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It is 16:49:54 on March 10, 2025, according to the server's time and date.

Restoration of sysop bit, please (Dennis Brown)

Request restoration of admin bit. I understand there is a 24 hour waiting period. I don't expect to get back as busy as I once was and don't really have the desire to, but can help out every now and then. Feel free to email me if there are any questions, or CU me. Different location but it will still be obvious. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 00:33, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Let's see if I do this right All looks good (last use in 2024, no cloud, etc) and given the recent activity seems like a credible intent to return. So I see no issues with restoring after the 24 hour period. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 01:22, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 02:35, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just 2 more rights changes to go for Dennis to be back at the top (excl. test accounts). -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe|🤷) 02:42, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Barkeep49. And Tamzin, it wasn't on purpose. If I know I'm going to be gone a few months+, it just seems the best thing to do, security-wise. Handy to help enforce a wikibreak as well, and to keep from taking this place too seriously. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 11:43, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, @Dennis Brown, I didn't mean it at all as a criticism. You'll see I'm pretty high on that list too, partly for some of the same reasons. I just find it a funny statistic to track. My money's on @Queen of Hearts to be the recordholder someday. She's got the same background as me as a multi-hatted jack-of-all-trades before becoming an admin, but shares your tendency to resign permissions when not in use, moreso than me. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe|🤷) 19:03, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Resysop Request (NaomiAmethyst)

NaomiAmethyst (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)

I'd like to get my mop back under WP:RESYSOP as they were previously removed under WP:INACTIVITY. I understand there is a waiting period. — Naomi Amethyst 05:06, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes! Welcome back! Admin action in October 2022 (or if you want a non-U1 action, December 2021), so well within the five year rule. House Blaster (talk • he/they) 05:10, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome back! (note that the desysop was under a different username). charlotte ^👸♥ 05:15, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

NaomiAmethyst, I take it then that you have decided to return to more regular activity? My main concern is that your last ~100 edits have been in the last 12 hours, with the next 100 going back six years. I know I do not speak for all bureaucrats, but ideally I'd like to see a bit more activity before asking for the mop. Primefac (talk) 13:07, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(Non-administrator comment) Indeed, Primefac. Although a different context, there's a topic ban appeal about to be rejected also on the grounds of insufficient activity leading up to the request... and that was with more edits over a longer period than evidenced here. Fortuna, Imperatrix Mundi 13:40, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That is my intention, Primefac. — Naomi Amethyst 16:31, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @NaomiAmethyst, I'm the new kid around here but I share Primefac's general thoughts. I do consider "returned to activity" to include being up to date with the community around changes to norms/procedures/policies and so I was wondering what you have done to update yourself with protection and deletion practices (for instance, with the introduction of partial blocks I have seen certain scenarios with a pblock is used where protection might have been used in the past) as the two areas I see from your log that you've worked before. Thanks, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:49, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]