Wikipedia:Requests for permissions

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Permissions

See also: Wikipedia:Administrators

There are many kinds of special permissions that users can be granted. These include:

  • Rollbacker is a user who can quickly revert changes by other users. See Wikipedia:Rollback feature.
  • Flood is a very short-term permission that a user can get from any administrator to make lots of small edits in a row. When using the flood permission, a user’s edits will be hidden from Special:RecentChanges.
  • Patroller is a user who can review new pages that other users make by marking them "patrolled". Any pages a patroller makes do not have to be reviewed by others.
  • Administrator (also called an "admin" or "sysop") is a user who can delete and protect pages and block users. Admins can also grant the rollback, flood and patroller permissions.
  • Bureaucrat (also called a "crat") is a user who can grant and revoke the admin and bot permissions.
  • Checkuser is a user who can see private information about editors (for example, their IP addresses).
  • Oversight is a user who can hide private information from everyone except other oversighters, stewards and founders.
  • Importer is a user who has use of the import tool to move pages here from other projects.

Adding a new request

Rollbacker

You must be an active member of Simple English Wikipedia, preferably with some experience in reverting vandalism. Once autoconfirmed, admins/rollbackers from other projects can be granted rollback without these requirements. (If you are an admin or rollbacker from another project, please inform us of this in your request.)

Rollback must never be used to revert in edit wars, or to remove good-faith changes. Use the undo feature for this, and give a reason. Rollback does not let you give a reason when reverting. It must only be used to revert bad changes. It can and will be revoked if misused.

Click here to request rollback.

Flood

Requests for the temporary (short-term) flood permission should be made on an administrator’s talk page, on the #wikipedia-simple connect irc channel, or at the Administrators' noticeboard.

Administrator

Please read the Criteria for administratorship before nominating another user or yourself, to make sure the nominated user meets the criteria for becoming an administrator. You may want to look at the archives first so you can see why other people’s requests have succeeded or failed.

Administrator tools are there to better help the community. They do not make certain users better than others. To nominate a candidate for adminship, please follow these instructions:

  1. In the input box below, replace USERNAME with the username of the person you are nominating for adminship.
  2. Complete the fields given to you.
  3. Once the user has accepted, add {{/<insert name of person nominated>}} underneath the Current requests for adminship heading below, at the very top of the list.
  4. Optional: Add {{rfa-notice}} to the candidate's userpage.

Notes: This is not the place to get "constructive feedback from others", if you want feedback from others in a less formal environment, please see Editor Review. If a candidate is successful, an administrator or bureaucrat should add them to MediaWiki:Gadget-HighlightAdmins.js.


Bureaucrat, Checkuser, or Oversight

For the bureaucrat, checkuser, or oversight permission, a user first needs to be an administrator. There are special requirements at Criteria for administratorship for these users.

Current time is 17:10:56, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

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Current requests for rollback

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User:Beefball

I am requesting for rollback in order to assist in my anti-vandalism work. I believe I meet the pre-requisites for access to the rollback feature and that I have the necessary experience to be trusted with rollback. Thank you. Beefball Talk 19:56, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
    •  Done - Good luck, make sure you read WP:ROLLBACK and make sure you know how the tool works before you use it. Regards, Kennedy (talk) 09:53, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

User:Arctic Kangaroo

It has been 3 weeks since I was unblocked, and in that time, I have made lots of good reverts, as commented by Osiris the other day. So I hope I can be given rollback, to make the job quicker and more convenient. Thanks. :) (✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 02:21, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
    • X mark.svg Not done - Sorry no. I would not be comfortable giving you this tool yet given your recent edits. Please wait a little longer before requesting this, and meantime work on articles and reverting vandalism. Kennedy (talk) 10:03, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

I'm actually not sure how long more I have to wait (if needed), but it's been exactly 1 month since I was unblocked. And I think within the past one month, I have made many reverts that prove my knowledge in differentiating obvious vandalism (Rollback [VANDAL]), possible vandalism/doubtful edits that may consist false info/unhelpful edits (Rollback), and good faith edits (Rollback [AGF]). So I hope an admin can grant me rollback. And Merry Xmas to you as well. (✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 09:33, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Likely if you keep asking you won't end up with it. When an admin thinks you are ok to have it, you will be given it. -DJSasso (talk) 15:26, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

I think the time now is ripe. What do you admins think? Hopefully I can get the rollback rights again. Thanks. (✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 08:37, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

One month since being told no? Again, no. Please do not request rollback for at least another 6 months. You may be granted rollback in that time if an admin sees that you would benefit from it but please do not keep continually requesting it. The more you ask right now the less likely you are to get it. Kennedy (talk) 09:25, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
@ Auntof6, Djsasso, Kennedy: Seriously?!?! Just because I was blocked over a mistake which I promised never to repeat again (my first ever block btw!) and afterwards a misunderstanding, I need to wait more than 8 months to get my rights back. Read my talk page to know the full story first before commenting here. Even if you want to use "misusing rollback", that's another terrible, terrible excuse. It's been more than 3 months (if not it's almost there), and during that period I have made many good reverts. Not convincing enough?! (✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 15:22, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

