Abstract Wikipedia:Requests for permissions

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Administrator: Bunnypranav

Hello folks! I would like to request administrator to be able to help out with deletion, respond to vandalism, and assist with any other administrative tasks. I currently serve as a sysop on Wikifunctions, a sister project intricately linked to this wiki. I actively respond to deletion requests there. While I haven't created many pages here, the administrative skills required overlap significantly with that of Wikifunctions. Thank you for your time and consideration! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 08:23, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

I'm not going to !vote yet. I trust you, I know that you know how to use the tools, and I would really like a local admin, but I'd be more comfortable supporting if you had more local edits (than 12) to show that you can exercise good judgement on this project specifically. You still have 6 days!

I'm also not sure about the assertion that "the administrative skills required overlap significantly with that of Wikifunctions". Of course, the skills necessary to be a sysop on any Wikimedia (or, really, MediaWiki) project overlap heavily, but I'd argue that Abstract Wikipedia is closer to concrete Wikipedias in deletion (often notability and spam/vandalism) than Wikifunctions (often author request and lack of use).

Optional question in this regard: of the three requests currently on Abstract:RFD, open and closed, what would you do (or have done) with them as sysop if you had to make a decision without factoring in the existing comments?

Thanks, Feeglgeef (talk) 02:29, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your trust, and for taking the time to give me feedback. I agree that my current contribution is pretty limited for a sysop role in any regular wiki, and I understand if the community cannot trust me with these privileges. You are right in saying that Abstract Wikipedia is closer to other content wikis in terms of notability policies, since this hosts textual encyclopedic content at the end of the day (from a readers perspective at least). My initial statement was based on, in addition to general familiarity of sysop tools in MediaWiki systems, the similarity in the terms structure of pages. The system of functions, function calls, arguments, and other related features through the extension WikiLambda is the overlap I referred to. While not an excuse for the lesser number of edits in this wiki, I have gained a lot of experience in general notability and vandalism policies though my significant contributions in enwiki (non-wiki specific, not Abs. wiki specific, I know). Basically, this is to say I am not completely unaware about how content-related deletions take place.

I would be happy to answer your optional question, any any follow ups you or others may have. However, I would like to say that for any non-emergency or non-spam deletion requests, which include the first and second request currently at RFD, I would never choose to make a decision without waiting for other user comments. Consensus runs in the DNA and blood of our wikis, and there is no need to ever not factor that in. In order of the requests (from permalink)

1. This is of course the more harder request to evaluate comparatively. As said before, I would not like to proceed towards an outcome without hearing some other voices at RfD. Afterall, that is the point of deletion venues. Based on the proposed notability guideline, they do seem to be on the borderline, and leaning more towards a no, but I would not choose to make a decision without at least some amount of community input.
2. I would close this as deleted, since it does not seem to add any encyclopedic value in its current form of an article about an internal category. The deletion reason proposed by Ameisenigel seems pretty self explanatory.
3. Note: I cannot see the now-deleted pages Since this looks like a simple vandalism related deletion request, if the pages in question were actually clear pages of spam, which I would assume them to be since they were already deleted by a global sysop, I would also delete them and issue a block without waiting for any other user comments.

Thank you once again for your time! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 06:35, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

 Weak support three or six months, thank you for your detailed answers. We'll hopefully have a chance to review sysopship in a few months anyway. My experience is that, as you mentioned, you respect consensus well and don't take bold actions that are likely to be controversial. Feeglgeef (talk) 18:58, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

 Support term-limited adminship. You have the right temperament and approach, and familiarity with the underlying project and aims helps a lot at this stage. --99of9 (talk) 00:43, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

 Support per above --Ameisenigel (talk) 18:04, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

Closed as successful, 3  Support 0  Oppose. Feeglgeef (talk) 00:24, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

Administrator: 99of9

It looks like we are now in need of more administrative effort. We need to clean up some of our experiments, because outsiders are starting to judge the future viability of the project based on our current outputs. I believe my contributions show that I have the knowledge and temperament to do this. Any current users likely already know me. But if not, I'm Toby, from Q3130, I'm a chemistry academic with research interests in computer simulation of materials and educational technology. I've been contributing to Wikimedia projects fairly regularly for almost 22 years. For the last 1000 days, much of it has been on Wikifunctions. So I've likely had a hand in many of the functions used here. I'm also involved in English Wikipedia, Commons and Wikidata. I hold or have held various advanced rights (admin/bureaucrat/...) on some of those projects. Feel free to ask questions. --99of9 (talk) 06:51, 17 July 2026 (UTC)

 Strong support Super qualified ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:40, 17 July 2026 (UTC)

 Support Higa4 (talk) 00:12, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

 Strong support EatingCarBatteries (talk) 03:32, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

 Strong support HenkvD (talk) 07:05, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

 Support --Ameisenigel (talk) 08:13, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

 Support A trusted and diligent member of the community, I fully support the request. --Denny (talk) 13:00, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

 Support obviously. Feeglgeef (talk) 18:28, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

 Support VIGNERON (talk) 08:34, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

 Support definitely. Jianhui67 (talk) 05:06, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

Closed as successful, 9  Support, 0  Oppose ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 12:47, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

See also

• Abstract Wikipedia:User groups
  • Special:ListGroupRights for the listing of rights per user group