User:Balloonman/Admin Coaching Essay Questions

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As an admin nobody expects you to know all of the rules, but they do expect you to be able to research the policies and guidelines--show me that you can do the research and navigate them. These questions deliberately do not include links and some are deliberately vague and open to interpretation. If the question is vague, demonstrate your expertise of the subject by covering the different options. In your own words, citing the applicable policies/guidelines/essays/etc (and link to the applicable policy/guideline/essay), please answer the following:

1 Why are the criteria for speedy deletion so strict?

2 What alternatives to speedy deletion are there?

3 What is a "level three warning" and why is it significant?

4 Under what circumstances can an established editor be blocked?

5 How long can an IP address be blocked?

6 How many times can an editor make the same edit before violating 3RR? Can an editor be blocked before they reach that number?

7 How can you tell if an editor (whether an account or an anon IP) is a sockpuppet?

8 What is "rollback"?

9 What is the difference between protection and semi-protection?

10 An article has been vandalized several times. Under what circumstances can it be protected or semi-protected?

11 Under what circumstances would you invoke IAR? Can you provide a scenario where IAR might apply?

12 A page has been deleted several times, and keeps being recreated. What options do you have?

13 Explain how one goes about changing one's name

14 What types of names can be blocked?

15 You come across a page with material you consider to be highly libelous material on the page. Others don't believe it is, what should you do?

16 Somebody makes a legal threat, what do you do?

17 What are your personal criteria for a potential admin?

18 You are involved in a content dispute with another editor that is starting to get nasty. The other editor then vandalizes your talk page. What do you do?