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It is 02:03:57 on August 12, 2024, according to the server's time and date.

I want to forcefully take over an account

Resolved

No idea who could help so I'm asking here; I have a bunch of doppelgangers but somehow I forgot to take ownership of Benoit Landry (talk · contribs), and it has now been used to impersonate me. I want this account name. Can you forcefully rename it to some random string (like a vanished user) and allow me to recreate the account as mine? ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 16:59, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Oh, and in case it's necessary to prove I am in fact Benoit Landry, let me know. I have identified to the Foundation already. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 17:04, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

•  Done, you can create the acccount now. –xeno^talk 17:37, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 18:23, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Desysopping of User:Secret

Per this motion of the committee, please remove the administrator permissions of Secret (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA). The removal is "under a cloud" and the rights are not to be restored without a fresh RFA. Thank you for your assistance in this matter. For the Arbitration Committee, AGK [•] 20:10, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

 Done with regret. Acalamari 20:32, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/DangerousPanda closed - Desysop of DangerousPanda

As a result of this arbitration case the Committee has resolved to desysop DangerousPanda (current rights · rights management · rights log (local) · rights log (global/meta) · block log), he may regain the rights via a successful RfA. Thank you for your assistance, please action as required. For the Arbitration Committee, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 08:02, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Under Wikipedia:Bot policy#Bots with administrative rights, 7SeriesBOT (current rights · rights management · rights log (local) · rights log (global/meta) · block log) will need to have its administrator permissions removed, which all of its tasks involved the use of. Thine Antique Pen (talk) 10:39, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

•  Done both and will leave a note on DangerousPanda's talk page in a moment. Acalamari 12:03, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Deactivation of User:TorNodeBot

While User:TorNodeBot has done well in the past, lately he has not found gaps in the TorBlock service. There are two possible technical reasons for this (I'll spare the technical babble) but I simply don't have the time to analyze it right now. As far as I can tell, tor editing has been well-sealed recently, and so I'd like to deactivate this admin bot's privileges until such time as it becomes evident that his tasks are needed again. I expect that it will be trivial to re-enable his admin rights if the situation arises where it is evident he is needed again, but I don't want to leave an admin account open that I do not regularly log into. So I'm asking that someone remove the admin bit from the User:TorNodeBot account, at least for the time being, since his utility has ceased. Thanks, Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 19:35, 29 December 2014 (UTC)