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Bureaucrat elections records nominations, candidate acceptance, community discussion and decisions. Read Project:User groups and Project:Consensus before nominating.
Role
Bureaucrats manage bounded local appointments, including administrators and approved bots. Only a site operator can implement a bureaucrat appointment. Bureaucrats cannot appoint another bureaucrat or grant interface, privacy or site-operator access.
Start a nomination
Use a subpage named for the candidate and date, for example Candidate name/2026-11. Enter that suffix below. Check the active nominations first to avoid duplicates.
The candidate must accept before discussion starts. A nominator may nominate themself. Describe relevant contributions, judgement, policy knowledge and conflicts. No automatic edit-count qualification or percentage vote threshold applies. Suggest a review date that leaves time for participation, normally at least seven days after acceptance; extend it if participation is insufficient. Reaching that date never appoints anyone or forces closure.
Active nominations
Discussion and decision
Ask questions and give reasoned support, opposition or neutral comments with evidence. Sign comments with four tildes. Do not canvass for a predetermined outcome or create additional accounts to influence discussion. Comment counts do not establish consensus.
An uninvolved bureaucrat or site operator should close administrator nominations; a site operator closes bureaucrat nominations. A closer who is the candidate or nominator must seek independent review. If no eligible uninvolved closer is available, leave the nomination open and ask for assistance on the bureaucrats' board. Explain the consensus, or record no consensus, withdrawal or need for more discussion. Do not infer approval from silence.
The closer sets status=closed in the banner and records a signed rationale. The authorised rights manager performs any agreed change through Special:UserRights and adds the rights-log link to the nomination. The bot only reports dates and maintains archives; it cannot decide elections or grant rights.
Past nominations
Review and resignation
Raise evidence-based concerns or a voluntary resignation at Project:Bureaucrats' noticeboard. An authorised rights manager may remove access where needed and must record a reason. Ask an uninvolved authorised editor to review a disputed outcome. There is no automatic term of office.