Steward requests/Permissions/2011-11

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B20180@th.wiktionary

Please renew B20180 adminship. He has been active on the project in the past three months and he is also an elected admin on Thai Wikipedia. He confirms that he is happy to continue with the post which will expire on 12 November --Taweethaも 12:59, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

See above. --Vituzzu 16:09, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

I'd say yes due your activities in this project (and the inactivity of other admins). Your adminship will be renewed for another 6 months (until 12 May 2012). Bennylin 11:24, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

B20180@th.wikibooks

Please renew B20180 adminship. He has been active on the project in the past three months and he is also an elected admin on Thai Wikipedia. He confirms that he is happy to continue with the post which will expire on 12 November --Taweethaも 12:59, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

See above --Vituzzu 16:08, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

I'd say yes due your activities in this project (and the inactivity of other admins). Your adminship will be renewed for another 6 months (until 12 May 2012). Bennylin 11:24, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Mohau@nsowikipedia

He was a test-administrator for the wiki (then Wp/nso). So I'm requesting that he gets the sysop bit on nso.wikipedia. Preferably for 1 month. ~~EBE123~~ ^talk_Contribs 18:08, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Done for one month to expire on 1 December 2011. Ruslik 09:09, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

bennylin@idwikipedia

Hi, I'm requesting a temporary adminship for a month in Indonesian Wikipedia only to implement the AbuseFilter (EditFilter). The current local admins have been made aware of this extension, but none has yet to try it. I've tried it on another project, id.wikt. Therefore with the approval of the community, I'd like to try this on the project. Currently, other than being steward, I also serves as sysop in id.wikt and id.wikisource. Bennylin 11:04, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Not done There are two active bureaucrats. You should direct your request to them. Ruslik 18:37, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

B20180@th.wikisource

Please renew B20180 adminship. He has been active on the project in the past three months and he is also an elected admin on Thai Wikipedia. He confirms that he is happy to continue with the post which will expire on 12 November --Taweethaも 12:59, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Can you link the right discussion? It's really hard to find it by myself, anyway can you ask B20180 to confirm these requests by itself? --Vituzzu 16:10, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Please see below - B20180@th.wikiquote --Taweethaも 08:13, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

I'd say yes due your activities in this project (and the inactivity of other admins). Your adminship will be renewed for another 6 months (until 12 May 2012). Bennylin 11:24, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your understanding Bennylin. We want to keep Thai projects other than Thai Wikipedia alive. Ideally, we want to recruit new editors for those projects and have them elect admins of their own. However, for the time being, B20180 as an ambassador from Thai Wikipedia will be on a temporary mission on those sites. We will be working closely with him and assisting him in every aspects. Due to a language barrier/for quick and effective result, I wrote this request and earlier request on his behalf. --Taweethaも 06:44, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Moon@kw.wikipedia

I'd like to renew my adminship which has lapsed. Many thanks. Kw-Moon 15:33, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Hello Moon. We set this request on hold for a week. Regards, —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 15:36, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Done For one year, until 5 November 2012. Ruslik 08:27, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Bersatu@bug.wikipedia

Hi. I created and started the BUG wikipedia, and have more contribs in that wikipedia. I think I want to be a sysop again in that wikipedia and want to help Buginese Wikipedia because that's wikipedia also silent.--Bersatu 17:19, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Hello Bersatu. Since you started your RfA today we will set this request on hold for a week. Best regards, —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 19:46, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Done For 6 month, until 5 April 2012. Ruslik 08:32, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

B20180@th.wikiquote

Dear sir; I fix link to local discussion already and you can check it agian. And User:Taweetham also invite me to be admin in th.wikiquote and I confirm for his request in ต่อเรื่องโครงการวิกิมีเดียภาษาไทย already. Regards. --B20180 04:09, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

I'd say yes due your activities in this project (and you're the only admin). Your adminship will be renewed for another 6 months (until 12 May 2012). For this project, I'm suggesting you're seeking for community approval for permanent adminship, because there's no other admin in this project. Bennylin 11:24, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Thankyou sir (possible in the future soon) :) --B20180 15:09, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

خَرگوش@ks.wikipedia

I would like to request administrator privilege on Kashmiri Wikipedia. Unfortunately there is not community, however proposal was posted October 24 and no opposition since such day, having passed almost 2 weeks by now. --خَرگوش 06:37, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Done For three months until 7 February 2012. Ruslik 07:38, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Վազգեն@hy.wikisource

Please give Administrator access per local consensus. Thanks ― Teak 05:18, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

 Granted for 6 months to expire on 2012-05-05. Please remember to translate the interface at translatewiki.net only and preferably upload images to Wikimedia Commons. To prolong your adminship, please come back a few days before the status expires or hold a local election if the community grows. Thanks. -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 17:12, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Please kindly advise what are the community size requirements to have a permanent administrator. A discussion lasting 7 days was held, which ended with 6 votes for, 0 against. The community has at least 6 active members who are active daily, and an established and fast growing proofreading program. ― Teak 20:39, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

