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The following are user groups administrators are able to grant and revoke. Note the granting guidelines may link to the admin instructions at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions. You can refer to these pages for the accepted prerequisites of a given permission.
From time to time I receive emails from editors asking me to grant them a permission. I don't know why they do so via email rather than PERM (I guess they contact me because I'm active there), but I direct them to make a request on-wiki, for several reasons: our long-standing principle that, although there is no rule against off-wiki discussions, decisions affecting Wikipedia should be made on ...
Note if a request was recently declined for a given user/permission, a bot will comment with a link to that discussion. You may wish to ping the administrator who declined the previous request asking for their input before responding to the new request. To grant the permission: Grant the user right(s) to the user at Special:UserRights.
Importers is a similar group which gives editors the importupload permission as well as the import permission for use on Special:Import. Importers have the additional ability to import articles directly from XML (which may come from any wiki site), as well as to merge the history of pages together using the mergehistory right (see WP:HM for ...
Wikipedia's administrative tools are often likened to a janitor's mop, leading to adminship being described at times as being "given the mop".Just like a real-world janitor might have keys to offices that some other workers are excluded from, admins have some role-specific abilities, but – also like a real-world janitor – they're not more important than the other editors.
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Administrator instructions for Requests for permissions: . Administrators are permitted to grant account creator, autopatrolled, confirmed, file mover, mass message sender, pending changes reviewer, rollback and template editor flags to any user who meets the criteria outlined at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions#Permissions and can be trusted not to abuse the tool(s).
Wikipedia:Administrators#Restoration_of_admin_tools opens with the words “ Regardless of the process by which the admin tools are removed, any editor is free to re-request the tools through the requests for adminship process”. So you (and others) are opposing on the basis of something enshrined in policy?