Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Clerks
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To help ensure the efficient functioning of the high volume Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents, an informal clerking process has been established.
Services
- Prevent threads from being archived prematurely
- The archive bot automatically archives threads 24 hours after the last comment. To prevent this from happening when a thread has not received enough comments, add a timestamp and request more discussion. In particular, reviews of lengthy community bandiscussions need to have significant, representative participation before they are closed.
- Seek additional comments from uninvolved parties
- If a clique grabs hold of an issue, make a request for additional parties to become involved.
- Remove improper posts
- If sock puppetsof banned users post, identify and delete as necessary.
- Refactor (or collapse) excessively long posts
- Disruptive comments may be refactored, deleted or placed in collapse boxes if they are completely inappropriate. To create a collapse box, use {{hab}} at the bottom.
- Make sure parties are notified
- If you see a thread where an involved party has not appeared, make sure they have been notified.
- Ensure that community bans are logged
- When a community ban discussion has closed, and a ban has been created, archive the thread, and make sure the ban is logged at Wikipedia:List of banned users, with a link to the archived thread.
- Help with technical questions
- For example, clerks may explain to editors how to gather diffsfor presenting evidence.
Code of Conduct
- Do not act as a clerk on any thread where you are an involved party.
- Ensure fairness of process to all concerned.
Appropriate candidates
Any user in good standing, with at least 1,000 edits and no blocks in the past three months. Non-admins are particularly welcome.
Inappropriate candidates
Not everyone will have the diplomatic skills to calm the
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. If a clerk is requested by a number of admins and/or other editors in good standing to refrain from further activity, a gracious acceptance is expected. This does not in any way reflect on their standing in the community or abilities in other areas.
List of volunteer clerks
Any editor in good standing may volunteer to clerk. To indicate your acceptance of the Code of Conduct and to facilitate communication, please add your name to the list. Editors who have not clerked recently may be removed from the list.