Patch has been merged. This task can be closed.

I have for now removed the contested revisions from the proposed change.

For now, I will implement the group changes without the checkuser-temporary-accounts-part. Most of the VRTS agents of the Dutch Wikipedia are also local sysops already anyway (except for one or two). If we would receive permission to implement this anyway in a later stage, we can still add it later as well.

I just noticed a new series of locks that might have suffered from the same issue: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steward_requests/Global&oldid=28477542#Global_lock_for_more_socks_of_Ricardinho_da_Souza_Silva_7.

Work is currently being done by global sysops (including @WikiBayer and myself).

I can also confirm that a new waive of emails just started. Thanks for looking into this, @jbond .