Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Make userrights self-sufficient

Addendum (March 2013) : As per this declaration, the WMF requires a RFA or RFA-identical process for being granted rights with access to deleted revisions, including explicitly OS and implicitly CU.

In view of the fact that adminship is not presently a social requirement for higher privileges such as CheckUser, Oversight, and Bureaucrat, it is proposed that these user groups be made self-sufficient by adding certain rights (currently found in the administrative toolset) to each bundle.

This discussion is intended to focus on addressing the technical limitations present in the current makeup of user groups/rights. The related question - whether the administrator privilege should be a social requirement for such privileges - is being discussed elsewhere, and carrying out this technical change would not preclude the ability of the community to implement such a requirement if consensus were found for the same.

Discussion initiated by –xenotalk 15:13, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]