Meta:Requests for permissions/Archive 9

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Muhammad Alfarezal (Wiki creator)

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 * As for your RfGR, your reason is copied word for word from this previous thread. This amounts to plagiarism and is inappropriate for a permissions request. Closing rather than reverting due to existing vote. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 05:35, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Group: Wiki creator Reason: I am going to try this, I understand the policies/per content policy and know that there are hours of requests being stale for hours. Most of my requests are well understood. but, I know how Meta operates and can contribute a lot more as a wiki creator to help users get their wiki's made faster. Muhammad Alfarezal (talk) 08:48, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * 1)  I have two main reasons for opposing this request. First of all even though this is not strictly a requirement for wiki creator I am concerned that your level of English is not sufficient in order to effectively function as wiki creator as I do not even fully understand your rationale for requesting wiki creator (for example -"my requests are well understood"). Second of all  my main issue is the fact that have not been very active at all and most of your edits are either to your own sandbox or edits that do not necessarily improve Meta which makes it is difficult to determine whether you would be an appropriate choice for this role. I would recommend that you wait until requesting again. --DeeM28 (talk) 17:42, 4 May 2022 (UTC)


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Agent Isai (Administrator)

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 * Having unanimous support (11/0/0), this request is ✅. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 05:12, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Group: Administrator Reason: I am requesting the administrator right as I wish to help out more locally and would be able to do so better with the tools in the administrator toolset. At this present moment, I am a local wiki creator, patroller, rollbacker, translation administrator, and interface administrator. Globally, I am also an Interwiki administrator. I am active in all roles as can be evidenced by logs.

As a regular contributor to Meta, I frequently embark on rewrites of pages to expand them from stub status or to make them easier to read and more intuitive for our newer users with over 3,000 total edits here on Meta. Some examples of pages I’ve rewritten or expanded are Help center, Wikimedia Foundation, Extensions, Skins, ManageWiki, MediaWiki, Contributing and many others. As any Meta, Discord or IRC regular can attest, I am always online and always reachable via public means such as our Discord server and IRC. As a wiki creator, I am one of the most active with over 2000 actioned requests and over 1000 created wikis since I became a wiki creator.

I am requesting administrator so that I can further help the community and improve Meta. There are some pages that are rightfully protected at a sysop level such as Requests, FAQ, Security and others which could use an expansion to make them more intuitive for our newer users and I would like to embark on that task. It might be unduly burdensome to request that our often busy sysops unprotect a page and then reprotect it after edits are finished or to copy over drafts for pages and such so I believe it would benefit me to be able to edit these pages in order to expand these and make them easier to understand. Another tool which I believe would be of great use is  which may be useful when moving pages, especially when moving pages with lots of subpages. I have run into some issues where I have moved pages with lots of subpages (an example would be Community Wishlist 2021) and have inadvertently caused dozens of useless redirects or move a page and then have to wait for an administrator to delete an old redirect that had no use.

Equally,  would be of great use. I often times find myself having to fix existing, highly used Meta templates which were wrongly copy and pasted without importing all of it’s dependencies and thus cause some inadvertent issues on some high traffic pages. For example, I have had to manually import templates such as such as Template:BCP47 and many highly useful documentation pages or style subpages in order to fix some broken templates like Ambox and all of it’s derivatives. This is not the best approach as I am unable to import the history too which is recommended to import and I have to add a notice in my initial edit summary that a page was imported from an external wiki. It would be beneficial to have the ability to import the history for proper attribution and to fix many templates which were mainly copy and pasted from other wikis and have no attribution at all which is definitely a copyright violation so as to not overwhelm the current administrators with these tasks. I would also attend to normal administrator duties such as clerking the nominations for deletion and Administrators’ noticeboard. I have pages such as the AN on my watchlist and as a regular patroller of the Meta IRC feed, I am always up to date and informed on current activities happening on Meta and would be able to action requests in a timely manner and resolve any issues that may face the local community.

