote since 2020. That is to say, none of them were newly arrived upstarts. Please, I would like to see a local or global policy that states that an editor cannot vote if he or she has not edited for more than a year. What strikes me is that editors who never showed interest in the project before, Meruleh and Zafkiel GD, appear only to vote against Laura Fiorucci, but they have the right to vote according to the rules.

Galahad annulled the vote, which was carried out in a transparent manner and in accordance with our rules, in an abusive way and you filed the complaint here so that Laura is not given the permits. So, who generated this controversy?

Superpes15, you said that you don't see any point in a local policy that requires global edits as a sufficient requirement to vote for local admins and that it's very dangerous. Your intervention is very interesting because you did not protest when Meruleh was granted permissions on Wikiviajes without any type of vote because Galahad (the only permanent administrator in Wikiviajes) modified the policy so that the only permanent administrator could elect more administrators directly without voting and you did not protest when Meruleh was granted permission to be an administrator on Wikiversity without any type of vote and without a history of contributions to the project since it began to interest her in March 2025 and she requested the permits in March 2025. I found out about this because a Wikiversity administrator, Antur, a prestigious long term editor who has been contributing to Wikiversity since 2006, with 110.000 global editions and elected by vote as administrator and bureaucrat of Wikipedia in Spanish, responded to Meruleh's inflammatory messages on Wikiquote in Spanish against Laura Fiorucci by wondering how she managed to get those permits without anyone in the project having chosen her and without a history of contributions. The stewards did not demand an election from her as they are now demanding to take away LlamaAl permits, although three years have passed without any administrative actions: https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Especial:Registro/LlamaAl

I bring this up because the other person who is creating controversy on Wikiquote (see debates at the Noticeboard and here) is Meruleh, who only started to show interest in Wikiquote in Spanish on March 10, 2025, just after losing several elections. She insists on having more years of seniority in the project (here she said “I’ve been contributing to Wikimedia Foundation projects for over twenty years” but she has no way to prove it and no one believes it is true since she joined the movement on 2022-07-28 and she could never show an account that was older.

On December 2024 Meruleh wanted to be a global renamer: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steward_requests/Global_permissions&oldid=28039863#Global_rename_for_Aopou. Rejected. Meruleh even had a sockpuppet account to vote for herself: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Meruleh&diff=prev&oldid=28039226

Meruleh claimed that user:Horcus was her partner https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:EPIC&diff=prev&oldid=28102785 and that he was actively participating in the Spanish Wikipedia, but user Horcus first edition on Wikipedia in Spanish was on December 23, 2024, https://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Especial:Contribuciones/Horcus&target=Horcus&dir=prev the same day he voted on Meta for her¸ https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steward_requests/Global_permissions&diff=prev&oldid=28017711

After that they happen to be editing the same articles and both have voted the same way on Wikipedia:Selección de artículos buenos/nominaciones (Wikipedia:Selection of good articles/nominations): https://sigma.toolforge.org/editorinteract.py?users=Horcus&users=Meruleh&users=&startdate=&enddate=&ns=&server=eswiki&allusers=on

It was only on January 23, 2025 that he put in his UP that they share IP https://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Usuario:Horcus&diff=next&oldid=164949105, just after she was reported on Meta and a checkuser had proven the relationship. An editor who claims she had the capacity to be an administrator, checkuser, or global renamer didn't know that two accounts that share an IP address can't vote together in the same election or vote for one another? Because this was her argument when she was discovered, that she didn't know that.

In this candidacy she launched strong accusations such as that “Wikipedia in Spanish judges users harshly during candidacies or that we are losing more administrators due to poor management and that candidacies fail to gain sufficient support and are often judged for minor mistakes”. Well, that's not true. I went to look and discovered that https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Candidaturas_a_bibliotecario/Rafstr, Rafstr was elected administrator by a percentage of the 94.7% on November 2024, https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Candidaturas_a_bibliotecario/MiguelAlanCS MiguelAlanCS was elected administrator by a percentage of the 100% on December 2024 and https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Checkusers/Candidaturas BetoCG was elected chekuser by a percentage of the 93.42% on March 2025. This proves that if the candidate is recognized as a good editor or user by the community, people will vote for him or her. If she was rejected in so many elections, there must be a reason. I am sorry but users do not trust her.

