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[edit] INSTRUCTIONS
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Pages needing admin intervention:
- Wikiquote:Protected titles
- Wikiquote:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage
- MediaWiki:Bad image list
- MediaWiki:Usernameblacklist
See also:
- Blocking policy
- Block user
- List of blocked IP addresses and usernames
- Block log
- Wikiquote:Protection policy (now drafting)
- Protection log
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[edit] Steward action to usurp user
I see that Rdsmith4 used Steward powers to usurp a user here. [1] Is it normal for stewards to do so without checking with local bureaucrats? Our policy about posting a notice on the user page was not followed.--Poetlister 14:55, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
- I don't know about bureaucrats, but if it had been a checkuser action we'd have grounds for a complaint.--Cato 18:59, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
- Actually he did that after I asked him to, the user he renamed wasn't the same user but Grawp who stole the name from Giggy because an enwiki crat forgot to register and block that account and thus he managed to unify here and steal that account..I believe it is a checkuser action and more information will be available on the Cu-list ...--Cometstyles 02:06, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
- It was not mentioned on the CU list.--Cato 13:59, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
- Probably not, since an enwiki crat made that error, what happened was that via w:WP:CHU, Giggy, formerly known as "Dihydrogen Monoxide" was renamed back to "Giggy" but the crat that renamed him forgot to register that account and block it and so Grawp made an account using the same name "Dihydrogen Monoxide" here and unified it without anyone suspecting anything and when I found out about it, I told a CU (an arbie on enwiki) to CU it for me but he didn't do it, and so while I waited for alison to come (the only cu on enwiki willing to help sadly) and nothing happened, I alerted a steward about it who renamed the user here on enwq as well as enwiki but forgot to block him on enwiki as you can see here.. i hope that fixes the misunderstanding? and if i was you, I would think about blocking him here too ;) ...--Cometstyles 05:52, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
- Actually he did that after I asked him to, the user he renamed wasn't the same user but Grawp who stole the name from Giggy because an enwiki crat forgot to register and block that account and thus he managed to unify here and steal that account..I believe it is a checkuser action and more information will be available on the Cu-list ...--Cometstyles 02:06, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
