Wikipedia:Requests for sysop 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.

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

• 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?
  • Reach consensus on the talk page and then use {{editprotected}}. 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
  • 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:Revert
    • To see how many damaging edits a user is making click their username and then User contributions.
  • What is the three-revert rule?
• Deal with 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 administrator who carried out the block 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
• Answer some other question about how Wikipedia works?
  • Try the Wikipedia:Help desk. Questions placed there are often answered within minutes.
  • Try Wikipedia:Highly Active Users to find an admin currently editing.

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