On January 2, 2025, Meruleh announced her candidacy for checkuser on Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Checkusers/Candidaturas/Aopou Rejected. She was forced to withdraw it due to the discussion it generated.

On January 19, 2025, Meruleh launched her candidacy for administrator on Wikipedia in Spanish: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Candidaturas_a_bibliotecario/Aopou Rejected. Yes, her name was Aopou on February 2025, and before her user name were Jazpinncito, Nanu~Versace, Milkout, Lana del Reno and Zorvoth. During her two years of contributions she changed her names 7 times. Why? In her own words, because she didn't take the project seriously enough; she saw it as something childish: https://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_discusi%C3%B3n:Candidaturas_a_bibliotecario/Aopou&diff=prev&oldid=164851985

In that same election, she promised that there would be no more changes and that Aopou would be her permanent username: https://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_discusi%C3%B3n:Candidaturas_a_bibliotecario/Aopou&diff=prev&oldid=164851985 Two weeks later she changed her name to Meruleh. In this vote, Meruleh was accused of being a hat collector.

This whole story is the context in which Meruleh comes to protest against the vote that gave Laura Fiorucci the win and the same context for which she does not want LlamaAl's flags to be taken away, because she fears that some bureaucrat will recognize the vote and give the flags to @Laura Fiorucci:.

Moreover, why Meruleh has made changes to Wikiversity’s administrator policy pages without following proper procedures or asking the community to vote? https://es.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiversidad:Administradores&action=history

This history is extremely interesting because Meruleh has questioned @Jaluj: about her making changes to Wikiquote's policy without consulting the community, which is why Jaluj decided to revert all her edits (Jaluj’s edits), and despite that, Galahad and Meruleh insist on not recognizing Laura Fiorucci's election, which was done in accordance with the official policy.

Meruleh only started showing interest in Wikiversity on March 9, 2025. Meruleh only started showing interest in Wikiquote in Spanish March 10, 2025, just after losing the elections on Wikipedia in Spanish and Meta, however, she was granted administrator permissions on both Wikivoyage and Wikiversity. So, Superpes15, in your opinion, it's very dangerous to give permissions to a prestigious long term editor with 129.000 global editions who is already an administrator and bureaucrat in Spanish Wikipedia because she won the vote, voted by 85% of users in Wikiquote in Spanish, but it's not very dangerous to grant permissions to a newly arrived editor - who lost several elections in other projects - without any kind of vote?

I don't believe that Laura Fiorucci did canvassing because I didn't receive any notification of the vote nor did I vote, because a user with her prestige and history doesn't need to collect hats or campaign, and because it seems perfectly normal to me that users found out about it through the noticeboard on Wikiquote, the mailing list, and Telegram. That's what the policies ask for. What I would like to ask @EPIC: is why he decided to presume good faith towards a new editor whose first contributions are on was on December 23, 2024, (both in Wikipedia and Meta) in order to vote for Meruleh -that's what he said, that he was going to presume good faith - but not presume good faith towards Laura Fiorucci and her election as administrator. If you have evidence of Laura Fiorucci's canvassing, please show it. Saying that everything is in private emails, that is in fact a lack of transparency.

@Superpes15:, you came here to create this controversy and now you're upset because Wikiquote users are protesting because the vote is not respected? It was the least expected that this would happen. People never like their rights trampled on.

I am not and was not part of the conflict since I did not vote in the elections and I do not care whether Laura Fiorucci wins or not, but I am interested in respecting the autonomous decisions of a project in which I participate since 2018. If you read this discussion https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Caf%C3%A9#Propuesta_de_pol%C3%ADtica_para_administradores you will see that I am not the only one concerned.

