links to useful common tasks, user/page logs, analytic tools/statistics, and tools for administrators. Popups – provides a small pop-up window when hovering...

interest in becoming an administrator. Please consider signing Administrators without tools/Endorsers to receive a bot notification whenever the template...

Wikimedia system administrators ("sysadmins"). The English Wikipedia has 813 administrators (see full list of accounts with administrator privileges or lists...

Dealing with disputes Edit filters Tools, scripts and gadgets WP:Administrators' reading list WP:Advice for new administrators WP:Closing discussions – a frequent...

This is a list of tools intended to provide enhanced editing functionality. Contains edit page tools, edit bots, spellcheckers, wikisyntax conversion utilities...

utilities, etc. Browser tools, tools categorized by browser type Citation tools, tools for citing and referencing Anti-vandalism tools, tools for patrolling and...

users who would like to be notified when the template {{subst:Administrator without tools}} is placed on a user talk page. TolBot messages users listed...

mobile) These tools can be used to achieve the same effect as rollback if you do not have it. RC patrol script gives non-administrators revert, filter...

behavior of pages, or even create complex tools to help with editing. There are currently 15 interface administrators (including two bots). If you need assistance...

Administrators are regular Wikipedians who have access to maintenance tools which give them the ability to protect pages, delete pages, and block users...

contributions tree, (for administrators) deleted user contributions, user log, (for administrators) block user, edit counter (User Analysis Tool), block log Mouseover...

active administrators is updated daily by Rick Bot. New administrators are selected either through requests for adminship or in periodic administrator elections...

individual administrators. Any perceived difference in status between a "regular" administrator and an arbitrator acting as an administrator can be problematic...

Limited administrators would be contributors with access to some, but not all, permissions allocated to administrators. Current (de facto) Wikipedia policy...

by an administrator: Five pillars of Wikipedia Founding principles: Core principles guiding all Wikimedia projects. Administrators Administrators' guide...

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep...

Request for Tools (RFT) is the process by which the Wikipedia community decides whether or not an editor could be trusted with tools that help with maintenance...

about the content translation tool from MediaWiki.org Administrators' Noticeboard discussion 2016-07-31 Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard 03:30, 28 July...

However, I urge care and caution with AI user tools. I just checked on Google, Clayoquot, and both tools you mentioned are considered unreliable. If anyone...

straightforward: click on Delete in the Tools menu on the page (this option is only visible to administrators), select a reason or enter a custom reason...

practical purposes, non-administrators should not take formal action in discussions whose outcome would require the use of administrator tools, such as those at...

administrative tools for paid work, even with disclosure. In addition, there have been some other shifts in policy and culture that returning administrators should...

Shortcut WP:ADMINGUIDE/EFWP:ADMINGUIDE/EF All administrators (and non-administrators with the edit filter helper user right) have a user right which allows...

main page Vanished: These former administrators exercised their right to vanish and relinquished their administrator tools. It is understood that once an...

Shortcut WP:ADMINGUIDE/PWP:ADMINGUIDE/P Administrators protect pages and images to prevent vandalism and assist in resolving content disputes, for example...

mistake. Vanished These former administrators exercised their right to vanish and relinquished their administrator tools. It is understood that once an...

 Help FAQs Administrators Administrators FAQ Frequently asked questions (FAQs) Index of FAQs Main FAQ Overview Readers Schools Contributing Editing Featured...

to administrators. Shortcuts WP:ANWP:AN WP:ANBWP:ANB For urgent incidents and chronic, intractable behavioral problems, use Wikipedia:Administrators'...

while logged in Domaintools – Probably the most comprehensive of the WHOIS tools, however requires you enter a CAPTCHA and has a limit of about 50 lookups...

results. The Anti-Harassment Tools team is inviting comments on new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools for development in early 2018...

bulletin board administrators. There are three primary tools that administrators can use to affect the day-to-day editing of non-administrators: preventing...

been open only to administrators but with the help of the developers, it may be possible for non-administrators to have this tool to aid them with recent...

The whole point of the Administrator tools is to make maintenance tasks easier. If an editor doesn't want full administrator rights, why force them....

Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents Shortcuts WP:ANIWP:ANI WP:AN/IWP:AN/I This page is for urgent incidents and chronic, intractable behavioral problems...

release. This suite of tools includes administrator statistics, an improved edit counter, among other tools that may benefit administrators. You can report issues...

tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats. Arbitration In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts...

Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team is creating an "Interaction Timeline" tool that intends to assist administrators in resolving user conduct disputes...

trial basis (details below). In tool apprenticeship, a user who has a need for a particular administrator tool or tools, such as deletion or protection...

unblock request The block has been discussed on the Administrators' noticeboard or the Administrators' noticeboard for incidents and you believe there is...

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018). Administrator changes Lourdes† AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren •...

relating to the use of administrator tools on the interface. ACC tool administrators (also called interface administrators or tool admins) are experienced...

Wikipedia administrators Wikipedia:Administrators Wikipedia:Requests for adminship Wikipedia:Administrators' guide Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list...

Technical news DiscussionTools has superseded Enterprisey's reply-link script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences →...

of their tools, so that the number of administrators listed at Special:Statistics may be generally representative of how many administrators are available...

xTool for systematically listing the contributors to this RfC: http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/wikihistory/wh.php?page_title=Wikipedia:Administrators...

procedures at Wikipedia:Deletion process. Here are some guidelines administrators should follow in making the decision to delete a page, or not, when...

disclose whether they have ever edited for pay and that administrators may never use administrative tools as part of any paid editing activity, except when...

the admin tool set. Many admins regularly help out at Special:NewPagesFeed, but they may not be aware of improvements, changes, and new tools for the Curation...

granting administrators the ability to remove the rollback tool from fellow administrators, the removal of the rollback function from administrators is solely...

with the exception of autopatrolled. The following are user groups administrators are able to grant and revoke. Note the granting guidelines may link...

We, the undersigned administrators of Wikipedia, pledge never to use our administrator powers to abuse kittens. Note: we now have a userbox. For teh kittiez...

semi-automatic reporting of vandals, and more. In addition, it gives administrators more tools to help them carry out their duties. Getting started To enable...

In particular, there is a section of the survey regarding new tools for administrators and for anti-harassment. A new function is available to edit filter...

of the administrator tools, they are also expected to use their tools within compliance of Wikipedia's policies at all times. Administrators who repeatedly...

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2018). Administrator changes Sro23 KaisaL • Ymblanter Guideline and policy news After a...

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2017). Administrator changes Karanacs • Berean Hunter • GoldenRing • Dlohcierekim Gdr •...

