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.

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:

Notification templates

Useful template notifications Template Permission {{subst:Account creator granted}} Account creator {{subst:Autopatrolled granted}} Autopatrolled {{subst:Edit filter helper granted}} Edit filter helper {{subst:Edit filter manager granted}} Edit filter manager {{subst:Event coordinator granted}} Event coordinator {{subst:File mover granted}} File mover {{subst:IP block exemption granted}} IP block exemption {{subst:Mass message sender granted}} Mass message sender {{subst:New page reviewer granted}} New page reviewer {{subst:Page mover granted}} Page mover {{subst:Pending changes reviewer granted}} Pending changes reviewer {{subst:Rollback granted 2}} Rollback {{subst:Rollback and reviewer granted}} Rollback and reviewer {{subst:Template editor granted}} Template editor

To respond to the request:

• On the permissions page, mark the request as approved or denied using {{done}} or {{not done}}. Include any relevant rationale for the decision. If the user has withdrawn their request, you can mark it as {{withdrawn}} which will archive as not done. For some permissions, there is a convenient template for canned responses, such as with Confirmed and Rollback.
• User:MusikBot/PermClerk/Archive/Offset hours after the last comment was made, a bot will automatically archive the request. You can force the bot to archive as soon as possible with the code {{User:MusikBot/archivenow}}

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.

When a user has requested revocation of a user right, revoke the right and mark the request as {{done}}, followed by the code {{User:MusikBot/override|d}}. This instructs the bot to archive the request as approved, as otherwise when it comes time to archive the bot will comment saying the user does not have the permission.

To re-open a request, deactivate the resolution template using the code {{tl|template name}}, as with {{done}} or {{not done}}. Strikethroughs like <s>{{done}}</s> will still be registered as resolved by the bot.

Archiving

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.

User:MusikBot/PermClerk/Archive/Offset hours after the last comment was made on a request, 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.

Bot clerking

For convenience, the requests for permissions pages are clerked by User:MusikBot. Here is a list of its tasks: User:MusikBot/PermClerk/Subtasks

If the bot encounters any errors, it will be included in a report along with instructions on how to fix them. This report is transcluded at the top of Wikipedia:Requests for permissions, and shown here for your convenience:

No errors! Report generated at 06:50, 14 May 2025 (UTC)