Requests for comment/Clarification to Global rename policy

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Statement of the issue

Current wording of the Global rename policy#Usurpation is:

There will be some requirement for usurpation of local-only accounts, and possibly global accounts. Such policy requirements will be dealt with separately, though are mentioned here for clarity. Currently, all decisions around usurpation are dealt with by stewards on a case by case basis.

I propose adjusting it to:

There will be some requirement for usurpation of local-only accounts, and possibly global accounts. Such policy requirements will be dealt with separately, though are mentioned here for clarity. Currently, all decisions around usurpation are dealt with by stewards and global renamers on a case by case basis.

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Why this change is necessary?

Global renamers have technical access to usurpation. If we check the history of the Steward requests/Username changes page or the Usurpation page of English Wikipedia, it can be seen that most usurpation requests are handled by global renamers. I think this change will remove the confusion. —MdsShakil (talk) 20:54, 12 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

This sounds like a mere technicality which could be addressed by a short discussion on that page's talk page, rather than an issue for an RFC. --MF-W 22:25, 12 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think that section has been reworded beyond comprehensibility over the years. Here is the initial content that I wrote; I believe it evolved to reflect that fact that post-finalisation, only stewards had the technical ability to perform the usurpation of local accounts and thus were the only ones allowed to do so. The section could probably just be reworked to reflect that there are no more local usurpations, only global usurpations, this far after SUL finalisation. – Ajraddatz (talk) 22:29, 12 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The English Wikipedia has different guidelines for usurpation of accounts that have edited only the English Wikipedia, compared to the typical practice on SRUC. It's probably time to deal with those policy requirements. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 18:43, 13 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
If the section is trying to convey that, it would be more useful to describe those guidelines as impacting accounts that have only edited one wiki: the account is still global. – Ajraddatz (talk) 15:21, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the opinions above, it's an out-of-date wording, which could also simply become "There will be some requirement for usurpation of global accounts, while it's no longer possible to ask for a solely local usurpation (see also Help:Unified login)." (and then add "and global renamers" after "stewards" as proposed). However there are also other points of the policy that I think should be improved but I will maybe talk about them in another RfC --Superpes15 (talk) 15:21, 13 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support word change, though I agree with MF-W that this could have been handled on the talk page. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs) 06:35, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]