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This page hosts requests for administrator access on the Meta-Wiki; for requesting administrator access on any other wiki, please find the appropriate venue on the index of request and proposal pages. Requests for bureaucrat, checkuser, oversight and bot, as well as removal of them (other than inactivity) are also made here. Before making a request here, please see the administrator policy.

Most requests should be listed here for at least seven days; bureaucrats should only close after the minimum time foreseen in the relevant policy. Discussions are not closed early. Adminship will be granted by a support ratio of at least 75%. If a request hasn't been addressed by a bureaucrat after a lengthy period of time, please leave a note at Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat. Requests may be extended, or put on hold by bureaucrats, pending decision or finding of consensus.

Requests for temporary adminship and bot requests may be less formal and often go for a shorter duration if consensus becomes clear after only a few days of discussion.

All editors with an account on Meta, at least one active account on any Wikimedia project, and a link between the two, may participate in any request and give their opinion of the candidate. However, more active Meta editors' opinions may be given additional weight in controversial cases.

See below for information on prerequisites on submitting a request, and how to add a nomination.

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Note that this page is for access on Meta only. See the permission request to stewards page for adminship/deadminship requests on other projects.

Regular adminship

  1. Before requesting admin access, please check the policy for requesting adminship.
  2. Use the box below, insert your username:

  3. Place a request on this page, by transcluding the subpage, for example {{Meta:Requests for adminship/Username}}. Please put the newest request on the bottom. Bear in mind that even if you do meet the criteria above this does not mean that the community will automatically approve a request.
  4. Please note, past administrators who have given up their rights must meet all criteria at the time of the new request. There is no separate process for reinstating past administrators.

Please note: Ill-considered nominations for adminship can be draining and deflating to both the community and the candidate. Any successful candidate will need to be able to demonstrate sufficient experience within the Wikimedia community, in addition to a familiarity with Meta-Wiki. If a candidate is not already a local administrator or holder of advanced permissions on a Wikimedia content project, they are less likely to pass a request for adminship here at Meta-Wiki.

Bureaucratship

Add your request below under the bureaucratship section. Please note:

  • Only active administrators can become bureaucrats, and only after at least 6 months of regular adminship.
  • User is endorsed by two current bureaucrats after they nominate themselves here.

If you fail any of these requirements, you will not be assigned the bureaucrat flag. For more information see the Meta bureaucrat page.

Other access

For these types of access, create a subpage just as you would for regular adminship and add it to the appropriate section of this page.


  • Limited adminship: If you need sysop access for a particular reason (such as ability to edit protected pages), you may request limited adminship on Meta. If granted, the user understands that they will only be allowed to use the tools for the tasks they were approved, and not doing so will be grounds for immediate removal. Temporary sysop access will normally be valid for one month unless requested and granted otherwise.


  • CheckUser: please read the CheckUser policy and add your request below under the checkuser section, in the same way as an admin request.

  • Oversight: please read the Oversight policy and add your request below under the oversight section, in the same way as an admin request.



For these types of access, just ask on Meta request for help from a sysop or bureaucrat page:

Requests for global renamer permissions are handled at global permission requests to stewards page.

Wikimedia Foundation staff and contractors

If you are a Wikimedia Foundation staff member or contractor and need rights on Meta-Wiki to perform your duties, the request process is different. Please review the WMF staff userrights policy on Foundation-wiki and follow the procedure described there. If in doubt, please contact Trust and Safety by sending an email to ca@wikimedia.org.

