Wikibooks:Requests for permissions

All rights available on Wikibooks are handled here, including autoreview, reviewer, importer, uploader, administrator (and interface administrator), bureaucrat, CheckUser, pseudo-bot, and bot flags. A nomination must demonstrate how the project will benefit from granting the rights.

Nominations

To nominate a user (including yourself), add their username to the appropriate section below. Please explain why you feel the nominated user would be a good choice. All registered Wikibookians may comment, and provide arguments in support or opposition. For the bot flag, technical information about the bot may be requested. See the specific requirements for each type of access on their respective pages. Please do not nominate other users unless they have already agreed to be nominated.

Outcome

Consensus does not need to be demonstrated —though discussion is welcome— in granting autoreview, reviewer, importer, and uploader flags. Administrators may use their best judgement in granting those. Interface admin was historically part of the administrator tool set and is granted on request to administrators. All other tools require community consensus and can only be granted by bureaucrats. Access to CheckUser is governed by CheckUser policy. After about one week, if there is consensus to grant access, then a bureaucrat will make it so and record the fact here. If not, a bureaucrat may refuse to grant the rights and the request will remain until a consensus is reached. The importupload permission requires a 5-day discussion before the right can be granted.

Requests for permissions

Benrattray (discuss · contribs · count · logs · block log · rfps · rights [change]) (create/edit a page blocked by auto)

Hi, can we please have permission to create and edit the following page? Exercise_as_it_relates_to_Disease/Effects_of_a_swim_program_for_children_with_Autism I vaguely recall having problems in my class with titles that include the word autism.... thx --Benrattray (discuss • contribs) 05:02, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

@Benrattray: you don't need a permission to make pages. However, an admin may be able make blacklisted pages for you. These pages may then be edited by anyone.Xania, can you create it? ^L10nM4st3r / _{Roar at me} 17:47, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

obviously, but that is what the error message says with this type of error. And why would this title be blacklisted, its about health.

Please can the following page also be created (because its blacklisted) - Exercise as it relates to Disease/The effects of physical activity on the social behaviour of children with Autism

It seems to be an issue around blacklisting and the word autism. Whatever the reason for that, I don't think these pages are the cause for concern the blacklisting. Thanks. Benrattray (discuss • contribs) 22:07, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

@Benrattray: I checked the abuse log and couldn't find a log of you triggering the edit filter. Could you explain what kind of warning you got? I'm not an admin here but I can try and help out to the best of what I can. SHB2000 (discuss • contribs) 10:30, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

@SHB2000: I tried it myself. It was a local or global blacklisted page title. It's not an edit filter. ^L10nM4st3r / _{Roar at me} 11:20, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

Ah yes – didn't occur to me that the page would be on the title blacklist. The word "autism" is on the global blacklist which is probably why Benrattray wouldn't have been able to create that page. SHB2000 (discuss • contribs) 11:24, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

ok thanks. I will find another way to get these student projects completed. Benrattray (discuss • contribs) 23:35, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

WhatamIdoing (discuss · contribs · count · logs · block log · rfps · rights [change]) (autoreviewer)

I want whichever user right is necessary to stop Special:PendingChanges from undoing the edit that I just made whenever I make a second or third one before someone marks the first one as being reviewed. You can see more information about me at Special:CentralAuth/WhatamIdoing. WhatamIdoing (discuss • contribs) 03:04, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

PendingChanges doesn't "undo" your edits, so whatever behaviour you are seeing, it isn't caused by this. MarcGarver (discuss • contribs) 08:03, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

@WhatamIdoing: (apols for very late response) That's reviewer. I believe you'll automatically get them once you meet the requirements listed on Wikibooks:Reviewers. SHB2000 (discuss • contribs) 10:32, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

QueerEcofeminist (discuss · contribs · count · logs · block log · rfps · rights [change]) (Reviewer)

I am writing a book here, though I have reached the automatic promotion criteria, my user rights could not be upgraded to the reviewer. I have global rollback, but still not able to write on few things as abusefilters stop me from saving the page itself. having these rights will allow me to finish my work thanks. QueerEcofeminist (discuss • contribs) 11:46, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

{{Done}} autopromoted. thanks QueerEcofeminist (discuss • contribs) 07:09, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

Xeverything11 (discuss · contribs · count · logs · block log · rfps · rights [change]) (uploader)

The following discussion has concluded. Please open a new discussion for any further comments.

