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Do you need an administrator to... (What is an administrator?)
If you are here because you are involved in a content dispute, you may want to read Misplaced Pages:Resolving disputes.
- Block a vandal who has been warned? Visit:
- Misplaced Pages: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?
- Misplaced Pages:Administrator intervention against vandalism
- Block someone who has violated the three-revert rule.
- Block someone for some other reason
- Delete a page? Visit:
- Misplaced Pages:Candidates for speedy deletion if the page appears nonsensical, just someone testing the wiki, or meets another of the Criteria for speedy deletion
- Misplaced Pages:Proposed deletion if the deletion is likely to be non-controversial
- Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion if you feel the page does not belong in Misplaced Pages
- Misplaced Pages:Requested moves if the wiki stops you moving a page.
- Learn more by reading the deletion policy
- Delete a category? Visit:
- Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion
- Learn more about categorization
- Undelete a page or allow you to view a deleted page? Visit:
- Misplaced Pages:Deletion review (used to be called Misplaced Pages:Votes for undeletion)
- Learn more by reading the undeletion policy
- Protect (lock) or unprotect a page? Visit:
- Edit a protected page?
- Ask on the talk page. For example, for changes to MediaWiki:Blockedtext, ask at MediaWiki talk:Blockedtext
- or try the Administrators' noticeboard
- Learn more by reading the Misplaced Pages:Protection policy
- Use {{editprotected}}
- For minor tweaks of the Main Page, make a request on Talk:Main Page.
- Revert one or two vandals/inexperienced users edits? Visit:
- Misplaced Pages:Revert
- To see how many damaging edits a user is making click their username and then User contributions.
- What is the three-revert rule?
- Misplaced Pages:Revert
- Redirect or page move issues? Visit:
- Misplaced Pages:Redirects for deletion or Misplaced Pages: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?
- Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Arbitration enforcement
- Learn more by reading the arbitration policy
- Help with cleaning up a backlog to a major Misplaced Pages process?
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 Misplaced Pages: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 Misplaced Pages database
- Ask at Misplaced Pages:SQL query requests
- or download the database and run them yourself.
- Reassign edits or make name changes.
- Ask a developer at Misplaced Pages:Changing attribution for an edit or Misplaced Pages:Changing username.
- Delete accounts.
- This is not possible. See Misplaced Pages:Username#Deleting your user account
- Protect pages on a specific version, or "from" a specific user, or decide which version is "correct" or "NPOV".
Factoid: There are 48,499,499 users on Misplaced Pages, and only 847 administrators; that's about Error! Function find_var can't find the variable text in category "Requests for administrator attention".***Category series navigation failed to generate navbox*** users per admin, or 0.02 admins per 1,000 users. Now, admins aren't police, and most user accounts aren't active, so these stats aren't strictly comparable, but the average ratio in USA cities is 2.3 police officers per 1,000 residents. So isn't it nice that there's always an admin around when you need one?
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