I'd like to add that Վազգեն is one of the founding members of the Armenian Wikisouce, has been continuously contributing to and enriching the project ever since (starting in 2006), has held temporary adminship for a period of six months in the past, and has currently been elected for permanent adminship with 100% of the vote. Could you please reconsider changing it to permanent? Thank you, Chaojoker 21:21, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

In fact, the situation is borderline. I hesitated before giving temp access, and as this user is active here for many years, was already a temp sysop and has the full trust of the community, I'm okay to move to permanent adminship. Cordially, -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 18:16, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, Chaojoker 01:57, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

User ProtoplasmaKid@mx.wikimedia

I request admin permissions to maintain and create pages on the website of the Mexican chapter. Regards, ProtoplasmaKid 00:01, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Not done Magister Mathematicae is dealing with setting up new rights on mx.wikimedia now, you should ask him. --Vituzzu 00:05, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Mohau@nsowikipedia

Sysop rights removed when wiki deleted and recreated. Request for 1 month. ~~EBE123~~ ^talk_Contribs 20:54, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

Done, to expire 10 December 2011. PeterSymonds (talk) 20:55, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

Zhxy_519@zh.wikisource

I applicated for the temporary sysop and here is the result of vote. So I ask for your grant, thank you. Zhxy 519 15:39, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Done -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 15:46, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you.--Zhxy 519 16:05, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Teak@hy.wikisource

Please grant permanent adminship per unanimous community support. Thank you, Chaojoker 02:01, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

 Granted for 6 months to expire on 2012-05-08. Your community may not be sizable to warrant permanent adminship yet, per Requests_for_comment/Minimum_voting_requirements#Minimum_requirements_to_elect_permanent_Administrators.-- Jusjih 12:00, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Oh, finally I see some documented discussion around this issue. Thanks for linking to it! :) Jusjih, according to that discussion, most of the contributors think that a minimum of 5 supports with 2/3 ratio is enough. Here we have 6 supports with 0 against. Also, please take a look at [3], where this community was deemed to be borderline, and permanent adminship was granted. To throw some more weight onto the tipping scales: I am one of the founders of the project [4]; I have been a temp admin on this project on 5 previous occasions (6 months each) [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]; I am a permanent sysop on hy.wikipedia and am one of the oldest sysops on the project (since 2007 [10] - although increasingly inactive, since I currently prefer to spend my wikitime on hy.wikisource). Thanks for your consideration. ― Teak 16:10, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

I've moved back the status to "In progress", as apparently this request still needs a review (see diff). I'd like to comment that I granted permanent sysopship one week ago, because I agreed that the community is now large enough. Regards, -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 09:01, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

A Wikisource-project has urgent needs of admins to maintain the namespaces related to the proofread-extension. The conflicts you often find on Wikipedia are rare on this kind of project. So, please, do not compare with Wikipedia. -- Lavallen 10:32, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Done granting regular adminship while reconsidering and understanding your specific reasons similar to Steward_requests/Permissions/2011-11#.D5.8E.D5.A1.D5.A6.D5.A3.D5.A5.D5.B6.40hy.wikisource, without intending to make this the precedent for all kinds of wikis. As Wikisource, Wikipedia, etc. have different situations, whether to grant regular adminship to wikis with limited active users depends on specific situations.--Jusjih 13:08, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the consideration! ― Teak 20:11, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Beau@szl.wikipedia

I would like to perform some gadget maintenance tasks on szl.wikipedia. It involves editing MediaWiki namespace, moving pages around and deleting old stuff, so I need sysop privileges for today. Thanks, Beau (talk) 11:36, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Done poke me when done. --Vituzzu 11:47, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

I have finished. You can remove my sysop bit now. Thanks, Beau (talk) 16:58, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Removed, thanks. PeterSymonds (talk) 16:59, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Mxn@vi.wikisource

Applying for Mxn (meta user page). He is a trusted member, as sysop in many projects (including meta-wiki). Our community is highly developed, with over 6000 pages. We need an official administrator there (not temporary). --minhhuy ^(talk) (WMF) 08:58, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Done. — [ Tanvir | Talk ] 09:04, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, so quickly! :) --minhhuy ^(talk) (WMF) 09:11, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Ozymandias@brwikimedia

85%+ votes in favor after more than 2 weeks therefore done. — [ Tanvir | Talk ] 16:46, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

محک@Mzn.wikipedia

Please get me a Bureaucrat in WikiMZN. (Note that the number of active users is low and therefore the number of votes is low.) --محک 18:43, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