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018). Administrator changes 331dot • Cordless Larry • ClueBot NG Gogo Dodo • Pb30 • Sebastiankessel...

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019). Guideline and policy news A request for comment asks whether partial blocks should...

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019). Administrator changes Bradv • Chetsford • Izno Floquenbeam • Lectonar DESiegel...

in Phabricator if you have objections. The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged...

about "unbundling" the powers of Wikipedia administrators – into an either a range of "sub-administrator" user classes, or permitting them for all editors...

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021). Guideline and policy news Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will...

permissions/File mover. Administrators do not need to request or add this user right for themselves or other administrators; it is automatically granted...

Pumps) and announcements (in The Signpost and at Administrators' Noticeboards). The version 4 (V4) of the tool featured a rating form at the bottom of each...

you are not required to enlist anywhere. There are various tools to help you. See the Tools section below. edit  This guide only applies to vandalism as...

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2018). Administrator changes None Al Ameer son • AliveFreeHappy • Cenarium • Lupo • MichaelBillington...

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2018). Administrator changes Justlettersandnumbers • L235 Bgwhite • HorsePunchKid •...

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2019). Guideline and policy news The RfC on administrator activity requirements failed...

anti-vandalism purposes, the tool is limited to administrators, and other editors approved by Bluemoose or another administrator. The tool runs only on computers...

Administrator confidence survey Description - The Wikimedia Foundation Anti-Harassment Tools Team is conducting a survey to create measurements on how...

the tools, remain active as an editor, and then ask for the tools back, with no time limits. The wording that you removed stated: "Administrators in good...

marked as a "minor edit". Other tools can perform similar edits with non-generic edit summaries; see the Additional tools section below. MediaWiki rollback...

Click the "User contributions" link on the left side of the page under Tools. This should bring up the User contributions page for Archtransit. Beneath...

and the Anti-Harassment Tools team surveyed English-language Wikipedia contributors about their perception of Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents (AN/I)...

shortcutsInit = function () { shortcutsAddLink ('Navigation shortcuts', 'Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation shortcuts'); }; If you want to add more sidebar portlets, use...

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020). Administrator changes Red Phoenix Euryalus • SQL Jujutacular • Monty845 • Rettetast...

WP:ADMINACCT: "Administrators are expected to respond promptly and civilly to queries about their Wikipedia-related conduct and administrator actions and...

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2017). Administrator changes Doug Bell • Dennis Brown • Clpo13 • ONUnicorn ThaddeusB • Yandman...

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022). Administrator changes ComplexRational Extraordinary Writ Stephen Andrew Yong...

the tool by going to Special:Userrights. Non-administrators may report abuse to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Administrators should...

installations. (last updated November 5, 2017) CSDHelper makes it easy for administrators to leave useful WP:CSD criteria when deleting articles. (last updated...

After such time, the reports can be removed. In addition, editors and administrators are highly encouraged to monitor Filter 102, Filter 148, Filter 149...

candidates Wikipedia:List of administrator hopefuls: non-admins interested in nomination Wikipedia:Administrators without tools: contains a template that...

Administrators' noticeboard/Archive50 I have indefintely blocked User:Professor33 as a sockpuppet of blocked user User:Giovanni33. I have also extended...

at mw:Wikimedia Labs/Tool Labs/Migration of Toolserver tools. Some users tested the migration process by transferring their tools to WMF Labs early. The...

WP:PERM/AIWP:PERM/AI WP:PERMAIWP:PERMAI Administrator instructions for Requests for permissions: Administrators are permitted to grant account creator...

administrative tools on Cold fusion. Macedonia 2: A case about naming disputes at the Macedonia article, and ChrisO's use of administrator tools in the dispute...

maintain admin tools in a recall (i.e. Is the baseline "Admin must prove consensus to keep tools" or "Community must prove consensus to remove tools"?) At the...

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2019). Administrator changes 28bytes • Ad Orientem • Ansh666 • Beeblebrox • Boing! said...

Administrators have the technical ability to do a number of things that ordinary users can’t do. Administrators are granted access to technical tools...

years. Bots and administrators using certain tools or administrative action patterns may achieve higher rates, while administrators using certain administrative...

No new administrators were added this month. An RfC has closed with changes to the relationship between administrator tools and paid editing. Editors responding...

have certain additional tools. However, standards for administrators have risen over the years, and many legacy administrators do not meet the standards...

OK, my mistake. Your action was a serious abuse of the tools, not an egregious abuse of the tools. You realise, of course, that even if you didn't notice...

administrative tools on Cold fusion. Macedonia 2: A case about naming disputes at the Macedonia article, and ChrisO's use of administrator tools in the dispute...

capable of dealing with the tools that come with adminship, and the implication of the outcome of application of those tools. Whilst there are a number...

group of tools exist to evaluate the contributions of two or more editors and can help to investigate disruptive user interactions. Each tool uses a different...

WikiProject for tools and edit counters. Our goal is to organize and coordinate the various efforts at creating edit counters and statistics tools. Our primary...

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022). Guideline and policy news A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion...

guide is intended to prevent invalid reports that needlessly take up administrators' time, thereby allowing vandals more time to cause havoc before being...

future administrator elections should be held. Technical news A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to filter...

mobile) These tools can be used to achieve the same effect as rollback if you do not have it. RC patrol script gives non-administrators revert, filter...

Ryulong: A case regarding Ryulong's use of his administrator tools. For misuse of his administrative tools, failure to address the community's concerns...

appropriately use the tools recently granted by the community. Accordingly, Archtransit is desysopped. He may not seek to regain administrator status without...

from their talkpage Scan the talkpage history for messages from other administrators. These may be an excellent indicator of an editor's reputation within...

are important to an administrator. Wikipedia administrators are not required to be good at everything; in fact, most administrators tend to focus on what...

overall better maintained. Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard (WP:AN) – for anything that affects administrators; General announcements, discussion of...

Administrative action review (XRV/AARV) determines whether use of the administrator tools or other advanced permissions is consistent with Wikipedia's policies...

WP:SPI/AIWP:SPI/AI This page explains the most common procedures for administrators patrolling the sockpuppet investigations (SPI) pages. SPI is where users...

granted tools to enforce consensus, not to unilaterally make decisions. We aren't granting them authority at RfA. We are entrusting them with tools to enforce...

been posted. Comments are invited on new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools. Following the 2017 election, eight editors have been...

this as well. A list of current users and tool administrators is available here [1] A guide to using the tool can be found here. Instructions to create...

contributors. The goal of this project is to give wiki administrators a more robust set of tools to be able to better respond to different user conflict...

results, etc) Close XfD (source) – Adds the latest semi-automated closure tools for XfD discussions (AfD, CfD, FfD, TfD, etc.)—accessible either in-line...

