Wikinews:Requests for permissions

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Requests for permissions (RFP) is the process by which the Wikinews community decides which users can have access to the administrator, bureaucrat, checkuser, and oversight permissions.

Users can submit their own requests (self-nomination), or
Other users can nominate a candidate.

I	Please read the policy before making a request for permissions. See also the global permissions policy. Previous requests have been archived, and contain some common questions, comments, and objections made during the process.
II	Create your request for permission: Add your username in the box in the relevant section below and click the button. Complete the questions on the resulting page and save it. Transclude your request page at the foot of the relevant section by adding the title of your request page, enclosed by curly brackets e.g.: `{{Wikinews:Requests for permissions/Administrator/YourUsername}}` Then inform the Wikinews community of your request.
III	Questions You may be asked questions by other users so they can review your request. Please try to provide full answers.
IV	Community decision The request must remain open for at least one or two weeks (depending on the permission sought). A bureaucrat will close the request and will also grant the appropriate flag, if the minimum criteria have been met. For CheckUser or Oversight, the bureaucrat will request the flag at Meta. Closed requests are moved to the Archives.

Interface Admin

Gryllida

Nominating myself as sysop who is frequently available to assist with editing pages in MediaWiki namespace if needed. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378519 I can help with maintaining software and I also wanted to write a guided tour for new users. Thanks Gryllida (talk) 17:36, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Stats

Links for Gryllida: Gryllida (talk · contribs · deleted · count · logs · block log · review log · lu)

Questions and comments

Votes

George Ho

Nominating sysop who is frequently available to assist with editing pages in MediaWiki namespace if needed. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378519 Thanks Gryllida (talk) 17:36, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Stats

Links for George Ho: George Ho (talk · contribs · deleted · count · logs · block log · review log · lu)

Questions and comments

Thanks, but I'm unsure whether I'm fully qualified for the work intended by the role. --George Ho (talk) 19:21, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Gryllida: why can't you do it? Leaderboard (talk) 16:29, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
i can, i also applied. for fancy reason administrators used to be able to do it but then the system changed and it is a separate user right Gryllida (talk) 21:24, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Votes

Administrator

Bureaucrats

CheckUser and Oversight

To add a nomination for CheckUser

To add a nomination for Oversight

Removal

{{Remove}} means "support removal of permission".
{{Keep}} means "keep permission".

The following discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Bddpaux

I have given this project more than 15 years, but its time to face the facts. Wikinews is a failure. We hardly publish anything at this point and at this point we are not a useful news source. While I believe in citizen journalism, it's time for me to move on.

Could someone please remove my admin and reviewer permissions?

@Cromium, Gryllida, RockerballAustralia:

Closing this request created by an imposter account.
•–• 02:21, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Stats

Links for Bddpaux: Bddpaux (talk · contribs · deleted · count · logs · block log · review log · lu)

Questions and comments

Can the crats please hold off on actioning this? I'm pretty sure the requesting account (Bdddpaux — notice, they didn't sign this request) is an impostor's account, not an alt account, and have asked Bddpaux about this. All it's done is redirect its user and talk pages to Bddpaux's, and request the removal of his privs. It's odd to create an alt account, and next, an hour later, announce your retirement. Bddpaux's latest statement on his userpage, two days ago, seems decidedly optimistic, although I have to admit Bdddpaux does a pretty good imitation of some phrases Bddpaux commonly uses, like mentioning his duration of service to the project and saying that he still believes in citizen journalism even at times when he's disillusioned about the project. Heavy Water (talk) 20:05, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Noted it was Bdddpaux (not Bddpaux) who requested, with Bdddpaux being only several days old. Noting the message you left at Bddpaux's talk page to confirm. Taking no action currently. Gryllida (talk) 02:00, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If @Bddpaux: does not declare this as a sock account, I will be blocking this imposter + might warrant a CU as well.
•–• 02:05, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed with Bddpaux, it is not a sock. Gryllida (talk) 02:14, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Votes

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page, such as the current discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Pathetic. Some people apparently need to get a hobby. This was not me. —-Bddpaux (talk) 03:24, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]