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Requests for permissions (RFP) is the process by which the Wikinews community decides which users can have access to the administrator, bureaucrat, checkuser, and oversight permissions.

• Users can submit their own requests (self-nomination), or
• Other users can nominate a candidate.

I	Please read the policy before making a request for permissions. See also the global permissions policy. Previous requests have been archived, and contain some common questions, comments, and objections made during the process.
II	Create your request for permission: Add your username in the box in the relevant section below and click the button. Complete the questions on the resulting page and save it. Transclude your request page at the foot of the relevant section by adding the title of your request page, enclosed by curly brackets e.g.: {{Wikinews:Requests for permissions/Administrator/YourUsername}} Then inform the Wikinews community of your request.
III	Questions You may be asked questions by other users so they can review your request. Please try to provide full answers.
IV	Community decision The request must remain open for at least one or two weeks (depending on the permission sought). A bureaucrat will close the request and will also grant the appropriate flag, if the minimum criteria have been met. For CheckUser or Oversight, the bureaucrat will request the flag at Meta. Closed requests are moved to the Archives.

Administrator

Md Mobashir Hossain

Hello! I would like to nominate myself for the role of sysop on English Wikinews. I am an experienced contributor, particularly on Bengali Wikinews, where I have made over 1,000 edits. In addition, I am also active as an editor on English Wikinews. I am genuinely enthusiastic about contributing to this project and would be honored to take on more responsibility. I hope the community will consider giving me the opportunity to serve as a sysop. Md Mobashir Hossain (talk) 12:14, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

Stats

• Links for Md Mobashir Hossain: Md Mobashir Hossain (talk · contribs · deleted · count · logs · block log · review log · lu)

Questions and comments

• Comment Md Mobashir Hossain has been active on English Wikinews for just over three months and as of this comment, has made 139 edits to English Wikinews. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Reviewer) 14:52, 12 May 2025 (UTC)
• Question Md Mobashir Hossain, this is a three-part question: what do you see as the current need for an additional administrator on English Wikinews? What do you consider the most important responsibilities of an administrator? And why are you seeking adminship here rather than on Bengali Wikinews, where you have more experience? —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Reviewer) 14:52, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

  @Michael.C.Wright I am responding to the last point. I do not wish to become an admin of bnwikinews because it is not an active project, and Asked42 is ok for this project. I believe that an admin should be both an anti-vandal and an active contributor. Finally, we do need more admins, as currently only 3 to 5 are active in this project. Note: Some times we need global sysop for doing anti vandal works Md Mobashir Hossain (talk) 15:01, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

• Comment I am also an anti vandal and I am contributing as an anti vandal at English Wikinews.Md Mobashir Hossain (talk) 15:08, 12 May 2025 (UTC)
• Comment Hi @George Ho @Wikiwide @BigKrow @Lofi Gurl @Back ache @Md Mobashir Hossain @Almondo2025, @Dsuke1998AEOS, @Ternera, @Monsieur2137 @Asked42, @Sheminghui.WU, @excelblue (if you want yourself removed or someone else added to this list, please inquire here) A revision has been requested. Here is a list of what to do. (If/when you intend to start working on it, please Subscribe to this section and to this talk page, and post reply messages here when you started and finished editing) See below:

1. Comment or Vote here.
2. Ask question for clarify.

Votes

• Oppose In my opinion he needs more experience in enwikinews. R1F4T (talk) 15:31, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

  Hey, @R1F4T. Is experience is everything for a sysop? You should read the Wikinews:Administrators page. Md Mobashir Hossain (talk) 14:08, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

  @Md Mobashir Hossain not only you have less experience in enwikinews but also I doubt you can't apply the terms and policys in an unbiased way.