Tool labs casters-up: Tool labs goes kaput, bots running wild (not really), interface administrators step into the breach, new gadgets and other tech happenings...

redaction of posts and log entries by administrators, as well as peer review by any administrator of the correct use of the tool. Entries still appear in redacted...

page. ACC Tool Administrators are not the same as English Wikipedia Administrators; editors or users who are designated as ACC Tool Administrators should...

they're being paid to use a tool to close an RfC. Also it is not a use (or abuse) of admin tools because there are no admin tools being used. Primefac (talk)...

the user is leaving Wikipedia—and in any event, will not be using administrator tools for awhile per the arbitration decision—I can't imagine what possible...

2024 administrator elections! Administrators help keep Wikipedia running smoothly by performing administrative tasks that need restricted tools such as...

6 May 2019 (UTC) 4) Administrators are accountable for their actions involving administrator tools, as unexplained administrator actions can demoralize...

decision about how to best resolve a user conduct dispute. Non-administrators may also use the tool to determine whether to file a complaint about another user...

leaving eight cases open. Aitias: A case regarding Aitias's use of his administrator tools. Tang Dynasty: A case about editing conflicts on Inner Asia during...

ProveIt The Night Watch Technical news Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation...

have exclusive access to a number of tools to allow them to carry out certain functions on the project. The tools cover processes such as page deletion...

the decision, even if they do not use the tools for that discussion. The point isn't whether they use the tools for it, but rather a matter of it being...

Main tool page: [tools directory] Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references Checklinks - Edit and repair external links...

There are two routes for requesting administrator tools: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship or Wikipedia:Administrator elections. The tasks that admins actually...

(UTC) Function overview: Notifies users listed at Wikipedia:Administrators without tools/Endorsers when Template:GetMop is added to a page Automatic,...

is available through various offwiki tools, and through various onwiki tools (like popups) that query those tools; all of them give different numbers....

Administrators are Wikipedians with extra tools to help maintain the project. To acquire administrator privileges, a candidate must pass the Request for...

description of the idea. Wikipedia talk:Administrators open to recall – talk page with discussion. Wikipedia:Administrators open to recall/Admin criteria – the...

tools, such as Twinkle, one of the punishments available is the loss of your ability to use those tools. It has nothing to do with the type of tools or...

administrators are not expected to be perfect. However, sustained poor judgment or multiple violations of policy (in the use of administrator tools,...

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023). Administrator changes Firefangledfeathers AlisonW Amberrock Closedmouth Scottywong...

to Tool Admins for temporary UTRS ban If you need any further information, please ask at the talk page. UTRS interface for registered administrators The...

page with the relevant checkboxes already filled out. revdel-responder – Additional tools for responding to RD1 requests, useful with url-select-revdel...

tools. While 476 Admins (including bots) used their tools at least once between 27 April and 27 May 2015, only 269 of those Admins used their tools 10...

criteria, on a matter related to admin tools). Piotrus asserted that the matter is not related to the use of admin tools; the discussion ended 1) according...

befitting an administrator. Certain tasks in process usually fall only to administrators because they are the only ones with the tools to perform the...

issued by anonymous administrators. In this light, it is believed that the Anonymity should be restricted in relation to administrators, and particularly...

and ask for the tools, you get them for a month. After that month, there's an RFA to see if you should keep them. If you abuse the tools during the trial...

These include: Administrators Central notice administrators Global renamers Interface administrators MassMessage senders OAuth administrators Push subscription...

discussion. It has been announced that non-administrators are to be given access to the previously administrator-only rollback function. This has the ability...

oversighters also be administrators, the Arbitration Committee has traditionally restricted applications to users who are currently administrators. Oversighters...

enforced administrator recall is the process by which the community can choose to recall a user's administrator status when the admin tools have been...

Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team invites all Wikimedians to discuss new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools in December 2017 for...

to edit. Celarnor Talk to me 18:32, 20 May 2008 (UTC) Tools are fine. The people using the tools are not always fine, and sometimes they're a bit dumb...

Page Curation is a suite of tools developed between March and September 2012 by the Wikimedia Foundation in direct collaboration with the NPP team, greatly...

at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive814#Edit-warring and ownership issues by User:Takaisi and Wikipedia:Administrators'...

to this page.‎ The result was no administrator tools necessary. Any editor can revert, and all editors have the tools to do so. As a demonstration of that...

permissions/Account creator. Administrators do not need to request these permissions; the account creator user group is included in the Administrator toolset. To grant...

they so choose. This is not intended to apply to all administrators. Only those administrators who specifically commit to make themselves recallable...

it is a prime target for link spamming. Fortunately admins have numerous tools to fight any form of spam. The first attempts to prevent the spam follows...

bots run by admins can be considered mere tools for the job. The real question I think is do we trust the tools to work, and is it worth the cost (false...

anti-vandal tools you mentioned...well OK I couldn't get VP to work but that's besides the point. Huggle is capable of far more than all those tools combined...

Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee ruled by motion to remove the administrator tools from and ban long-time Wikipedia contributor Phil Sandifer. ← Back...

2010 (UTC) Apologies if I "lumped all administrators together" but the sad part is when some of the administrators chose to ignore the abusive language...

the blocking administrator is not available, or if the administrators cannot come to an agreement, then a discussion at the administrators' noticeboard...

tool or report just ask me Ill see what I can do. tools:~betacommand/user_stats.htm a unique edit counter tools:~betacommand/AfD_parser.html a tool to...

tools; it was operated by Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. Wikimedia Toolserver was fairly accessible over the Internet, and served out many useful tools written...

restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard...

believe that xTools is useful, a vote would be appreciated: meta:2016 Community Wishlist Survey/Categories/Moderation tools#Rewriting_X.21.27s_Tools. Note: While...

remove administrator access for abuse and/or self-de-adminship Wikipedia:Former administrators Wikipedia:Desysoppings by month Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard...

doesn't mean he cannot use such tools if they are effective, and all the other points stated seem to suggest that such tools aren't a problem as long as they...

for misusing the tools because you're the one reporting him, or because he's admin, or both. or (2) ryulong is not misusing the tools. i'm leaning more...

a single administrator, while others require a consensus of administrators. All editor and page restrictions may be appealed. Administrators are authorized...

traditionally given administrators wide discretion to enforce policies and principles using their own best judgment; and That administrators have been instructed...

