[Foundation-l] Stewards are ignoring requests for CheckUser information?

[Robert Scott Horning]

Essjay wrote:

>Perhaps this would be an appropriate time to say "Maybe we could use a 
>couple more stewards?"
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>Essjay
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Or perhaps the minimum requirement for the number of votes for users to 
get checkuser status on smaller projects like en.wikibooks is 
unreasonable?  We have had a couple of candidates for checkuser status 
for almost two months now, and we simply can't get the number of votes 
necessary because of the size of our active user base.  Yet we are the 
target of repeated vandalism, and even sockpuppet voting from die-hard 
sock puppets.  If the concern is that checkuser privileges are going to 
be abused, it is a smaller user base that can be abused.

Should projects be allowed to set their own standards for people with 
this status, or is it something that is imutable and only set by the 
Foundation board?  So far, only Wikipedias are seemingly allowed to have 
somebody with checkuser status at all.  And if stewards are overwhelmed 
with this task of dealing with checkuser scans, perhaps the policy needs 
to be reviewed.

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Robert Scott Horning