Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Rollback/Archives/2013/November/Notdone

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User:Southparkfan[change source]

I am a member of the Small Wiki Monitoring Team. I want to use this right for reverting vandalism. I am an editor on MediaWiki, autopatrolled on Meta and a rollbacker & ip-block exempt on nlwiki. Southparkfan (talk) 20:47, 11 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
 Not done Members of the SWMT are not automatically granted rollback locally on this wiki. Please use Twinkle or navigation popups instead. They are available on this wiki as gadgets. Chenzw  Talk  12:37, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
So only because I am a member of the SWMT I don't get rollback? Then the line You should have made a lot of changes, preferably showing vandal fighting. If you have rollback elsewhere, or admin rights elsewhere, this requirement is not needed. So if you are already a rollbacker or admin elsewhere on WMF, you can just ask for it here and it may be granted. on WP:ROLL is misleading users. But however, I see that I have turned on Twinkle... Southparkfan (talk) 19:50, 20 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Southparkfan has rollbackrights on the Dutch Wikipedia. WP:RBK says: "If you have rollback elsewhere, or admin rights elsewhere, this requirement is not needed. So if you are already a rollbacker or admin elsewhere on WMF, you can just ask for it here and it may be granted." JurgenNL (talk) 19:50, 20 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
But why would you need rollback rights if you've never undid an edit on this project? Or even did some substantial contributions? Trijnstel (talk) 20:33, 21 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The policy uses the word "may" which leaves it up to the administrator's discretion. I think we would prefer if you had demonstrated that you are actually patrolling this wiki before requesting rollback. You haven't made a single revert. We've had requests like this in the past and, though I'm not saying it will happen with you, oftentimes the user simply collects their flag and then never comes back (see for example the very first user in the list of rollbackers). It's not a big deal, but I think we'd probably like to see that it was worth at least the short time it takes to flag your account and that it's not going to be seen as a handout. Osiris (talk) 01:06, 21 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, your explanation looks clear enough. Just cancel this request. Southparkfan (talk) 13:32, 21 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
But why don't you remove the rollbackbit from inactive users? JurgenNL (talk) 12:15, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Because there is no reason to once its added. We just like to discourage hat collectors which like to show up here and collect their hat and leave. Eventually the word will get out that we are no longer an easy mark to boost your hats. -DJSasso (talk) 14:22, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

User:Arctic Kangaroo[change source]

I mainly do vandslism reverts here, so rollback would make things more convenient for me. I was previously stripped of rollback once for misusing it, but since then I have demonstrated my knowledge of reverting vandalism proprerly, so I hope for a second chance on this. (✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 17:36, 25 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Not done Considering you just were blocked for inappropriate postings I don't think you can be trusted with this tool. Nevermind the fact you had to be stripped of it once before. -DJSasso (talk) 20:22, 25 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Ok then, I request another time. (✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 01:16, 26 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
it's been a week now and I have done quite a lot of good reverts (both gd and bad-faith) and stayed out of trouble (other than removing a late RfA vote). For the RfA thingy, please refer to my talk page. Will let you admins decide whether to grant me rollback or not. (✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 06:45, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
 Not done...except for removing a late rfd vote and telling another user he couldn't have rollback when he asked on an admin's page. Even if you had actually stayed out of trouble, which you didn't, a week isn't very much time. I'm against giving rollback to you again at this time. --Auntof6 (talk) 07:32, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
For the "no rollback for you" case, it's from experience and observation. And in the end? Admin's answer to him is still no. (✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 07:37, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Doesn't matter what the end result was from Chenzw. You cannot go around acting like you're an administrator denying things in an official capacity. Only (talk) 21:51, 5 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]