The number of supports (4) is significantly below the number that is usually required for the bureaucrat access. Ruslik 09:07, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Not done when your wiki has just 28 active users and 3 administrators without any bureaucrat.--Jusjih 09:41, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Alison@gvwikipedia

Hi Stewards. I'm just requesting temporary sysop and bureaucrat permission for the Manx Wikipedia. The one permanent sysop (no local 'crats present) and one regular editor (it's a very small wiki) has requested that I do some vital maintenance to MediaWiki space (mostly css/js, some mainpage). I also need to set bot bits for the local interwiki bots and do some anti-vandal renames. I've applied and been granted admin/crat on this wiki a few times before & it's kinda an annual ritual :) I just need access for one or two days, is all. I've had it temporarily there a few times before, and I'm a sysop and bureaucrat on the Irish Language Wikipedia. Thanks, guys / maith agaibh / gura mie eu- Alison ^❤ 03:57, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Done Please, report when you have finished. Ruslik 09:00, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Alison@gvwikipedia

Hi Stewards. I'm just requesting temporary sysop and bureaucrat permission for the Manx Wikipedia. The one permanent sysop (no local 'crats present) and one regular editor (it's a very small wiki) has requested that I do some vital maintenance to MediaWiki space (mostly css/js, some mainpage). I also need to set bot bits for the local interwiki bots and do some anti-vandal renames. I've applied and been granted admin/crat on this wiki a few times before & it's kinda an annual ritual :) I just need access for one or two days, is all. I've had it temporarily there a few times before, and I'm a sysop and bureaucrat on the Irish Language Wikipedia. Thanks, guys / maith agaibh / gura mie eu- Alison ^❤ 03:57, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Done Please, report when you have finished. Ruslik 09:00, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Emperyan@trwikimedia

Emperyan-message/ileti-WMTR 14:57, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Done -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 16:38, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Tinz@dewiki

Please give Tinz the checkuser rights for dewiki. He has been elected in the checkuser election. As former ombudsman he is identified to the Foundation already. --Geitost ^diskusjon 01:49, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Done. -- Mentifisto 02:04, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Hei ber@dewiki

Please give Hei ber the checkuser rights for dewiki. He has been elected in the checkuser election. As former ombudsman he must be identified to the Foundation already though his name isn't listed at the Identification noticeboard. I think this must be a mistake. Can you check this, please?
Bdk is also elected again (who already has the rights), and Rax was also elected, but he isn't identified yet. I left him a note about this. We'll now have 5 persons with checkuser rights in the future, that makes things a little easier. :-) --Geitost ^diskusjon 01:49, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

For now this is  On hold until the situation is assessed. -- Mentifisto 02:04, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Just a note: it seems that, whether identification has happened or not is unknown at this point; I think it would be best if it is re-submitted. -- Mentifisto 19:54, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Done--Vituzzu 21:42, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Rax@dewiki

Please give Rax the checkuser rights for dewiki. Andreas Werle 16:37, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

 On hold Rax is not yet identified. --Vituzzu 16:40, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

true, not yet ;) (I sent a message right now.) --Rax 22:38, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Rax is now identified.--Müdigkeit 22:44, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Yep, I had given him CU access three minutes before you request ^^

--Vituzzu 22:45, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! --Rax 23:00, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Jon Harald Søby@nowiki

Laaknor@nowiki

Haros@nowiki

Jon Harald Søby@nowiki

Laaknor@nowiki

Haros@nowiki

-nothingman-@sv.wikipedia

All sysops on the Swedish Wikipedia are elected on one year terms (local policy). -nothingman- has not asked for renewal before the end of his/her term. In accordance with our policy I therefore request that sysop access is removed. Njaelkies Lea 07:34, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Done Matanya 07:42, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Can you ask this to the local crats? Bennylin 07:41, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

I am a local crat, we don't have the ability to remove sysop access. Thank you Matanya. Njaelkies Lea 07:47, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Lokal_Profil@sv.wikipedia

All sysops on the Swedish Wikipedia are elected on one year terms (local policy). Lokal_Profil has not asked for renewal before the end of his/her term. In accordance with our policy I therefore request that sysop access is removed. Njaelkies Lea 07:34, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Can you ask this to the local crats? Bennylin 07:41, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Done Matanya 07:43, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Cygnis insignis@en.wikisource

Annual reconfirmation disscusion resulted in No Confidence in Adminship. --BirgitteSB 18:27, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Done. PeterSymonds (talk) 18:30, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Proxybot@pt.wikipedia

The bot is inactive for two years.--201.6.211.103 18:02, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Comment Logged actions in October 2010. -- Lavallen 07:26, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Not done Local bureaucrats can remove bot flags, so no steward interventions are needed. --Vituzzu 10:32, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

I think that the request was about sysop flag. Ruslik 12:03, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

LOL, you're right! Anyway, I see proxybot is listed as a "special admin", so I think a local feedback is needed. --Vituzzu 12:42, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