Anti-Harassment Tools team and Support and Safety team. Administrators' Noticeboard/Incidents Experience Survey - Survey about user experience with Administrators'...

different moderation tools, as outlined below. These moderation tools are only available to readers, not to editors (who have their own tools that are more powerful...

(UTC) Aren't administrator standards of behavior and appropriate use of the tools what should be supported rather than individual administrators? Your "Support"...

the content translation tool. User:ToThAc/CXT list Moved from Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard § Content translator tool creating nonsense pages...

Wikipedia administrators are responsible for preventing and responding to disruptive editing through the use of these tools. In doing so, an administrator typically...

editors were 'above' other editors, merely that administrators have tools, and are allowed to use those tools. Shimeru's explanation was extremely clear,...

and abuse their admin tools, perhaps in an even worse way. I feel that it would be better for this user to relinquish their tools now and continue editing...

blocking administrator is not available, or if the administrators cannot come to an agreement, then a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard...

Committee for the restoration of her administrator status at any time. Administrators reminded and encouraged: Administrators are reminded that while they have...

Former administrators who resigned from adminship and are currently blocked or locked These former administrators have died. See also: Administrators who...

no consensus of administrators, nor is the issue whether or not there are other administrators willing to ban that Troll. Administrators carry out community...

No new administrators were added this month. Administrators are now able to add and remove editors to the "event coordinator" group. IP-based cookie blocks...

is the en.administrators.irc channel. It is a channel "for administrators only," even though at least three people who are not administrators are on it...

Oversight tools, while FT2 requested removal of checkuser, oversight, and administrator tools at Meta-wiki; he remains a participant and list administrator on...

been tried Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/Rich Farmbrough/January 2009-September 2010 Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/Rich...

administrators in their capacity as administrators. The dispute you're involved in is just a typical content dispute, which Wikipedia administrators would...

the Wikipedia community decides who will become administrators. In order to become an administrator, there needs to be a clear consensus of support in...

vandalism. What do these policies mean if administrators can make up the rules as they go along? Do administrators blocking people actually pay any attention...

become an administrator and the tools entrusted to administrators by default. Significant discussion took part on the potential for administrators to be selected...

blocking-tools related tasks In preparing for this initiative, we've been discussing issues with the current tools and processes with active administrators and...

sanctions. Other administrators indicated the same and that the consensus at AE was to leave protected for the time being. Other administrators agreed with...

September 2008 (UTC). 7) Administrators are accountable for their actions involving administrator tools, and unexplained administrator actions can demoralize...

release. This suite of tools includes administrator statistics, an improved edit counter, among other tools that may benefit administrators. You can report issues...

privately to the Anti-Harassment Tools team, you can email the Anti-Harassment Tools team. For the Anti-Harassment Tools Team, SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate...

an administrator is not to be a "supereditor" whose opinions matter more than non-administrators. Let me bold that. The opinions of administrators do...

The process of becoming an administrator is explained at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship, and the tasks that administrators can perform are described...

would almost certainly have taken away the tools by summary motion - they have increasingly taken the tools away where a discussion clearly indicates that...

which tool did you use? lol! –xenotalk 18:11, 21 April 2010 (UTC) Heh cheer up, I did it twice with DerHexer tools back in 2007. I still think that tool hates...

whether future administrator elections should be held. A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to filter for...

Administrators, commonly known as admins or sysops (system operators), are Wikipedians who have certain extra tools. These can only be acquired through...

2025 administrator elections! Administrators help keep Wikipedia running smoothly by performing administrative tasks that need restricted tools such as...

leaving seven cases open. Aitias: A case regarding Aitias's use of his administrator tools. Tang Dynasty: A case about editing conflicts on Inner Asia during...

review new administrators after a couple of months with the thought of making administrators better, or do self-nominated administrator review, and encourage...

"Administrators must not block users with whom they are engaged in a content dispute; instead, they should report the problem to other administrators....

uninvolved administrators who are willing to essentially babysit the page and review every incoming edit. And as we have seen before, administrators grow tired...

responsibilities of administrators, and consistent or egregious poor judgment may result in the removal of administrator tools. -2017-10, 2019-05 Administrators are expected...

adminbots and highly automated tools, in general, and in fact would like to see their use increased. However, having such tools operate in secret is begging...

tools, including his recent block of User:Itsmejudith, User:Carnildo's administrative tools are removed. Carnildo may regain the administrative tools...

provides reviewers with access to a suite of tools for effectively processing the new articles. These tools enable editors to get page info, mark a page...

could have Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Editors, Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Content, Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Admin problems...

presumably required the use of her admin tools to access. For example, viewing deleted revisions requires use of admin tools. Traditionally, although we consent...

the tools needed for cleanup, maintenance, and general vandalism protection, whereas "Administrators" would have these tools, plus a number of tools that...

immediately went to ANI and claimed I had abused my admin tools - of course, I had never used my admin tools, but the IP demanded "third-party arbitration or dispute...

performing administrative duties, with or without the use of admin tools. Administrators accept that they are held to a higher standard of conduct than other...

feedback about the use of his administrator tools, the editor identified as "Vanished user" voluntarily agreed to give up his tools and to consult with the...

information pertinent to the WMF's Anti-Harassment Tools team 2018 project of building improved tools and workflows to report harassment. From the 2017...

features ("tools"). For example, administrators can protect and delete pages, and block other editors. See Wikipedia:Administrators/Tools. Administrators are...

the social oversight of these tools, I am proposing that all Wikipedia administrators feel free to use or grant these tools at their discretion. In my opinion...

Anti-harassment tools team will be conducting a survey to gauge how well tools, training, and information exists to assist English Wikipedia administrators in recognizing...

inappropriate use of administrator tools, particularly in editing through full protection to change high-visibility templates. Administrators are expected to...

22:10, 3 September 2010 (UTC) (edit conflict) You gave him the tools, not me. Administrators ought to stay away from spats on user talk pages. Malleus Fatuorum...

appealed to the imposing administrator, the appropriate administrators' noticeboard or the Arbitration Committee. Administrators are not to reverse such...

("tools") made available for use by Wikimedia readers, editors and administrators. The Toolserver is survived by its spiritual successor Wikimedia Tool...

administrative tools and failure to relate appropriately with other administrators, MONGO is desysopped. For misuse of his administrative tools, as well as...

