[Wikipedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] check user policy

Tue Nov 8 21:10:13 UTC 2005

Angela wrote:

>>Another point is, right now, all stewards have check user access. But no
>>steward was approved by a developer or by Tim himself (who is at the
>>origine of the steward status creation), nor by Jimbo.
>>So, do you suggest that stewards are asked not to use this tool ? Or
>>should they be allowed only after approval by Jimbo or Tim ? Or should
>>stewards be only nominated by Jimbo or Tim in the future ?
> 
> 
> It isn't true that all stewards have CheckUser access. Stewards have
> the ability, though not the right, to assign themselves this access.
> It's unfortunate that some have violated their privileges by assigning
> themselves CheckUser access without approval of the communities
> they're using it on. I thought stewards could be trusted not to do
> that, but seemingly not.
> 
> Angela
> A steward with no checkuser access

Correct. They have the ability, not necessarily the rights. The requests 
I fulfilled were done per request of french editor and french arbcom. 
They were legitimate.

Ant