I reopened this section and will warn ptwiki about that. It's not really secure to have a bot with perm sysop rights if it only runs once a year or less. That could be their choice, but they should at least be notified in my opinion. -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 19:47, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Closed. I opened local discussion and a new request will be put here if the community agrees that the flag should be removed. Cordially, -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 17:29, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Brox@lt.wikipedia

Thank you for your work! --Brox 18:16, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Done Exactly what I wanted to say. So thanks again! Trijnstel 21:30, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Zahidulla@ttwiki

Please remove my sysop rights. Thank you. Zahidulla 09:59, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

There are just two other sysops on tt.wiki, can I ask you if something went wrong over there? --Vituzzu 10:28, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Done--Vituzzu 18:34, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Marcin Otorowski@plwiki

Due to our rule, introduced after voting, in the name of Polish Wikipedia community, I hereby request for removing sysop access, due to their inactivity for over a year. Marcin Otorowski had been notified according to the procedure, but failed to reply. Masur 06:49, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Done Ruslik 07:46, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Shefshef@he.wikipedia.org

Please remove my sysops. I don't have the time to contribute at the moment. Shefshef 14:08, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Done. thanks for your work. Matanya 14:09, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Juan renombrado@es.wiktionary

Please remove my extra rights. I've been sysop/bureaucreat long enough. Thanks for your time. Juan renombrado 12:53, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Hecho :-( Un saludo.

—Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 13:38, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Hardscarf@nlwiki

Please remove my checkuser rights. Thanks in advance. --Hardscarf 17:33, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Done. Thank you for your work! -Barras 17:49, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

נינצ'ה@hewiki

Hello. Please remove my sysops. I have no time use them at the moment. Thanks, נינצ'ה 22:13, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Done by Mentifisto. Trijnstel 23:00, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

GoEThe@ptwiki

Please remove my bureacrat and sysop status. I am off to smell the roses. --GoEThe 11:27, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Done; thanks for your service over the years! -- Mentifisto 11:33, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Bináris@huwiki

Please review the activities of the user (CU, sysop)

141.0.8.156 17:43, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Not done I think you didn't understand which kind of request can be done over there. --Vituzzu 19:50, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

in my opinion, without consent, acts in front of him trying to be his own views on others, not very communicative, CU and syssop abusing the rights, to disclose any information that you can only get from CU activity, reckless acts, etc.

212.200.65.117 23:16, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Removing {{not done}} is always a bad idea ;)

Anyway, you definitely didn't understand the purpose of this page, sysops flag can be removed per local consensus, while CU abuses must be examined by the Ombudsman commission but, anyway, go on saying "there's an abuse" and no other infos is quite useless. --Vituzzu 23:22, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

havelock@hewiki

Not active for some time, can't say when I'll return. Will request community consent if and when I wish to resume my adminship. --Havelock 17:34, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for all your services. — [ Tanvir | Talk ] 17:37, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

costello@hewiki

Please remove my admin rights --Costello 20:22, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Done Matanya 20:29, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Stullkowski@dewiki

Please remove my sysops. Thanks, Stullkowski 22:22, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Done, thanks for your work! -- Mentifisto 22:31, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Leandromartinez@ptwiki

Please remove my bureacrat and sysop status. Thanks. Leandro Martinez msg 08:58, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Done thanks for your work. Matanya 09:01, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Jcb@commonswiki

Please remove the sysop rights of Jcb. Thanks. --Cecil 15:57, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Done -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 16:05, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Rotemliss-bot@hewiki

Please remove my sysop rights (bot of User:Rotemliss). Rotemliss-bot 19:45, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

I confirm this is my request. – rotemliss – Talk 19:46, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Done. PeterSymonds (talk) 19:47, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Mathiaskh@DaWiki

On 2011-07-03 in a vote on DaWiki (link above) it was concluded, that an administrator who hasn't been active on the Danish Wikipedia for 180 days would be eligible to a warning for inactivity on their discussion pages, and if they didn't respond within 30 days would have their sysop-bit removed. On 2011-10-01 da:User:Sarrus posted a warning on this users page (diff) and the user hasn't responded. Both da:User:Sarrus and I are sysops on DaWiki (verify Sarrus, verify me). --Heb 13:10, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Done and let me appreciate the way you waited for 2 weeks before doing this request. --Vituzzu 13:14, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Huji@fawiki

I hereby resign from my CheckUser privileges in Persian Wikipedia, effective immediately. Huji 15:16, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

PS: Obviously, this means the only other CheckUser in Persian Wikipedia will also lose their access until a second CheckUser is assigned. Huji 15:17, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Done Matanya 15:19, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Marcus@nowiki

