[WikiEN-l] new CheckUser proposal up

[Alphax]

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David Gerard wrote:
> We need more people with access to CheckUser, because I don't scale,
> and we're under a nasty vandalbot attack. Proposal at:
> 
<snip>
>     * _You have to pick people you can trust, and then trust them all
> the way._ Various people are going to ask to have this logged seven
> ways to Sunday to protect against possible abuses - but adding red
> tape is just going to be a massive PITA and not actually affect
> whether the CheckUser checker can be trusted to act with confidence.
> Basically, we have to pick people we trust not to use the power for
> evil. Like we do admins and bureaucrats, but more so.

How about Stewards? They can set/remove the admin flag on users across
all projects, so why not let them run IP checks as well?

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