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Archived requests

Administrator / Bureaucrat / Checkuser / Oversighter
Rollbacker
Patroller
Transwiki Importer

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 by default 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 and stewards.
  • Transwiki importer is a user who has use of the import tool to move pages here from other projects. This is not to be confused with importer, who can upload XML files using the import tool. *Importer is not granted on this wiki.
  • Uploader is a user who can upload files locally on this wiki. This permission is granted temporarily and will be removed once the task is complete.
  • IP block exempt is a right given to trusted named users who may edit from an IP address that would otherwise be blocked through no fault of their own.

Adding a new request

Rollbacker

You must be an active member of Simple English Wikipedia, preferably with some experience in reverting vandalism.

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.

Uploader

Requests for temporary (short-term) file upload permissions should be made on the Administrators' noticeboard. An administrator should be notified once the uploads are done so that the permission can be removed.
Image uploads are not allowed, this should only be requested for uploading other media (such as audio clips)

Administrator

Please read the criteria for adminship 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 {{Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/<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 Simple Talk. 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 Wikipedia:Criteria for adminship for these users.

Current time is 22:17:52, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

Purge


Current requests for rollback

User:Adelaideslement8723

I have been making good edits, reverting vandalistic edits, and my account is old enough for the requirement. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adelaideslement8723 (talk • contribs) 04:55, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Not done I don't think you have quite enough experience just yet, you have only been actively editing for a couple of weeks, but please don't let this discourage you away from the good work you have been doing. Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 19:35, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oh okay, thank you for your opinion! I will keep up with the edits then, and I will kinda be active more, but not fully active because I have school and all that. But thanks again for your opinion! Happy Editing! 💜 𝙹𝚊𝚢𝚍𝚎𝚗𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚗𝚜𝚘𝚗 💜 19:41, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User:Ravensfire

Hello. I would like to nominate @Ravensfire for rollback rights. Ravensfire is an experienced and active user (also has a rollback flag on enwiki), and makes a great contribution to the fight against vandalism and warning editors. I think Ravensfire as a rollbacker could even more benefit simplewiki in the fight against vandalism. Best regards, BZPN (talk) 12:26, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment: Correct me if I wrong but I'm pretty sure the user themself has to create their request if it's for a right like Rollback or Patroller.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 12:31, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@FusionSub: I don't think that's true - the policies don't prohibit nominating other users, and it is not a bad practice either (at least I think so, based on observations in other projects). BZPN (talk) 12:36, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm okay either way on this - I use Twinkle which does everything rollback does (from a user viewpoint, not behind the scenes) and the main reason I have rollback on enwiki is for a script that requires it. Good either way on this, but appreciate the thought from BZPN that I'm trustworthy enough for this! Ravensfire (talk) 17:10, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Current requests for patroller

User:BZPN

Hello. I'm back 50 days after my last RfP here :). I hope that during this time I have gained enough knowledge to become a patroller. As you probably know, I am most active on RC. I often see new pages and know what actions to take with them. I try to improve articles requiring basic improvement and mark them with appropriate templates. I also tag QD or report to RfD. I have read the rules for patrolling pages and know when to mark a page as patrolled. I think I could be useful as an active patroller. Also ping for BRP, if you7 would like to handle this request :). Thank you and best regards, BZPN (talk) 23:11, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Additionally, Martial law in Poland can serve as an example of an article I created. BZPN (talk) 07:03, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Done fr33kman 21:28, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Fr33kman, thank you so much! I will do my best to use them responsibly :). Wishing you a wonderful Christmas and the happy New Year! BZPN (talk) 21:35, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Have a great holiday fr33kman 23:16, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Current requests for transwiki importer

None at this time

Current requests for adminship

Lee Vilenski

Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs · count)

End date: 05:10, 3 January 2025 (UTC)


Hi all, today I am here to nominate ‎Lee Vilenski for adminship. Lee has been active here for a while now and is actively involved in several areas of the project. Notably, he participates in PGA and PVGA discussions, and has worked to upgrade one good and one very good article. I think this is exactly the area where we need more admin participation (and participation in general) right now. He is also involved in deletion discussions, and has clearly shown competence and understanding to be an admin. He is an admin on enwiki and is also familiar with the tools, that is definitely going to make his job easier. To sum up, I think the project will benefit from having someone who is closely involved with content like Lee, and he clearly has the necessary qualities to be a good admin. Thank you for your time.--BRP ever 05:10, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Candidate's acceptance: Thank you for your kind words. I accept the nomination. Please feel free to ask me any questions about myself or my edits. Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 10:24, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support