As a local administrator, I would also be able to to action and deter any attempts at spam and vandalism against Meta. While Meta has historically been a small project, as we grow, so do the number of long term abusers and vandals that attack Meta (which is to be expected as Miraheze grows and nears 7000 wikis). While historically the spam and vandalism has been low, there are moments where it does increase. A few weeks ago, we had 3 long term abusers active at the same time on Meta which is a new record. These LTAs disrupt the project by making bad use of the wiki request queue and making many spam pages that sometimes overwhelm whichever sysop is online to handle it (that is, if there is an active administrator online). It’s understandable that sometimes our administrators are busy as they juggle their day to day activities and volunteering through their multiple hats so I believe having another user who is active to assist in administrative duties would be very beneficial to the project. I speak on a regular basis to many local administrators and global officials so I know we’re all sometimes busy and that’s perfectly understandable. As an administrator, I would be able to temporarily protect targets for vandalism, delete any spam pages that were created and block any disruptive users or long term abusers in the meanwhile while global functionaries look into it along with being able to set up some AbuseFilters which would help deter any spam temporarily or in the long run. As an active user too, I would certainly help relieve some backlogs that are created. I will admit, Meta does enjoy of 7 administrators but out of all of these, a good portion is unfortunately unable to devote time to Meta due to other obligations and aren’t regularly around or are around but sometimes only to handle one thing every month or so. There are moments in which we have no administrators around to action some simple tasks which has caused some users to wonder if we need more active administrators so I believe that the addition of an active administrator to the administrators group here on Meta would be beneficial to the project. I look forward to any questions and I thank you for your consideration.

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 * 1)  Trusted, member of the SRE team. MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 18:18, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 2)  I have no doubt that being a Meta Administrator is going to be much easier for you. Go for it dude. --DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 21:42, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 3)  Having considered the rationale provided I have decided to support this request. I have had a look at Agent Isai's contributions to Meta and I think that they demonstrate that not only is he very active but he also regularly does changes in order to improve Meta and is very helpful generally. As for the necessity of new administrators I would not go as far as to say there is a pressing need but since the previous time I have voted in such a request the number of administrators has decreased and it seems to me that the activity of the administrators has also somewhat decreased, so in this case I would think another addition could be good for the project. As a final point I hope that if this request is successful (or even if not) Agent Isai will help with more reforms on Meta to allow it to reach its potential because it currently seems underutilized. --DeeM28 (talk) 07:32, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 4) Support – no concerns. Startus (talk) 12:10, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 5)  I believe considering all he's done to help users...it would be wise of me to support the request. Good luck!  Hypercane  (  talk ) 12:41, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 6) Long text though, but Agent has a  from me --   Joseph  TB  CT  CA   16:21, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 7)  Definitely!  16:22, 6 May 2022 (UTC) ］ |
 * 8)  As per the above. -- Cheers, Justin Aves (talk • contribs • global • rights) 19:13, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 9)  with the hope that my reputation propels my support, as I am too lazy to type out the numerous reasons I think this bit is appropriate. I have precisely zero concerns, and the utmost faith that this user will execute his responsibilities with grace, precision, humility, and trust.  dross  (t • c • g) 07:27, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 10)  HeartsDo (Talk / Global / Wiki Creator) 07:43, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 11)  He has been very helpful and is good at providing support on Miraheze Bawitdaba (talk) 15:49, 10 May 2022 (UTC)


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Genuino123 (Wiki creator)

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 * Lack of attention and support, caused by little presence and activity on Miraheze work from. The volunteering is appreciated, but I strongly suggest getting involved in the community before pursuing rights like this, so your stated technical skills are proven and support your request. Also, this is a role that is more about discretion than technical knowledge: decent judgement based on policy, especially Content Policy is an important skill to demonstrate. Please reach out if you have any questions or are unsure where to go from here. --Raidarr (talk) 12:32, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Machine translation for 's benefit:
 * Pedido sem sucesso. Falta de atenção e apoio, causada pela pouca presença e atividade no trabalho de Miraheze. O voluntariado é apreciado, mas sugiro fortemente que você se envolva na comunidade antes de buscar direitos como esse, para que suas habilidades técnicas sejam comprovadas e apoiem sua solicitação. Além disso, este é um papel que é mais sobre discrição do que conhecimento técnico: julgamento decente com base na política, especialmente na Política de Conteúdo, é uma habilidade importante a ser demonstrada. Entre em contato se tiver alguma dúvida ou não tiver certeza de onde ir a partir daqui. --Raidarr (talk)
 * Pedido sem sucesso. Falta de atenção e apoio, causada pela pouca presença e atividade no trabalho de Miraheze. O voluntariado é apreciado, mas sugiro fortemente que você se envolva na comunidade antes de buscar direitos como esse, para que suas habilidades técnicas sejam comprovadas e apoiem sua solicitação. Além disso, este é um papel que é mais sobre discrição do que conhecimento técnico: julgamento decente com base na política, especialmente na Política de Conteúdo, é uma habilidade importante a ser demonstrada. Entre em contato se tiver alguma dúvida ou não tiver certeza de onde ir a partir daqui. --Raidarr (talk)

Group: Wiki creator Reason: Está conta é muito velha e agora voltei a utiliza-la, durante este tempo vim estudando programação e também sobre wikis, acredito que tenho muito tempo a oferecer ao projeto, desejo contribuir desta forma sendo imparcial e buscando entender o melhor possível como funciona os projetos dos usuários, espero que consiga exercer o meu trabalho o melhor possível buscando melhor desempenho e ter está experiência nova.

