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:Dispute resolution.

Do you need an administrator to... (What is an administrator?)

• Block a vandal or spammer who has been sufficiently warned? (What is vandalism?) 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.
• Block someone who has violated the three-revert rule or edit warred? Visit:
  • Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring
• Block someone for some other reason? Visit:
  • Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
• Delete a page? Visit:
  • Wikipedia:Criteria 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:Deletion process if you feel the page does not belong in Wikipedia
  • 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
  • Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion
  • Learn more by reading the undeletion policy
• Protect (lock) or unprotect a page? Visit:
  • Wikipedia:Requests for page protection
• Deal with redirect or page move issues? Visit:
  • Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion or Wikipedia:Requested moves
  • or try the Administrators' noticeboard
  • What is a redirect?

• Edit a protected page?
  • Reach consensus on the talk page and then use {{Edit protected}}. For example, for changes to MediaWiki:Blockedtext, ask at MediaWiki talk:Blockedtext
    • If the talk page is protected too, use WP:RFED.
  • 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:Reverting
    • To see how many damaging edits a user is making click their username and then User contributions.
  • What is the three-revert rule?
• Unblock a user? Visit:
  • Wikipedia:Appealing a block
• Enforce an arbitration ruling?
  • Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/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
• Answer some other question about how Wikipedia works?
  • Try the Wikipedia:Help desk. Questions placed there are often answered within minutes.

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To ask an administrator a question, seek advice, etc., place {{Admin help}} on your talkpage.

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Please note that administrators cannot...

• 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 Bugzilla.
• Make someone an administrator.
  • Only bureaucrats and stewards can do this, and only following community consensus at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship.
• Remove administrator status from someone.
  • This is done by bureaucrats and stewards and only on the request of the Arbitration Committee or on request from the affected administrator, or, in emergency cases only, by system administrators.
• 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 policy#Deleting an account.
• Protect pages on a specific version, or "from" a specific user, or decide which version is "correct" or "NPOV".
  • See Wikipedia:Protection policy.