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can I create a User:Venustas 12/Request an Account page where I.P addresses go give me there email address ( I send them a five letter code send it to their email and ask them to type it on the User:Venustas 12/Request an Account to confirm the email) and I create their accounts?

Could someone with admin access on the account creation request interface approve my account please, as no-one seems to have approved it yet. Thanks Paul2387 22:05, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I am requesting a review of my Suspension, I had been Suspended I believe in Fall 2008, Maybe the Start of 2009, I cannot remember why though, I have tried requesting to create another account using my Wikipedia Username "Arctic Fox", But it is already in Use, I have just recently come back to Wikipedia and start contributing again after my Wikibreak, And I would like to request using ACC again if permitted to,

Thanks, Arctic ^Fox 09:59, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This system has many fundamental flaws of the privacy policy.

The interface is on the toolserver and releases IP information about users requesting accounts. By policy, these users should all be 18 and older and identified to the Wikimedia Foundation. To have access to such information, they must have the agreement of the Wikimedia community and/or the Arbitration Committee.

Second point: There is no governance for this access other than admins granting users the rights. This should at least be discussed by the Arbitration Committee or by another community source to determine access rights if this will continue to be hosted on the toolserver and not locally.

Third point: We have no on-wiki trail of process. I don't know if and/or/why an unblock has occurred if I don't have a ACC account on the toolserver. This defeats transparency and is not appropriate for the administration of the English Wikipedia.

Keegan (talk) 06:00, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I also notice that the project uses an @wikimedia.org email reply, without being a part of the volunteer response team system. Keegan (talk) 06:04, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In short, I'm not seeing it.

1. First, IP information about users requesting accounts is nothing special. If someone asks unblock-en-l to create an account for them, we routinely ask for their IP address to determine the nature of the block. I'm fairly sure a number of admins on that list are not identified to the foundation; I, for one, am not. WMF privacy policy applies only to WMF sites, which Toolserver is not. The user is informed that their IP address will be disclosed, and I see no problem. That another site collects IP information and does not follow WMF privacy policy does not mean that we cannot link to it, or there would be no external links at all. (The alternative is to have all account creation requests sent to the checkusers...not an appealing idea, surely?)
2. Why is that necessary? I fail to see how this is somehow more dangerous than, say, rollback, for which we have no discussion process.
3. Nor does unblock-en-l, which as far as I can see no one has challenged here.
4. That address is what MediaWiki uses when you have the password sent by email. Tim Song (talk) 04:09, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]