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Bureaucrats are Misplaced Pages 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 Misplaced Pages: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 remove admin rights from users or to grant further levels of access (they cannot promote to oversight or checkuser). These capabilities are held only by stewards, a small multilingual group that serves all Wikimedia projects. Stewards are elected annually; for more information, see Requests for permissions. Sysoppings by stewards are recorded at Meta:Special:Log/rights but the few stewards who actively sysop users on the English Misplaced Pages do so using their local bureaucrat status.

Current bureaucrats

Active bureaucrats

Bureaucrats who have performed renames, promotions, or flags within the last 2 months as of 1 November 2007:

  1. Andrevan (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
  2. Cecropia (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
  3. Deskana (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
  4. Nichalp (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
  5. Raul654 (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
  6. Rdsmith4 (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
  7. Secretlondon (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
  8. Taxman (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
  9. Warofdreams (talk · contribs · rights · renames)

Inactive bureaucrats

No edits or bureaucrat actions in the last 2 months as of 1 November 2007:

  1. Cprompt (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
  2. Linuxbeak (talk · contribs · rights · renames)

Active editors

Bureaucrats who have edited but haven't performed bureaucrat actions in the last 2 months as of 1 November 2007:

  1. Angela (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
  2. Bcorr (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
  3. Cimon Avaro (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
  4. Ilyanep (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
  5. Infrogmation (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
  6. Jwrosenzweig (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
  7. Kingturtle (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
  8. Linuxbeak (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
  9. Pakaran (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
  10. Redux (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
  11. Stan Shebs (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
  12. Tim Starling (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
  13. TUF-KAT (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
  14. UninvitedCompany (talk · contribs · rights · renames)

Former bureaucrats

Instructions

Promotions

  1. Wait at least seven days after the listing was made on Misplaced Pages: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 promoted using the traditional rules of thumb and your best judgement.
  4. If so, promote to admin or bureaucrat using Special:Makesysop.
  5. Use {{subst:rfap}}-{{subst:rfab}} as a header and footer, respectively, when closing a successful nomination. Similarly, use {{subst:rfaf}}-{{subst:rfab}} for a failed nomination. Remove the "Voice your opinion" link. Place the word Final before the parenthetic voting results, change "Scheduled to end" to "ended," and update the ending time and date to reflect the current time and date.
    • For a request for bureaucratship, use {{subst:rfbp}}-{{subst:rfbb}} for successful nominations. For failed nominations, use {{subst:rfbf}}-{{subst:rfbb}}.
  6. For successful nominations, move the listing from requests for adminship to successful adminship candidacies or successful bureaucratship candidacies. For unsuccessful administrator nominations, move the listing to Misplaced Pages:Unsuccessful adminship candidacies. For unsuccessful bureaucrat nominations, remove the transclusion from requests for adminship and add the RfB to Misplaced Pages:Unsuccessful bureaucratship candidacies.
  7. If the nomination has succeeded, inform the user that they are now an admin or bureaucrat. (Some bureaucrats also inform users of failed nominations and/or add the names of new administrators and bureaucrats to lists at Misplaced Pages:List of administrators or this page.)

Renames

  1. Check that the request at Misplaced Pages: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 VoABot can archive it accordingly.

Flags

  1. Check that a member of WP:BAG 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
  3. Update the listing on Misplaced Pages:Bots/Requests for approval/Approved

See also
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