Wikipedia:Bureaucrats

Bureaucrats are Wikipedia users with the technical ability to:

• Promote other users to administrator or bureaucrat status
• Grant and revoke a user's bot status
• Rename a user account

They are bound by policy and current consensus to grant administrator or bureaucrat access only when doing so reflects the wishes of the community, usually after a successful request at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. In like fashion, they are expected to exercise judgment in changing user names, and ensure that the bot policies are followed when granting bot status to a user. They are expected to be capable judges of consensus, and are expected to explain the reasoning for their actions upon request and in a civil manner.

Bureaucrats do not have the ability to undo promotions, or grant other levels of access. These capabilities are held only by stewards, a small multilingual group that serves not only the English Wikipedia but all Wikimedia projects in all languages. Stewards are elected annually. For more information, see Requests for permissions.

Currently active bureaucrats

The following list shows bureaucrats who have performed at least one administrator promotion or user rename in the last three months as of 12 June 2006:

1. Angela (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
2. Danny (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
3. Essjay (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
4. Ilyanep (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
5. Jwrosenzweig (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
6. Linuxbeak (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
7. Nichalp (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
8. Pakaran (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
9. Raul654 (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
10. Rdsmith4 (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
11. Redux (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
12. Taxman (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
13. Tim Starling (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
14. UninvitedCompany (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
15. Warofdreams (talk · contribs · rights · renames)

Inactive bureaucrats

Though still participating in Wikipedia, the following bureaucrats have not performed any promotions or renames since 12 March 2006.

1. Bcorr (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
2. Cimon avaro (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
3. Cprompt (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
4. Dannyisme (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
5. Infrogmation (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
6. Kingturtle (talk · contribs · rights · renames) (i'd be active, but i'm always beaten to the punch)
7. Secretlondon (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
8. Stan Shebs (talk · contribs · rights · renames)
9. TUF-KAT (talk · contribs · rights · renames)

Former bureaucrats

1. Eloquence (talk · contribs · rights · renames), resigned May 26, 2005
2. Ed Poor (talk · contribs · rights · renames), resigned September 12, 2005 (reason)
3. Optim (talk · contribs · rights · renames), removed February 9, 2006 due to inactivity at Wikipedia since March 7, 2004
4. Francs2000 (talk · contribs · rights · renames), resigned March 29, 2006
5. Cecropia (talk · contribs · rights · renames), resigned April 1, 2006

See also

• Special:Log/rights - log of promotions
• Special:Log/renameuser - log of username changes
• Special:Log/makebot - log of bots
• m:Stewards
• m:Developers
• Special:Listusers/Bureaucrat - list of all users who have bureaucrat permissions
• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship#Requests for bureaucratship - to become a bureaucrat
• Wikipedia:User access levels
• Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard
• Bureaucrat statistics

Instructions for sysoping someone

1. Wait at least seven days after the listing was made on Wikipedia:Requests for adminship.
2. Check the history for the transcluded page to be reasonably sure that the votes are genuine.
3. Determine whether there is a general consensus that the person should be sysopped utilizing the traditional rules of thumb and your best judgement.
4. If so, make them an admin or bureaucrat using Special:Makesysop.
5. Use {{subst:rfap}}-{{subst:rfab}} as a header and footer, respectively, when closing a successful nomination. Similarly, use {{subst:rfaf}}-{{subst:rfab}} for a failed nomination. Remove the "Vote here" link. Place the word Final before the parenthetic voting results, change "ending" to "ended" and update the ending time and date to reflect the current time and date.
   • For a request for bureaucratship, use {{subst:rfbp}}-{{subst:rfbb}} for successful nominations. For failed nominations, use {{subst:rfbf}}-{{subst:rfbb}}.
6. For successful nominations, move the listing from requests for adminship to recently created admins or recently created bureaucrats. For unsuccessful administrator nominations, move the listing to Wikipedia:Unsuccessful adminship candidacies. For unsuccessful bureaucrat nominations, just remove the transclusion from requests for adminship.
7. If the nomination has succeeded, inform the user that they are now a sysop or bureaucrat.

Some bureaucrats also inform users of failed nominations.

Some bureaucrats also add the names of new administrators and bureaucrats to lists at Wikipedia:List of administrators or Wikipedia:Bureaucrats.

Instructions for changing usernames

1. Check that the request at Wikipedia:Changing username is legitimate.
2. Be sure that the user has no history of abuse and that the request is in the best interest of the project. Use your judgement.
3. Enter the old and new name at Special:Renameuser.
4. Inform the user their request has been carried out.
5. Archive the request at Wikipedia:Changing username.