I hereby resign as admin on Norwegian (bokmål) Wikipedia, effective immediately. --NorwegianMarcus 18:30, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Done Thank you for your service! --Vituzzu 19:05, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Abd@en.wikiversity

I'm requesting emergency desysop due to some rather rash actions this morning. Abd failed his "RfA" several weeks back, and was only allowed to continue in his probationary position following a certain agreement (which he just deleted), and under the understanding that his use of tools would continue to be non-controversial. See local link for details. Thanks. --SB_Johnny ^talk 15:03, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Unlocking a known cw-troll is definitely the best way to loose flags but doesn't seem, imho, an emergency, anyway the situation is now under observation, obviously any other similar action will bring to an emergency deflag. --Vituzzu 15:16, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

I thought it might help the stewards to notice that since there are two phases to custodianship there are usually two pages related to granting someone tools. The second page, is not directly linked in the local links page by SBJ. The actual voting by the community and close as "a permanent probationary custodian" is here. This was something of a unique case in that Abd was clearly doing lots of good work, but was not trusted by many to have custodial tools. The compromise was suggested that he be allowed to keep the tools as long as he was subject to the standard stop agreement, and the closure was based on this compromise. To be honest it is my opinion the stewards should not be too distracted by Poetlister's name (there was no consensus what to do about him one way or another). A very concerning aspect of this is the fact that he changed the conditions under which he was allowed access tools. Thenub314 20:14, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

IOW, en.wv has a rather strange system of giving people sysop access before the "RfA", a system we adopted in the hopes of avoiding the drama we saw going on at en.wp's RfA discussions back in 2006. We probably should have requested a separate usergroup for probationary custodians long ago, but somehow we managed not to do that.

I am a 'crat on en.wv, and I hope the stewards will be willing to "assume good faith" on my part that I will absolutely restore the tools should there be community support to do so.

I closed the discussion that was our equivalent of an RfA in an unusual manner in the hopes of preventing further drama.

So, through an error of my own, we have a "temporary" sysop who has been acting outside of the terms he agreed to. It would help us greatly if you could act on this request, with the assurance that we can give him the tools back if there is community support to do so. --SB_Johnny ^talk 23:18, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Done. PeterSymonds (talk) 23:22, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Please continue to keep us "under observation"... en.wv has not responded well to years of "benign neglect", but those who contribute there have great hopes for the project. --SB_Johnny ^talk 23:38, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

No pb, Johnny, I never assumed your bad faith, I didn't just see (or even understand) reasons for an emergency deflag. --Vituzzu 13:39, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Chris@nl.wikipedia

Chris 21:23, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Not done this group is managed by local bureaucrats, we cannot remove it. --Vituzzu 21:25, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Sir Nicholas de Lenfent Bot@multiple

Please remove bot and sysop status of this account for all the wikis. --- @lestaty ^discuţie 21:42, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Done - thanks for your work. Bes regards, —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 22:16, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Gracias MarcoAurelio --- @lestaty ^discuţie 22:23, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Sir Abraham Van Helsing Bot@multiple

Please remove bot and sysop status of this account for all the wikis. --- @lestaty ^discuţie 21:42, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Done - thanks for your work. Best regards, —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 22:16, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Gracias MarcoAurelio --- @lestaty ^discuţie 22:23, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Sir Enkil Bot@multiple

Please remove bot and sysop status of this account for all the wikis. --- @lestaty ^discuţie 21:42, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Done - thanks for your work. Best regards, —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 22:16, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Gracias MarcoAurelio --- @lestaty ^discuţie 22:23, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Lady Gabrielle de Lioncourt Bot@multiple

Please remove bot and sysop status of this account for all the wikis. --- @lestaty ^discuţie 21:42, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Done - thanks for your work. Best regards, —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 22:16, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Gracias MarcoAurelio --- @lestaty ^discuţie 22:23, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Lady Maharet Bot@multiple

Please remove bot and sysop status of this account for all the wikis. --- @lestaty ^discuţie 21:42, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Done - thanks for your work. Best regards, —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 22:16, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Gracias MarcoAurelio --- @lestaty ^discuţie 22:23, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Lady Akasha Bot@multiple

Please remove bot and sysop status of this account for all the wikis. --- @lestaty ^discuţie 21:42, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Done, thanks for your work. Best regards, —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 22:16, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Gracias MarcoAurelio --- @lestaty ^discuţie 22:23, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Lady Lilith Bot@multiple

Please remove bot and sysop status of this account for all the wikis. --- @lestaty ^discuţie 21:42, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Done —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 22:16, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Gracias MarcoAurelio --- @lestaty ^discuţie 22:23, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Sir Lestaty de Lioncourt@multiple

Please remove sysop & crat status and any other flags (that stewardship allow you to do) of my account for all the wikis. Cheers --- @lestaty ^discuţie 21:42, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Done, except OTRS-member on Commons. PeterSymonds (talk) 22:17, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you Peter. ;-) --- @lestaty ^discuţie 22:23, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Slawojar@plwiki