  1. Support --M7 (talk) 10:25, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support Brilliant candidate for the role. Experience with both existing admin tools and featured content creation will certainly bring welcome new skills into the admin team. Thank you for volunteering! --Ferien (talk) 10:40, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Support Trusted EN admin Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 11:37, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Support as nominator.--BRP ever 11:39, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Support seems reasonable to me! Ternera (talk) 14:03, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Support fr33kman 15:53, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Support ToadetteEdit (talk) 16:11, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Support excellent candidate, I don't see any red flags here, Easy support. –Davey2010Talk 16:15, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Support per nom. Has experience, has provided a lot of content creation and has shown understanding of admin tools. Griff (talk) 03:53, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Support ⯎ Asteralee ⯎ 06:32, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Support.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 14:38, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Strong support I can't think of a single reason why not. ✩ Dream Indigo ✩ 21:30, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Support Was waiting for this.— *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 05:54, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Support MathXplore (talk) 06:01, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Strong support, very experienced, trusted and active candidate. BZPN (talk) 18:52, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Strong support I support you. Raayaan9911 20:15, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  17. Support – Lionel Cristiano (talk) 14:43, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  18. Support thetree284 (talk) 22:58, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  19. Support – Plenty of good work and experience here, with a lot of admin/bureaucrat experience on enwiki too. Chris ☁️(talk - contribs) 07:09, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

Comments

Optional Question:

Can you explain what you intend to do with the admin rights?

Thanks --Tsugaru let's talk! :) 03:04, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I missed your message, apologies. If given the toolset I am looking to help out in general with the admin workload. Simple wiki doesn't have an abundance of administrators so there are quite a few time dependent actions that would benefit from additional hands - we recently saw that with a steward action. I would look to help out with WP:QD, closing WP:RFD discussions and handling revdel and protection requests, but I'm happy to handle most requests and have experience on enwiki doing so.
For a reference I keep a log of requests I've made for QD at User:Lee Vilenski/QD log.
I hope this answers your question, but if not, plese let me know. :). Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 22:42, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Griffinofwales

Griffinofwales (talk · contribs · count)

End date: 13:27, 6 January 2025 (UTC)


Hi all, today I am here to nominate Griffinofwales for adminship. Griff is a former admin who has held the mop for many years and has shown right temperament and level-headedness needed to be a good admin. He also does WikiElf work that needs to be done but usually goes unnoticed. He is also active in IRC and frequently requests admin assistance. I think having him back as an admin will be net-positive for the project. He is very easy to communicate and coordinate with and having him back in the team is definitely going help in handling tasks that need the admin bits. Thank you for your time.--BRP ever 13:27, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Candidate's acceptance: BRP, thank you for the nomination and the kind words. As someone who has held the mop a couple of times, I understand the responsibility that comes with this role and appreciate the requirements and understanding of policy & guidelines that it requires. If accepted by the community, I plan to continue the work BRP has mentioned, working in the background of the project, helping keep our administrative backlog down, resolving community discussions, and assisting in making our community even stronger. As an editor for 15+ years on this project and an administrator twice (stepping away for personal/work reasons), I am happy to see that the community has remained strong and hope I can continue to support you all again in the administrator role. Griff (talk) 14:51, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support

  1. Support as nominator.--BRP ever 14:55, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Extremely strong Support.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 15:49, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Support, trusted and experienced. Thank you for your contributions, and good luck! BZPN (talk) 15:54, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Support per everything I said in Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Griffinofwales 3. Welcome back! --Ferien (talk) 17:22, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Support ToadetteEdit (talk) 17:32, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Support --M7 (talk) 17:35, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Strong support Why not? ⯎ Asteralee ⯎ 17:37, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Support Raayaan9911 20:18, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  9. support - goes without saying, but a fantastic editor. Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 21:02, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Support I trust Griffy completely fr33kman 23:38, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Support – Lionel Cristiano (talk) 14:43, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Support They have done a good job in their previous tenures, welcome back.— *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 22:01, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Support Lots of anti-vandalism work and previous admin experience, why not? Kurnahusa (talk) 06:12, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Support - Griff is not only a fantastic editor but they're also an extremely helpful, patient, calm and level-headed person, They do their very best to not only help but to also resolve issues that arise. They also show a lot of empathy and sincerity in situations and they also help you understand situations or processes where sometimes situations and processes just don't make sense which goes a long way, Without a shadow of a doubt they would make (excuse my language) a bloody great admin again!!. There are not enough 0's in this world to support this nomination so I'll settle with "10000%" support :), Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 16:39, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Support i think he/she is a great editor since he/she fight vandalism. 179.109.143.218 (talk) 16:50, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you for the support! Unfortunately anonymous (un-registered) users cannot vote on RFAs but I appreciate your words. I encourage you to create an account so you can get access to the many tools available to registered users to help editing. Griff (talk) 17:18, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Support – Has a history of doing great administrative work and has continued to do good work on here since then. They would be a great administrator to have with us again. Chris ☁️(talk - contribs) 20:36, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Support Anyone who has held the mop for so long and still been and to balance their work life with their contributions and time in Wikipedia, it's someone you want on your team. DaneGeld (talk) 23:03, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  17. Support Ternera (talk) 02:56, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  18. Support Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 08:51, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

