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Only bureaucrats should be able to grant the "eliminator" right
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In T87558 a new eliminator group was created in FA WP with rights that are more or less a limited version of what sysops can do. People are elected for this role by vote, and the right is granted by bureaucrats.

In the original request it was asked to also allow botadmins to grant this right. I am not sure why this why requested (perhaps the intention was to have an automated way to remove users from eliminator group if a violation is detected, but removals actually occur by manual review). This specially doesn't make sense now that through T135725 we are giving deletedhistory right to the eliminator group.

Therefore I would like to ask for removing the botadmins group from the list of those who can grant eliminator rights.

Event Timeline

Change 289656 had a related patch set uploaded (by Huji):
Only bureaucrats should be able to grant the "eliminator" right

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/289656

Dereckson triaged this task as Medium priority.May 19 2016, 8:36 PM
Dereckson moved this task from Backlog to To deploy on the Wikimedia-Site-requests board.

@Huji this kind of config change is deployed during SWAT deplyoments.

Please add it to one of our window at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments.

Change 290000 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm):
Adjust groups permissions on fa.wikipedia

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/290000

Change 289656 abandoned by Huji:
Adjust groups permissions on fa.wikipedia

Reason:
Abandoning due to merge

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/289656