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The following is a list of former administrators. Many are no longer active contributors. For current administrators, see Misplaced Pages:List of administrators.

There are various reasons why adminship has been removed from users:

• Bots: These are a desysopped admin-bot accounts.
• Desysopped: These are administrators who were desysopped by decision or motion of the Arbitration Committee, involuntarily by Jimbo Wales or by another steward for emergency reasons.
• Inactive: These administrators were desysopped for inactivity per our procedure for desysopping inactive administrators. Inactive administrators were desysopped for being inactive for over a year (defined as making "no edits or administrative actions for at least 12 months"). Former administrators desysopped this way may request their rights be restored by a bureaucrat at any time.
• Passed away: These administrators passed away.
• Resigned: These administrator voluntarily relinquished their adminship. Many of these users requested that their adminship be revoked either because they were no longer active at Misplaced Pages, because they were chiefly interested in editorial contributions rather than technical administration, or because they wished to focus on other Wikimedia projects. Some of the users listed voluntarily resigned their adminship status in recognition of the community's dissatisfaction with their activities; as such some of these cases, though nominally by user request, are not entirely voluntary. Former administrators who resigned their adminship in good standing may be reinstated at the discretion of any bureaucrat, while administrators who resigned under controversial circumstances must reapply for adminship by the usual means. Unless otherwise specified by the Arbitration Committee, the determination of whether "controversial circumstances" existed is left to the discretion of the bureaucrats.
• Temporary: These were temporary administrators for one of the following reasons:
  • They were given sysop status in 2005 temporarily for the purposes of editing the Wikimedia Board elections page.
  • They were employees of Bomis or the Wikimedia Foundation that required sysop status to perform their duties, and relinquished it following their employment.
  • They had sysop status for the purpose of testing.

Former administrators

Bots

Desysopped

Inactive

Passed away

Resigned