Wikipedia:Inactive check users

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Community declines proposal fr33kman 16:49, 24 September 2024 (UTC)reply

The check users are a group of admins who are given access to the check user toolset to use in cases of vandalism, cross-wiki abuse, long-term abuse by banned editors and in other cases where access to private information such as a user's IP addresses, user agent, XFF data and physical location indications can be found. It is an advanced right granted to senior admins by the stewards on behalf of the WMF upon the successful election by the local community.

The check user tool is most useful by staying active with it. This is because investigations performed with it are often connected cross-wiki and go on for some time. For this reason a CU who only rarely uses the tool is not in a position to follow current events going on in the sock-puppetry, and xwiki vandalism worlds.

It is therefore the position of this proposal that any check user who does not use the tool at least five times during any six months period will lose access to the tool by removal by a steward upon the request of a bureaucrat.

Restoration of the tools would require going through a normal RfCU at the request for permissions page and election by the community.

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