Due to our rule, introduced after voting, in the name of Polish Wikipedia community, I hereby request for removing sysop access, due to their inactivity for over a year. Slawojar had been notified according to the procedure, but failed to reply. Masur 06:37, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Done Matanya 09:44, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Hégésippe_Cormier@frwiki

--Hégésippe | ±Θ± 20:40, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Done. Thank you for your service. --Daniel Mayer (mav) 00:14, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Proxybot@ptwiki

View the result of discussion.--201.6.215.110 20:05, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Yes, but has the discussion actually been closed yet? That's the key element here. PeterSymonds (talk) 20:14, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Gribeco, fundator of bot, autorized removal acess of Proxybot.--201.6.215.110 20:16, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Many thanks, done. PeterSymonds (talk) 20:18, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

I really think you should ignore requests from IP. Specially from this range, which is used to evade a block and make mistaken requests in bad faith as this one. We were almost reaching consensus on that discussion, but it was not clear yet (it is not closed). I don't think that there will be any problem with the removal of this flag, but I'm sure that any further removal a little controversial will be handled incorrectly by this person and might lead stewards to an incorrect decision.” T_ele^s (T _{@ L C S}) 00:19, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Kaveh@fa.wikisource

Per local policy on our small community, I hereby request to remove administrator and bureaucrat access of User:Kaveh on Persian wikisourse due to inactivity for almost three years and not responding to the warnings on his talk page (not responding to his mails too). --Americophile 07:19, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Done. PeterSymonds (talk) 08:42, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Bellavista1957@fa.wikisource

After I made a request to de-admin User:Kaveh on faws due to inactivity (the above topic) User:Bellavista1957 blocked me for 6 months for nothing. I asked User:Mardetanha to unblock me and luckily he did. I hereby make a request to de-admin User:Bellavista1957 because of misusing his administrator access. Unfortunately Mardetanha and User:Pedram.salehpoor don't reply to my complaints against Bellavista1957. It seems that Pedram.salehpoor is busy in his real life because he recently doesn't edit on faws very often and doesn't reply to his talk page requests or even his mails. And It looks that Mardetanha doesn't want to involve himself in controversial issues. Please save the project of dictatorship of an admin who can't tolerate any kind of criticism of or opposition to his mistakes. Thanks in advance Americophile 18:08, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, but you will have to start a desysop discussion locally now that you are unblocked. This is not an emergency and you are clearly biased in this regard. PeterSymonds (talk) 18:10, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Our community doesn't have enough active users (users just come and go). Other sysops show no interest to solve the problems. I asked Mardetanha and Pedram.salehpoor to consider my complaints about 3 weeks ago but no positive response was received. Americophile 18:18, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

I'm afraid we can't help without local approval, unless this administrator does something particularly outrageous to warrant an emergency desysop. If we acted on this, it will set an unhealthy precedent for the future. PeterSymonds (talk) 18:32, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

I think those sysops who abused their powers shall not be tolerance because they did it and chances are they are going to do it again. It's not if they abused old members because old members know where to seek help from but how about new members? They will just leave and never come back and how do they suppose to defend themselves against abusive? What will they think and tell people they know about wiki in general? I can totally understand it, i have been abused before by sysops that can't argue against me so they ended up blocked me for some reasons they can easily made up. They did it to shut my mouth so they won the argument. I'm seriously think i have a pretty rotten system right now, we need harsher punishment for sysop who abused their powers. Many of the abusive cases went unnoticed and even if it's noticed, nobody made a big deal about it and then what happen next? They will continue to do it and nobody does anything to stop it.Trongphu 23:45, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

PhiLiP@zh.wikibooks

PhiLip has been granted adminship temporarily for overcoming large-scale IP proxy vandalism. Now, the large-scale IP proxy vandalism was settled already. Therefore, I'd like to request to remove his temporary adminship. Finally, I wish to express my sincere gratitude for his contribution. Cheers, --J.Wong 10:21, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

done --Melos 10:27, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Jeblad@nowiki

Jeblad approached me on IRC and requested the removal of his sysop and bureaucrat flags, per the local diff, which I have executed. Noting here for consistency. PeterSymonds (talk) 20:33, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Esksko@nowiki

We just had sysop confirmation on nowiki. All the information is on this page.

