Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention

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If you are here because you are involved in a content dispute, you may want to read Wikipedia:Resolving disputes.

• 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?
• Block someone who has violated the three-revert rule.
  • Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RR
• Block someone for some other reason
  • Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
• 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:
  • Wikipedia:Requests for page protection
• 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 Wikipedia: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:
  • 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?
• 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?
  • Tag the process with {{backlog}}
  • And drop a message on WP:AN to get more admin attention

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To ask an administrator a question, seek advice, etc., see the list of administrators

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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 developer at Wikipedia:Changing attribution for an edit or Wikipedia:Changing username.
• Delete accounts.
  • This is not possible. See Wikipedia:Username#Deleting your user account
• Protect pages on a specific version, or "from" a specific user, or decide which version is "correct" or "NPOV".
  • See Wikipedia:Protection policy

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Factoid: There are 4,007,453 users on Wikipedia, and only 1,162 administrators; that's about 3,449 users per admin, or 0.29 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?