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Any logged-in user is welcome to vote and to comment on the requests below. Votes from unregistered users are not counted, but comments may still be made. If the nomination is successful, a bureaucrat will grant the relevant rights. However, the closing bureaucrat has discretion in judging community consensus, and the decision will not necessarily be based on the raw numbers. Among other things, the closing bureaucrat may take into account the strength of any arguments presented and the experience and knowledge of the commenting users. For example, the comments and votes of users who have zero or few contributions on Commons may at the bureaucrat's discretion be discounted.

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Requests for Oversight rights

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When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Oversighters/Archive.

• Please read Commons:Oversighters before voting here. Any logged in user may vote, although those who have few or no previous edits may not be fully counted.

Minorax

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Links for Minorax: Minorax (talk · contributions · deleted user contributions · recent activity · logs · block log · global contribs · CentralAuth)

Hello all. Recently, an oversighter was removed for inactivity and now we're down to 3. As the current team is primarily based in Europe and I'm based in Asia, I figured that I might want to hop on to help to cover the remaining silent hours. About me: I've been an admin since Sep 2020 and an active global sysop that actively manages x-wiki abuse. I'm also active on IRC so I will be able to respond to pings (if any). Having this right would allow me to remove derogatory posts/content that aligns with the global policy as quickly as possible. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 12:15, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support trusted, admin work seems fine --Ameisenigel (talk) 14:42, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 18:41, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support. Rather disappointing to learn we only have 3 oversighters here, I see, Anyway trusted admn, No red flags, Easy support. –Davey2010^Talk 19:37, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
• I could easily support this request, but it's just too many flags (~50 on all projects, including being sysop at 8 projects). I agree that Commons could have another oversighter. However, this oversighter need to unequivocally commit to stay active here... in this context, I am  neutral. Érico (talk) 21:33, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

  @Érico, Indeed, Judging by their contribs elsewhere[1] they're virtually active on every wiki here which sort of raises questions as you cannot be everywhere at once nor should you be expected to be and IMHO there's not really any need to be at so many different wikis, But that being said they make between 1-8k edits here a month[2] so they're certainly active here.

  I do question though how can they do an efficient job here if they're say at SK.Wiki or Wikibooks dealing with oversight issues there .... Again you can't be everywhere at once. Certainly raises some questions. –Davey2010^Talk 23:51, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

  @Érico and Davey2010: I'd like to address the issues raised. As it's still a COVID-19 pandemic period, I basically have the luxury of working from home and have access to my computer as and when I want to. Furthermore, I'm basically working freelance so this further enables me to react quickly (or relatively quickly). Next, about the rights issues, most of the rights I have are passive and I have no additional editing rights other than being able to edit some protected pages. And similar to this request, sysop rights on some wikis, such as en.wb, wikidata are for me to react quickly to spammers/trollers. Lastly, and this applies on wikis where I have advanced rights, I am certainly willing to request removal of said rights if I don't see myself having the time to serve the local community. Hope this answers the issues raised. Thanks. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 10:43, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

  Hey @Minorax, Many thanks for explaining that, I had wrote a long essay on why I don't agree with having advanced permissions everywhere etc but that's another discussion for another venue. I should also state for the record you're not an oversighter at SK Wiki or Wikibooks not sure why I thought you were so apologies for that, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 23:26, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

•  Support 4nn1l2 (talk) 10:40, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 11:06, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support trusted, responds to deletion requests, and very good at judging which files are in scope and not in scope, whose way I followed for many Judgefloro (talk · contribs) files, refer to this deletion request for proof. The nomination by Minorax when they were still under their former username. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 12:53, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Syunsyunminmin (talk) 14:27, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support. --Ratekreel (talk) 14:47, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Krd 15:12, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Achim55 (talk) 16:58, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
• Please let me know why shouldn't I  Support Minorax! ─ The Aafī (^talk) 17:24, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 17:40, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support--Renvoy (talk) 21:31, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support -FASTILY 01:27, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Sure thing. Always nice to have an OS that is UTC+8. :D --pandakekok9 05:37, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support active admin rubin16 (talk) 05:46, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support. Why not? Taivo (talk) 08:37, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Rschen7754 01:52, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support, no objection. --Túrelio (talk) 10:35, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support, --Pimpinellus((D)) • WikiMUC • 16:49, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 19:46, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support, no concerns. -- CptViraj (talk) 00:25, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 01:36, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Trusted user . Voted by Encik Tekateki (talk) 06:04, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support EN-Jungwon 07:17, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support It seems to be a trusted candidate and motivated. --PierreSelim (talk) 13:31, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Active admin. Thank you for volunteering. - FitIndia ^{Talk ✉} 15:16, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support OK, there's a need. -- Marcus Cyron (talk) 19:08, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Guerillero ^{Parlez Moi} 22:17, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support No reason to object. --Bedivere (talk) 05:08, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Trusted User, No Concerns. Aviram7 (talk) 11:42, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Urbanec (talk) 14:00, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Seems qualified. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 19:32, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support: valid rationale, no issues. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 19:42, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support: We had discussion on-wiki and IRC, I like the helping nature, and seen both the commitment and motivation. Thank you for volunteering. C1K98V ^{(💬 ✒️ 📂)} 05:27, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support: Shows good judgement on other projects. Sennecaster (talk) 22:46, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support: not much direct contact, but somehow managed to still make a positive impression. --El Grafo (talk) 08:04, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Comments