Comments

May I please ask of @Griffinofwales: what has prompted the breaks in their periods of adminship on the site? Thanks. DaneGeld (talk) 20:43, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Valid question. The first time I stepped away as my life circumstances resulted in me not having the time I used to. I returned during the post-COVID environment where I had much more time at home. Unfortunately, my career later got much busier, requiring significant travel & time commitments that did not allow me to balance Wikipedia into my life. I now have a much more balanced role in my career where I feel I can provide the appropriate time to the community. Griff (talk) 21:52, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your answer. It sounds like you have managed the balance of life and Wikipedia very well. You have my support. Good luck! DaneGeld (talk) 23:00, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]


FusionSub

FusionSub (talk · contribs · count)

End date: 13:30, 8 January 2025 (UTC)


Hi all, today I am here to nominate FusionSub for adminship. In his last RFA, I was the first one to oppose as I felt they needed more experience regarding simplewiki. After some months, now, I think they are ready. I have seen them active doing the much-needed anti-vandalism work, participating in the discussions in RFD and almost everywhere else. A lot of these areas could definitely use more admin participation. Also, having more active admins helping with anti-vandalism will definitely help us respond to urgent request quicker. Along with all this, they are also active in IRC and discord and we get plenty of requests there which they could respond to. I think they will definitely be a good addition to admin team. Thanks for your time.--BRP ever 13:30, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Candidate's acceptance: Thank you for your kind words, I will accept this nomination. Feel free to ask me questions.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 13:56, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support

  1. Support as nominator.--BRP ever 13:57, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support Good luck. – Lionel Cristiano (talk) 14:00, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Strong support I trusted FusionSub because they Experienced Editor, I'd chosen Strong Support. Raayaan9911 18:05, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Support --M7 (talk) 18:32, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Support ToadetteEdit (talk) 18:34, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Support per nominator. FusionSub's actions on Wikipedia, discussion on community pages, and RFA responses show an understanding of Wikipedia's five pillars, rules, policies and guidelines. FusionSub has also shown a strong ability to communicate and maintain the trust required of administrators. Griff (talk) 19:06, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  7. support - I see no reason not to support this as a net positive to simplewiki. Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 23:02, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Support seems like a good thing to me! Ternera (talk) 02:59, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Support – A good amount of experience and work done here; has proven themselves as a competent editor that would be suitable for adminship. Chris ☁️(talk - contribs) 07:11, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Strong support Trusted editor, useful to admin team. Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 08:50, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Support fr33kman 19:49, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Support FusionSub has my full support after I opposed on the last RfA, this time around great answers to questions below that show proficiency in admin policy. --Ferien (talk) 21:56, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

Comments

You asked for questions, I tried to deliver:)

  • If given the administrative tools, how do you plan on using them?
  • When would you use the RevDel tool and in which cases would you send the action to an oversighter?
  • What criteria would you use to determine if full or semi-protection is appropriate for an article?
  • Are there occasions when warning a vandal is not appropriate? If so, when?
  • When reviewing a request for rollbacker or request for patroller, what would be your review steps to determine if a user should be assigned those rights?
  • Are there times when a rollbacker or patroller should have their rights removed? If so, what are they and how would you do it?
  • A member of the community has reported a user for a ONESTRIKE violation. How would you respond? I've included an example to help guide the answer.
  • An editor has posted a message to your talk page questioning the quick deletion of an article a different administrator has deleted. What steps will you take and what guidance do you provide this editor?
  • Is it appropriate for administrators to close discussions they are involved in (for example, a RFD)? If so, when?

