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The following inactive administrators are being desysoped due to inactivity. Thank you for your service.
- Hiberniantears (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
- Last admin action: Aug 2019
Request desysop (only)
- only (current rights · rights management · rights log (local) · rights log (global/meta) · block log)
Hi.... After something like 12-15 years of Wikipedia, I'm retiring and requesting removal of my sysop rights to prevent any issues down the road. Thank you! only (talk) 18:05, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
Archive deletion discussion
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
- [[re:Only}} Unless there's a particularly good reason, your user talk page archives shouldn't have been deleted per WP:DELTALK. I won't undelete until I hear from you that there aren't extenuating circumstances (since you now can't undelete them yourself!). 12-15 years is a good run, thanks and good luck with everything. --Floquenbeam (talk) 18:46, 2 February 2021 (UTC)]
- @Only: Sorry. My continued incompetence regarding pinging (and previewing) is unbearable for myself and everyone else. --Floquenbeam (talk) 18:47, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
- If you must, you must. But I went on the belief that "generally not" means it can happen, and deleted them as to reduce my digital footprint that dates back to 2005. While the archives don't, I believe, reveal personal information, my handles here were doxxed (as were many other admins by internet "sleuths" many years ago) so I delete them as one fewer scrap of connection. only (talk) 18:55, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
- I guess it's not a question of must; if there's even a hint of a privacy question, I'll just defer to the Crats. But I do know that many people use {{db-user}} on their talk pages on their way out, and I've never seen an admin do it for them. Similarly, I've occasionally seen a retiring admin do it, and the pages always get undeleted. Frankly, I think everyone should probably be able to do this, and DELTALK is kind of dumb, but if non-admins aren't allowed to do this, I think an admin doing it for themselves should have a good reason. I'll leave it to the Crats on whether this counts as a good reason or not. --Floquenbeam (talk) 19:01, 2 February 2021 (UTC)]
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- Ugh. I'm not going to take anyone to that cesspit, especially a retiring editor in good standing who put in their 15 years. I know it isn't specifically a Crat issue, but "Crat" is roughly equivalent to "long term editors who are almost universally trusted". I'll just wait to see what happens, and if the deletions stick without anyone else complaining, I'll simply start ignoring DELTALK from now on, and accept any {{db-user}} requests I see on user talk pages of any editors in good standing who are leaving. Either both of us will get away with it, or neither will. I hope we both do. --Floquenbeam (talk) 19:21, 2 February 2021 (UTC)]
- Floq, I had the same thought you did when this first popped up on my watchlist (why is BN on my watchlist again?). Should not have been done per DELTALK, but I am not fighting anyone to reverse it or dragging someone to AN over it. — The Earwig talk 19:29, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
- One of the ways we try to keep BN from becoming a cesspit is by keeping the plumbing working here :) — xaosflux Talk 19:39, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
- I have reversed the deletions as a pseudo-decline of the "U1 request" purely as an admin action (i.e. not acting in any other capacity), as I agree with Floq's assessment. To follow on from xaosflux's comment (re:keeping the noise out of BN), any further discussion can take place at User talk:Primefac since I was the one that made the decision. Primefac (talk) 19:47, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
- One of the ways we try to keep BN from becoming a cesspit is by keeping the plumbing working here :) — xaosflux Talk 19:39, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
- Floq, I had the same thought you did when this first popped up on my watchlist (why is BN on my watchlist again?). Should not have been done per DELTALK, but I am not fighting anyone to reverse it or dragging someone to AN over it. — The Earwig talk 19:29, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
- Ugh. I'm not going to take anyone to that cesspit, especially a retiring editor in good standing who put in their 15 years. I know it isn't specifically a Crat issue, but "Crat" is roughly equivalent to "long term editors who are almost universally trusted". I'll just wait to see what happens, and if the deletions stick without anyone else complaining, I'll simply start ignoring DELTALK from now on, and accept any {{
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- I guess it's not a question of must; if there's even a hint of a privacy question, I'll just defer to the Crats. But I do know that many people use {{
- If you must, you must. But I went on the belief that "generally not" means it can happen, and deleted them as to reduce my digital footprint that dates back to 2005. While the archives don't, I believe, reveal personal information, my handles here were doxxed (as were many other admins by internet "sleuths" many years ago) so I delete them as one fewer scrap of connection. only (talk) 18:55, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Only: Sorry. My continued incompetence regarding pinging (and previewing) is unbearable for myself and everyone else. --Floquenbeam (talk) 18:47, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
Desysop request for Lear's Fool
I've been retired as an editor for a long time and there's no prospect of me returning to regular administrative duties in the near future. Probably time to resign the tools. Lear's Fool (current rights · rights management · rights log (local) · rights log (global/meta) · block log) -- Lear's Fool 00:57, 6 February 2021 (UTC)