Last modified: 2008-03-25 21:05:49 UTC
Although being bureaucrat on als.wp I cannot remove 'sysop' rights at [[:als:Special:Userrights]]! Only 'bot' and 'bureaucrat' is shown an accepted at all. Is this intended? I sysoped my Bot for easily creating a global, unified login account (single user login), now I cannot desysop that account (Bots should not really have sysop rights, I think ;-) I will have to keep the 'bot' flag removed as long as this bug isn't fixed, so please... See [[:als:Spezial:Benutzerrechte/MelancholieBot]]
This is not a bug. Bureaucrats can only add sysop/bureaucrat and not remove, but they can add and remove bots. You will need to contact a steward on [[meta:Requests for permissions]] to remove it.
Bureaucrats would presumably be able to remove sysop on a given project if there were consensus on that project. At least, I've heard nothing to the contrary. So I'm reclosing as LATER: demonstrate consensus and presumably this can be enabled for your project.
This is a serious abuse of bureaucrat privileges -- false sysopping of this sort may lead to loss of your privileges.
> This is a serious abuse of bureaucrat privileges -- false sysopping of this > sort may lead to loss of your privileges. > it may have been wiser not to do this, but I wouldn't say that this is a serious (!) abuse. Melancholie used his privilege in this case only for test purposes (SUL) I assume and didn't intend to harm anyone / anything. And btw, Melancholie is our one and only bureaucrat... De-Sysop of Melancholie-Bot strongly supported give de-sysop-rights to Melancholie not desired (no need to) greets, Umschattiger, sysop als
@Majorly: See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_permissions#MelancholieBot.40als.wiki @Simetrical: No need for allowing bureaucrats to remove sysop on als.wiki @Brion: Do you have a link (policy)? I have been sysop and bureaucrat on als.wp etc. for many many years now. Where is written that a sysop is not allowed to have two sysop accounts (and in this case only accidently!) Furthermore I myself removed the bot flag from that account *right after* posting this report (#13503), see http://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Logbuch/rights The account was furthermore blocked there. "MelancholieBot" does not have sysop rights on *any other* wiki, no edits were made as sysop (see http://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Beiträge/MelancholieBot) and myself informed you about this problem, I didn't want either. You do allow all sysops to unify their accounts (SUL) now, and nothing more I did in this case; User:Melancholie and User:MelancholieBot is one the same person! No abuse, just knowledge of how to get legitimate things done easily (why only sysops may may get single user login accounts, I thought). I (a person) was voted towards a sysop. I didn't give any other person sysop rights. No abuse, sorry!
