As a smaller community, English Wikinews generally struggles to meet minimum voter participation requirements, sensibly, imposed by the WMF.
One of our other CheckUsers has recently retired due to other commitments, leading to Tom Morris suggesting he add 'Deerstalker and Digital Magnifying-Glass' to his admin Mop 'n' Bucket.
I'm not canvassing on Tom's behalf, but would appreciate if those who know him would take the time to review the request. Suffrage for voting on CheckUser rights, due to the nature of the task, is based on activity across all WMF projects.
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Requests_for_permissions#Tom_Morris_.2...
Brian McNeil