I ask @EPIC:, can I open a vote according to https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Candidaturas_a_bur%C3%B3crata so that Wikquote in Spanish can elect a new bureaucrat? Because that would resolve this controversy, because if LlamaAl doesn't show up we need a second bureaucrat. Or do I run the risk of Galahad coming to boycott that vote and annul it, as he did with Laura Fiorucci's election?
j--Esperelopeor (talk) 22:07, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don’t understand—are we talking about my candidacy or Laura Fiorucci? Because you’re focusing more on me than on what the actual issue should be about. Since you want to lay things out, then let’s lay them out. I find it highly suspicious and striking that an account registered for six years with only 112 global contributions somehow knows so much: so much protocol, so much supposed reputation. With all due respect to the stewards, allow me to appeal to common sense here. First, regarding my global request—it is mentioned. Since 2021, 23 admin candidacies have failed, either rejected or withdrawn due to public scrutiny. That alone should show my stance: we are losing administrators. In fact, less than 24 hours ago, we lost another admin because of what's going on in the community. Second, regarding Horcus, I have nothing more to add. I already discussed it with EPIC on his talk page and offered the necessary apologies to the community. I'll just add two more things. First, I became an administrator through a proposal made by Galahad. He nominated me, and his community supported the proposal. I received support votes from two experienced users with years of contributions, so I don’t see what’s so surprising there. As for Wikiversity, I followed the correct procedure. I self-nominated, posted my request in the appropriate space for seven days, and no one commented. Then the request remained open here for another two weeks. Since there was no opposition, the stewards approved it. I did follow the proper protocol. Also, I didn’t modify any policy. I merely added descriptive text to explain what we do. Everything else remains unchanged—the nomination process, the procedures, the voting, etc. So don’t come at me with false accusations. I am not like that group you defend—those who make arbitrary policy changes and then pretend not to notice, those who can’t even agree on whether something is a policy or not. I don’t campaign for support. I don’t spam other projects’ groups. You’re very mistaken about me. And don’t lump me in with those who “just showed up to vote against.” I had already been editing for a full two weeks before that. And I didn’t even come across Wikiquote by chance—Jaluj spammed my own talk page on February 17, inviting me to help out on Wikiquote. So no, I didn’t land here out of mere curiosity or just to vote against something. She also spammed the WikiSP group again in March, inviting me to Wikiquote there too. So, yeah—let’s be clear. Also, you should really investigate more thoroughly. No one is accusing anyone of being a new user or not. What’s being pointed out is the presence of suspicious voting patterns. There are users with fewer than ten contributions over five years or more who suddenly showed up just to vote in favor of one candidacy—and now against a policy. I'm sorry, but you’re way off base here. —Meruleh {talk} 00:05, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Esperelopeor: I don't have time to read all your long comment rn, but just 2 clarifications, they are obvious things to me but but maybe not for everyone:
  1. A flag can be granted even WITHOUT any vote, while canvassing is counterproductive to this purpose. I repeat and I won't stop repeating that my original comment (that was just a simple note for stew and I had no idea of private conversation between third parts and stews) was intended to indicate this, when I was a steward I treated elections on small wikis in which there had been suspect canvassing (which meant several votes from users not active on that project, maybe notified elsewhere, maybe on a social network and btw always in good faith) as null (aka without any vote) and guaranteed the flag for 3 months, the minimum (only if the requester was a very trusted user and in any case warning him that canvassing was not necessary at all). If it's not clear that, from a steward point of view, it is not necessary for there to be votes to give the sysop flag, well, imho it's likely because the policy are not read at all.
  2. The comment is boxed because discussions are not allowed here, which is where the stewards grant the flag, discussions on the vote should be done on the local page.
Thanks and hope this clarifies Superpes15 (talk) 18:22, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Superpes15: if you're unwilling to read the very good exposition by Esperelopeor, while at the same time offering support to a clearly disruptive user like Meruleh, it certainly casts serious doubt on your suitability to hold this office.
I've been aware of this discussion for a long time (as I even mentioned in the link I'll post below), but had chosen not to intervene. However, now that it's become crystal clear that Meruleh, Horcus, or whatever name and gender this user currently adopts (having changed both as frequently as one changes clothes over the past two years), is little more than a flag-collecting, disruptive sockpuppet of a still-unidentified vandal, I believe these facts must be taken into account—especially before unilaterally dismissing a community vote that ratified a highly respected user like Laura Fiorucci as a sysop.
see thread over Meruleh/Horcus in eswiki here.
SFBB (talk) 13:24, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Done Granted for 6 months to expire on 2025-11-22. To prolong your (interface) adminship, please start another election a few days before your temporary access expires, and after a week post your request again to this page. Thanks.
Excuse the delay in handling this request, which was mainly due to canvassing and the drama that arose. There is no apparent reason to keep this on hold for longer than it already has been. Discounting potentially suspicious votes on both supporting and opposing sides, there is consensus to promote. Considering the circumstances here, I'm granting the flag for six months to begin. If there are no apparent issues, please seek renewal here after that time. EPIC (talk) 05:33, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Djile59@pcd.wikipedia