Thank you for offering to become a part of the administrator team, it is not an easy role. I have appreciated all your work on the Wikipedia and BRP made an excellent nominating statement. Griff (talk) 16:35, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for these questions, and I do agree that BRP did an amazing job when writing up the nominating statement. As for the questions:
1) I plan to be active in places like RfD and DRV as well as dealing with vandals if I catch them in the act :). Most of my planned areas of administrative involvement also require consensus determination which is something I believe I have improved upon since my first RfA.
2) I'd probably use Revdel sparingly outside of the explicit cases mentioned at RD. As for when I would send actions to oversighters, that would involve PII. If it is loacted in an area of decently high traffic, I may revdel it when waiting for oversighter action to surpress it to lower any risk associated of the data's continued accessibility to the public.
3) Full protection shouldn't really be used in articles (even in extreme circumstances), so by default, if I determine protection needed, I would almost certainly semi-protect the page.
4) If the vandal is a known Long-term abuser, they shouldn't really be given any warnings as they've been made aware that they break policies many times but they continue to try and get around it (and most of them are lock evading anyway so they should be reported somewhere like m:SRG immediately instead of going through the regular warning system).
5) First of all, I would review their edits in relation to the right (so undos / reverts for rollbacker and page creations for patroller) to make sure that they meet the requirements before looking further into it. If I'm dealing with Patroller request I would also look into if the user has been involved in any disputes, as their actions in a dispute would show how they act in such scenarios, which is something that would be important in showing if the user might be considered a "trusted editor". As for rollback, I would investigate the editors work in other parts of anti-vandalism (like warning users and reports) to completely confirm that the editor knows their stuff in that sector. If I am uncertain after reviewing the users actions I would ask for a second opinion before making any decisions on the granting of the user right.
6) There are some cases where I see removal of rollback/patrol rights warranted, such as if the user consistently misuses it after being let know that they are misusing the right (e.g "Hey, that's not how you do that." or "Hey, can you please stop doing that, that's not what Insert right is for."). If I do see that the user is misusing the right and others have said stuff along the lines of the example texts in the brackets, I would first reach out to them before taking any action to make sure that they are aware. If they continue to misuse the right roughly a week after my notification I would reach out again like "Hey, maybe stop doing that as that is misuse of the tools. If you continue to misuse the tools your right(s) may be removed.". If they still continue after my second message to misuse the right I would remove it with a notice.
7) First of all, I would make sure that ONESTRIKE would actually be applicable to avoid accidentally enforcing one strike on an editor in a case where ONESTRIKE wouldn't apply. After verifying that ONESTRIKE could be applicable on the user I would investigate the infraction that could trigger ONESTRIKE and see if it is a case where it actually triggered a clause in ONESTRIKE. If it did, then I would apply the appropriate punishment (e.g perm block with TPA to allow for an appeal). If ONESTRIKE wasn't triggered in this case I would simply leave a message saying "ONESTRIKE doesn't seem to apply here" and leave it at that.
8) First of all, I'd check to see if the article was deleted and for what reason to make sure it isn't a trolling attempt. For example, if I agreed with the deleting admin's decision I would say to the editor "Sorry, but I won't restore it as I agree with the argument that the deleting admin." but would also follow up with some advice (for example if the page was deleted under A4 I would recommend them to put what they believe makes the subject notable enough in the page during the creation process). However, if I see potential in the article I would see if the user would be willing to work on their article in their userspace and get another editor to review the page to make sure that it wouldn't break any rules before moving it into mainspace.
9) In most cases I probably would say that involved admins/editors should not close a discussion they have been directly involved in, unless that involvement was minor (e.g striking the !vote of a sockpuppet or performing maintenance work on the discussion page) or it is agreed by multiple editors that in that specific case, it would be acceptable.
Thank you for these questions and sorry for the chapter of text that is my response. This took me a proper hour to write out so I hope it serves its intended purpose :).- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 18:27, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
As a slight aside for q7 I thought I'd mention, one-strike and whether it's applied is done at admin discretion. The amount of requests for one-strike applications has picked up lately, but is / should be generally done without a request - of course, the way you'd handle such a request on AN is still correct. --Ferien (talk) 22:00, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Current requests for bureaucratship

None at this time

Current requests for checkusership

None at this time

Current requests for oversightership

None at this time

Current requests for removal of rights

None at this time
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