User:Mr Wiki Pro

Hello. I have been fighting alot of vandalsim on the Simple English Wikipedia and I belive that rollback rights would make my work somewhat easier. Thank you.--Mr Wiki Pro (talk) 20:45, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
 Done Please remember that rollback is only to revert vandalism, not edits that may have been made in good faith. --Auntof6 (talk) 21:33, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
Ok thank you. I will use this tool with care.--Mr Wiki Pro (talk) 22:17, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

User:Thesixthstaff

Yesterday was my one month anniversary of becoming an active contributor here at the Simple English Wikipedia. In that time, I have made 840 edits. My contributions consist mostly of dealing with new users and vandalism, as well as copy editing, simplifying and creating articles. Though I am very efficient with Twinkle, I have found that I often don't roll back far enough. With the rollback tool, keeping vandals in check will be easier, and I can work without the fear of reinstating other vandalism. However, I understand completely if you feel that I need more experience, or that I need to work on something. I am applying now to see what I can improve so that I may gain these rights in the future; if that time is now, so be it! Thesixthstaff (talk) 04:08, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
 Done. Okay. Your recent reverts look fine to me, and most of your edits are anti-vandalism work. Just make sure you only use it for vandalism, and if you're not sure use Twinkle. Osiris (talk) 02:38, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

User:GeorgeBarnick

I haven't been active much until the past day or so, but I look to continue being more active on Simple English Wikipedia. I have experience in countervandalism globally on Wikimedia (and other networks), am a member of SWMT, have rollback rights on enwp (verify) and have administrator rights on MediaWiki.org (verify). I keep an eye on this wiki's Special:RecentChanges and in #cvn-simplewikis, therefore I will likely be able to see vandalism quickly, and having rollback rights will make my countervandalism efforts on Simple English Wikipedia faster and easier. --GeorgeBarnick (talk) 07:13, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
Not yet, but welcome to this Wiki. I'd rather see you doing anti-vandalism work for a while before we give you this right, so we can see that you are used to the way we do things. I've seen new editors here undo changes as vandalism when the change had actually been made in accordance with some of our standard procedures for making things here simple. With the experience you have, I'm sure you'll catch on quickly, but for me it's a little soon to give you this right. Let me know if you have any questions! --Auntof6 (talk) 03:17, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Current requests for patroller

User:Pending

Pending (talk • changes • count • logs • page moves • block log • email) (assign permissions)

  • I believe that I have shown that I will not add anything un-useful to Wikipedia, along with the fact that it will be in proper format. I have read and created lots of articles, and understand the correct way that an article should be presented, which will help with patrolling if I am granted the rights. I can recognize when an article is important, along with when it is not, and if the article is vandalism. I know that if I receiving patroller rights it will help me improve the Simple English Wikipedia. Pending(tell me I screwed up and where) 18:00, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
  • I have Created/ Re-wrote the Following Pages
  1. Adobe Premiere Elements
  2. Chesapeake Bay Bridge
  3. The Last of Us -Rewrote
  4. AMC TV
  5. Long and Foster
Seems legit to me, therefore  Done. -Barras talk 15:55, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Current requests for importer

None at this time

Current requests for adminship

Glaisher

Glaisher (talk • changes • count • logs • page moves • block log • email)

End date: 08:38, 22 March 2014 (UTC)


Hello fellow Wikipedians! It's been almost two years since I nominated someone here for adminship, but recently I discovered someone who is really helpful and actively around on simple. I think he's currently one of the most productive vandal fighters on this project. Therefore I'd like to present to you Glaisher as a possible new admin for this project. He's especially active as vandal fighter and busy reverting vandals, reporting them and also proposing pages for quick deletion, where he could make great use of the few extra buttons. I feel that we all would really benefit from giving Glaisher the mop. It would save our current admins some work and he could just do a lot of things himself without poking other people. I'm very certain that Glaisher will be a good assist to the current team of admins. He's often around and also often on IRC where he can help as well. As an admin on mediawiki.org he already knows how everything works and so he surely won't break anything. I hope that you all agree with me and support Glaisher! Good luck! -Barras talk 08:38, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Candidate's acceptance: Thanks for nominating, Barras. The sysop tools would help me to even better contribute to this project, hence I accept. --Glaisher [talk] 08:44, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Support

  1. Support as nominator. -Barras talk 08:38, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
  2. Support Will be a great help to simple-wiki. Jianhui67 talk★contribs 09:24, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
  3. Support --Mr Wiki Pro (talk) 10:16, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
  4. Per nom. Chenzw  Talk  10:31, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Oppose

Comments

  • His work on this wiki is limited mainly to ~1500 reverts of vandals, and some appearances on central pages. He's got a lot of commitments elsewhere on WP, and it would be unreasonable to think he will be regularly available here. Our problem is that we have about five or six admins who do almost all the work. Glaisher unquestionably has the quality any wiki would need, but he is not going to improve our situation much. Well, I'm definitely not going to vote against him, but I do not think anything here will change as a result of his promotion. Macdonald-ross (talk) 10:57, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
    True, I'm quite active globally but that doesn't mean that I won't be available here. I believe that I'm currently one of the regularly active users at this wiki. I'm not planning on decreasing my activity levels here even if this RfA passes or fails. --Glaisher [talk] 17:10, 15 March 2014 (UTC)



Current requests for bureaucratship

None at this time

Current requests for checkusership

None at this time

Current requests for oversight

None at this time

Current requests for removal of rights

None at this time
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