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Requests for adminship and bureaucratship update
RfA candidate	S	O	N	S %	Status	Ending (UTC)	Time left	Dups?	Report
Pickersgill-Cunliffe	0	0	0	N/A	Discussion	00:35, 15 June 2024	5 days, 17 hours	no	report

It is 07:07:35 on June 9, 2024, according to the server's time and date.

Desysop request (Bencherlite)

After enjoying most of my nearly ten years of adminship, I'd like one of the crats to remove the tools from me. No particular drama here for people to get concerned about, just stuff. Thanks in advance. Bencherlite ^Talk 17:10, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(Non-bureaucrat comment) ...with the anniversary less than three weeks away! Gutting, BL. Take care! — fortunavelut luna 17:17, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Done Thank you for your service. — xaosflux ^Talk 17:16, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

November Inactive administrators

Hello, just curious why November's Inactive Admins haven't been given their first notification about the removal of administrator permissions for inactivity? JMHamo (talk) 14:13, 20 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like MadmanBot is broken again. I'll nudge the operator and do these manually if still down later. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:25, 20 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

And policy-wise (Wikipedia:Administrators#Review_and_removal_of_adminship) means we'll basically have to roll them to next month or do an off-cycle (due to the 1 month notice period). — xaosflux ^Talk 14:30, 20 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Done Manually provided notification 1. — xaosflux ^Talk 17:45, 20 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Resysop request (Vanamonde93)

Vanamonde93 (current rights · rights management · rights log (local) · rights log (global/meta) · block log)

Approximately a month ago I had requested the removal of my admin rights, to give me the mental space to deal with matters in real life. Having now got past some urgent deadlines, I feel able to take up the mop once again, though I will not be returning to full-time activity for a while yet. I understand there is a required 24 hour waiting period.

Also, a question which might need resolving first: I had enabled 2FA on my account, and did not disable it before my desysop. As I understand it, non-admins do not have the ability to enable 2FA. What happens to my authentication credentials once my admin bit has been restored? Regards, Vanamonde (talk) 07:24, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

To answer your question, nothing. If you have 2FA enabled then it will remain enabled regardless of changes to your user rights. You can disable 2FA at any time, even if you don't currently hold the rights to enable it. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 07:28, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Ajraddatz. To follow up, does this then mean that an inability to login to Huggle or STiki is the result of a bug somewhere else, and not with anything related to 2FA? Regards, Vanamonde (talk) 07:33, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Honestly I don't know how Huggle or STiki login works. If it's done with OAuth, then you just need to be logged in here to log in to them, and 2FA shouldn't have any impact on it. I haven't used Huggle in over 5 years, though, so hopefully someone with more recent experience can answer your question. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 07:46, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

When you have 2FA and the tools doesn't work with 2FA or OAuth, you can use Special:BotPasswords. Well, it's more secure. — regards, Revi 07:55, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Simple 2FA and Wikipedia:Using AWB with 2FA are some easy to read 2FA guides, the second one deals with BotPasswords. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:01, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This looks fine after the customary 24 hour wait for comments. WJBscribe (talk) 08:59, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good to me, too. The Uninvited Co., Inc. 19:10, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Done Welcome back. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 07:49, 24 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks, all. Vanamonde (talk) 08:35, 24 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]