Atkinspedia:Requests for administrator attention
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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 Atkinspedia:Resolving disputes.
- Report a vandal? Visit:
- Atkinspedia:Vandalism in progress
- 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?
- Atkinspedia:Vandalism in progress
- Block a vandal who has been warned? Visit:
- Block someone for some other reason
- Delete a page? Visit:
- Atkinspedia:Articles for deletion if you feel the page does not belong in Atkinspedia
- Atkinspedia:Candidates for speedy deletion if the page appears nonsensical or just someone testing the wiki
- Atkinspedia:Requested moves if the wiki stops you moving a page.
- Learn more by reading the deletion policy
- Delete a category? Visit:
- Atkinspedia:Categories for deletion
- Learn more about categorization
- Undelete a page or allow you to view a deleted page? Visit:
- Atkinspedia:Deletion review
- 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 Atkinspedia:Protection policy
- Revert one or two vandal's/inexperienced user's edits? Visit:
- Atkinspedia:Revert
- To see how many damaging edits a user is making click their username and then User contributions.
- What is the three-revert rule?
- Atkinspedia:Revert
- Redirect or Page move issues? Visit:
- Atkinspedia:Redirects for deletion or Atkinspedia:Requested moves
- or try the Administrators' noticeboard
- What is a redirect?
- Unblock a user?
- Email the sysop who carried out the ban via their User page or ask at the Administrators' noticeboard
- Learn more by reading the blocking policy.
- Enforce an arbitration ruling?
- Atkinspedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Arbitration enforcement
- Learn more by reading the arbitration policy
- Help with cleaning up a backlog to a major Atkinspedia process?
To ask an administrator a question, seek advice and so on see the list of administrators
Please note that sysops do not...
- Resolve disputes.
- Try the dispute resolution process instead.
- However, sysops, 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 though.
- Make administrators.
- Only bureaucrats and stewards can do this, and only following community consensus at Atkinspedia: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 Atkinspedia database
- Ask at Atkinspedia:SQL query requests
- or download the database and run them yourself.
- Reassign edits or make name changes.
- Ask a developer at Atkinspedia:Changing attribution for an edit or Wikipedia:Changing username.
- Delete accounts.
- This is not possible. See Atkinspedia:Username#Deleting your user account
- Protect pages on a specific version, or "from" a specific user, or decide which version is "correct" or "NPOV".