Kittycataclysm (discuss · contribs · count · logs · block log · rfps · rights [change]) (temporary adminship)

Hello! Per @Leaderboard's suggestion, I am requesting temporary adminship to help combat LTA (especially GRP) on wikibooks. The duration of the temporary adminship is hard to specify, but generally it would be for while we are experiencing high volumes of LTA. My main goals are to be able to protect/semi-protect pages where LTA is happening and to block IPs that appear to be engaging in LTA. Thanks! —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 16:06, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Another goal of mine that would require temp adminship is to delete pages for which it is unambiguously necessary, such as pages that consist solely of vandalism or blank pages. —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 16:33, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Support. I trust the user. ^{— L10nM4st3r} / _{ROAR at me!} 18:43, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

I also support the request; we're rather short on active admins here. We can start off with a 3 month temporary adminship for the purposes of anti-vandalism and see how that goes - if you find the rights helpful, we can make it indefinite. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 19:44, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

I support this too - as someone actively trying to remove his vandalism from multiple WMF projects, we could really use extra admin help. Thank you - Antandrus (discuss • contribs) 23:38, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

• Support this project is definitely needs more admins. I've gone hours waiting for an admin, only for various LTAs to be disinterested in that specific page (I'm not just referring to GRP here). I'd maybe expect a little more x-wiki experience, but I'm still happy granting temp-admin privileges. --SHB2000 (discuss • contribs) 10:53, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

@MarcGarver Would you be the person to reach out to for next steps on this? I think you're the only bureaucrat on Wikibooks. Thanks! —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 18:11, 26 December 2022 (UTC)

MarcGarver has unfortunately not been active since Dec 15 on any WMF project (per the GUC tool). Should a request be made on m:SRP (as an exception to the norm)? SHB2000 (discuss • contribs) 02:51, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

No need to hurry anything. Be patient.--Xania ^talk 03:05, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Oops, I apologize @Xania! I had assumed this was urgent based on other users' commentary, and I wanted to clarify the path forward, but I am more than happy to wait if other people are taking care of the existing issues :) —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 15:28, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

We don't have temporary admins, and we have no process other than a "removal" RFP to remove the "temporary" admin. You need a policy change FIRST because otherwise a Steward will not remove the admin flag and only Stewards can remove it, not WB bureaucrats. I suggest you propose the policy change for approval first. The support so far is insufficient for a permanent admin which is all we can currently do. MarcGarver (discuss • contribs) 09:37, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Xeverything11 (discuss · contribs · count · logs · block log · rfps · rights [change]) (temporary adminship)

There are lots of LTAs vandalising pages and this project only has few administrators. More admins are required so I am requesting temporary adminship to help combat LTAs/vandals on pages in articles. The duration will be ~3 months, but can be extended to indefinite if I am confident with these tools. My goals are to protect pages vandalised by LTAs and delete pages that are created by LTAs. Xeverything11 (discuss • contribs) 13:47, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

• Not yet. Your edit count here is way too low and your first global edit was only a little more than a month ago (according to your userpage). I may have supported if you had more experience on other wikis, but Special:CentralAuth/Xeverything11 indicates otherwise. --SHB2000 (discuss • contribs) 22:21, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

  Also, I'm not comfortable supporting after finding out that Special:Diff/4211481 was your 94th edit on en.wb – edits like those should be left to admins, not to a user whose account was only 4 days old. SHB2000 (discuss • contribs) 11:02, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

