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== Consul Request (Dmehus) ==

I'm requesting the community's assent to promote me to [[TestWiki:Consuls|Consul]] because, like [[User:RhinosF1|RhinosF1]]'s [[TestWiki:Community portal/Archive 2#Consul Request (RhinosF1)|Consul request]], I am the most [[Special:ActiveUsers|active user]] here on '''[[mh:test|Public Test Wiki]]'''. Indeed, it is one of my two home wikis (the other being '''[[mh:meta|Meta]]'''), and my total ''edits'' on this wiki represent more than 25% of my total global ''edit'' contributions across all Miraheze wikis. I am ''very'' active in actioning permissions requests at [[TestWiki:Request permissions]], mentoring new [[TestWiki:Administrators|administrators]] and [[TestWiki:Bureaucrats|bureaucrats]], providing guidance to the same new users in the aforementioned two groups where and when appropriate, and cleaning up after the same. I am also ''very'' active on [[meta:Discord|Discord]] and [[meta:IRC|IRC]] and at [[TestWiki:Community portal|this community portal]] with answering questions from potential, new, and existing [[TestWiki:Administrators|administrators]] and [[TestWiki:Bureaucrats|bureaucrats]].

 

#:{{ping|Naleksuh}}, thanks for the question. I think things like the [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] should be protected at [[TestWiki:Consuls|Consul]] because of the potential for abuse or misuse as [[TestWiki:Bureaucrats|bureaucrat]] is still, mainly, a testing user right, albeit to users who've at least demonstrated a higher level of trust than [[TestWiki:Administrators|administrator]]. [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] is kind of a grey area; I get the ''idea'' behind potentially lowering that to [[TestWiki:Bureaucrats|bureaucrat]], but, at the same time, I could see that end up being quickly cluttered with links to tools only one or two editors might use, so would likely want to retain that protection level. Redirects, especially those with few if any inlinks, to policy or information pages could probably be lowered, at least to [[TestWiki:Bureaucrats|bureaucrat]]. Pages like [[TestWiki:Inactivity/Exceptions]] should remain [[TestWiki:Consuls|Consul]]-protected for technical reasons as it is used by the [[User:RF1 Bot|Consul-operated bot]] as part of a semi-automated monthly inactivity notification and removal process. Looking through [[Special:ProtectedPages|pages protected at Consul]] level, the only two that I would say could probably be lowered would be [[Donate]] (a cross-namespace redirect to [[TestWiki:Donate]], with few if any inlinks linking to the redirect) and [[Request permissions]] (a cross-namespace redirect from main space to project space, again also with few if any inlinks).

#:But, a [[TestWiki:Protection policy]] is one of the things I'm hoping to begin drafting over the medium-term, that gives some guidelines on when to protect a page and what protection level should ultimately be used under certain conditions, the result of which I would ultimately bring forward to [[TestWiki:Community portal]] for a community discussion. Prior to bringing it forward, though, I would notify the community via that same portal page of the location of the draft, and invite the community to discuss the guidelines that should go into the draft (presumably, on the draft's talk page). Hope that clarifies. [[mh:meta:User:Dmehus|Dmehus]] ([[User talk:Dmehus|talk]]) 04:09, 11 August 2020 (UTC)