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 * 1)  Bom Dia. Lamentavelmente, estou me opondo a esse pedido, pois você tem apenas 6 contribuições globalmente no Miraheze. Considerarei apoiar em uma data posterior, quando você tiver mais contribuições. (eu usei o Google Tradutor) --  Bukkit  [ cetacean needed ] 23:44, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * 2)  Até agora você tem apenas 6 edições globalmente. Aconselho você a ler isso antes de solicitar esse direito. Cheers, Matttest (talk | contribs) 08:00, 11 June 2022 (UTC)


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CigarynoBot (Bot)
Group: Bot Reason: I created a bot with a random password at Special:BotPasswords. Cigaryno (talk) 10:58, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

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Matttest (Wiki creator)

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 * Per the concerns stated. I will continue to contribute as a volunteer to Meta-Wiki, and will seek community consensus to re-apply at a later time. Cheers, Matttest (talk | contribs) 08:48, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

Group: Wiki creator Reason: Greetings, I am Matttest. As the miraheze community is growing faster, there are increasing wiki requests per day in Special:RequestWikiQueue. In view of this, I'm making this request to let new wiki requests to be reviewed quicker, of the premise that I believe I already have enough knowledge of the Content Policy and other relevant policies to access wiki requests in a good manner. Additionally, following the resignation of Msnhinet8, there are no wiki creators that have basic understanding of Chinese, which to me is a problem. Usually, machine translation are used for these requests but obviously it is not good for a clear communication between the requester and the wiki creator. However, I am confident in handling the Chinese wiki requests as a native speaker of Chinese, which will be very useful in handling these requests. Finally, I believe that more wiki creators can make a better judgement on wiki requests. Thanks for your consideration and I am looking forward for any questions or concerns. Cheers, Matttest (talk | contribs) 10:51, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Questions for candidate

