Wikipedia talk:Bureaucrats
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Within Wikipedia a bureaucrat is a user who has the technical ability to give other users adminship. See m:Bureaucrat for more information.
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[edit] Wikimedia or Wikipedia?
The text reads:
- 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.
Should not that be Wikipedia instead? There are various Wikimedia projects managed by individual companies or other organizations.
- Um, no. All Wikimedia projects are managed by the Wikimedia Foundation. Are you sure you're not confusing it with MediaWiki? Titoxd(?!?) 07:07, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] What Wikipedia is not
Wikipedia is not a Bureaucracy
Wikipedia is not a moot court, and although rules can make things easier, they are not the purpose of the community and instruction creep should generally be avoided. A perceived procedural error made in posting anything, such as an idea or nomination, is not grounds for invalidating that post. Follow the spirit, not the letter, of any rules, policies and guidelines. Disagreements should be resolved through consensual discussion, rather than through tightly sticking to rules and procedures.
Why do we have bureaucrats? Dudtz 10/27/06 8:43 PM ET
- I've suggested changing the name before - perhaps to "functionary" - but the current name was chosen to emphasise that bureaucrats do not have a higher status than other users, not to try to create a bureaucracy. Warofdreams talk 02:03, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- I just think it's really funny that there bureaucrats without a bureaucracy. But really there is a bureaucracy, it is just very small. For example, changing your user name is a bureaucratic process. It would be more accurate to so that Wikipedia is not a big bureaucracy. -David Youngberg 19:31, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Right to vanish
I have a seriour request. I've created a new username, Sergeant Gerzi is my new username. Is it possible to remove these contributions from my old username: Lieutenant D.G.[1] completely from Wikipedia? The problem is that my old username is a name of a real existing character and my new username "Sergeant Gerzi" is a created name from me. I've also saved things about my personality to my old username Lieutenant D. G. and that's why I want you to clear the contributions from my old username "Lieutenant D. G. Please do that. Sergeant Gerzi 13:28, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
- If you want the account's name to be removed from Wikipedia, you can request that it be renamed to something else (you'd need to request the rename while logged into that account though). When that's done, all the edits made from that account will be reassigned to the new username. Other than that, if you made any edits containing highly sensitive information, a possible solution is to send an e-mail to Oversight-l, which is the mail list for all the users on Wikipedia that have Oversight permission. In your e-mail, provide diffs for the edits you deem sensitive, and someone will look into it. Redux 15:18, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks. Sergeant Gerzi 15:27, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Problems deleting/renaming my account
Oops. I first tried to rename my account - but oops - there was another user with the name cookiemonster. (i tried searching wikipedia and google "wikipedia" + "user:cookiemonster" and nothing showed up when I did.) I then tried to delete my account out of frustration.
The histories are now somehow merged between me (cooltobekind) and cookiemonster
Could you please undo this somehow, rename my account, and delete my user and user talk page. Thanks Cooltobekind 23:32, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
- Nothing of the sort has happened. You just moved your userpage to appear under another user's name. I've moved it back and deleted the redirects. If you want to change your username, make a request at WP:CHU. Warofdreams talk 00:43, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] I Will Return
Just wanted to pop in and say "Hi. I have less time due to school at IMSA. I'll be back and active over breaks and over the summer." Please don't eat me? Thanks. — Ilyanep (Talk) 01:24, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
