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 a user's bot status
• Rename a user account

They are bound by tradition and policy 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 judgement 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 upon 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 not only the English Wikipedia but all Wikimedia projects in all languages. Stewards are elected annually. For more information, see m:Requests for permissions.

Contents 1 Currently active bureaucrats 1.1 Inactive bureaucrats 1.2 Former bureaucrats 2 See also 3 Instructions for sysoping someone 4 Instructions for changing usernames

Currently active bureaucrats

(as of April 1, 2006)

1. Angela
2. Cimon avaro
3. Danny
4. Essjay
5. Ilyanep
6. Linuxbeak
7. Nichalp
8. Pakaran
9. Raul654
10. Rdsmith4
11. Secretlondon
12. UninvitedCompany
13. Warofdreams

Inactive bureaucrats

Though still participating in Wikipedia, the following bureaucrats have not performed any promotions or renames since the beginning of 2005.

1. Bcorr (n = 0)
2. Cprompt (n = 0)
3. Infrogmation (n = 0)
4. Kingturtle (n = 0) (i'd be active, but i'm always beaten to the punch)
5. Jwrosenzweig (n = 0)
6. Stan Shebs (n = 0)
7. TUF-KAT (n = 0)

Former bureaucrats

1. Ed Poor, resigned September 12, 2005.
2. Optim - inactive at Wikipedia since March 7, 2004, no longer a bureaucrat as of February 2006
3. Francs2000 - resigned, March 29, 2006
4. Cecropia - resigned, April 1, 2006

See also

• Special:Log/rights - log of promotions
• Special:Log/renameuser - log of username changes
• m:Stewards
• m:Developer
• Special:Listusers/Bureaucrat - list of all users who have bureaucrat permissions
• Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship#Requests_for_bureaucratship - to become a bureaucrat
• Wikipedia:User access levels
• Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard

Instructions for sysoping someone

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 votes are genuine.
3. Determine whether there is a general consensus that the person should be sysopped utilizing the traditional rules of thumb and your best judgement.
4. If so, make them an 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 "Vote here" link. Place the word Final before the parenthetic voting results, change "ending" 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 recently created admins or recently created bureaucrats. For unsuccessful administrator nominations, move the listing to Wikipedia:Unsuccessful adminship candidacies. For unsuccessful bureaucrat nominations, just remove the transclusion from requests for adminship.
7. If the nomination has succeeded, inform the user that they are now a sysop or bureaucrat.

Some bureaucrats also inform users of failed nominations.

Some bureaucrats also add the names of new administrators and bureaucrats to lists at Wikipedia:List of administrators or Wikipedia:Bureaucrats.

Instructions for changing usernames

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. Use your judgement.
3. Enter the old and new name at Special:Renameuser.
4. Recreate the old account and then block it. This prevents someone else creating it in an attempt to impersonate the renamed user.
5. Redirect the user and talk pages of the old account to the new account.
6. Inform the user their request has been carried out.
7. Archive the request at Wikipedia:Changing username.af:Wikipedia:Burokraat

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