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Bug 13503 - On alswiki, allow bureaucrats to remove sysop
On alswiki, allow bureaucrats to remove sysop
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
http://als.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
: shell
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Reported: 2008-03-25 18:36 UTC by Melancholie
Modified: 2008-03-25 21:05 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Melancholie 2008-03-25 18:36:35 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]]
Comment 1 Majorly 2008-03-25 18:42:55 UTC
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.
Comment 2 Aryeh Gregor (not reading bugmail, please e-mail directly) 2008-03-25 18:45:14 UTC
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.
Comment 3 Brion Vibber 2008-03-25 18:50:29 UTC
This is a serious abuse of bureaucrat privileges -- false sysopping of this sort may lead to loss of your privileges.
Comment 4 Umschattiger 2008-03-25 20:13:36 UTC
> 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
Comment 5 Melancholie 2008-03-25 21:05:49 UTC
@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!

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