YPPedia:Requests for administrator attention
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Do you need an administrator to... (What is an administrator?)
- Report a vandal? Visit:
- YPPedia: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 if a user is making many damaging edits click their username and then User contributions.
- What is vandalism?
- YPPedia:Vandalism in progress
- Block a vandal who has been warned? Visit:
- Delete a page? Visit:
- YPPedia:Deletion if you feel the page does not belong in YPPedia
- If the wiki stops you moving a page, make your request on the protected article's talk page.
- Learn more by reading the deletion policy
- Delete a category? Visit:
- Learn more about categorization
- If you want to have a category deleted, make your request on the category's talk page.
- Undelete a page or allow you to view a deleted page? Visit:
- YPPedia:Votes for undeletion
- Learn more by reading the undeletion policy
- Protect 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
- Learn more by reading the protection policy
- Revert one or two vandal's/inexperienced user's edits? Visit:
- YPPedia:revert
- To see how many damaging edits a user is making click their username and then User contributions.
- What is the three-revert rule?
- YPPedia:revert
- Redirect or Page move issues? Visit:
- What is a redirect?
- Or put a note on the article's discussion page with your question or request.
- Unblock a user?
- Contact the admin who carried out the ban via their User talk page
- Learn more by reading the blocking policy.
Please note that sysops do not...
- Resolve disputes.
- Try Wikipedia's 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 Known bugs though.
- Make administrators.
- Only bureaucrats can do this, and only following community consensus at YPPedia:Requests for adminship.
- Remove administrator status from anyone.
- This is done by bureaucrats, or, in emergency cases only, by Ringers in charge of the wiki.
- Query the YPPedia database
- Reassign edits or make name changes.
- Delete accounts.
- Protect pages on a specific version, or "from" a specific user, or decide which version is "correct" or "NPOV".