Project:Requests

Requests for permissions

 * Archives: Administrator &bull; Bureaucrat &bull; Editor &bull; Other user rights


 * Please create a subpage under Project:Requests/User rights/ with your user name as the page title and then transclude it to the bottom of this section.

Requests for renames

 * Information on how renames work is available on Wikipedia., Archives: 2012 (Previous years).

Example request:

Oldname → Newname
I'd like to change my username to "Newname" because that's the username I use on other projects. Thanks! - ~

(SUL)→ Deepak
I am SUL owner of Deepak .I want to complete SUL this wiki also .I want to usurp User Deepak in this wiki 117.204.94.106 11:21, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Osiris (temp) → Osiris

 * Datestamp: 13:43, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Confirmation link: here
 * Reason: Hi! This is just a SUL request. User:Osiris (temp) (talk) 07:39, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Confirmation link: here
 * Reason: Hi! This is just a SUL request. User:Osiris (temp) (talk) 07:39, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Other requests and requests for comments

 * Archives: Other requests and Requests for Comments

Problem with unified login
I normally edit on English Wikipedia as wikipedia:en:User:Bazonka. I have been trying to set up a unified login account for Bazonka, but I'm unable to do this fully because my Bazonka account here at Mediawiki is inaccessible. I don't know what the password is, and there is no email address associated with it, so the Password Reset functionality doesn't help. I had the same problem with my account at Commons. A bureaucrat helpfully renamed my unusable Bazonka account so that a new Bazonka account could be created (see here). Can the same be done to my account at Mediawiki please? If you need proof that I am the real Bazonka, then you should be able to email me via my English Wikipedia account. Thanks, Bazonka 91.125.92.179 11:01, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi. The account was likely registered in past by someone else and now it was renamed in order to let you unify it. You can login to mediawiki.org using your central account now. Petrb (talk) 13:49, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much. Bazonka (talk) 14:20, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Actually that's not possible, Petrb. The account was created automatically according to the logs, and therefore must be unified. Me and other users have had the same problem. See 29234. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 20:00, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi, I don't think it's impossible since it solved the issue? I already renamed previous holder of this name, and as you can see in reply, it worked Petrb (talk) 09:59, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
 * What I meant was that if an account was created automatically it cannot possibly have been done by anyone but whoever was logged in with the global account. I didn't mean that fixing it was impossible. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 17:30, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
 * But this account was not created automatically, you opened wrong logs. The account was renamed, so if you want to see the reason for creation of original account, you need to open logs of renamed account. Petrb (talk) 05:40, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * The logs you linked actually show the process of login unification done after fix of this issue Petrb (talk) 10:01, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Removal of inactive sysops?
So I asked someone to take a look at an admin permissions request yesterday, and I found that we actually have way too many admins already - 99 of us. I just ran a quick script to check each admin's last contribution timestamps and 41 of them haven't done anything this year. Anyway, shouldn't these accounts have their flags removed, or is that a really bad idea? -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 14:35, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Support: Desysopping occurs for inactive admins on enwiki, so I don't see why it shouldn't occur here too.--Jasper Deng (talk) 17:05, 3 April 2012 (UTC)