• A minor concern: I think Minorax is based in China, is that a privacy concern given the Chinese Government's views of Wikipedia? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:19, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

  Hello Mike. Your concern is invalid as I’m not from China. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 22:53, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

  @Minorax: OK, so which jurisdiction (Q471855) are you editing from? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 23:20, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

  You should not ask users such questions. 4nn1l2 (talk) 00:52, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

  Not answering that question. Sorry. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 10:45, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

  @Minorax: Fair enough. I would have supported this if you could say that you weren't based in China (which is different to "from china"). I'm probably worrying about nothing anyway. Regardless, you have plenty of support votes! Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:29, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

  @Minorax: How about timezone?   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 17:44, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

  @Jeff G.: I’m a +8. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 02:01, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

  @Minorax: Thanks.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 19:21, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

• Having an OS that is not EU-based in term of timezone is a real addition to the team in my opinion. as some privacy matters are better handled quickly! --PierreSelim (talk) 09:02, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

Requests for CheckUser rights

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When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Checkusers/Archive.

• Please read Commons:Checkusers before posting or voting here. Any logged in user may vote although those who have few or no previous edits may not be fully counted.

No current requests.

Requests for bureaucratship

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When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Bureaucrats/Archive.

• Please read Commons:Bureaucrats before posting or voting here. Any logged in user may vote although those who have few or no previous edits may not be fully counted.

No current requests.

Requests for adminship

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When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Administrators/Archive.

• Please read Commons:Administrators before voting here. Any logged in user may vote although those who have few or no previous edits may not be fully counted.

No current requests.

Requests for license reviewer rights

No current requests.

Red-tailed hawk

• Red-tailed hawk (talk · contributions · deleted user contributions · recent activity · logs · block log · global contribs · CentralAuth) (assign permissions)
• Reason: I am currently a VRT permissions agent and I would like to help work on our backlog of licenses already uploaded to Commons that are in need of review. In particular, I would like to conduct manual reviews of FARS News agency and other related Iranian state news agency photographs, which has a collective backlog of about 10K files at the moment. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 19:51, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
• Scheduled to end: 19:51, 25 September 2022 (UTC) (the earliest)

Comments

•  Oppose - Ignoring the 165 edits made last year the user has only essentially been here this year, Their talkpage includes a copyvio notice (mistakes happen) and a DR where the user seemingly added an incorrect template which I see as being careless, These 2 red flags are enough for me to oppose unfortunately. –Davey2010^Talk 20:20, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
• Having seen Red-tailed hawk's work on the VRT, I lean to  Support their request but not now - please come back after sometime, in my opinion. Best, ─ The Aafī (^talk) 14:21, 25 September 2022 (UTC) Modified, 14:40, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support User certainly knows what they're doing. I disagree with arguments based on time spent (volunteering) on Commons. Knowledge and motivation, which this user has, is enough for me. Bedivere (talk) 14:28, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

  @Bedivere I see it as longer tenure = more knowledge, Given the complexity with some licences/images/FOP I don't believe it's possible to grasp everything here within a year but of course that's just my opinion. Not everyone agrees with my logic and that's fine (would be boring if we were all the same :) ), –Davey2010^Talk 20:23, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

  Of course, Davey, we don't have to agree ;) Although I concur more experience is the better, and we don't really want to have to go and fix whatever error this user or another may do, we are humans, we always commit mistakes. Licensing review is a big deal, but the user may be knowledgeable already in the matter since they are a member of VRT and who knows what is their offline background. I am a law student and regard myself as knowledgeable in copyright issues, but I'm not requesting the right for myself because I am not very active. But then again, it is only my opinion. Kind regards Bedivere (talk) 23:50, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

