Wikibooks:User rights
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The Wikibooks community decided to allow administrators to grant and revoke the patroller and rollbacker permissions.
Admins have the trust of the community, and use their discretion when granting or revoking these rights. Requests are made at WB:RFP, where any admin can grant the right if they choose to. Declined requests should be explained and archived for later perusal. Granted requests will be logged at Special:Log/rights, and may be archived into the history.
The following are very loose guidelines ideas for granting and revoking the tools - they are not a big deal. Admins are responsible for making good decisions regarding which users get the tools. Admins are absolutely not to wheel war with user rights - those admins which do will not be permitted to change user rights.
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[edit] Rollbacker
- User understands and applies Wikibooks:Rollback and Wikibooks:Dealing with vandalism
- User is a vandal fighter and currently reverts incorrect edits
- User has not edit warred
- User has no history of blocks
- User has not had +rollback revoked (admin discretion on whether to give another chance)
[edit] Patroller
- User understands and applies Wikibooks:New page patrol
- User is not a vandal and has not had +patroller revoked (admin discretion on whether to give another chance)
- Users not known to the patrollers should be asked to patrol for a day or two without +patroller so other new page patrollers can see your work
- Users requesting +patroller should be making a commitment to do new page patrol
[edit] Process for revoking rights
- For +rollbacker
- User gets one warning, then +rollbacker is revoked on the spot by any admin
- For +patroller
- Patrollers misusing the bit get a reminder or two, after which point:
- Granting admin can revoke on the spot
- Non-granting admin can revoke with consent of any other admin
- Inactivity
- Since abuse of +rollbacker is easily detected, the rights don't need to be revoked due to inactivity
- Patrollers should be at least semi-active on the project doing new page patrol. Patrollers who have their right removed for inactivity should have it re-granted upon request. The meaning of "inactive" and "at least semi-active" here are left up to admin discretion.
