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There's certain administrative actions that are a matter of an individual administrator's discretion. Different admins may have different personal policies. Here are mine.
I am generally opposed to self-requested blocks. If you need to not be editing, you should just not be editing. However, at my RfA, I was asked about the problem of Internet addiction on Wikipedia, and I realized that in that self-requested block may make sense in limited cases to help an editor improve their mental health. As such, I've devised the following policy.
I'll caution, this is one of the strictest self-requested block policies there is. If you want to be blocked under more generous terms, please peruse the other admins at Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to consider placing self-requested blocks. If you nonetheless choose me, I'm assuming it's because you agree with the philosophy behind my approach, and will enforce it strictly.
I am willing to grant rollback or pending changes reviewer permissions outside of the PERM framework. My criteria are in some ways more relaxed than other admins', and in other ways more demanding. There are just two:
If both of those are met, I will grant the perm in question temporarily for three months. If at any point in those three months I see you go against that commitment, I will revoke the permission. If we're all good at the end of three months, and you've been making active use of the permission, I will re-grant permanently upon request.
If you would like a copy of some deleted content for your personal use (i.e. not to restore the page), I may be able to provide that by email/IRC/Discord, as long as you have a good reason and the content does not violate WP:BLP, WP:COPYRIGHT, or any user conduct policy. If you would like to restore a page, please see WP:REFUND.
This user subpage is currently inactive and is retained for historical reference. If you want to revive discussion regarding the subject, you might try contacting the user in question or seeking broader input via a forum such as the village pump. |
There's certain administrative actions that are a matter of an individual administrator's discretion. Different admins may have different personal policies. Here are mine.
I am generally opposed to self-requested blocks. If you need to not be editing, you should just not be editing. However, at my RfA, I was asked about the problem of Internet addiction on Wikipedia, and I realized that in that self-requested block may make sense in limited cases to help an editor improve their mental health. As such, I've devised the following policy.
I'll caution, this is one of the strictest self-requested block policies there is. If you want to be blocked under more generous terms, please peruse the other admins at Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to consider placing self-requested blocks. If you nonetheless choose me, I'm assuming it's because you agree with the philosophy behind my approach, and will enforce it strictly.
I am willing to grant rollback or pending changes reviewer permissions outside of the PERM framework. My criteria are in some ways more relaxed than other admins', and in other ways more demanding. There are just two:
If both of those are met, I will grant the perm in question temporarily for three months. If at any point in those three months I see you go against that commitment, I will revoke the permission. If we're all good at the end of three months, and you've been making active use of the permission, I will re-grant permanently upon request.
If you would like a copy of some deleted content for your personal use (i.e. not to restore the page), I may be able to provide that by email/IRC/Discord, as long as you have a good reason and the content does not violate WP:BLP, WP:COPYRIGHT, or any user conduct policy. If you would like to restore a page, please see WP:REFUND.