Rob13Talk 16:45, 9 July 2018 (UTC) How many arb clerks are not administrators? Wouldn't they need tools to sanction anyway? Natureium (talk) 19:42, 9 July 2018...

didn't use their admin tools once on you, so no abuse there, but then you ran to this board to complain that they had used tools against you. All I can...

bias, or using my admin tools to gain advantage in a dispute. An analogous conflict of interest would be using my admin tools to enforce my particular...

the tools – and with the dearth of newly-promoted admins in the last half-decade, reducing the number of people who can help out with the admin tools doesn't...

not using the tools much, but using them enough to prevent automatic desysopping for inactivity. As long as when they do use the tools, they aren't abusing...

appealed to the imposing administrator, the appropriate administrators' noticeboard, or the Arbitration Committee. Administrators are not to reverse such...

Technical news Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking...

will not prevent hijacked administrator accounts from vandalising. Harblocks do not apply to administrators, since administrators have a little permission...

level 1 is that the tools can be restored easily in proverbial morning. What we have here is a total mess, but one that had admin tools not been used, would...

more tools. B'crats are users with still more tools. Etc., etc., etc. —Kurykh 06:48, 22 November 2007 (UTC) Technically, everyone should have tools. Only...

Moved from Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents I'm closing this section per WP:SNOW, we have no community desysop process. If we really must...

general, administrators should not second-guess the application by other administrators of rules such as the 3RR. Even if one administrator would have...

precaution, but what should we do with the tools? Thanks Secret account 20:17, 14 December 2009 (UTC) Nothing. The tools don't do anything if no one is using...

administrator needs to use their tools to eliminate all those links at once. Dream Focus 23:17, 3 June 2014 (UTC) There aren't really any admin tools...

here. This seems to clearly contravene Wikipedia:Administrators: Administrators should not use their tools to advantage, or in a content dispute (or article)...

From WP:ADMINACCT: Administrators are accountable for their actions involving administrator tools, and unexplained administrator actions can demoralize...

given administrator would have more sense than that but I'm positive someone would dispute the sense of administrators (to include fellow administrators who...

community supports) that administrators shouldn't use the tools in content disputes. maliciously reading WP:ADMIN to mean that administrators may not block users...

of administrator tools and disclosure of past paid editing during RfA at Wikipedia_talk:Administrators#RfC_about_paid_use_of_administrator_tools. All...

has already been nuked under G5, so admin tools are desired. MER-C 11:51, 24 May 2019 (UTC) No admin tools but I'll pitch in with my non-admin mop. --qedk...

files. There are several software tools available to assist in moving files from the various Wikipedias into commons. Tools that are "web apps" can be run...

how that went over: sysop tools seem much less important to people who have them than to people who don't. Administrators are expected to have the wisdom...

Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention. For other cases involving vandalism, personal attacks or other urgent issues, try Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents;...

03:02, 28 June 2015 (UTC) Guy, it's not just about the tools – Wikipedia:Administrators#Administrator conduct (aside: this needs a shortcut – I'd suggest...

appealed to the imposing administrator, the appropriate administrators' noticeboard (currently WP:AE), or the Committee. Administrators are cautioned not to...

one of these pages. Shortcut WP:EFAQ#TOOLSWP:EFAQ#TOOLS See Wikipedia:Tools for a list of such tools. Shortcut WP:EFAQ#CITEWP:EFAQ#CITE See Wikipedia:Referencing...

on you, as the person requesting that admins use their tools, to show that the use of those tools is justified in this case. Being justified means that...

Administrator College is the working title for a series of Wikispace pages which will be designed to help new (and not so new) administrators. These pages...

idea to get the attention of administrators, who have a variety of tools to deal with vandalism. Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism...

administrative tools in editorial disputes in which he is personally involved, and to avoid misusing the administrative rollback tool for content reversions...

concerns, and the appointed administrators would be expected to look over these in a neutral manner. I'm looking for 5/6 administrators to take this role. If...

and administrators can view private filters. Edit filter managers also have the ability to edit tags. This group is assignable by administrators, who...

28 October 2021 (UTC) A SysOP is an administrator. Wikipedia:Administrators reads at sentence one: Administrators, commonly known as admins or sysops...

telling him to stop using his admin tools in this situation, including warning users, considering his abuse of the tools. Lara❤Love 05:38, 16 March 2008 (UTC)...

responsibilities of administrators, and consistent or egregious poor judgment may result in the removal of administrator tools. Administrators should strive...

smaller, sometimes more useful tools, don't get spun out first. Protonk (talk) 23:56, 5 November 2008 (UTC) Because those tools aren't as prominent in peoples...

situation in the section directly a few sections above here, at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Haizum_-_request_for_further_admin_action. Similar...

really discipline administrators are in fact other administrators We have arb-com and Jimbo, who really do discipline administrators too. This sounds like...

Ikip). Should AMiB retain his tools, face a permanent restriction of their use in regards to Ikip. Should AMiB retain his tools, face a permanent restriction...

question are at Macedonia 2 - Use of administrator tools in a dispute, Involved administrators, and Uninvolved administrators. The combined effect of these proposed...

campaign. I urge reviewing administrators to look at the the background made visible in this posting on the Administrators noticeboard: Incident Archive:...

general, administrators should not second-guess the application by other administrators of rules such as the 3RR. Even if one administrator would have...

improvements to blocking tools. Now join the discussion to select 2 to build from the shortlist. For the Anti-Harassment Tools team, SPoore (WMF), Community...

not a crisis). The fact that the tools in question turned out to either be wiki tools, like the editor interaction tool, in common knowledge among projectspace...

user would like to give." New and returning administrators: The Signpost welcomes two new administrators, and returning admins to the English Wikipedia...

I use. I want others to use my tools. I don't want to be that guy that when they leave Wikipedia they take the tools with them. Not all complains are...

consensus on nominated candidates becoming administrators. Wikipedia administrators have access to a number of tools that can aid in maintenance. Potential...

activity requirements for administrators. Administrators who are blocked have the technical ability to block the administrator who blocked their own account...

use their tools regularly and are very familiar with how to use them. The problem mostly comes with veteran admins who don't use the tools very often...

"undelete" at WP:Administrators please? Thanks. Biosthmors (talk) 11:00, 10 September 2013 (UTC) It's at Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to provide...

five ‘administrators’ . The article on TSTMNBN does not say that Wikipedia has 30 million administrators, nor that Wikipedia had 5 administrators. I fear...

Attack? If pointing out abuse of the administrator tools is an attack, then yes, it's an attack. I think administrators are supposed to be more accountable...

the tools. RickinBaltimore (talk) 20:26, 30 January 2022 (UTC) Based on that diff, I agree with the recommendation that they relinquish the tools. I had...