•  Support: Red-tailed hawk is more experienced than initially meets the eye--they have access to the permissions queue in VRT and do good work there. Furthermore, they are a copyright clerk on en.wiki, and I trust their judgement. Sure, it isn't the same as licenses and image policy, but there is overlap between the two; such as a core understanding of compatible licensing and URAA. They've assisted me actually in evaluating URAA, FOP, and images, and even if they don't fully grasp the necessary policy, they are mature and know the limits of their knowledge. I trust them to not review images that they are not confident on their evaluation on. Sennecaster (talk) 01:43, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Requests for permission to run a bot

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Before making a bot request, please read the new version of the Commons:Bots page. Read Commons:Bots#Information on bots and make sure you have added the required details to the bot's page. A good example can be found here.

When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Bots/Archive.

Any user may comment on the merits of the request to run a bot. Please give reasons, as that makes it easier for the closing bureaucrat. Read Commons:Bots before commenting.

KunMilanoRobot (talk · contribs)

Operator: Kvardek du (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (assign permissions)

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: changing the username for users having renamed their account (probably mostly users from French Wikipedia). I tested the bot yesterday with a first case and it worked well.

Automatic or manually assisted: Supervised (every request is launched manually, and I check a subset of the edits in real-time)

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): One-time run at each user request

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 6 edits per minute (default for Pywikibot on PAWS), but I can lower it if needed

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): Python

kvardek du (la plej bela nombro) 17:24, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Discussion

• Isn't user renaming is done globally these days? --EugeneZelenko (talk) 13:46, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

  @EugeneZelenko: the account is renamed globally but the old account name stays in every wikipage, including file descriptions. kvardek du (la plej bela nombro) 14:43, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

  It'll be reasonable to have global bot for such purposes, similar to User:CommonsDelinker. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:04, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

  On long run, your usages replacement feature could be merged with the "global rename [account]" feature.
  This exact global usages replacement function already exist for files renaming on Commons which also rename all usages across the various wikis. Since that very "global rename [media]"'s code already exists, it just need to make it available as an option for "global rename [account]". Could be both low cost and cool. Yug (talk) 09:33, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

• I think edits like Special:Diff/683299131 are valid when done per user request (and a Commons-only problem that should be resolved here), but I think Special:Diff/683306522 is invalid. --Krd 10:36, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

  That was also done per user request. Commons:Username policy#Changing your username states that "Signatures on discussion pages will continue to use the old name; while these can be changed manually, it is not recommended unless a contributor wishes to remove as much information as possible about their previous name for privacy reasons". The privacy was the motivation of the change here; using a bot just makes easier to respect that request for privacy from the user.

  In the opposite case, it is easy for the bot to only edit file namespace. kvardek du (la plej bela nombro) 15:24, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

• @Kvardek du: Please suggest how this should be continued. --Krd 08:01, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

Taylorbot (talk · contribs)

Operator: Taylor 49 (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (assign permissions)

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: fix sorting hints/keys example (including trivial cleanup ie removal of trailing spaces and excessive blank lines)

Automatic or manually assisted: automatic, supervised at the beginning

Edit type: one time run as needed

Maximum edit rate: 12 edits / mi

Bot flag requested YES

Creator of the bot code: myself (the operator)

Programming language(s): ASM+BAS

Taylor 49 (talk) 18:05, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Discussion

Please make test run. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:15, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

@User:EugeneZelenko  Done. Taylor 49 (talk) 19:37, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Please make better edit summaries. I think will be good idea to mention category and key there. I don't think that words should be merged in key, like in File:Fi-vegaani-ei-syö-ruokaa-jossa-on-eläinperäisiä-lisäaineita.ogg or File:Fi-Minä olen kaksikymmentäviisi vuotta vanha.ogg. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:25, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

@User:EugeneZelenko Better edit summaries are possible. Whitespace and greyspace is removed in order to give a more predictable position of files containing commas, brackets, long, superlong and hyperlong dashes etc. Not merging is not really difficult, on the contrary. Taylor 49 (talk) 22:20, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

I think it's good idea to make keys same as they should appeared in print (== readable). --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:38, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

@Taylor 49: Please report status and make another small test run. --Krd 07:59, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

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