Help:Bureaucrats
Adapted from Wikipedia by Jonathan Ned Katz, Director, OutHistory.org
This is a stub, an entry with no, little, or incomplete data, a work in progress by a named creator or a site administrator, so it can only be edited by its creator or site administrators. But visitors are encouraged to use the Discuss section of this entry if they have data, documentation, citations, or constructive suggestions for the entry's creator.
Bureaucrats are OutHistory users with the technical ability to:
promote other users to administrator or bureaucrat status;
grant and revoke an account's bot status; and
rename user accounts.
They are bound by policy and consensus to grant administrator or bureaucrat access only when doing so reflects the wishes of the community, usually after a successful request at OutHistory:Requests for adminship.[1]
In like fashion, they are expected to exercise judgment in changing usernames, and in granting or removing bot flags on the advice of the Bot Approvals Group.[2]
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.
Bureaucrats do not have the ability to remove admin rights from users or to grant other levels of access (they cannot assign oversight or checkuser rights). These actions are performed by Stewards.[3]
Additional Stewards are elected annually; for more information see Requests for permissions.
Changes in user rights by Stewards are recorded on Wikipedia at Meta:Special:Log/rights.
For Wikipedia's statement and policy on Bureaucrats see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bureaucrats
