Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-37194541-20190810162509/@comment-9605025-20190812191533

Tupka217 wrote: Very, very. I'm not sure if they still do it. But you probably have to be an admin at a big wiki facing a lot of vandalism who they can trust to not abuse it. Alternatively, become Staff, VSTF or IVT. But in those cases, you're only allowed to use it when relevant to your role. In other words, you don't. It is a permission reserved mostly for specific global user groups with the following two exceptions: In other words, a local user getting the checkuser permission is an absolute last resort counter measure to extreme cases of vandalism.
 * 1) Community Central admins
 * In order to be a Community Central admin, you go through a vetting and recruitment process conducted/moderated by Wikia staff. It is similar to getting added to global user groups in that the process is closed-door and known only to those already in the group.
 * 1) All of the following are true: (speculation since this is also a closed-door process)
 * 2) *You are highly trusted by Wikia staff
 * 3) *You are highly trusted by the local wiki
 * 4) *You will/continue to use the power on the local wiki only
 * 5) *The local wiki is very large both in terms of content, viewership, and contributions
 * 6) *The local wiki has a large issue with repeat vandalism offenders to the point that no other existing method is sufficient