Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention
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Do you need an administrator to... (What is an administrator?)
- Block a vandal who has been warned? Visit:
- Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism
- An administrator can repair damage made by a malicious user more quickly than other users: if someone is making multiple damaging edits it will be easier for you to report them than try to repair everything yourself. To see whether a user is making many damaging edits click their username and then User contributions.
- What is vandalism?
- Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism
- Block someone who has violated the three-revert rule?
- Block someone for some other reason?
- Delete a page? Visit:
- Wikipedia:Candidates for speedy deletion if the page appears nonsensical, just someone testing the wiki, or meets another of the Criteria for speedy deletion
- Wikipedia:Proposed deletion if the deletion is likely to be non-controversial
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion if you feel the page does not belong in Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Requested moves if the wiki stops you moving a page.
- Learn more by reading the deletion policy
- Delete a category? Visit:
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion
- Learn more about categorization
- Undelete a page or allow you to view a deleted page? Visit:
- Wikipedia:Deletion review (used to be called Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion)
- Learn more by reading the undeletion policy
- Protect (lock) or unprotect a page? Visit:
- Edit a protected page?
- Reach consensus on the talk page and then use {{editprotected}}. For example, for changes to MediaWiki:Blockedtext, ask at MediaWiki talk:Blockedtext
- or try the Administrators' noticeboard
- Learn more by reading the Wikipedia:Protection policy
- For minor tweaks of the Main Page, make a request on Talk:Main Page.
- To report errors on the Main Page, use Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors.
- Revert one or two vandals/inexperienced users' edits? Visit:
- Wikipedia:Revert
- To see how many damaging edits a user is making click their username and then User contributions.
- What is the three-revert rule?
- Wikipedia:Revert
- Deal with redirect or page move issues? Visit:
- Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion or Wikipedia:Requested moves
- or try the Administrators' noticeboard
- What is a redirect?
- Unblock a user?
- Email the sysop who carried out the block or ban via their User page or ask at the Administrators' noticeboard
- Learn more by reading the blocking policy.
- Enforce an arbitration ruling?
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Arbitration enforcement
- Learn more by reading the arbitration policy
- Help with cleaning up a backlog to a major Wikipedia process?
- Answer some other question about how Wikipedia works?
- Try the Wikipedia:Help desk. Questions placed there are often answered within minutes.
- Try Wikipedia:Highly Active Users to find an admin currently editing.
Please note that administrators do not...
- Resolve disputes.
- Try the dispute resolution process instead.
- However, administrators, or other experienced users, may be willing to informally offer an opinion if you ask them privately (for example, via user talk page).
- Fix bugs.
- You can report them at MediaZilla.
- Make administrators.
- Only bureaucrats and stewards can do this, and only following community consensus at Wikipedia:Requests for Adminship.
- Remove administrator status from anyone.
- This is done by stewards and only on the request of the Arbitration Committee or on request from the affected administrator, or, in emergency cases only, by developers.
- Query the Wikipedia database.
- Ask at Wikipedia:SQL query requests
- or download the database and run them yourself.
- Reassign edits or make name changes.
- Ask a bureaucrat at Wikipedia:Changing username.
- Delete accounts.
- This is not possible. See Wikipedia:Username#Deleting your account
- Protect pages on a specific version, or "from" a specific user, or decide which version is "correct" or "NPOV".
