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[edit] Confusing
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The following text:
If you are a new user seeking to create an account on Wikipedia, please make sure your desired name is not displayed after searching for it below before emailing unblock-en-l@lists.wikimedia.org
is very confusing. It gives the impression that you have to email a mailing list in order to create an account, which is completely untrue. I realize that users who have been blocked from account creation are directed there to ask for an account, but the distinction could be made more clear – 86.140.176.154 12:51, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Removal of sentence
Just for clarification, I've removed the last line that read "User groups, particularly "developer", may contain omissions or inaccuracies." I had added it about a month ago when I was worried that people might interpret the user lists to be entirely accurate and/or up to date. The "developer" user group has subsequently been removed (it was rather obsolete) and I felt leaving the line in their would now promote confusion, as, for the most part, the lists are entirely accurate, especially things like Special:Listadmins. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 03:06, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Small change
beside their names within brackets.
The word "brackets" should be "parenthesis". --Charitwo talk 19:58, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
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- Parentheses (singular parenthesis)—sometimes called round brackets, curved brackets, oval brackets, or just brackets; or, colloquially, parens, or fingernails— contain material that could be omitted without destroying or altering the meaning of a sentence.
[edit] Patrial revert
There are no "local stewards." As such, listing the user right seems rather silly. Also, all of the groups use one-word nouns, using "rollback privileges" seems awkward. Using a show/hide box that has an awkward expand is just silly. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 00:34, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] ipblock-exempt and accountcreator
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Can these be added, or wait until pages are made for them? --Charitwo talk 00:12, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Rarer examples
I don't think this needs to be an all-inclusive list. I note that developer and founder (and importer, and...) weren't listed, for example.
As such I've removed most of the examples. Leaving rollbacker as an example of an individually added userright, as well as bots, admins and bureaucrats; all the more commonly known/used userrights. - jc37 21:58, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
- You could probably leave oversight and checkuser, as people have a genuine need to contact these people privately and searching the userlist is the normal way. Thoughts? - Alison ❤ 22:02, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
- I had already restored checkuser.
- I don't know about oversight, as it's rare, and really a more "hidden" action (as per its intent, I presume). But if you still feel that it should be, feel free to add it. - jc37 22:09, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
- You know, there's already a link to Wikipedia:User access levels. Maybe we should remove all the examples, to highlight that page as it describes each in a much better fashion. - jc37 22:11, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
