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* '''Protection level of user talk pages.''' User talk pages should not be set any higher than <code>[[TestWiki:Autoconfirmed users|autoconfirmed]]</code> or <code>[[TestWiki:Users|registered, logged in]]</code> user levels. This is because a [[TestWiki:Bots|bot and/or maintenance script]] need access to user talk pages in order to administer the [[TestWiki:Inactivity|inactivity notifications]], as applicable, from time to time. Secondarily, as bureaucrats, we grant user rights, which sometimes are requested on our user talk pages. Additionally, non-administrators may have questions of us. Thus, for these reasons, we should not protect our user talk pages higher than those levels, as you did in [[Special:Diff/28494|this edit]].
* '''Revision deletions.''' Unless it's on [[revision deletion test]], you should always revert any revision deletions, and ''never'' hide the ''performer'' (principally, or most often, ''you'') of the action. We value transparency on '''Public Test Wiki''', so there is almost never a reason to hide the performer, as you did in [[Special:Redirect/logid/
* '''The <code>[[TestWiki:Bots|bot]]</code> flag'''. While [[TestWiki:Bureaucrats|bureaucrats]] ''can'' grant, technically and procedurally, the <code>[[TestWiki:Bots|bot]]</code> flag, usually to their own account or sub-accounts, it should ''only'' be done for a ''temporary'' basis to prevent things like [[Special:RecentChanges]] flooding, as you did with your [[User:Syno sock|sub-account]] [[Special:Redirect/logid/
* '''Reverting test edits.''' Per [[TestWiki:Main policy#After testing|this policy sub-section, you should always make sure you are undoing ''any'' test edits or log actions, including test page creations, test blocks, and other actions, broadly construed. I've noticed you are mostly doing this, and this is to your great credit, but have noted a few instances where it was not, so thought it would be a good reminder.
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