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Status:    In progress

After discussion for a temporary period of 3 months Djile59 (talk) 13:52, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lepticed7@eowikisource

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Status:    Done

Hi. My 2 years long adminship and interface adminship just finished last week. I opened a new vote seven days ago, so here I am. Cheers, Lepticed7 (talk) 20:54, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done Granted for 2 years to expire on 2027-05-21. To prolong your (interface) adminship, please start another election a few days before your temporary access expires, and after a week post your request again to this page. Thanks. AramilFeraxa (talk) 11:03, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Interface administrator access

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Wildoo78@frwikivoyage

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Status:    In progress

Need a temporary interface administrator until July 31, 2025 to "fix" the French Wikivoyage listing editor script to correct the request phabricator:T375978. Thanks. / Besoin d'un administrateur d'interface temporaire jusqu'au 31 juillet 2025 pour « réparer » le script de l'éditeur de liste Wikivoyage français afin de corriger la demande phabricator:T375978. Merci. Crochet.david (talk) 17:24, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Wildoo78: note, this access requires multi-factor authentication to be configured. This may be done here: fr:voy:Spécial:Manage_Two-factor_authentication — xaosflux Talk 23:36, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I just did it. Wildoo78 (talk) 10:53, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There's a local bureaucrat on the project, but they appear to be inactive for almost a year. I've e-mailed @Adehertogh to check if they can/want to grant the permissions, otherwise stewards could step in.
@Crochet.david @Wildoo78 shouldn't the request be ono voy:fr:Wikivoyage:Nominations d'administrateurs? I don't want to be overly bureaucratic, given that the request seems to be focussed primarily on fixing the issue in phab:T375978, but I would have expected at least a ping to other admins / other active community members on that project.
Regarding this question [1]: You should test changes to gadgets via your local common.js (deactivate the gadget in your personal preferences while testing the improved code as a user script). Once you've confirmed it works, apply the changes to the gadget. Johannnes89 (talk) 05:18, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Johannnes89: Yes, it should be on that page (speaking as someone who was formerly active on frwikivoyage). I can't say for sure if this is still true, but discussions on the pub (or cafe) were still binding back when I was more active; I think an exception can be made. Just my 2c. //shb (t • c) 01:37, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Bureaucrat access

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CheckUser access

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Lymantria@commonswiki

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Status:    Done

Thanks! -- CptViraj (talk) 05:00, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done and should be no other accesses to handle, since the user already has access to the list and wiki. EPIC (talk) 05:05, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oversight access

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Miscellaneous requests

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Removal of access

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Meruleh@eswikivoyage

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Status:    Done

Please remove my admin rights from es.wikivoyage. Thanks. —MERULEH 14:54, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 On hold for 1 day, standard for resignation of advanced permissions. EPIC (talk) 14:55, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Done —MdsShakil (talk) 14:56, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Galahad@global

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Status:    On hold

I recently had a near-suicidal breakdown due to everything that's happening right now. This has made me reconsider many things, and possibly the global community's trust in me has also been affected. That's why I prefer to remove myself from the Ombuds and Global Sysop flags (I'd like to keep the Global Rollback flag, though). Best, --Galahad (sasageyo!)(esvoy) 02:23, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 On hold for 1 day, standard for resignation of advanced permissions AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 02:50, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Wait, the ombud flag doesn’t need approval to be removed? – Phương Linh (T · C · CA · L · B) 04:18, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see any reason why someone wouldn't be able to resign as an Ombud. We don't usually force people to edit and all that. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 04:22, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
😢. Jianhui67 talk★contribs 05:04, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Please try not to take things too seriously and let go of any harmful thoughts. You are a valued contributor. We are all volunteers, and there is no pressure to do more than you are comfortable with. If this is affecting your health, it is absolutely okay to take a break and focus on yourself. Your well-being comes first. – DreamRimmer ■ 05:27, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
So sadness for your resignation, wishing you good luck and all the best. ː) ~~Sid~~ 14:54, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

See also

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

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