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Bureaucrat Useight

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 – Useight is active through legitimate alternate accounts — Preceding unsigned comment added by Avraham (talk • contribs) 18:59, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Can someone explain to me why Useight is still a bureaucrat and administrator? He hasn't made an edit in nearly three years, and his last bureaucrat action was also three years ago [1]. Per Wikipedia:Bureaucrats#Inactive_bureaucrat_accounts, shouldn't he have been removed from bureaucrat status by now? --Hammersoft (talk) 17:13, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

They are occasionally editing as User:Useight's Public Sock. Widr (talk) 17:21, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

• Thanks. --Hammersoft (talk) 17:25, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Further reading: Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard/Archive_32#Inactive administrators. –xeno^talk 17:28, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

I feel like this is practically the most asked question at WP:BN. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 17:43, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

• And it will get asked again. Maybe there's a reason it keeps being asked? Like, no connection on User:Useight to User:Useight's Public Sock? :) --Hammersoft (talk) 18:53, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

• Useight has a log entry this year where they state they edit as Useight's Public Sock. It's one of these things that aren't common knowledge. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 18:55, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

• I think perhaps a notice on Useight's userpage might be a good idea. --Hammersoft (talk) 18:56, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

• Under the "Alternate Accounts" section of my userpage, it lists Useight's Public Sock and Us8. If someone wants to put a large banner across the top or something to make the link more obvious, you have my approval. Useight's Public Sock (talk) 20:34, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Is there a reason you prefer editing with your alternate account rather than your regular account? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:40, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

I went back to school a couple years ago to get a second BS degree. Between that and working, I have very little free time. At home, I am almost always doing homework or sleeping. But I do get some time here and there when I am on campus or at my place of employment to poke around Wikipedia a bit. But I do not want to log into my main account from a campus or employer computer. I've had more time than usual the last couple of weeks, but my schedule is going to be filled to the brim again starting next month and going through the end of the calendar year. Useight's Public Sock (talk) 20:50, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

I tweaked it a bit for you. Let me know if you have any questions. Hopefully it's more obvious now. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 21:47, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the response, Useight's Public Sock. Good luck with your studies! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 08:49, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

Greetings Useight. I think it is great that you still find time to edit Wikipedia amidst such constraints on your available time. You've archived more insight on Wikipedia than many of us will ever come to know. I for one, am a beneficiary; having enough good fortune to have seen some of that archive, and enough good sense to adopt the advice you were kind to have left. I am glad I noticed this discussion, and its perfunctory theme. For it reminded me to give thanks, for all you have done to make this place better, and to wish you the very best. It has been my privilege to watch you excel. With esteem--John Cline (talk) 00:23, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

Inactive admins for August 2015

The following admins can be desysopped for inactivity:

• Scientizzle (t · th · c · del · cross-wiki · SUL · edit counter · pages created (xtools · sigma) · non-automated edits · BLP edits · undos · manual reverts · rollbacks · logs ^{(blocks · rights · moves)} · rfar · spi · cci) (assign permissions)^{(acc · ap · ev · fm · mms · npr · pm · pc · rb · te)}
• Andrew Levine (t · th · c · del · cross-wiki · SUL · edit counter · pages created (xtools · sigma) · non-automated edits · BLP edits · undos · manual reverts · rollbacks · logs ^{(blocks · rights · moves)} · rfar · spi · cci) (assign permissions)^{(acc · ap · ev · fm · mms · npr · pm · pc · rb · te)}
• Xoloz (t · th · c · del · cross-wiki · SUL · edit counter · pages created (xtools · sigma) · non-automated edits · BLP edits · undos · manual reverts · rollbacks · logs ^{(blocks · rights · moves)} · rfar · spi · cci) (assign permissions)^{(acc · ap · ev · fm · mms · npr · pm · pc · rb · te)}
• Noldoaran (t · th · c · del · cross-wiki · SUL · edit counter · pages created (xtools · sigma) · non-automated edits · BLP edits · undos · manual reverts · rollbacks · logs ^{(blocks · rights · moves)} · rfar · spi · cci) (assign permissions)^{(acc · ap · ev · fm · mms · npr · pm · pc · rb · te)}

Thanks to all of them for their service to Wikipedia. Graham87 03:50, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

Actually, as Xeno pointed out here, due to the delay in notifying them they shouldn't be desysoped until the 5th. Kharkiv07 (T) 04:19, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

Ah, didn't notice that. Makes sense. Graham87 04:32, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

Regulation Committee and alternatives to consensus

Bumping thread for 30 days. ceradon (talk • edits) 04:23, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

Members of the community are invited to give their thoughts at a request for comment to discuss Wikipedians' alternatives to consensus, and the formation of a proposed Regulation Committee. Thank you, --ceradon (talk • edits) 04:20, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Unsuccessful adminship candidacies/R

Has a crat perhaps missed adding Rich Farmbrough's unsuccessful RFA to the alphabetical list? I wanted to look at it, to check a certain matter. Am I missing something? It's not one of those <expletive> cases where the user is actually called Throatwobbler Mangrove, is it? Bishonen | talk 10:42, 2 August 2015 (UTC).

No, apparently not.. I found it eventually in the chronological list. Bishonen | talk 10:44, 2 August 2015 (UTC).

Phew, no excess polystyrene (and it's Throatwarbler Mangrove, for the cognoscenti ). -- Avi (talk) 15:08, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

Apologies, I'd forgotten all about the alphabetical list of unsuccessful candidates - I thought it was now a category like the alphabetical list of successful candidates (Category:Successful requests for adminship). WJBscribe (talk) 15:12, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. I didn't know about the successful category — I guess I never look up those. :-) Perhaps the unsuccessful list ought to be a cat too? Bishonen | talk 17:21, 2 August 2015 (UTC).

@Avi: Sometimes one and sometimes the other, I guess. I swear I was googling for the "Throatwarbler" version, but this page came up prominently. Anyway, they're both very good account names. I think I'll just create me a new sock or two. Bishonen | talk 17:27, 2 August 2015 (UTC).

There is an unsuccessful RfA category as well at Category:Unsuccessful requests for adminship along with the alphabetical lists. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:02, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kww and The Rambling Man closed - Desysop of Kww

As a result of this arbitration case the Committee has resolved to desysop Kww (current rights · rights management · rights log (local) · rights log (global/meta) · block log). He may regain the tools at any time through a successful request for adminship. Thank you for your assistance, please action as required. For the Arbitration Committee, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 14:51, 3 August 2015 (UTC)