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The following page documents a
Meta-Wiki guideline
It is a generally accepted standard that users should follow, though it should be treated with common sense and the occasional exception.
When editing this page, please ensure that your revision reflects consensus. When in doubt, discuss on the
talk page
Babel
or at
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Policies and guidelines
flood flag
Meta-Wiki's
administrators
may temporarily
give themselves
"flood flag"
when doing repetitive, non-controversial edits or actions to avoid flooding
Special:RecentChanges
and related pages.
When to use the flood flag
edit
Administrators should use the flood flag to avoid flushing other edits and actions from the
RecentChanges
(RC) feed when making repetitive changes. Such actions must never be controversial, as using the flood flag decreases the amount of oversight they may receive. Abuse of the flood flag is treated as abuse of any other administrator tool would be. Examples of acceptable use would be deleting many spambot pages, deleting a large number of pages after consensus has been achieved at
Meta:Requests for deletion
, or blocking many
open proxies
. Unacceptable uses include attempting to circumvent legitimate oversight of any controversial action, whether or not it is an administrator task.
Users may also wish to raise the flood flag when performing log actions on large numbers of usernames that are offensive or libellous (i.e. stewards locking/hiding global accounts, administrators performing local blocks and so on).
In some cases, a bureaucrat may remove the flood flag to force an administrator's edits to appear in RC. This should be done in cases where the administrator has forgotten to remove it, or when the changes should be seen by default in RC.
The flood flag is set and removed using
Special:UserRights
Granting the flood flag is
logged
, and shown in
recent changes
. Administrators who abuse their admin rights (now including the flood flag) should be sanctioned.
Flood flag or bot flag?
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This is intended to replace requesting temporary bot flags from bureaucrats. Administrators who would otherwise request a temp bot flag may simply flag themselves using the flood right.
Cases where a permanent bot flag should be given remain the same—the administrator should create a secondary account and request a bot flag as normal. Only temporary bot flags are replaced with this flood flag.
See also
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Bot policy
Meta:Administrators
Flooder
List "flood"
User groups
Local
groups
On Meta
Without global effects
Account creators
Autopatrollers
Bots
Bureaucrats
CheckUsers
Community Wishlist managers
Confirmed users
Event organizers
Flood flag
Importers
IP block exemptions
Users blocked from the IP Information tool
Oversighters
Patrollers
Transwiki importers
Temporary account IP viewers
Uploaders
With global effects
Administrators
Central notice administrators
Global renamers
Interface administrators
MassMessage senders
OAuth administrators
Push subscription managers
Translation administrators
WMF Office IT
WMF Trust and Safety
On some wikis
Uploaders
Autopatrollers
Patrollers
Reviewers
Rollbackers
Autochecked users
Extended confirmed users
File movers
Interface editors
Abuse filter editors
Template editors
Eliminators
Translation administrators
MassMessage senders
Arbitration committee members
Extended movers
Bots with administrator rights
Flooders
Curators
Election clerks
On one wiki
(except Meta)
Noratelimit accounts
Engineers
Upload Wizard campaign editors
Image reviewers
Test wiki administrators
Property creators
Wikidata staff
Researchers
IP block exemption grantors
Movers
Functioneers
Maintainers
Wikifunctions staff
On all wikis
Blocked users
Unregistered users
Newly-registered users
Registered users
Confirmed users
Autoconfirmed users
Account creators
Bots
Administrators
Interface administrators
Bureaucrats
Oversighters
CheckUsers
IP block exemptions
Importers
Transwiki importers
Temporary account IP viewers
Users blocked from the IP Information tool
Structured Discussions bots
Historical groups
Extended uploaders
Course coordinators, Instructors, Online volunteers and Campus volunteers
ZeroRatedMobileAccess administrators
WMF ops monitoring
GWToolset users
Global
groups
Locked accounts
Unified accounts
Abuse filter helpers
Abuse filter maintainers
API high limit requestors
CAPTCHA exemptions
Founder
Global bots
Global deleters
Global Flow creators
Global interface editors
Global IP block exemptions
Global rollbackers
Global sysops
Global temporary account IP viewers
New wikis importers
Ombuds
Recursive export
Staff
Stewards
System administrators
U4C members
VRT permissions agents
wmf-email-block-override
WMF researchers
Links in
italic
are separate account statuses that are not assigned through user groups.
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