 * 1) Hi ! A few questions pertaining to the right of  :
 * a) I’m requesting a wiki relating to Disney, and my requesting rationale is “A wiki about Disney.” Do you approve, decline, or hold the request for elaboration?
 * b) A user has requested a wiki about Nazism. The requesting rationale is “I want to create a wiki about the historical aspects of Nazism and how they are still alive in today’s world through racism and homophobia.” Do you accept, decline, or hold the request for elaboration?
 * c) A user is requesting a wiki to trash people. “I want a wiki to complain about people that I don’t like.” Do you accept, decline, or hold the request for elaboration? Thanks - BrandonWM (talk • contribs • global • rights) 15:54, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
 * a) Decline and request for a more detailed description. The description is too broad and suggests nothing more than the wiki name.
 * b) It will be a bit tricky in this part, since it is not only contains the historical content of the party, but I will ask the requester and receive acknowledgement from the requester that there should be no propagation of the illegal ideas of the party. I may also consult opinions of other wiki creators.
 * c) Decline as the Content Policy notes “Miraheze does not host wikis with the sole purpose to spread unsubstantiated insult, hate or rumours against a person or group of people”.Cheers, Matttest (talk | contribs) 03:17, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
 * All three are correct, . One final question. A wiki request has been put in as “greatmovies.miraheze.org” and with the description “A wiki about great movies.” So you accept, decline, or hold the request for elaboration? Thanks - BrandonWM (talk • contribs • global • rights) 04:46, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Decline as a potential overlap of Greatest Movies Wiki which the Content Policy prohibits from forking another wiki. It also lacks a detailed description, which increases the probability of overlapping. This is similar to request another TestWiki which are always declined. -Cheers, Matttest (talk | contribs) 04:53, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I’ll consult with some users and will get back to this RfP shortly. Thanks - BrandonWM (talk • contribs • global • rights) 04:56, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * . While I believe this request was made in good-faith, I have encountered a few issues with the user’s judgement. I plan on adding questions to the request and seeing how that goes, but for now, it’s a weak oppose from me. Thanks - BrandonWM (talk • contribs • global • rights) 13:53, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
 * It will be great if you can state which issues you have encountered with me. Cheers, Matttest (talk | contribs) 14:14, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
 * It’s nothing major honestly, otherwise it wouldn’t be a weak oppose. Just 2-3 minor issues relating to conventions, but honestly everyone makes those mistakes. See the questions section. Thanks - BrandonWM (talk • contribs • global • rights) 15:47, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Your reasons for opposing are still unclear and I think it would be useful if you could provide more details which could also inform other users' votes. DeeM28 (talk) 13:06, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes I’m aware. Have been trying to decide over the past 12 hours what to vote. Will update now. Thanks - BrandonWM (talk • contribs • global • rights) 15:01, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
 * 1) . I thought about this for a while, and reached the decision to oppose this request. Matttest answered 3 of 4 questions to my satisfaction, but I was messaged by another user last night (whom I had an extended chat with) about Matttest’s recent behavior, specifically on the  . That conversation raised flags with me, as no matter the position, Miraheze volunteers are expected to adhere to the Code of Conduct above all others. If a user cannot adhere to the code of conduct to a high level, I do not believe they are yet ready to be a volunteer on this service. That is the sole reason I am opposing this request. I invite Matttest to work to rectify his behavior on said wikis, and re-apply in 30-60 days. Thanks - BrandonWM (talk • contribs • global • rights) 15:09, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I will admit, that my some of my comments at unbookswiki may have shown issues, but I believe that this won’t affect my position as a wiki creator. To commence with, I will like to start with my weakest argument and my self-defense on the issues shown in unbookswiki - I haven’t shown any behavioral issues with others in other wikis, except the complicated unbookswiki dispute. I have always be kind in accordance with the Code of Conduct, and the unbookswiki dispute is really, being more and more complicated over time. After I have been more active in Meta-Wiki in the recent months and engaged I the miraheze community, you can see that my behaviors are strongly improved when handling the unbooks dispute. I will also promise that will be settled better in the near future. Frankly, I didn’t meant to accuse other users with words like “shameless lie”, but the user who I am arguing with called 黑底屍 seems to consistently not to listen and evading all my arguments. This is similar to the issue shown in User talk:Raidarr, which 黑底屍 keep failing to understand that his request for reopening wikis is malformed and his wiki request violated the Content Policy, even being explained by Raidarr numerous times. I understand that this doesn’t mean that I should be unkind, but I would like to brought this up for consideration. Aside from that, I would like to note that if a wiki creator is kind and show respectful and follow the Content Policy when handling wiki request, he/she will be a good creator - that’s the sole consideration for wiki creators. When processing requests, I believe I will be kind and respectful to the requester, and this is certainly proved when I am helping the users in CN and sometimes, SN. As for the content policy understanding, I believe I fulfill the requirement, by replies to the question above. Moreover, with the addition of me as a wiki creator, I will be able to handle Chinese wiki requests without machine translation. Finally, when handling wiki requests, especially when it is requested by users who have disputes with me before, I will leave it for another wiki creator for review to make the judgement more accurate. This will be same with other disputed wiki requests. I hope this explains. Cheers, Matttest (talk | contribs) 11:31, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi . While I understand and acknowledge your response, my concerns remain regarding civil discussion and interactions. Dross explained these concerns well. While you have not be anything outright to be rude, you haven’t shown the temperament for a wiki creator quite yet. I recommend re-applying in 30 to 60 days. Thanks - BrandonWM (talk • contribs • global • rights) 01:59, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Nutshell of previous response: (I would like to note that my behaviors about the unbooks dispute have improved a lot after I started to be active at Meta-Wiki. On the other hand, handling wiki requests is not like handling disputes, which I believe I have shown no conduct issues if consider the “helping and handling requests” part, not to mention that the unbooks dispute is more than complicated than other disputes. This is proved when I am helping users in the noticeboards that are mostly satisfied. That’s why I believe I can be a good wiki creator to help with wiki requests.)
 * I quoted the nutshell of my previous response since I believe my texts above are a bit of TLDR, and also for you to get the main arguments from my stance. For your suggestions, I can say that there is not much thing that I can do at this moment at all, given that the user who have disputes with me have de facto stopped any arguments to my talk page, and also my behaviors have improved as of the start of June. Cheers, Matttest (talk | contribs) 07:27, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
 * 1)  I find no issues with the user. Matttest has proven to be very helpful, and I have no concerns with the user policy-wise. --  Bukkit  [ cetacean needed ] 15:42, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
 * 2)  Per Bukkit. AlPaD (talk) 08:19, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
 * 3)  The question that arises in this request is whether the sole focus of a wiki creator election should be the candidate's ability to apply the Content Policy or whether their general behavior is also relevant to this position. The response seems to be clearly that behavior also matters as the newly passed RfC allows for removal for Code of Conduct violations. In terms of the former the responses given by Mattest to the questions asked are satisfactory to me and there otherwise seem to be no issues that would indicate to me that Mattest would not be able to interpret the Content Policy. In terms of behavior Mattest's behavior is not perfect and note that in one response he called out a user and accused them of a "shameless lie" and has attracted an amount of controversy over the handling of the dispute over the unbooks wiki. There are arguments in favour of Mattest being elected but I am still somewhat uncomfortable with the controversy surrounding unbooks wiki and whether this would affect his judgment in future wiki requests. For the meantime, I have decided for now to neither support nor oppose this request. If new evidence (or a satisfactory reply) is presented either way I may consider changing my vote to oppose or support depending on the circumstances. --DeeM28 (talk) 13:04, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, please see oppose#1 for the reply. Thanks. Cheers, Matttest (talk | contribs) 11:31, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
 * 1)  Unbooks is a difficult issue that reflects as poorly on Stewardship (including myself) as it does any of its participants and I've been deferring it until I get official fire support with the two pending RfS's. Its negative impact should be taken in context. Judgement wise I might be concerned if this was a larger position but for what it I am not concerned. However I'd like to come up with a couple scenarios first, which have been relevant recently and cover important ground. I'll hopefully get them out within a few days, in the meantime letting this remain open to address the concerns present. --Raidarr (talk) 12:12, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
 * 2)  As a responsibility which requires frequent user interaction, especially on noticeboards and discussion pages, a WC must clearly display a respectful and effective interpersonal attitude toward other users. While Matttest certainly does not display outright hostility or flagrance toward the community, it has been a somewhat lengthy journey to observe this user's development toward compliance with our community standards and expectations. I believe this user is not quite there yet. I advise nomination at a later time.  dross  (t • c • g) 20:44, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, while I respect your opinion, please consider my reply at oppose#1 (from “Nutshell of previous response” to “improved as of the start of June”). Cheers, Matttest (talk | contribs) 07:30, 8 July 2022 (UTC)


