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==Who should do formal closures?==
 
I strange thing had happened recently. I opened a formal closure request and a totally random user had closed it. I naturally reopened it and it stood like that for a few days until yesterday when another editor had closed it with an explanation "already done". I pointed out to him that the closure was not done properly by a random user and he said: "Sorry, I didn't realize that the close was done by a "random editor". Why didn't someone just reopen it? I will look at it again to see if I can help.". Then he made a mistake by thinking the closure was done by an admin. Both I and the editor who closed it initially had pointed out that mistake. Then the editor who had closed it had backed down from the whole discussion because, as he had put it: "it's not enriching my life and it's not improving the encyclopedia.". I again pointed out that said it needs to be properly closed, and that he had made a mistake. He said I can go to ANI. Here I am.
 
My question here is. Can any random user go and close formal requests. I can also ask, what would happen if I were to close other formal requests.