YPPedia:Requests for administrator attention

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?

• Block a vandal who has been warned? Visit:
  • YPPedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism

• 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:
  • Requests for page protection

• 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?

• 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.

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To ask an administrator a question, seek advice and so on see the list of administrators

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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".
  • See YPPedia:Protected page guidelines