Wikipedia:Bureaucrats

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Bureaucrats are Wikipedia users with the technical ability to:

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

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 usernames, and in granting or removing bot flags on the advice of the Bot Approvals Group. 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 technical ability to remove admin rights from users or to grant other levels of access (they cannot assign oversight or checkuser rights). These actions are performed by stewards, a small multilingual group that serves all Wikimedia projects. Additional stewards are elected annually; for more information see Requests for permissions. Changes in user rights by stewards are recorded at Meta:Special:Log/rights.

Users are granted bureaucrat status by community consensus. The process is similar to the process of granting administrator status, but the expectations for potential bureaucrats are higher and community consensus must be clearer. See Wikipedia:Requests for adminship#About RfB.

Current bureaucrats

Active bureaucrats

Bureaucrats who have performed renames, promotions, or flags
within the last 2 months as of 21 October 2008:

  1. Andrevan ( • • • contribs)
  2. Bibliomaniac15 ( • • • contribs)
  3. Deskana ( • • • contribs)
  4. Dweller ( • • • contribs)
  5. EVula ( • • • contribs)
  6. Kingturtle ( • • • contribs)
  7. Nichalp ( • • • contribs)
  8. Raul654 ( • • • contribs)
  9. Rlevse ( • • • contribs)
  10. Rdsmith4 ( • • • contribs)
  11. Taxman ( • • • contribs)
  12. The Rambling Man ( • • • contribs)
  13. Warofdreams ( • • • contribs)
  14. WJBscribe ( • • • contribs)

Inactive bureaucrats

No edits or bureaucrat actions in the last 2 months as of 21 October 2008:

  1. Cecropia ( • • • contribs)
  2. Ilyanep ( • • • contribs)
  3. Jwrosenzweig ( • • • contribs)
  4. Linuxbeak ( • • • contribs)
  5. Redux ( • • • contribs)

Active editors

Bureaucrats who have edited but haven't performed bureaucrat actions in the last 2 months as of 21 October 2008:

  1. Angela ( • • • contribs)
  2. Bcorr ( • • • contribs)
  3. Cimon Avaro ( • • • contribs)
  4. Cprompt ( • • • contribs)
  5. Infrogmation ( • • • contribs)
  6. Pakaran ( • • • contribs)
  7. Secretlondon ( • • • contribs)
  8. Stan Shebs ( • • • contribs)
  9. Tim Starling ( • • • contribs)
  10. TUF-KAT ( • • • contribs)
  11. UninvitedCompany ( • • • contribs)

Former bureaucrats

Instructions

These are instructions for bureaucrats, regarding bureaucratic actions and processes.

Promotions

Note: Like with Articles for deletion, requests for adminship can be closed by non-bureaucrats in certain cases, for example if the user has withdrawn the request or the outcome is very unlike to be positive (see WP:SNOW). Non-bureaucrats should be very careful in the latter case and only close RfAs when they are not in doubt. In such cases the requesting user should always be asked to consider withdrawal first.

  • Wait at least seven days after the listing was made on Wikipedia:Requests for adminship.
  • Check the history for the transcluded page to be reasonably sure that the comments are genuine.
  • Determine whether there is a consensus that the person should be promoted using the traditional rules of thumb and your best judgement.
  • Edit the nomination. Add the relevant header and footer to the discussion page, remembering to substitute:
Discussion Header Footer
Successful RfA {{subst:rfap}} {{subst:rfab}}
Unsuccessful RfA {{subst:rfaf}} {{subst:rfab}}
Successful RfB {{subst:rfbp}} {{subst:rfbb}}
Unsuccessful RfB {{subst:rfbf}} {{subst:rfbb}}
On hold RfA {{subst:rfah}} {{subst:rfab}}
On hold RfB {{subst:rfbh}} {{subst:rfbb}}

Renames

  1. Check that the request at Wikipedia: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. Check the changing usernames guidelines and use your judgement.
  3. Enter the old and new name at Special:Renameuser.
  4. Append the {{done}} or {{not done}} template to the request, so that Chris G Bot 3 can archive it accordingly.

Flags

  1. Check that a member of Bot Approvals Group approved the bot request and requested that it be flagged
  2. Go to Special:Makebot or Special:Userrights and set the flag.
    • The former results in bot flaggings being logged separately from other user rights changes
    • Bot flags can also be removed using Special:Makebot or Special:Userrights.
  3. Update the listing on Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Approved

See also

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bureaucrats"

This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

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