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Enable WMF staff to ignore 500 edit & 6 month criteria only for a user
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Description

We've had at least one or two requests from users who want to be able to get access to The Wikipedia Library on an alternative account (e.g. one used on public/shared computers) or on a fresh account (e.g. when they've forgotten login details on their main account). Our only tool to grant them access currently is to ignore all library criteria, including blocks and recent activity. This would give them access in perpetuity, which is undesirable.

Instead, we could imagine a user setting to ignore only the minimum edit count and tenure criteria, while retaining the effectiveness of the recent activity and block criteria.

If we go ahead with this it might make sense technically to break each of the 4 criteria into individual checks/settings to simplify the logic.