Wikipedia:Administrators
From Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia written in simple English for easy reading.
An administrator is also called a sysop (from system operator). You can add requests to this page for things that can only be done by sysops.
If you want a page deleted, say so on the Wikipedia:Proposed deletions page.
Sysops are allowed to do some things that other users are not. This is for performance reasons (it would make the website too slow to let everyone do it). It is also for security reasons (because they are trusted). If you want to become one, please say so on this page.
Anyone who has been adding to this website for a while is allowed to be an administrator. Jimbo Wales, the founder of the Wikimedia Foundation, said "this should be no big deal".
Sysops do not have any special authority. They are equal to everybody else.
Things administrators can do:
- Delete pages - Wikipedia:Deletion policy, Wikipedia:Requests for deletion
- Protect and unprotect pages, and edit protected pages - Wikipedia:Protection policy
- Stop users who damage pages - Wikipedia:Bans and blocks, Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress
- See also: Administrator logs - Blocks, Page protection, Deletions
A bureaucrat is a slightly higher administrative level that can perform a few additional functions. Bureaucrats can give administrator or bureaucrat status to other users following a successful request on this page. Bureaucrats can also help users who want to change user names. They can also "flag" bots, which means to hide their contributions from the new changes and put them in the bot group. Requests for name changes should be made directly to the talk page of one of the listed bureaucrats.
- See also: Bureaucrat logs - User rights, User rename
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[edit] List of administrators
- An automated list of accounts with admin status is available at Special:Listadmins.
[edit] Active
- Angela - (email)
- Archer7 (bureaucrat) - (email)
- Billz - (email)
- Blockinblox (bureaucrat) - (email)
- Eptalon - (email)
- Tangotango - (email)
- Tdxiang - (email)
- Vector - (email)
[edit] Inactive
- aflm - (email)
- Brion Vibber (developer) - (email)
- Freshstart - (email)
- Ricky81682 - (email)
- SimonMayer (bureaucrat) - (email)
[edit] Nominations and requests to be an administrator/bureaucrat
[edit] PullToOpen
I would like to nominate myself to be an administrator because I want to help out with all of the administrative duties. I would help close deletion discussions, keep things like Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Non clear, and take appropriate action against vandals and trolls. I would also assist in deleting the patent nonsense pages, which I see so many of now. I joined Simple in August, and have made over 1000 edits since then. In my four months here, I have learned how Simple works to get stuff done. I would love to help SE Wikipedia in ways that I could not before. Any comments will be greatly appreciated as well. :) PullToOpen Talk 18:23, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- strong support --Vector ^_^ (talk) 18:23, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- Strong support. Archer7 - talk 18:32, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- Strong support The life of brian 19:06, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- Support, a really qualified user. --M7 19:22, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- Strong support he has done good for my article, and any who does that to me is great. He would make a great admin.AbbyItalia
22:32, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] TBC
I'd like to nominate myself for adminship, as sysop tools would make it easier for me to fight against vandalism, close RfD discussions, as well as quickly delete articles that are considered patent nonsense, blatant advertising, or copyright infringement. I've been here since May, 2006 and I've accumulated over 2340 edits, mostly through cleaning up articles and reverting vandalism. I'm also a very active user on the EN wikipedia, which I've contributed to for over a year, amassing around 11,935 edits.--TBCΦtalk? 12:53, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
- Strong support. You seem to know pretty much everything about this project, and I think you could really help out Simple as an admin. Archer7 - talk 13:14, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
- Support Great job with articles and civility! PullToOpen Talk 15:19, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
- Support --M7 15:26, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
- Strong support.--Tdxiang 04:20, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
- Strong Support, per all the above comments. Reminder re: RfD discussions, they are usually supposed to last 7 days, unless they are 'speedied'. Also, I just checked to see how long RfA's are supposed to last; the rule on en: is a minimum of 7 days, so I guess we should leave this RfA open until Nov. 30, and then sysop him on that date. Blockinblox 16:43, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
- Support -- Creol 07:13, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- strong support --Vector ^_^ (talk) 18:24, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- Support The life of brian 19:05, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- Support what a good editor. I don't know you but you are good user. Why not a good amin?--AbbyItalia
22:35, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Current issues and requests
/Current issues and requests archive 1
Users can contact sysops on this page to ask them to protect pages. Requests for deletion should be made on Wikipedia:Requests for deletion and requests for blocking on Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress.
All sysops should watch this section for issues that sysops must be aware of, and for news about policy changes affecting sysops.
