User:ToBeFree/Admin sandbox

What if everyone could use administrator tools in a sandbox, affecting nobody while publicly logging their actions?

What if RfA candidates could be judged not only by their requests for action, but actually by their actions?

What if there was some kind of non-destructive, non-dangerous "trial adminship" that allowed candidates to prove that they have a clue?

Because there is no script, no template and no standardized process to help with this task, it will be time-consuming and relatively inefficient. I'll try this anyway.

Rules
Maybe especially on weekends, when neither vandalism nor administrator actions are frequent, and when there is a large backlog at RfPP, AIV and UAA, I will be working through the logs from the bottom to the top. If an administrator is simultaneously processing the log, I will still be able to do this for a few minutes. The problem is that, without a script to assist me, I will always be slower than an actual administrator at work. If I decide to "block" a user, they might already be blocked before I can add my "action" to the table below. A reader could then say: "You didn't do this yourself, you just copied an administrator's actions."

For this reason, whenever I am coincidentally slower than a real administrator, the table entry below is invalid. To avoid an unfair negative bias on the statistic, this applies to all table entries, not just the "green" ones.

I have modified my Wikipedia preferences to display ISO 8601 dates with seconds instead of the default dates. You can do the same thing to verify that my sandbox action happened before the administrator action.

Possible actions when viewing a log
An administrator can...


 * Accept,
 * Ignore or
 * Decline

...a request for administrator action. As an inexperienced, new administrator, it is probably best to avoid declining requests. It requires a lot of experience to be able to say "nobody will do this". For this reason, you will see few "decline" entries in the table below. However, to learn from these cases, I will add "Ignore" entries to the table if I closely looked at a request and carefully chose not to take any action. When this happens, I will try to explain the reason for ignoring the request.

Legend

 * Yes_check.svg Green action: After my sandbox action, an administrator has actually done the same thing. This also applies to blocks and protections if the administrator has chosen a longer duration than me.
 * Yellow_check.svg Yellow action: After my sandbox action, an administrator has done nearly the same thing. They have, however, chosen a shorter duration for the block or protection. This means that I have been suggesting an action that was unnecessarily strong.
 * Orange_x.svg Orange action: After my sandbox block, SQLBot has removed the request as "stale". This should not happen.


 * Stop_hand_nuvola.svg Red action: Instead of erring on the side of caution, I did something that an administrator has declined. This must not happen.

My performance


I sincerly hope that this will not end up with a horrible amount of red entries. Now that the page exists, I can't really go back. This feels like standing on a 10m springboard with a queue behind me. This is a good thing, but I'm nervous!

AIV
Administrator intervention against vandalism. This is about preventing further vandalism, not punishing a user for past vandalism. For this reason, if there is a large time difference between my "action" and the actual action, an administrator may decline a request that would have been valid before.

Show last 5000 edits to AIV

RfPP
Requests for page protection. Semi-protection for persistently vandalized pages or targets of frequent disruption, like WP:BLP violations. Full protection to stop active edit wars between autoconfirmed editors. I will probably not be applying "extended confirmed protection" (ECP) to any page, because it is a minefield: Even where it is required to stop disruption, there will be a large amount of false-positive edit denials. How is a user supposed to reach 500 edits if all the interesting topics are locked away from them? Have you ever been told "you're too young for that yet" as a child, and how did that feel?