Not yet. I'm a little hesitant for the same reasons as @SHB2000. Additionally, on multiple occasions when I've reached out to you, it's been very difficult to engage you in productive community conversations, despite your high activity. I'm very open to hearing your thoughts and reasoning on issues, but I'm a bit worried you're not open to conversation, and that itself worries me re: admin privileges :/ —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 14:22, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

I will have to agree with the two above opposers, even for temporary adminship. Your account is just over a month old - and while I do not want to oppose because of age, I don't see enough evidence of your understanding of Wikibooks (or Wikimedia) that would justify giving this right (also see WB:ADMIN). At this time, it's a "not yet" from me. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 14:56, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

Not yet. ^{— L10nM4st3r} / _{ROAR at me!} 10:35, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

SHB2000 (discuss · contribs · count · logs · block log · rfps · rights [change]) (adminship)

I realise that this is just a chain reaction with users who have been actively been fighting vandalism over the past few months, but I'm requesting sysop tools for a similar reason as Kittycataclysm. I've thought about this for the last month or two, but particularly between 08:00–11:30 UTC, there are few sysops available leading to hours'-long edit wars with LTAs and hope that I can use these tools.

If I were to assess myself, I would personally say I may need more experience on Wikibooks; however, I'm already a sysop on the English Wikivoyage, my home wiki (and not to gloat, but Xtools should sum it all).

I should also make a disclaimer that real life has got in the way recently since mid-November, but I should have more time to edit until early January, where I'll be travelling interstate and won't have access to a computer (check voy:en:User:SHB2000 for some updates). However, after late January (around the 23rd), I presume I'll be back in full swing and therefore will have more time to edit.

Oh, and finally, I should mention that I'm indecisive on whether I should request for temporary or full adminship. On one hand, I haven't wrote a lot of content here (apart from copyediting some Wikijunior books), but on the other hand, I'm not much of a writer myself (travel and journalistic writing are another story, though ;-)) and don't expect to add much in terms of content and this comes back to the main reason why I'm requesting sysop tools: to fight the excessive vandalism this wiki has been receiving.

So there goes it. That's my long explanation of why I'm requesting sysop tools. TL;DR: this wiki has been receiving a lot of vandalism and using my experience on en.voy, I hope I can use these tools for the benefit of this wiki.

--SHB2000 (discuss • contribs) 22:40, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

Support - while I don't like the chain of temp adminship requests for the sake of antivandalism, the reality is that we are short on active admins. This person has reasonable experience on Wikibooks itself, and their cross-wiki experience doesn't hurt. Personally, given your reasoning, I would go for temporary adminship, but I'm not opposed to full should the community consider that the better choice. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 15:00, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

Support. I think temporary adminship might be more appropriate to start with, given your reasoning that you could use more Wikibooks experience? I think that would be an appropriate start, so we can get a handle on the blatant and obvious vandalism, and then maybe full adminship a little later after you've contributed a bit more to Wikibooks? —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 15:13, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

Support - long history of being capable - and a few temp admins would really help here. Antandrus (discuss • contribs) 17:11, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

Support for reasons mentioned above. ^{— L10nM4st3r} / _{ROAR at me!} 10:34, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

Support This one I can support.--Xania ^talk 03:06, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Support You have my votes. We need more admins to clean up Wikibooks . Voted by Encik Tekateki (discuss • contribs) 10:36, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Support JavaHurricane (discuss • contribs) 10:54, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

@MarcGarver: apologies for being a bit impatient, but after reading your comment, would the level of support !votes here be sufficient enough? Sorry for rushing everything, but I'll be out of town between Jan 6 and 21 (and will not have access to a computer or internet) and would preferably like to get everything done before then. I know I shouldn't be using what happens IRL as an excuse, but I would preferably like to clear up everything before leaving. TIA, --SHB2000 (discuss • contribs) 11:14, 3 January 2023 (UTC)