[edit] November 2006
- End of bureaucrat voting: Netoholic loses sysop and bureaucrat privileges, Archer7 and Blockinblox as new bureaucrats. Archer7 - talk 11:32, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
- Looking at the admin votes archive, it seems Eptalon's adminship in March was supported by everyone except Freshstart, who later changed his vote from neutral to oppose. Freshstart is an admin who hasn't been seen in 3 months. Maybe to get more admins, we should reopen his candidacy? Blockinblox 14:47, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
- I agree, it seems a good idea, would you mind asking the user if he/she is still willing to help? --M7 14:50, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
- Done. Nominated for adminship.--Tdxiang Adminship 02:52, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
- One problem: No bureaucrats here. We have to ask a steward to op him.--Tdxiang 03:45, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
- We're now electing new bureaucrats for the simplewiki. Archer7 and Blockinblox agreed to participate. Also, Netoholic seems to be questioned on wether to keep his bureaucrats status or not. Just hope no "philosphical disscusiion" comes around. --§ Alastor Moody (T + C) 10:12, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
- One problem: No bureaucrats here. We have to ask a steward to op him.--Tdxiang 03:45, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] October 2006
- Tangotango had Rfa and new user Geeksluvpi voted. The latter was mistaken for a sockpuppet. After a steward's statement, both parties concerned have been officially cleared of misconduct through sockpuppetery.--Tdxiang @ 02:21, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
- Promoted, Tangotango is now an administrator.--Tdxiang Adminship 03:28, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- See his request here.
[edit] September 2006
- I found clear and convincing evidence by looking at both his simple: and en: contributions on all accounts that User:ForestH2 has other secondary accounts (sockpuppets) user:Treebark and user:Carmelapple. As he recently used these and two other newly-created accounts to vote for himself in an adminship request, I've blocked them all. -- Netoholic @ 04:51, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
- I would like to back Netoholic's decision here. I too have investigated and it would appear that he did use sockpuppets. Billz (Talk) 06:28, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
- UPDATE: see en:Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/ForestH2. With this confirmation, User:ForestH2 should now be considered banned from Simple, for using sockpuppets to attempt to gain adminship. He will likely attempt to create yet more accounts. -- Netoholic @ 02:19, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
- Can someone watch Special:Recentchanges and revert any page-blanking vandalism that any user does. Were getting a lot right now. ForestH2 00:37, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
- The people at the commons decided to replace the PNG version of the commons logo with a big red "X". Most of the templates which still have the "X" are protected. can someone please replace them with Image:Commons-logo.svg? --LBMixPro<talk|to|me> 07:02, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
- There are some changes that I would like made to MediaWiki:Edittools, detailed at MediaWiki talk:Edittools. Can an administrator please take a look at this issue? Thanks, Tangotango 07:19, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
- Can someone please check Talk:Main Page regarding other project numbers, etc.? And the logo for English Wiktionary should be changed since the image name has changed. --Cromwellt|talk|contribs 17:35, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
- This is a reminder to all sysops that the Category:Possible copyright violations category should be regularly pruned. Some of the articles in there have been tagged for quite some time. Keeping copyright violations on-wiki casts a bad image of simplewiki and is potentially dangerous, so please keep an eye on that category if you can. Thank you, Tangotango 17:13, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] July 2006
- Changes to the blocking system. We can now block anonymous users from IPs, but leave logged-in users. We can also stop account creation from blocked IPs. Take a look on Special:Blockip. Archer7 | talk 22:53, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
- User:Miagop now claims to be the good Reri Horlockon, and that the account was hacked by the vandal, which would make sense. Investigating. Archer7 | talk 00:07, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] June 2006
User:Reri Horlockon has admitted to being the 63.19 vandal. Can't say I'm that surprised, more impressed that a vandal would spend so much time vandalising himself. Has promised to continue vandalising under sockpuppets. Archer7 | talk 10:19, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] May 2006
- User:Netoholic has been blocked for 24 hours for being rude towards User:Cromwellt and removing references to Simple Wiktionary without discussion despite community consensus. Archer7 | talk 09:43, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
- User:Pg2114 (also User:Timark uk) has made a return under the username User:Gouldpeter. This account has constructive edits, but this is the same game that was played before. The account has been blocked indefinitely. Watch out for variations on this, he was operating on a dynamic IP last time I checked. Archer7 16:47, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] April 2006
- Banned user Mariusz Marcel Ernst previously used 'Ghoul' as a username. A User:NCCGhoul has recently been created soon after User:NCCschool with all constructive edits, but I'm suspicious. Impostor or good user? Archer7 20:16, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
- Does anyone have any idea what's going on with the new usernames that are being created with random numbers. See the user creation log to see what I mean, none of them are contributing. Archer7 16:23, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
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- We should get a steward to authorized a check user to see if they might be coming from the same or similar IPs. The name is not substantive and should probably be blocked with a message asking the user request name change from a bcrat. -- Psy guy 16:43, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
- They violate en's Wikipedia:Username, I'm blocking the following infinitely:
- User:206501450
- User:206501155
- User:206509061
- User:206501925
- User:206500369 Archer7 16:08, 28 April 2006 (UTC)