(UTC) Hand, see Wikipedia:BAN#Administrator_ban: "Administrator-imposed bans should be appealed at the administrators' noticeboard, or the arbitration...

talk namespace. tools.wmflabs.org/catscan2/catscan2.php?categories=AfC+submissions+declined+as+blank&ns[5]=1&ns[118]=1&doit=1 tools.wmflabs.org/catscan2/catscan2...

sanctions following a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard or Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Such a discussion must...

tools is the personal sense of responsibility to the community, and the knowledge that as admin is a position of trust the effect of having the tools...

following six administrator by country categories, Category:American Wikipedia administrators, Category:Australian Wikipedia administrators, Category:English...

with Wikipedia:Administrators#Administrator conduct item #5: You are hereby notified that it shall be considered an abuse of admin tools if your talk page...

to desysop administrators or alternatively place partial restrictions on the use of their tools. Accusations made against administrators should be taken...

Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool under development by the Moderator Tools team. It allows administrators to enable and configure automated reversion...

the link sent me to https://tools.wmflabs.org/dplbot/dab_fix_list.php , but my Firefox couldn't find the server at tools.wmflabs.org . When is Dabsolver...

practice when things aren't up to scratch. Tools are given by the Community and the rules governing those tools are also set by the Community - extra weight...

a big favor by retracting the allegations. Only administrators can delete articles, and administrators get their positions because they have the full trust...

there were no tool abuses so what does taking the tools away solve? A solution IMO here is a temporary block, with no removal of tools; after all, if...

uninvolved administrators. The three administrators will then discuss at the talk page of the XfD how the debate should be closed. The administrator who referred...

08:17, 8 December 2018 (UTC) We already have tools for dealing with LTAs and obvious vandals: the admin tools. If you think admins are responding too slowly...

mind" Another administrator B then unbooted him. This is a statement that Travb has acknowledged to be false under Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Decision...

CVU should give people tools, not organize the use of those tools. The main invitation appears to not be "do you want to use tools to fight vandalism?"...

the AN/I Survey, the Foundation's Support and Safety and Anti-Harassment Tools teams looked at several ways to gain insights on the AN/I process through...

content", and exists principally to alert administrators to issues that might require their intervention as administrators (as against as "regular" users, in...

automated tools (I don't think the word ban is appropriate in this context.) – If Rich finds editing using semi-automated or automated tools absolutely...

that gives administrators the ability to delete recently created pages en masse. Administrators should be very careful when using this tool and make sure...

checkusers also be administrators, the Arbitration Committee has traditionally restricted applications to users who are currently administrators. Checkusers...

User:TheShadowCrow → Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive248#Please remove my ban. → Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive249#Ban_appeal...

July 2005 (UTC) Please see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RR#User:Mansour and ...... Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RR#User:Jayjg Large claims...

and tools, bot building, admin or sysop work, link repair, Mediawiki developers, etc.) Is there a good reason to have both Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard...

exceptions where tool use is allowed by any admin, administrators should ensure they are reasonably neutral parties when they use the tools." Was this one...

script to my tools. Tahnks.  Dlohcierekim (talk) 18:33, 22 July 2019 (UTC) Hmmm. Sorry if I'm intruding on the bloodfest, but do any of these tools calculate...

Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Autopatrolled or from any administrator who is familiar with your work. Administrators may also assign the right to themselves. Shortcut...

the first instance to the revoking administrator. Failing which, a further appeal can be made at the Administrators' noticeboard only. Do not create such...

through discussion. and However, according to wp:administrators, "Administrators should not use their tools to advantage, or in a content dispute (or article)...

adminship" process where potential administrators only answer three standard questions and become administrators by default unless a certain number of...

these instructions: * Any administrator can create or move this page for you. Please post a request at the Administrators' noticeboard. * You may also...

isn't a consensus of administrators that matters. It is a consensus of editors that matters. Administrators merely have access to tools to do the community's...

admin tools? (such as deletion/undeletion, blocking, page protection, revdel, PERM, etc.). What's the reason for your choice? A: My use of the tools varies...

track records as non-administrators. There are, of course, ways to handle troublesome users once they have the administrator tools. Nishkid64 (talk) 03:18...

large number of administrators", since many different administrators were involved in effectuating these protections. No one administrator protected all...

January 2011 (UTC) Are you facepalming the misuse of tools, or the concept that misuse of tools should be taken to arbcom? It's a little unclear--Cube...

be identified whether or not they obtain these tools.[clarification needed] How would administrators identify? What would be involved? There are two...

This is clear abuse of the tools:[8]. Protection is not an endorsement of a version, and its quite improper to use ones tools to get it locked in the version...

"ability". A user without admin tools can use {{editprotected}}, as can an admin who is too involved to use their tools. If an edit turns out to be controversial...

(UTC) It's just a redirect (Wikipedia talk:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentsWikipedia talk:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents) although it is fully...

that your administrator right is removed. I'm sorry to say that the years of power imbalance between administrators and non-administrators has meant that...

reviewing these instructions this process requires someone with tools (like access to the tools server) that I do not have.--Kumioko (talk) 15:55, 8 August...

consensus is policy. Administrators enforce the wishes of the community as mediums for/tools of the consensus. They do not use their tools to enforce their...

two areas where they are ready to use the administrator tools. The minimum expectation for new administrators is that they will have added some reliably-sourced...

counter-productive to come to the Administrators' noticeboard for help, and then jump in by accusing administrators of doing bad things. What's that old...

answered without hesitation. I would like to see all administrators be included in a category of administrators or have some other uniform identification that...

consensus in some way. Instead, both administrators elected to pursue a sterile edit war. By doing so, both administrators demonstrated their profound lack...

Rollback all edits made by a particular user. Proceed with caution! Huggle – A tool for anti-vandalism that, on the English Wikipedia, requires rollback permissions...

admin tools. So, if this information is available, it is ok to post that somewhere else under the condition that it is not retrieved using admin tools. Good...

automated tools, blanking fair questions about your use of automated tools, offering a grudging non-apology to the person you reverted with automated tools and...

administrative tools to lock the content of this page AT ALL. I seek appropriate sanctions against Raul654 for his use of administrative tools while involved...

AfD outcome they did not like was a misuse of administrator tools and of the trust placed in administrators to act according to community consensus. If...

