User:Snake311/Wikipedia:Bureaucrat

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Contents 1 Current bureaucrats 1.1 Active bureaucrats 1.2 Former bureaucrats 2 Instructions 2.1 Sysopping 2.2 Changing usernames 2.3 Flagging bots 3 See also

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Bureaucrats are Wikipedia users with the technical ability to:

• promote other users to administrator or bureaucrat status;
• grant and revoke a user's bot status; and
• rename a user account.

They are bound by policy and consensus to grant administrator or bureaucrat access only when doing so reflects the wishes of the community, usually after a successful request at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. In like fashion, they are expected to exercise judgment in changing user names, and ensure that the bot policies are followed when granting bot status to a user. They are expected to be capable judges of consensus, and are expected to explain the reasoning for their actions on request and in a civil manner.

Bureaucrats do not have the ability to undo promotions, or grant other levels of access. These capabilities are held only by stewards, a small multilingual group that serves all Wikimedia projects in all languages. Stewards are elected annually. For more information, see Requests for permissions.

[change] Current bureaucrats

[change] Active bureaucrats Archer7 (talk • changes • e-mail •blocks •protects • deletes • moves) Blockinblox (talk • changes • e-mail •blocks •protects • deletes • moves) Vector (talk • changes • e-mail •blocks •protects • deletes • moves)

[change] Former bureaucrats Angela (talk • changes • e-mail •blocks •protects • deletes • moves), resigned Netoholic (talk • changes • e-mail •blocks •protects • deletes • moves), resigned on November 13, 2006

[change] Instructions

[change] Sysopping

1. Wait at least seven days after the listing was made on Wikipedia:Requests for adminship.
2. Check the history for the transcluded page to be reasonably sure that the comments are genuine.
3. Determine whether there is a consensus that the person should be sysopped using the traditional rules of thumb and your best judgement.
4. If so, make them an admin or bureaucrat using Special:Makesysop.
5. After a nomiation as been completed, it should be moved to /Archive3 wether successful or unsuccessful. Also polls for desysopping users should also be moved to /Archive3 after completed.
6. If the nomination has succeeded, inform the user that they are now a sysop or bureaucrat. (Some bureaucrats also inform users of failed nominations.)

[change] Changing usernames

1. Check that the request at meta:Changing username is legitimate.
2. Be sure that the user has no history of abuse and that the request is in the best interest of the project. Use your judgement.
3. Enter the old and new name at Special:Renameuser.

[change] Flagging bots

1. Check that a member of Wikipedia:Bots/Approvals group approved the bot request and requested that it be flagged
2. Go to Special:Makebot and set the flag; be sure to include the diff of the bot's approval
   • Bot flags can also be removed using Special:Makebot.

[change] See also

• Special:Log/rights - log of promotions
• Special:Log/renameuser - log of username changes
• Special:Log/makebot - log of bots
• m:Stewards
• m:Developers
• Special:Listusers/Bureaucrat - list of all users who have bureaucrat permissions
• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship#About RfB - to become a bureaucrat
• en:Wikipedia:User access levels
• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard