Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Administrator instructions/General
Note if a request was recently declined for a given user/permission, a bot will comment with a link to that discussion. You may wish to ping the administrator who declined the previous request asking for their input before responding to the new request.
{{#ifeq:{{{type|}}}|awb|To grant AWB access, add the user to the CheckPage.|
To grant the permission:
- Grant the user right(s) to the user at Special:UserRights. Indicate the request was approved at WP:PERM (or a specific page therein) in the "Reason", along with any other information you deem appropriate.
- Issue the corresponding notification template to the user for the permissions that were added:
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To respond to the request:
- On the permissions page, mark the request as approved or denied using {{tl|done}} or {{tl|not done}}. Include any relevant rationale for the decision. If you are revoking a permission, use the template {{tl|revoked}} which will archive as done. If the user has withdrawn their request, you can mark it as {{tl|withdrawn}} which will archive as not done. {{#ifeq:{{{type|}}}|rollback|There is a convenient template for canned responses to rollback requests at {{tl|RFPR}}. It's documentation is as follows:
{{collapse|{{RFPR/doc}}|Notation templates}}|For some permissions, there is a convenient template for canned responses, such as with Confirmed and Rollback.}} - 36 hours after the last comment was made (or whatever is specified in the config), a bot will automatically archive the request. You can force the bot to archive as soon as possible with the code
{{User:MusikBot/archivenow}}
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Helper script: The above process can be expedited using the script User:MusikAnimal/userRightsManager.js. Once installed, click "assign permissions" on any PERM page, enter optional closing remarks in the popup dialog, and the script will grant the right with a permalink to the discussion, and issue the corresponding talk page template.}}
To override where the bot archives, use
To re-open a request, deactivate the resolution template using the code {{done}}
=={{#if:{{{indent|}}}|=}}Archiving=={{#if:{{{indent|}}}|=}}
All requests are archived at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Archive as approved or denied. This is done as a historical reference, namely so that admins can review previously declined requests.
N hours after the last comment was made on a request (as specified by the bot's config), the discussion is removed from that page and an entry containing a PermaLink to the discussion is added to the archives, noting the user and the permission. This archiving process is fully automated and should not be attempted manually.
=={{#if:{{{indent|}}}|=}}Bot clerking=={{#if:{{{indent|}}}|=}}
For convenience, the requests for permissions pages are clerked by {{u|MusikBot}}. See User:MusikBot/PermClerk for more information on the tasks and how to configure them.