Wiktionary:Votes/cu-2025-04/User:Surjection for checkuser

Nomination: I hereby nominate Surjection (talk • contribs) as a local English Wiktionary CheckUser. He is one of our most active and trusted contributors serving as administrator and bureaucrat from many years. He is a very prolific contributor with an incredible amount of experience in the field of patrolling and combating vandalism. He has also made a large number of checkuser investigation requests at WT:RFCU. Along with that, his availability, responsiveness and swiftness to act is also notable.

Rationale: Relevant parts of global CheckUser policy:

On any wiki, there must be at least two users with CheckUser status, or none at all. This is so that they can mutually control and confirm their actions. In the case where only one CheckUser is left on a wiki (when the only other one retires, or is removed), the community must appoint a new CheckUser immediately (so that the number of CheckUsers is at least two).

Any user account with CheckUser status that is inactive for more than one year will have their CheckUser access removed.

We currently have only two checkusers – Chuck Entz and TheDaveRoss; however, TheDaveRoss has been inactive from January 2024, which has been longer than one year. To continue having checkusers, a new checkuser must be elected per the above. Additionally, Surjection is hands down the best candidate for a new checkuser and who would make good use of the tools in making his administratorial and patrolling works more efficient.

Schedule:

• Vote starts: 18:06, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
• Vote ends: 18:06, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
• Vote created: Svārtava (tɕ) 18:06, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

Acceptance:

• With the stipulation that I will abort the CheckUser process if they require me to submit personal information, as I am not willing to do so. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 18:15, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

  For transparency, I'll clarify here what I wrote to Surjection before creating this vote: per foundation:Legal:Wikimedia Foundation Confidentiality Agreement for Nonpublic Information/How to sign and foundation:Policy:Wikimedia Foundation Access to Nonpublic Personal Data Policy#identification, nowadays the only requirement is to agree to confidentiality/privacy agreement via Phabricator (phab:L37). However, it is true that earlier, submitting personal information was a requirement per m:Identification noticeboard/old and foundation:Archive:Access to nonpublic data policy. This could be verified from stewards who grant checkuser rights. Svārtava (tɕ) 18:23, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

1. Strong support as nominator. Svārtava (tɕ) 18:27, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
2. Strong support active and definitely entitled. Chihunglu83 (talk) 03:23, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
3. Support, I think our best candidate. Vininn126 (talk) 06:47, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
4. Support, as Surjection is a highly active and competent editor and admin already. --Overlordnat1 (talk) 07:19, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
5. Support Mölli-Möllerö (talk) 07:31, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
6. Support Alfarizi M (talk) 11:16, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
7. Support AG202 (talk) 12:34, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
8. Support, --Robbie SWE (talk) 18:51, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
9. Support Benwing2 (talk) 19:35, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
10. Strong support Highly trusted & respected. I have no reservations whatsoever. Megathonic (talk) 02:04, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
11. Support --Vahag (talk) 11:41, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
12. Support I have observed his commitment. Fay Freak (talk) 11:58, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
13. Support Catonif (talk) 12:12, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
14. Support Davi6596 (talk) 13:08, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
15. Support — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 18:30, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
16. Support Илья А. Латушкин (talk) 20:20, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
17. Support — Fenakhay ^{(حيطي · مساهماتي)} 07:48, 30 April 2025 (UTC)
18. Support tbm (talk) 08:19, 30 April 2025 (UTC)
19. Support wholeheartedly Thadh (talk) 21:17, 30 April 2025 (UTC)
20. Support, the perfect candidate for this position, a trusted active user who has already been doing CU-adjacent work (identifying socks). - -sche (discuss) 22:26, 30 April 2025 (UTC)
21. Support —Fish bowl (talk) 08:36, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
22. Support – genuinely the GOAT. LunaEatsTuna (talk) 23:32, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
23. Support. Imetsia (talk (more)) 16:04, 6 May 2025 (UTC)
24. Support Saumache (talk) 7:15, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

    Support--Cactusisme (talk) 12:46, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

    Not eligible to vote — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 13:01, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

25. Support because of Special:Diff/84756602. 0DF (talk) 23:52, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
26. Support always good to have checkusers on hand. Schützenpanzer (talk) 16:43, 12 May 2025 (UTC)
27. Support. J3133 (talk) 07:34, 15 May 2025 (UTC)
28. Support John Cross (talk) 17:27, 15 May 2025 (UTC)
29. Support — BABR・talk 01:36, 18 May 2025 (UTC)
30. Support Wait, there a things you can't do as an admin?! Tc14Hd (aka Marc) (talk) 06:46, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
31. Support Polomo47 (talk) 13:02, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
32. Support – wpi (talk) 18:16, 23 May 2025 (UTC)
33. Support PUC – 13:05, 25 May 2025 (UTC)
34. Support trusted user who has shown good judgement in my experience. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:51, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

1. Oppose. ɶLerman (talk) 11:39, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

1. Abstain. Some dubious entries slip through the admin net whether there are checkusers or not. There must be some days when all the admins are asleep. DonnanZ (talk) 16:48, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

• Passes: 34-1-1. @Surjection: Please sign phab:L37 and request checkuser rights at m:SRP. Congratulations! Svārtava (tɕ) 18:07, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

  phab:L37 requires me to follow the Wikimedia Foundation Access to Nonpublic Personal Data Policy, which in turn says:

  (a) Minimum age. Access to nonpublic information requires maturity because of the significant responsibilities that come along with confidentiality obligations. For this reason, any community member who applies for access rights must:

  • be at least eighteen (18) years of age, except email response team members who must be at least sixteen (16) years of age; and
  • must certify to the Wikimedia Foundation that they meet the minimum age required for the rights they are applying for.

  I do not see how the latter can be implemented in practice without me sharing my ID or passport with the Foundation, which as I have already stated I am not willing to do (since I would disclose my identity in the process), so it is unlikely I will be able to proceed with the process. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 18:31, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

  @Surjection: I noticed that as well, however, as per a steward (who grant checkuser rights), sharing ID or proof for minimum age is not actually required. I mentioned this when talking to you before this vote as well, and you are free to verify it, for example, at m:Stewards' noticeboard. Svārtava (tɕ) 18:34, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

  Looks like Surjection has been added to nonpublic information noticeboard. Does that mean the stewards can act upon it now? — Naomi Amethyst 21:40, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

  He’s not yet listed on Wiktionary:CheckUsers, so the stewards need to up their game! Overlordnat1 (talk) 23:05, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

  And it's done now! – Svārtava (tɕ) 13:25, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

  👍 Overlordnat1 (talk) 18:48, 2 June 2025 (UTC)