Wikipedia:Bureaucrats

They are bound by policy and consensus only to grant administrator or bureaucrat access when doing so reflects the wishes of the community, usually after a successful request at . In the same fashion, they are expected to exercise judgement in granting or removing bot flags with the advice of the Bot Approvals Group. They are expected to be capable judges of consensus, and are expected to explain the reasoning for their actions on request and in a civil manner. Actions by bureaucrats are also bound by the policy on use of administrative rights.

Users are granted bureaucrat status by community consensus. The process is similar to the process of granting administrator status, but the expectations for potential bureaucrats are higher and community consensus must be clearer. See .

These are instructions and procedures concerning bureaucratic actions and processes.

Bureaucrats may remove the "administrator" user right from an account in some situations:

Bureaucrats should include a permanent link to the request or relevant policy when removing permissions. If necessary, the affected user should be immediately notified and given a reason for the removal along with advice on seeking the reinstatement of the permissions.

Should the extended confirmed group have been removed from the account since becoming an administrator, it should be restored when removing administrator permissions.

If an editor is verified as having died, all permissions on the account should be removed. Unless the account is suspected of being compromised, it should not be blocked. For Checkuser, Oversight and Bureaucrat rights, which cannot be removed locally, a request to remove those should be posted on . See also WP:DWG.

There are two separate activity requirements applicable to bureaucrat accounts:

In the case that a former administrator or bureaucrat requests their permissions be restored via the bureaucrats' noticeboard:

A Bureaucrat mailing list was established in March 2009, but was retired following a discussion in 2017. It was intended as a convenient way to notify bureaucrats about urgent matters or, on rare occasions, to discuss private matters.

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