Deluxe Administrators

Deluxe Administrators are a fictional user-group that would serve as an extension to the Administrator user-group. The intention was to come up with a fictional user-group that would have various tools that Administrators would benefit from when performing administrative tasks, but many of which could be abused easily. In any case, many of the abilities that Deluxe Administrators would have could make them more subjected to abuse due to the large scope of influence the rights have.

Inspiration
The inspiration for the fictional user-group started sometime in late October 2016 when I was thinking about certain abilities that FANDOM Staff, FANDOM Helpers, and Volunteer Spam Task Force members had that Administrators didn't have. I was toying around with this question as to which abilities I could see being added to the Administrator user-group, or as a deluxe version of the Administrator user-group that Administrators didn't have currently.

Indeed, virtually all the abilities that I had in mind were abilities that Administrators either didn't have or abilities that Administrators once had but were removed from the group due to security reasons. But I had a pretty fun time putting together a list of various tools that could be beneficial for experienced Administrators, nonetheless.

Abilities that the Deluxe Administrator user-group would have
Most of the abilities included in the Deluxe Administrator user-group would be abilities that weren't already included in the Administrator user-group. But there are a few abilities already included in the Administrator user-group that would subsequently be included in the Deluxe Administrator user-group.

Even though this ability is already included with the Administrator user-group, I subsequently decided that Deluxe Administrators would have this ability even as a standalone group. I was inspired to do this, since Bureaucrats have the ability as a standalone group as well, and also having the ability would prevent abusive Bureaucrats and Administrators from taking advantage of Deluxe Administrators, and preventing them from doing their jobs.
 * Block

Having the ability to block as a standalone group would prevent abusive Bureaucrats from taking advantage of Deluxe Administrators by revoking their Administrator rights, even though Deluxe Administrators are able to add their Administrator rights back without difficulty.

Since the Deluxe Administrator user-group would only be granted to highly experienced and trusted Administrators, the likelihood of Bureaucrats and Administrators needing to block them would be very small. Although Bureaucrats cannot demote Deluxe Administrators by default, having the option to demote them would be granted on request.

Even though this ability is already included with the Administrator user-group, I subsequently decided that Deluxe Administrators would have this ability even as a standalone group. I was inspired to do this, since Bureaucrats have the ability as a standalone group as well, and also it would prevent Deluxe Administrators from falling victim to auto-blocks, regardless if they didn't have Administrator rights.
 * Ipblock-exempt

However since the Deluxe Administrator user-group wouldn't be granted to any user that did not currently have Administrator rights, and since Deluxe Administrators wouldn't normally revoke their Administrator rights without revoking their Deluxe Administrator rights, the chances of this happening would be very small.

Even though this ability is already included with the Administrator user-group, I subsequently decided that Deluxe Administrators would have this ability even as a standalone group. I was inspired to do this, since Bureaucrats have the ability as a standalone group as well, and also having the ability would prevent abusive Bureaucrats and Administrators from taking advantage of Deluxe Administrators, and preventing them from doing their jobs.
 * Unblockself

Having the ability to unblock themselves as a standalone group would prevent abusive Bureaucrats from taking advantage of Deluxe Administrators by revoking their Administrator rights and then blocking them, since Deluxe Administrators would otherwise be unable to unblock themselves.

Since the Deluxe Administrator user-group would only be granted to highly experienced and trusted Administrators, the likelihood of Bureaucrats and Administrators needing to block them would be very small. Although Bureaucrats cannot demote Deluxe Administrators by default, having the option to demote them would be granted on request.

Even though the ListGroupRights special page implies that Administrators are able to block the emails of users when blocking them, this is at least partially incorrect. Since Administrators haven't been able to block the emails of users for years. Only FANDOM Staff, FANDOM Helpers, and Volunteer Spam Task Force members seem to be able to block the emails of users.
 * Blockemail

Unlike Administrators, Deluxe Administrators would subsequently be granted this ability so that they would be able to successfully block the emails of of users, although the ability to block the emails of other users isn't nearly as effective or useful as it used to be.

Administrators and FANDOM Helpers previously had this ability until August 2015. However it was removed from both user-groups due to security reasons. From then on, only FANDOM Staff had the ability to edit and delete the personal CSS pages belonging to other users. Having Deluxe Administrator rights would reinstate a user's ability to edit and delete the personal CSS pages belonging to other users.
 * Editusercss

However Deluxe Administrators shouldn't use their powers to take advantage of the way other users edit their CSS pages. Deluxe Administrators should only minor changes to the CSS pages of other users such as fixing a broken code, though they would normally be expected to ask the owner of the CSS pages before making changes.

The instances where Deluxe Administrators would need to edit or delete CSS pages without asking would be minimal, such as removing CSS messages that are deliberately intended to attack other users, or spam CSS pages containing offensive language.

Administrators and FANDOM Helpers previously had this ability until August 2015. However it was removed from both user-groups due to security reasons. From then on, only FANDOM Staff had the ability to edit and delete the personal JavaScript pages belonging to other users. Having Deluxe Administrator rights would reinstate a user's ability to edit and delete the personal JavaScript pages belonging to other users.
 * Edituserjs

However Deluxe Administrators shouldn't use their powers to take advantage of the way other users edit their JavaScript pages. Deluxe Administrators should only minor changes to the JavaScript pages of other users such as fixing a broken script that causes a lot of links to show on Special:Wantedpages.

Aside from reducing the amount of wanted pages, Deluxe Administrators would normally be expected to ask the owner of the JavaScript pages before making changes. The instances where Deluxe Administrators would need to edit or delete JavaScript pages without asking would be minimal, such as removing JavaScript messages that are deliberately intended to attack other users, or spam JavaScript pages containing offensive language.

Administrators, Content Moderators, Bots, and Content Volunteers previously had this ability until May 2018. However it was removed from all local user-groups and Content Volunteers, due to the ability becoming more conservative due to abuse.
 * Noratelimit

FANDOM Staff, FANDOM Helpers, and Volunteer Spam Task Force members are the only remaining user-groups with the ability to be exempted from rate limits. When the ability was removed from Administrators, Content Moderators, Bots, and Content Volunteers; Global Bots were granted with the ability to be exempted from rate limits. As of May 2018, there aren't any local user-groups with the ability, excluding a few custom user-groups on certain wikis.

As with all other permissions that have been removed from Administrators since August 2015 that are still in use by some global user-groups, the ability to be exempted from rate limits would be included with the Deluxe Administrator user-group as of May 2018. Since only experienced and trusted Administrators would be entrusted with Deluxe Administrator rights, those users would be entrusted - at least in theory - with being exempted from rate limits.


 * Override-antispoof

Administrators and Bureaucrats previously had this ability until sometime in 2015.


 * Editinterfacetrusted


 * Wallfastadmindelete


 * Deleterevision


 * Multirevisiondelete


 * Protectsite-exempt


 * Nuke


 * Quicktools

Abilities that the Deluxe Administrators would have had previously

 * Replacetext


 * Pageviews


 * Parserspeed


 * Powerdelete