Stewards/Handbook
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This handbook is designed to document the duties of Stewards and how to perform them in accordance with policies and guidelines.
Global account management
Locking and hiding
Stewards have access to the Special:CentralAuth interface, which allows accounts to be globally locked. Global locks prevent accounts from logging in across all wikis. Locked accounts can also be hidden, meaning that they will not appear on Special:GlobalUsers, or suppressed, meaning that the username will be removed from view in all edits and logs. Hiding and suppression of accounts must comply with the suppression policy.
Alternatively, Special:MultiLock can be used to (un)lock or (un)hide multiple global accounts at once.
Renaming
Global accounts may be renamed at Special:GlobalRenameUser. This should only be done upon request by the user. There is also a queue, Special:GlobalRenameQueue, that contains global rename requests which need to be processed.
Note that global renames may take a while to complete. If a global rename reports as "failed" or takes more than a couple hours, contact a system administrator.