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HeyTürkiye (Wiki creator)

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 * Closed as per this diff by the candidate. Cheers, Matttest (talk | contribs) 09:53, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Group: Wiki creator Reason: As you know, Miraheze is a wiki farm that grows every day. As far as I looked, I noticed that the approval process of wikis is approved after 1 day or 2 days. I made this application to speed things up/provide better service. If necessary, if users ask questions, I will be happy to answer them, if you have any questions, I am waiting here.  Hey Türkiye  message? 07:58, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * 1) . This user is quite active on his own wikis, but he has a total of 9 edits on Meta, 2 of them being to form this request. Personally, at this time I don’t feel the user is active enough in global and community discussions to request this permission. I invite the user to participate more in the community and its discussions, and re-request in 30-60 days.  Thanks - BrandonWM (talk • contribs • global • rights) 08:16, 11 July 2022 (UTC)


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Startus (Wiki creator)
Group: Wiki creator Reason: Hello. I am Startus, formerly known as Mazzaz and Magogre. I have been on the Miraheze since the June last year and have previously served as a wiki creator. Unfortunately, due to real life reasons, I had to resign my rights. Now, I would like to request the wikicreator right so as to help in reviewing the wiki requests again. I have disclosed all my other accounts in my previous request and they're also listed on my loginwiki user page, in case you want to know. I have a fair understanding of the Miraheze policies especially the Content policy. Thanks! Startus (talk) 09:50, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * 1)  Having looked at the past wiki creation by this user, I believe the candidate have demonstrated a sufficient understanding of the Content Policy when creating wikis. I am therefore supporting this request. Cheers, Matttest (talk | contribs) 10:53, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
 * 2)  Per Matttest --  Bukkit  [ cetacean needed ] 14:45, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
 * 3)  User has been exceptionally helpful as a   and , so I have no doubt this permission will be extremely beneficial to both Startus and Miraheze. Thanks - BrandonWM (talk • contribs • global • rights) 22:21, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
 * 4)  Very active previously, with good process and rationale in wiki requests. Welcome back!  dross  (t • c • g) 22:15, 16 July 2022 (UTC)