Requests for regular adminship

NDG

Not ending before 16:11, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

Hello, everyone. I am nominating NDG for adminship today. NDG is an administrator and interface administrator on kshwiki, where he performs basic maintenance over there; he is also a global rollbacker as an active member of the SWMT. If elected as a Meta administrator, he will plan to assist with RFH and CAT:DEL, maintain (global) abuse filters against vandalism/LTAs/spam, and also maintain the spam and title blacklists. With my offer of help and guidance to the candidate (especially the abuse filter and technical fields), I hope you will join me in supporting this adaptable, hardworking, and respectful candidate. Thank you for your consideration. Codename Noreste (talk • contribs) 16:11, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I expressly agree to the nomination, thank you very much. The ability to block vandals and quickly delete pointless pages would be a huge help. Thanks for your feedback and consideration. NDG (talk) 16:24, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Support as the nominator. Codename Noreste (talk • contribs) 16:25, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Support per nominator --Der-Wir-Ing ("DWI") talk 16:38, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Oppose having multiple recent blocks and a strongly opposed RFA on your homewiki, plus only administrative experience on a small project I don't think you are ready for adminship on a project with global impact, especially when the reasoning is to work on components with global impact. — xaosflux Talk 19:13, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    @Xaosflux: Noting that the two most recent blocks (in January 2026 and August 2025) were self-requested blocks, and that the last dewiki block for cause was in May 2025. This is just a note as for the block portion of the comment, I'm not questioning the oppose (and don't have any particular opinion about this RFA). EPIC (talk) 19:18, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    There are also other blocks that appear to be about disruption last year, and the current block/conditional (can't tell if that conditional was subsequently removed) unblock seem to indicate additional friction. Having less than 1 month of project admin experience and wanting to work on global abuse filters (when their project currently has 0 active abuse filters), and blacklists (where their project has no titleblacklist or spamblacklist) without any experience is is also a reason I am not supporting. — xaosflux Talk 19:37, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    @Xaosflux There were indeed blocks stemming from a mutual user conflict in my early days. A condition I had requested against both user accounts was unintentionally violated by me, whereupon I explicitly agreed to the one-day block on May 5th. I fully understand concerns, which are not easily dispelled by my unsuccessful dewiki candidacy. On a global level, I have come to appreciate the collaboration with many colleagues since July. These are things that, however, are not reflected in my home wiki. Regarding my experience, I can only point to my reports on RFH, my reverts/rollbacks, and my deleted edits. kshwiki has no vandalism (and nearly no recent activity) and is maintained by me for idealistic reasons (my regional dialect). NDG (talk) 20:33, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Support NDG does a great job at anti-vandalism on Meta that I believe sysopship will be an overall net positive. shb (t • c) 20:05, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Support --Saroj (talk) 20:43, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Support I don't think the dewiki issues (the latest of which is one year old; I don't care about the failed RfA) rise to something that requires opposition here. The lack of adminship experience is not an issue - NDG is a global rollbacker which goes a long way in this case, and it's not like there is no precedent for users getting adminship on this wiki without comparable experience elsewhere. Leaderboard (talk) 07:04, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Support trusted user, dewiki issues were about relatively specific local topics imo – no objections for this role. --Icodense (talk) 18:46, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Support I agree with the comments above. Good Luck! :D PieWriter (talk) 02:09, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Your anti-vandalism efforts on Meta are a great help! You have been a bit hot-headed on dewiki, but I am happy to Support Support, provided you make a conscious effort to remain cool, calm and collected as a Meta admin. --Count Count (talk) 06:26, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Support Great editor and great work so far. Happy to support. – DreamRimmer ■ 07:50, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Weak support As I suppose a slight tale, I succeeded in a request for adminship with no formal admin rights elsewhere, and with around 200 edits on Meta total. I'd like to say I've done well, if I may toot my own horn a bit. I see no reason why NDG could not either. They are, I believe, trustworthy enough, and while I might be more eager to support a limited adminship here, I have no issues with them becoming a regular administrator. EggRoll97 (talk) 09:45, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Requests for limited adminship

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Requests for interface adminship

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Requests for bureaucratship

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Requests for CheckUser access

"Meta:Requests for checkuser" redirects here. To request checkuser information, see Meta:Requests for CheckUser information.
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Requests for Oversight access

"Meta:Requests for oversight" redirects here. To request oversighting, see Meta:Oversighters#Requests.
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Requests for translation adminship

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Requests for CentralNotice adminship

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Requests for bot flags

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