User:Samwalton9/Vanish RfC

Background
Harassment is an important problem on Wikipedia that we should be doing more to address. During their efforts working on anti-vandalism administrators are often subject to varying levels of harassment, usually becoming the primary target of blocked editors. Sometimes, administrators are harassed to such a degree that they are forced to undergo a clean start. We currently have no policy for how to handle this; these users are already trusted by the community to use the tools, but cannot publicly link themselves to their old account in order to regain them. While they could undergo a fresh request for adminship (privately disclosing their old account at the time of running), this might (currently) require them to wait another 1-2 years before they can get back to work.

To quote Newyorkbrad from a previous discussion: "Several administrators have been victimized by depraved levels of real-world harassment and trolling of themselves and in some cases members of their families, typically in retaliation for administrator actions they have taken as part of their duties for the benefit of Wikipedia. Many times we lose the editing and administrator services of these victimized editors permanently. When an admin who has been through this is willing to continue adminship under a new username, this should be allowed to occur."

Around ten years ago, Administrators had a passage which stated:"If you have exercised your right to vanish, and return under a new name, your new name can request administrator access by contacting a bureaucrat privately and producing satisfactory evidence of being the same user, provided you did not originally request desysopping under controversial circumstances. This will not guarantee privacy, however, as new accounts which are granted sysop rights without an RfA tend to attract attention and speculation." A couple of major discussions took place regarding this section; WT:RFA#Reinstatement of Admin Rights After Their Right to Vanish in 2007 and WT:RFA#Admins and the right to vanish at the beginning of 2008. The passage was removed by Naerii in 2008, without any corresponding discussion or consensus to do so as far as I can tell. Now, Wikipedia:Clean start has some advice regarding running at WP:RFA, but I can't see that any information about re-adminship on a clean start is written anywhere.

Suggested proposal
I propose reinstating a passage similar to that which was previously present in Administrators (see above) regarding the re-sysopping of administrators who have undergone a clean start. I'm proposing a different wording, to make the paragraph more succinct and up to date.

If an administrator has undergone a clean start, and returned under a new username, their new account can request administrator access by contacting a bureaucrat privately and producing satisfactory evidence of being the same user, provided they did not originally request desysopping under controversial circumstances.

Should this passage be added to Administrators?