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It is 16:25:10 on June 8, 2025, according to the server's time and date.

Cecropia returns

Hi, everyone! Yes, it's me, Cecropia. I seem to have popped up again just two days after Will sent me a notice that I have de-bureaucratized. To fill you in briefly, six years ago I went on hiatus for "personal reasons"; the reason being that after a short retirement I had to go back to work full-time, which I am still doing. Yes, someone once referred to me as "Old Man Cecropia"--it was in reference to my having posted information about Death Cab for Cutie and I was referring to the Bonzo Dog song, not the current band. And anyway, I am somewhat old, especially for a moth--but I'm still flapping. I hadn't posted lately because I forgot my password and since the email address I used is no longer current, I considered getting in touch with some of the other olde bureaucrats, but I decided to try to try just about every password I've used, and I finally hit it on about the 10th try and a lot of typing in bizarre words to prove I'm not a bot.
Anyway, special thanks to Will for the very special and very kind words. It's wonderful to be remembered well after so many years. Now, please let me know what I need to do to regain the esteemed and honorable title of Bureaucrat. Cheers, Cecropia (talk) 15:23, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

I'll take that as a formal request to regain the tools. We wait 24 hours before restoring them, in case someone wishes to present reasons that they should not be returned. Please clarify if you'd like admin rights returned, too. Great to have you back. --Dweller (talk) 15:30, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Hi Dweller. I can't imagine Bureaucrat rights without Admin rights; so yes, please. -- Cecropia (talk) 15:36, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

 Done. Welcome back. I've returned the (briefly) removed permissions. WJBscribe (talk) 13:47, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, Will! -- Cecropia (talk) 14:22, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Welcome back! --Ixfd64 (talk) 17:26, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Welcome! Please get to work - we have backlogs! Just kidding, go pay the bills, and do so knowing that you have a few extra bits in the user roles table. Andrevan@ 07:41, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks guys! Andrevan, I really do want to resume duties; I know a lot of water has gone under the bridge (and over the flood gates) so I'll be looking at where policy has gone since I last helped tend the ol' Wikifarm. -- Cheers, Cecropia (talk) 17:35, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Usurpations of usernames changing or going away 15 September 2014

 Note: Due to the local rename facility being removed from the bureaucrat usergroup, the ability for bureaucrats to execute a "WP:USURP" of a local unattached account will be going away 15 September 2014.

Perhaps stewards will still process requests if it meets local criteria in the interim until accounts are fully globalized. It is presently unclear what the global usurpation policy will look like post-SUL finalization.

If you had been considering usurping a local username, you must file a request immediately in order to be given consideration before requests can no longer be processed locally. –xeno^talk 21:56, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Should we put some type of note at the top of WP:CHUU that people should go to meta:SRUC from now on? MBisanz ^talk 01:14, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Stewards might not know our guidelines on granting usurpation requests so it's probably best if we just proxy requests over until finalization happens and our global renamers can handle it. –xeno^talk 01:46, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

It would be entirely acceptable for bureaucrats to continue to handle the usurpation requests, getting stewards to perform the technical actions as needed. Just ping us on IRC or use the m:SRM page; whichever is more convenient. Hopefully finalization will follow in short order so this is no longer a problem :) Ajraddatz (Talk) 04:18, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

So, errrr....do we have an unblock accept template that needs to be modified? the panda ɛˢˡ” 17:48, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Well, considering that an unblock on en is now irrelevant to a name change, it's probably more than the accept template that should be changed. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 17:55, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Users can still request renaming at the usual venues, it will simply be performed by a bureaucrat who is a global renamer. Blocked users could, of course, request renaming at m:SRUC while blocked here, but having enforcement send users to a different project that isn't as familiar with local username policies isn't a good idea, so I wouldn't recommend putting such advice in the template. –xeno^talk 18:56, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Decrat

Hey, all, I wasn't going to post anything here, as this isn't really a thing I wanted to make a fuss over. But Dweller asked me to put something up here, and I guess it makes sense. Anyway, I resigned my 'crat bit today. It's nothing dramatic, really; I'm not using the 'crat bit for much of anything these days, and once the 15th rolls around, it'll be even less likely. Closing RfAs sucks, and I hate it, and I don't want to do it anymore, so without renaming, there's not much left to do. So, I figure there's no point in having a tool I don't use. I have to admit, resigning this particular bit did cause a little pang, which is all the more reason it should be given up, really; I strongly believe that tools like these are just that: tools. They're not positions of authority for me to preserve and defend to the death. After all, you don't get emotionally attached to a wrench, nor do you have second thoughts about putting it back in the attic.

Handsome crat fez

As I said in my RfB, I won't ask for reinstatement of 'cratship without another RfB, and I'm going to hold myself to that. I doubt it'll come up. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 18:56, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

I'm sorry to lose you as a 'crat, WK. You were a good one, and your sensible commentary has impressed me on many occasions. 28bytes (talk) 19:23, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

I've always wanted to be a bureaucrat purely in the sense that it's a great title. ("So, you edit Wikipedia? What do you do there?" — "I'm a bureaucrat". Listen to the stunned silence.) And the crat fez is prettier than the rather ordinary-looking admin fez, too. But I can't say I'd like to have to do any of the bureaucrat tasks. Welcome back to middle management, Writ Keeper. Bishonen | talk 20:30, 10 September 2014 (UTC).