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It is 01:25:53 on April 24, 2024, according to the server's time and date.

Adminstrator elections trial run

As the most recent proposal for admin elections has attained consensus for a trial run, and it specifies that bureaucrats will manage the process, I invite any interested volunteers to participate at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections#Role of bureaucrats to manage process to work out details of bureaucrat involvement. (This message was originally posted at Wikipedia talk:Bureaucrats; apologies for the duplication.) isaacl (talk) 00:21, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks --Dweller (talk) Old fashioned is the new thing! 11:38, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Resysop request (Nyttend)

Nyttend (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 · fm · mms · npr · pm · pcr · rb · te)}

Requesting restoration of my admin tools, which were removed for inactivity. I've read Wikipedia:Administrators#Restoration_of_admin_tools but I'm actually not clear if I qualify, because I find some bits of the "Lengthy inactivity" line confusing. I was editing and using administrative tools frequently until 3 May 2021, after which I next edited on 11 February 2023, so my inactivity was less than two years long, but more than the one year specified a few sentences later. If I don't qualify because of the more-than-one-year line, could someone explain what it means? Thanks. Nyttend (talk) 22:09, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

My understanding is that If an editor has had at least two years of uninterrupted inactivity (no edits) between the removal of the admin tools and the re-request, means exactly that, from between when it was removed, and now, which you wouldn't qualify for. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 22:11, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

So if your understanding is correct, do I qualify for restoration, assuming no problems? I've been active since February last year, so in that whole time there's been less than two years of inactivity. The one-year line makes it sound as if I have to have just one year of inactivity to be disqualified for restoration, but if that's the case, I don't see the point of the less-than-two-years line. Nyttend (talk) 22:21, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, I was just editing my wording, I'll explain better here. My understanding is that if you have any two-year period without an edit from the date when you had the tools removed and today, then you wouldn't be suitable.

You don't fail the requirements, the time is less than two years, so you should be fine, but as it's such a close item to two years I'd like a bit more feedback. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 22:25, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Lee, I agree with your interpretation. Since the inactivity was less than 2 years in duration, and there are no concerns about current activity levels (over 100 edits in 2024 alone), Nyttend should receive the tools back following the customary 24-hour hold. Welcome back, Nyttend. 28bytes (talk) 22:46, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Agreed. We'll open the 24 hour hold in that case. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 22:49, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

+2, not excessively inactive and appears to have already returned to activity. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:03, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

The one-year line means that people in your position would need to go through RfA if they remained inactive for a year after their desysop. You resumed activity less than a year after your August 2022 desysopping. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 14:19, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

• Not that my opinion means anything, but the fact that Nyttend has been fairly active editing means that few editors would be concerned about him regaining the tools and breaking things. We could use the help. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 06:26, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

  I second Dennis, and would like to add that Nyttend himself was generally a very good administrator whose resysopping would be to our great benefit. Kurtis ^(talk) 11:41, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

  That "generally" is beautifully subtle  :) ——Serial Number 54129 15:59, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

• Perhaps should be mentioned that the clock for inactivity should actually start from 7 July 2021 rather than 3 May 2021, as the alt account User:Nyttend backup would count towards activity. -- Pawnkingthree (talk) 14:13, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

  That seems to be a rather minor point given that there is (so far) unanimous agreement between 'crats that this request is valid and acceptable. Primefac (talk) 14:16, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

  Indeed. Pawnkingthree (talk) 14:20, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the explanations on one/two years. Once this concludes, and I have the tools back (or someone raises a reason to wait more than 24 hours), I think I'll propose a change of wording on one/two years, based on what's said here. I'd appreciate your help on the wordsmithing, since I'll try to improve the wording without changing the meaning. Nyttend (talk) 20:36, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

 Done. 28bytes (talk) 23:30, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! I chose not to reapply when I returned to activity, since I figured I ought to show that I could be active first (i.e. no question that I was just returning to get the tools back), but I'd mostly forgotten about it. But in the last few days I've had to report a blatant spammer to AIV, and I realised that I'd rather handle the situation instead of waiting for someone else. Once I propose a clarification to the admin policy, I'll ping participants here. Nyttend (talk) 02:57, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Hopefully this alleviates the need for a long discussion at WT:ADMIN. Floquenbeam (talk) 15:02, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Your and Isaacl’s fine-tunings look good to me. 28bytes (talk) 18:02, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

And to me. The alternative would have the effect of discouraging returning former admins from spending some time as a non admin member of the community before asking for the return of the tools, I hope we can all agree that Nyttend like returns should be encouraged. ϢereSpielChequers 19:43, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

As someone who has had a bit of influence over the development of these policies I agree. There's often a chance of running into the law of unintended consequences in policy wording, and we certainly don't want to discourage a return to activity before asking for the bits back, quite the opposite. Just Step Sideways ^{from this world ..... today} 22:58, 23 April 2024 (UTC)