Wikipedia:Administrative action review

Administrative action review (XRV/AARV) determines whether use of the administrator tools or other advanced permissions is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Any action (or set of related actions) involving a tool not available to all confirmed editors—except those covered by another, more specific review process—may be submitted here for community review. The purpose of an administrative review discussion is to reach a consensus on whether a specific action was appropriate, not to assign blame. It is not the place to request comment on an editor's general conduct, to seek retribution or removal of an editor's advanced permissions, or to quibble about technicalities.

To request an administrative action review, please first read the "Purpose" section to make sure that it is in scope. Then, follow the instructions below.

Purpose

Administrative action review may be used to request review of:

1. an administrator action

   This includes any action that may be deemed functionally equivalent to an administrator action even when it is not technically an administrator action, because it was an action of an administrator asserted by the administrator to have been performed in a capacity exclusive to administrators (usually actions associated with the conventional role of administrators in certain processes, even when they do not require the use of administrative tools).

2. an action using an advanced permission

Administrative action review should not be used:

1. to request an appeal or review of an action with a dedicated review process

   For review of page deletions or review of deletion discussion closures, use Wikipedia:Deletion review (DRV)

   For review of page moves, use Wikipedia:Move review (MRV)

2. to ask to remove a user's permissions:

   Permissions granted at WP:PERM may be revoked by an administrator if XRV finds them to be misused.

   Repeated or egregious misuse of permissions may form the basis of an administrators' noticeboard or incidents noticeboard report, or a request for arbitration, as appropriate.

3. to argue technicalities and nuances (about what the optimal action would have been, for example), outside of an argument that the action was inconsistent with policy.
4. to ask for a review of arbitration enforcement actions. Such reviews must be done at arbitration enforcement noticeboard ("AE"), at the administrators' noticeboard ("AN"), or directly to the Arbitration Committee at the amendment requests page ("ARCA").
5. for urgent incidents and chronic, intractable behavioural problems; use Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents ("ANI") instead
6. for serious, entrenched or persistent disputes and cases of rule-breaking; use Wikipedia:Arbitration ("ArbCom") instead
7. for a block marked with any variation of {{CheckUser block}}, {{OversightBlock}}, or {{ArbComBlock}}; Contact the Arbitration Committee instead
8. to attack other editors, cast aspersions, or make accusations of bias. Such requests may be speedily closed.

Instructions
Initiating a review

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Participating in a discussion
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After a review
Any follow-up outcomes of a review are deferred to existing processes. Individual actions can be reversed by any editor with sufficient permissions. Permissions granted at WP:PERM may be revoked by an administrator.

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Event coordinator confirmed status grants

Action: Confirmed status granting, seen here.

User: Kaizenify (talk · contribs · logs) (prior discussion)

I first noticed Kaizenify granting confirmed status past the maximum established for event coordinators when they granted CiteMe997 confirmed status for six months, and looked further and found multiple instances of granting for a full month, in excess of the 10 day limit established by RFC. I notified them about the limit and linked to the event coordinator policy, and they did not respond. A few months later, I have found that this has occurred again. While the user began granting only for 10 day durations for a short time after the message I left on their talk page, they returned to granting for a full month a few months after this. In total, they have granted confirmed permissions outside of the community-approved duration over 50 times in a one-year span based on a rough count of the log of their user rights changes listed above. EggRoll97 ^(talk) 05:38, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

• Ok, you have my attention. This is a novel situation. I wasn't aware of the limitation, but it does exist [1]. I'm not sure the damage of extending it past the 10 days, however, as once 10 days have past and they have done virtually any editing, they are confirmed anyway. Not downplaying, I'm just trying to assess the "damage" by the action. Regardless, they should have responded to your talk page request for explanation [2], and their contribs do show they were online and editing just a few days afterwards. That is part of the responsibility of having any advanced tool: accountability. I would note, you didn't ask a question, you just gave him notice, so a reply wasn't required, but we have to assume he knew about the notice, or should have known. So the first time would have been ok as an error (although he still should have know about the limitation in order to get the tools...), but to continue doing it after he was notified is a problem. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 11:34, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
• Yeah. If there's any trouble here, I think it would be unfair to pin it on the edit-a-thon participants who didn't know what they were being granted, but on the grantor who certainly should have known better. In fact, they either don't understand the parameters or have chosen to ignore them. Best remove the permission, since this has been going on for so long and after being advised. ——Serial Number 54129 11:59, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
• ohh, I apologize for any inconvenience caused, as it was unintentional. I am the Programs and Project Coordinator for Wikimedia Nigeria and in this role, I plan and coordinate several Wikipedia-inclined projects and edit-a-thons, especially focusing on newbies, which include WikiBoost, Queerpedia, Wiki in School, and many more hence the heavy use of the Event Coordinator tool. Per going beyond the 10-day limit i totally misunderstand this and will revert to doing it the right way as i mostly confirm users for the duration of the edit-a-thon, which usually lasts for one month and sometimes exceeds that because some users may not start editing immediately. I apologize for misusing the tool per the RFC verdict and will ensure that I don't exceed the 10-day mark going forward. Thank you. Kaizenify (talk) 20:57, 7 March 2024 (UTC)