  This is totally my personal opinion. R1F4T (talk) 14:14, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

  @R1F4T Oh! No problem. Thanks for volunteering! Md Mobashir Hossain (talk) 14:15, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

  @BigKrow Am I a sock? What you are saying! It can not be a reason! Md Mobashir Hossain (talk) 04:51, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

  @BigKrow You are saying that my wrong is I am a Bangladeshi!!! Md Mobashir Hossain (talk) 10:30, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

  Why are you attacking me? I just said Bangla accounts are suspicious. @Md Mobashir Hossain BigKrow (talk) 21:24, 17 July 2025 (UTC)

  @BigKrow I am not attacking you! Why I will attack you? I have just said that It can not be a reasong that I am a Bangladeshi. And I am not a sock! Md Mobashir Hossain (talk) 07:56, 18 July 2025 (UTC)

• Oppose Blocked on bnwiki for violating Wikipedia's Etiquette guidelines. So it’s a no from me, an administrator's behaviour should be polite. You should improve your behaviour and reapply later. Tanbiruzzaman (talk) 05:08, 4 September 2025 (UTC)
• Oppose per Tanbiruzzaman. --SHB2000 (talk) 08:37, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

  Support requesting to connect on some platform for training i.e. irc, discord, telegram, matrix, xmpp, or some other. Gryllida 19:04, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

  CommentThat is not a terrible idea -- but can we give it a small amount of additional time, please? I just want to see what he's done around here over the past few months. Just a little more time.--Bddpaux (talk) 21:05, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

  I agree with @Bddpaux BigKrow (talk) 21:15, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

Koavf

(When I went to nominate Koavf for adminship, I opened my mouth and couldn't close it for two minutes. The form loaded on my smartphone and wouldn't let me type my nomination request. I believe the candidate possesses a talent to get things going properly; if it is needed to burn some javascript or networking issues with fire, I have confidence that Koavf is able to do so.) From my point of view, Koavf has shown a reasonable understanding of the project policies, technicalities and is an excellent communicator. I trust that Koavf is willing and capable of supporting the project from administrative side, both for page content administering, taking protected requests, and other tasks. May the force be with you, Koavf. --Gryllida 21:49, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Stats

• Links for Koavf: Koavf (talk · contribs · deleted · count · logs · block log · review log · lu)

Questions and comments

• Comment I accept the nomination and I am happy to help the community however I can. I have advanced user rights on several WMF wikis, am a generally trusted contributor for over 20 years, and have written a handful of front-page pieces here, including some with original reporting. I would look to fight vandalism, maintain the infrastructure, and be of service for requests. As G mentioned, I also have some competence at CSS/JavaScript/Lua/MediaWiki, so I can sometimes help with those issues. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:55, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

  Question: Will you try to write some news articles? Thank you. @Koavf BigKrow (talk) 00:32, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

  I reckon, but I imagine that it will only be a few here and there, which is similar to how I have written in the past. Being an admin will encourage me to generally be more active on the site and I do actually have two interviews recorded that I have yet to publish, so I have some original reporting in the chamber. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:44, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Votes

• Support as nominator. Gryllida 21:49, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

  Support BigKrow (talk) 00:31, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

• Support -- Asked42 (talk) 15:41, 9 October 2025 (UTC)
• Support Jianhui67 (talk) 04:18, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

CheckUser and Oversight

To add a nomination for CheckUser

To add a nomination for Oversight

Removal

• {{Remove}} means "support removal of permission".
• {{Keep}} means "keep permission".

ShakataGaNai (talk · contribs) — removal

This user's last edit was on 25 Aug 2023, as per WN:PeP their administrator rights should be removed now. -- Tanbiruzzaman (talk) 16:04, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

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• Links for ShakataGaNai: ShakataGaNai (talk · contribs · deleted · count · logs · block log · review log · lu)

TUFKAAP (talk · contribs) — removal

This user's last edit was on 28 Aug 2023, as per WN:PeP their administrator rights should be removed now. -- Tanbiruzzaman (talk) 16:07, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

Stats

• Links for TUFKAAP: TUFKAAP (talk · contribs · deleted · count · logs · block log · review log · lu)

Votes

• Support…removal of privs.—Bddpaux (talk) 19:20, 12 November 2025 (UTC)