October 2008 (UTC) Point of note: he is an administrator, yes, but he has not used his administrator tools for some years (with a single exception in...

tools, but that with power comes responsibility, and you do need to ensure that you err on the side of caution in ensuring that these powerful tools,...

administrator or not. I would suggest, though, that non-administrators without the lengthy and voluminous experience typically seen in administrators...

psychiatric breakdown and this administrator's tools should be placed on medical leave for a month. A month without tools never hurt anyone. It could be...

await an answer from the administrators. Also if this person posts on my talk page again, I will notify the administrators here. Kerusso 04:38, 16 January...

potential unrelated ambiguity/contradiction regarding administrators who voluntarily resign their tools and subsequently have an extended period of inactivity...

tools in enforcing that. Not about overturning Marek's block, which this noticeboard is more than capable of doing. What it cannot do is remove tools...

reasons, largely because they're above and beyond the tools normally available for individual administrators to address problematic behaviour in the most controversial...

Admin Tools", "Censoring the Wiki", and such. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 03:56, 27 June 2010 (UTC) Actually, I don't think redirects need admin tools.--Jojhutton...

This is a notice that User:Pigsonthewing is banned from editing the Administrators' noticeboard and all subpages of said page, including WP:AN/I for a...

where administrators are normally given any additional editing privileges is where there is a requirement of use of administrator's additional tools. Like...

administrators' action against me at WP:AE for a few times. Yet everytime he filed a request, he provides only one-side evidence, and administrators act...

up the "well, admins can abuse the tools too, not just normal users" – administrators who abuse the rollback tool significantly are more likely to be...

seven cases open. Ryulong: A case regarding Ryulong's use of his administrator tools. Obama articles: A case opened to review behavior of editors of articles...

standard: Category:Wikipedia administrators Category:Wikipedia administrators (science) Category:Wikipedia administrators (who like doing page protects)...

technologically sophisticated administrators, but it seems clear to me that it is useful and justifiable for more sophisticated administrators to know as much as...

will be desysopped. If the tools are resigned or removed in either of the circumstances described above, restoration of the tools to SchuminWeb will require...

being more common—and if the latter group is abusing the automated tools, then the tools need to be either throttled or disabled. —C.Fred (talk) 20:28, 30...

community appoints administrators through a process known as RfA. A number of recent discussions and a lengthening list of Former administrators who have laid...

of Carnildo's administrative tools for "long-term poor judgement" in his use of the tools. Carnildo may regain the tools via a successful request for...

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024). Administrator changes Crisco 1492 Babajobu Daniel Elf Jayron32 Thue Wugapodes CheckUser...

this possibility - possible removal of "extra tools" - was noted at the second decline.) Removal of tools (similar to most admin actions) are to be preventative...

restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard...

uninvolved administrator at Wikipedia:Administrators Noticeboard/Incidents. See Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons § Role of administrators. this is...

expertise, but were picked because they were trusted not to abuse the tools. Abuse of tools may now include password security, but it didn't when these editors...

fail the RFA, their admin tools will be taken off them. However only strikes should be given by un-involved administrators or good-faith editors. If any...

words "any administrator" almost always, as convention, because it goes without saying that involved administrators should never use their tools in the conflict...

administrators are not expected to be perfect. However, sustained poor judgment or multiple violations of policy (in the use of administrator tools,...

and to one another." "Administrators are accountable for their actions involving administrator tools, and unexplained administrator actions can demoralize...

context of the answer, I think you're doing pretty well with your administrator tools. Though I will recommend (as I'd recommend any admin) to take a look...

who is not an administrator of talking down to administrators? Odd thing to do. There are many documented instances of administrators talking down to...

the person back at them. Administrators are Elitist Bastards: I don't care what anyone says, the vast majority of administrators are pompous overbearing...

any field using tools. Should experts on politics use their tools in service of what they know to be true? Are, indeed, administrators charged with determining...

is kind of silly anyway. Why do we restrict administrator tools like delete and protect to administrators? Because we trust them to know what they're...

authors, and those who use robot editing tools to explain the justifications behind their work, as these tools can make massive changes that are very hard...

all of the accounts owned by administrators are accounts with administrator rights. It should say "... are administrators" because it is the account not...

Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)...

Given that he didn't use any admin tools to do this, and that admins are supposed to be just editors with extra tools, I just wonder how you guys would...

are given their tools to use them themselves, not to create a script and have the script do the work for them. We were given our tools because the community...

an article and subsequent edits made by administrators. Wikipedia is not a two-tier system where administrators get to roam free on protected articles...

feel supported with tools and other resources from the Wikimedia Foundation. On Monday, October 2, 2017, the Anti-Harassment Tools team will share further...

the actual issue, but I think administrators should be very reluctant to use a block log to criticise other administrators, since, as far as I know, block...

you stated that his use of tools "tends to be on the same side". I'm assuming that you're saying that his use of tools is more often used on editors...

Wikipedia policies governing administrators did not expressly discuss whether administrators may utilize their administrator tools as part of a fully disclosed...

when administrators delete non-free content images that don't fall within the narrow confines of our exemption doctrine, discourage administrators from...

act in enforcement, an administrator must at all relevant times have their access to the tools enabled. Former administrators – that is, editors who have...

20:36, 5 August 2010 (UTC) I am going to use no administrator tools, and merely ordinary editor's tools to send this to AFD, in order to avoid any wheel...

to be granted the tools - but the decision is that of a 'Crat who weighs the arguments for validity. Being entrusted with the tools, and being recognised...

also suggest that we hold administrators to a higher standard than people with bad records, not a lower one. Administrators who intentionally break the...

unanimously to revoke Carnildo's administrative tools for "long-term poor judgement" in his use of the tools, particularly in view of the recent block he...

Then why should he be allowed to have the tools back at all? Why all this navel-gazing? Poor administrators ought to be sacked. Period. It's no big deal...

the blocking administrator is not available, or if the administrators cannot come to an agreement, then a discussion at the administrators' noticeboard...

User:Omegatron used his admin tools to recreate these articles as redirects and then protected them. This is blatant misuse of admin tools and could also be considered...

the details. Perhaps if he were assured secrecy by only one or two administrators (probably AllyUnion and someone else from WP:BOT, he would give the...

by administrators, as well as peer review by any administrator of the correct use of the tool." "They are subject to review by other administrators (who...

P A discussion (permanent link) on the Administrators' noticeboard asks whether paid feedback for using a tool as an admin requires disclosure. In more...

because blocking wars like this make all administrators look bad. What moral authority will administrators have to inspire other editors to work harmoniously...

permissions/Mass message sender. Administrators do not need to request or add this user right for themselves or other administrators as it is automatically granted...