Done. PeterSymonds (talk) 20:21, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Ladsgroup@fawiki

Please remove my crat and adminship right. Thanks. In my changing user name half of my contributes stayed under name of Ladsgroup. If it's possible merge them and if it's not OK-Amir 14:04, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

They should automatically merge together eventually. Sometimes it takes a bit of time to complete. PeterSymonds (talk) 14:10, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Amirobot@fawiki

Please remove my bot adminship and bot flag and remove global bot flag too, Thanks-Amir 14:04, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Please log in to make this request. PeterSymonds (talk) 14:03, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

I confirm this requestAmir 14:04, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Done, many thanks for your work. Unfortunately you will need a local bureaucrat at fawiki to remove the bot status from Amirobot. All best for your future endeavours, PeterSymonds (talk) 14:07, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Bastique@enwiki

Done, many many thanks for your work with these rights over the last few years. PeterSymonds (talk) 18:42, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Multiple@glwiktionary

Quentinv57 removed the above users for inactivity on gl.wiktionary, per local discussion. Noting here for the Meta archives. PeterSymonds (talk) 13:49, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

WinContro@nlwiki

Please remove my adminship. Thanks! --WinContro (talk) 10:07, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Done Thanks for your work ! -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 10:17, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Mikimik@hewiki

please remove my admin rights. thanks, Mikimik 10:36, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Done; thanks for your work. -- Mentifisto 10:40, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Amnon s@hewiki

Please remove my sysop rights. thanks -- Amnon s 21:46, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for your work. —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 21:52, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Kaveh@fa.wikibooks

Per local consensus on our small community, I hereby request to remove adminship and crat access of User:Kaveh on Persian wikibooks due to inactivity for almost three years and not responding to the warnings on his talk page (not responding to his mails too). Americophile 10:26, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Comment: Kaveh was the last crat on wikibooks!

Done No activity for several years, not responding for several weeks. a×p_de^Hello! 12:03, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

مجید@fa.wikibooks

Per local consensus on our small community, I hereby request to remove adminship access of User:مجید on Persian wikibooks due to inactivity for more than three years and not responding to the warnings on his talk page (not responding to his mails too). Americophile 10:29, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Done No activity for several years, not responding for several weeks. a×p_de^Hello! 12:03, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Zerblatt@nowiki

Marius@nowiki

Grindstein@nowiki

Bastique@metawiki

Bastique@commonswiki

Castelobranco@eowikinews

Per community approval. CasteloBranco^msg 19:24, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Temporary six month access granted. Unfortunately the lack of participation suggests the community size is not large enough to warrant permanent adminship at this time. PeterSymonds (talk) 19:27, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Ebe123@nso.wikipedia

I request temporary sysop and import access to nso.wikipedia to import all from the incubator. ~~EBE123~~ ^talk_Contribs 21:36, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

• Comment New wikis are being imported by Incubator administrators.
  — Danny B. 21:54, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

  Yes, I'm the sysop. ~~EBE123~~ ^talk_Contribs 22:46, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Done For one month until 30 November 2011. Ruslik 08:14, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Pietro Roveri@ptwikiversity

After 1 month, elected by consensus. Our policies say to end an election after 14 days. Vlademir Santos 17:18, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

You mean a permanent adminship, do not you? Ruslik 17:24, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

They mean that the RFA lasted 1 month instead of the typical 14 days, and it still passed with 2 weeks for any extra comments. Therefore yes, this is a permanent adminship request. The Helpful One 17:36, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

Done granted temp for 6 months, as 3 voters are too few. expires 15.11.2011 Matanya 21:11, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

removed. Matanya 06:44, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Sky Harbor@tl.wikibooks

I was previously granted temporary adminship twice on the Tagalog Wikibooks: first when the project became active, and second just 1-2 years ago. The project is currently rife with copious levels of vandalism due to months, years even, of no maintenance after the project's permanent admin, Felipe Aira, became inactive. While I've been reverting edits for a while, I think the tools will better help me to clean up the project. --Sky Harbor ^(talk) 12:01, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

On hold until 18 May. Ruslik 13:09, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Done for six months. Expires on 18 November 2011. Ruslik 06:15, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

removed. Matanya 06:28, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Hannibal@global

Granted temporary staff rights for one year per Philippe (WMF)'s request. Expires 31 May 2012. Jafeluv 23:14, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Removed on 22 July 2011 by Mentifisto. -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 12:38, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

AVRS@eowikinews

Per community approval. CasteloBranco^msg 22:06, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Done; for six months due to community size. -- Mentifisto 22:13, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

removed. Matanya 05:54, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Global editinterface for Candalua

Note to the steward who will remove the rights : Please see Steward_requests/Global_permissions/2011-11#Global_editinterface_for_Candalua. Temp editinterface rights were requested for 2 weeks, but please ask Candula to know if he is done before removing it. This is just a simple reminder, no need to archive it somewhere, so please just remove it after removing the rights. Thanks. -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 14:29, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

