The confirmed user right provides a user early access to editing privileges that all users receive with autoconfirmed, which is automatically granted when an account has at least 10 edits and is at least 4 days old. [1]
Autoconfirmed or confirmed users can create articles, move pages, edit semi-protected pages, and upload files or upload a new version of an existing file. Autoconfirmed users are no longer required to enter a CAPTCHA for most events and they may save books to the Books namespace. In addition, the Edit filter has a number of warning settings that only affect editors who are not autoconfirmed.
The vast majority of requests for confirmed are declined. First consider:
That being said, acceptable means for granting confirmed early may include:
Note if a request was recently declined for a given user/permission, a bot will comment with a link to that discussion. You may wish to ping the administrator who declined the previous request asking for their input before responding to the new request.
To grant the permission:
Notification templates
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To respond to the request:
{{User:MusikBot/archivenow}}
Helper script: The above process can be expedited using the script User:MusikAnimal/userRightsManager.js. Once installed, click "assign permissions" on any PERM page, enter optional closing remarks in the popup dialog, and the script will grant the right with a permalink to the discussion, and issue the corresponding talk page template.
To override where the bot archives, use {{User:MusikBot/override|d}}
for approved, or {{User:MusikBot/override|nd}}
for denied. This will override any other {{
done}} or {{
not done}} templates, and make the bot ignore the user's rights.
To re-open a request, deactivate the resolution template using the code {{tl|template name}}
, as with {{
done}} or {{
not done}}. Strikethroughs like <s>{{done}}</s>
or other means to suppress the original resolution template will still be registered as resolved by the bot. Only deactivating or removing the template will work.
All requests are archived at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Archive as approved or denied. This is done as a historical reference, namely so that admins can review previously declined requests.
N hours after the last comment was made on a request (as specified by the bot's config), the discussion is removed from that page and an entry containing a PermaLink to the discussion is added to the archives, noting the user and the permission. This archiving process is fully automated and should not be attempted manually.
For convenience, the requests for permissions pages are clerked by MusikBot. See User:MusikBot/PermClerk for more information on the tasks and how to configure them.