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Administrator instructions for Requests for permissions: . Administrators are permitted to grant account creator, autopatrolled, confirmed, file mover, mass message sender, pending changes reviewer, rollback and template editor flags to any user who meets the criteria outlined at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions#Permissions and can be trusted not to abuse the tool(s).
If the user is requesting the right for the request an account process: . Carry out general checks such as the user's contributions, talk page, block log and so on. Ensure that they can be trusted - users with the account creator right are able to ignore spoofing checks, throttle limits and most importantly the username and title blacklist.
The following are user groups administrators are able to grant and revoke. Note the granting guidelines may link to the admin instructions at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions. You can refer to these pages for the accepted prerequisites of a given permission.
Importers is a similar group which gives editors the importupload permission as well as the import permission for use on Special:Import. Importers have the additional ability to import articles directly from XML (which may come from any wiki site), as well as to merge the history of pages together using the mergehistory right (see WP:HM for ...
Note if a request was recently declined for a given user/permission, a bot will comment with a link to that discussion. You may wish to ping the administrator who declined the previous request asking for their input before responding to the new request. To grant the permission: Grant the user right(s) to the user at Special:UserRights.
Note if a request was recently declined for a given user/permission, a bot will comment with a link to that discussion. You may wish to ping the administrator who declined the previous request asking for their input before responding to the new request. To grant the permission: Grant the user right(s) to the user at Special:UserRights.
After a long process of discussion and consensus brought us the first-ever crop of SecurePoll-elected administrators last November (see Signpost coverage of the creation of the process and its first trial), the first set of requests for comment regarding the administrator elections (AELECT) process have come to an end, having reached the following key conclusions:
This CAPTCHA (reCAPTCHA v1) of "smwm" obscures its message from computer interpretation by twisting the letters and adding a slight background color gradient.A CAPTCHA (/ ˈ k æ p. tʃ ə / KAP-chə) is a type of challenge–response test used in computing to determine whether the user is human in order to deter bot attacks and spam.