វ័ណថារិទ្ធ@kmwiktionary

Greetings from Khmer Wiktionary and other sister projects! I am one of the admin team in Khmer Wikipedia. Currently there is no admin in Khmer Wiktionary, plus every small number of regular and active contributing users. So I am requesting a sysop right to maintain the project and promote awareness among Cambodian users. Lately, I have been networking with other like-mined fellow Cambodians and doing some localization on Templates, Categories, and Help pages...etc. Per the local community approval, I got 5 voices supporting my request. Thank you! Let me know if you have any inquiries.--វ័ណថារិទ្ធ (Vantharith) 12:25, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

I see you got two opposes. I'm i right? Matanya 13:11, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

I think those are part of the template. Looking at the history I only see edits from the five supporters and the nominee. Someone who understands Khmer should verify that, though. Jafeluv 14:04, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

For the record: one vote is from an IP, 3 are from users that just went to vote (not part of the community) and 1 real vote. -- Màñü飆¹5 ^{talk [es]} 14:48, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

Hi and thanks for your questions. The result is indeed 5 votes vs. 0 - the 2 items you saw in Opposing are part of the template. And thanks for the common note - yes, among the 5 votes, 4 are actually helping out at Khmer Wikipedia project. There are only 2-3 active contributors, and many other bots. Our Khmer Wiktionary has been abandoned for long while, that's why I am here to request for sysop. We are now building ground networking to recruit more volunteers and to match their interests/skills accordingly to our Khmer Wiki projects. You can have a look at some of our efforts here - Fan Page on FB, #kmwp twitter account, blog... And in case you need a Wiktionarian who is knowledgable in Khmer language, you can contact User:Stephen. Hope this clarifies. Thank you! --វ័ណថារិទ្ធ (Vantharith) 15:28, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

As some of you have figured out, there are NO votes against. There are only 5 votes for. Yes, one is an IP. What’s wrong with that? You can do a checkuser on the IP if you think it is fishy. Anonymous users can vote like anyone else. One of the "3 are from users that just went to vote" was me. I do most of the Khmer entries on English Wiktionary and I did not "just go to vote". He got 5 honest votes. Khmer Wiktionary is one of the small wikis and it is difficult to get any votes. The Khmer Wiktionary has no sysops and desperately needs one. Here is a willing volunteer who is native Khmer and who knows good English. He’s a goldmine and he got 5 votes, with no opposition.

We had this same problem on the Navajo Wikipedia and could not muster more than two or three votes. We got our admins in spite of that weakness and look what a boon it has been for the Navajo Wikipedia. You should give this willing and competent volunteer the buttons that he is asking for. Stephen G. Brown 21:16, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Done for six months, expires 21/11/11. As the community is still small we can grant only temporary admin. When this time passes you can open a new request for extend your admin rights.

Please remember to translate the interface at betawiki: only and to upload images preferably at commons: -- Màñü飆¹5 ^{talk [es]} 09:06, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

removed. Matanya 05:54, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Alhen@ay.wikipedia

Hey there, I'd like to ask for a 3-month temporal admin flag. I've been talking with Ruben from Jaqi Aru(an Aymara community oriented to promote Aymara language and culture) and we have planned a series of workshops to improve the contents and community on Wikipedia in Aymara. The flag would help me to move some pages, clean up some help pages that still exist with Spanish names and create users from the same IP when necessary. I already have admin flags at es@wiki commons and a couple more. I also intend to drop the flag in three months and then let the future community choose their own admins. --Alhen 15:29, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

 On hold Hola Alhen. Esperaremos una semana antes de ponerte los botones en caso de que no haya oposición. Un saludo, -- Dferg 15:35, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

Done, expires: 26/11/2011. Please remember to translate the interface at betawiki: only and preferably upload images to Wikimedia Commons. To prolong your adminship, please come back a few days before the status expires or hold a local election if the community grows. Thanks. -- Dferg 10:39, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Removed expired flag.--Jusjih 14:26, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Hemant wikikosh@sawiki

I am a sysop on sawiki. For my work I need to import pages from enwiki. Please provide me rights for the same. Thanks. -Hemant wikikosh 14:21, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Hello Hemant wikikosh. Please provide a link to any community discussion showing support on promoting you. Please note also that administrators have 'import' rights. If you want to easily import pages from enwiki to sawiki then you could also ask for defining import sources from sawiki for transwiki import. Best regards, —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 14:59, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

This was exactly my doubt. I read that sysops by definition have the right, but when i try it, it gives error that 'no transwiki source found and upload import is not enabled.' This means i have to get transwiki source defined. This is the page where i got sufficient support for admiship (request was first declined and then endorsed by another bureaucrat (user:HPN). Please tell if source can be defined thru this website. And if so, kindly enable the same (i hope support for adminship implies support for import rights, if former includes later).-Hemant wikikosh 15:22, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Please, visit https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ and ask for transwiki sources at sawiki to be defined. We can do nothing here. Ruslik 15:36, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

OK. Thanks for information. I'll try there. -Hemant wikikosh 16:49, 19 November 2011 (UTC)