MOS:IDENTITY 2012-05-07: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive751#AndyTheGrump 2012-06-21: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive757#AndyTheGrump...

responsibilities as outlined in Wikipedia:Administrators#Accountability and Wikipedia:Administrators#Administrator conduct, BrownHairedGirl is desysopped...

example see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive82#Plagiarism and copyright infringement denied and Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive84#Blocked...

balance process with the potential for repercussions. Administrators should not be using the tools because they have no fear of accountability; it is a...

attention that they receive from being an administrator, just give up the tools. I'm not saying to give up the tools, and cause disruption. I'm also not just...

resigns his administrative tools, this case shall be automatically closed, and Geschichte shall be permanently desysopped. If tools are resigned or removed...

of administrator block privileges. Tan ǀ 39 03:02, 18 July 2008 (UTC) Hardly the first or likely to be the last example of such abuse. Administrators need...

that I keep talking about that use the tools abusively to their own ends and POV. Yet rather than remove the tools from these few trouble makers its more...

or trick that allows them to evade community standards or misuse administrator tools, it should not be treated the same as a good-faith mistake. However...

summary. as long as i have tools here, i will use them.) I guess the part that worries me the most is as "long as i have tools here, i will use them." Tiptoety...

administrative tools. Administrator tools may not be used to further the administrator's own position in a content dispute. Administrators who are unsure...

the tools away for him is justified. Beside recently, he seemingly doesn't have a history of abuse. I think he should be banned from using the tools for...

We've had quite a few issues with the user's past use of the tools. (Including using the tools to edit war to "enforce" a "decision" (which may or may not...

saga, but I'd like the opinions of administrators on whether something would be an appropriate use of admin tools. Looking at Essjay controversy last...

foist that upon administrators alone. We're only the people who are trusted not to go mad with the page protection and account blocking tools. (We're trustys...

need to find an administrator who is active on Wikipedia right now, you can use the Recently Active Users tool to locate one. Administrators may contact other...

likely, showing the ability to act responsibly in using tools. There are several other tools similar to twinkle (VP, ircmon of AWB), but those have a...

relinquish the tools, then that can be presented as evidence in an ArbCom case, but for now I believe the most we should do is use the tools we have available...

nothing in his use of sysop tools to evaluate. Having the opinion that policy is being violated in his presence and using sysop tools to correct the situation...

that: The Arbitration Committee reminds administrators that they should generally not use administrative tools in situations where good-faith editors disagree...

regarding the problem: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive191#Odd_IP_page_postings Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive531#Nasal_irrigation...

don't think the fair use tool exists anymore, though the toolserver and most of its tools are still operational at http://tools.wikimedia.de, though not...

an administrator. Accordingly, the committee takes over the decision to remove Fram's administrator tools. They may regain the administrative tools at...

out a fellow admin to advise him prior to using his admin tools, he knew he was using his tools incorrectly. He shouldn't get to hold onto them. - Arcayne...

- admins are just editors with a few extra tools. If you need to contact one thats what the administrator noticeboard etc is for. ViridaeTalk 07:40, 9...

such, while any administrators may enforce the ruling, the mentors should be seen as the primary enforcers, and other administrators are encouraged to...

special tools to let them monitor the feedback page, as described below. Experienced editors and administrators have access to special monitoring tools to...

(but not legislative) process. Administrators are certainly not above non-administrators. We are given certain tools that help us perform necessary maintenance...

As this is relevant to administrators, I would appreciate more comments. Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Administrators editing signatures. --Deskana...

possible, contact other administrators informally to be sure there are others who agree with your reasoning. The administrators' noticeboard, IRC and email...

instructions for administrators are no longer mixed in with instructions for new users. In the section for username patrollers and administrators, it clarifies...

restrictions placed by administrators on specific editors. The second amendment states that the general expectation of administrators to explain their actions...

All administrators are individually responsible for any blocks they make based on that list. ISP Rangefinder is a tool that allows administrators to easily...

make a successful request for adminship if he wishes to regain his administrator tools. ← Previous "Arbitration report" Next "Arbitration report" → In this...

not in the "administrators open to recall" category, which is voluntary. If you believe there is a pattern of misuse of administrator tools here, you may...

The powers and position of "Administrator" have existed in some form since Wikipedia's inception in 2001. Administrators were initially selected by Wikipedia...

project, all users, from the IP user to admins and others with advanced tools are afforded the benefit and respect of our fundamental policies of governance...

most powerful tools when coming across 'prohibited' usernames. Blocking those that are considered disruptive by multiple administrators (as is the case...

remove admin tools, just haven't seen any admins volunteer for a meaningful way of doing it. Part of the problem is the mindset that tools are given indefinately...

various tools available to help with this. At any given time there are usually several contributors checking recent edits for vandalism; these tools are of...

a noticeboard for administrators. Help page for the tool Special:MergeHistory – the tool itself. Administrators might find this tool useful. —Tom Morris...

Beware of using tools like that, especially if one of the editors you are checking is a serial vandal-fighter. According to the first tool, almost everyone...

required to explain why they don't use the tools. WP:ADMINACCT only requires admins to explain why they used the tools when asked. It does not discuss anything...

worry about, even though, these days, I have seen people (administrators and non-administrators) not take WP:CIVILITY seriously. She constantly creates...

updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022). Guideline and policy news Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity...

three new administrators (Dreamy Jazz, Newslinger, and Rosguill). An RfC asks whether partial blocks should be enabled, allowing administrators to block...

reverts. There are new tools constantly being developed that are designed to more efficiently identify and combat vandalism. Administrators can see what is going...

receiving feedback about the use of his administrator tools, Shoemaker's Holiday voluntarily agreed to give up his tools and to consult with the Arbitration...

that I no longer have the tools. There may be good reasons for some of the other admins on that list to no longer have the tools: not having to deal with...

Tech • Misc) Wikipedia principles nav bar: Writing guides nav bar: Tools nav bar: Tools AWB Counter Createds Feeds OTS Pagestats Scholar T-filler Top Traffic...

blocking administrator is not available, or if the administrators cannot come to an agreement, then a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard...

of that, consider that one of the unblocking administrators did so in the face of three administrators (beside the blocking admin) who supported the...

one, don't believe administrators should be using their tools to do things they could do as editors; nor should they use their tools to step around community...

to use the account's sysop tools to vandalize. What if we had a second password needed in order to access the sysop tools on that account? For example...

judgement. Administrators sometimes do malign things to editors they are in conflict with, in contravention of Wikipedia policy not to use admin tools to settle...

therefore only administrators may be considered. The Committee encourages interested administrators to apply, and invites holders of one tool to apply for...

that administrators have repeatedly failed to take into account in their decisions", and that is absolutely true, but it is not only administrators: both...

disputes at Macedonia and related articles, including ChrisO's use of administrator tools in the dispute. The final decision provides that a discussion is...

active editor without automated tools. I don't think he should have them. Also, I may be wrong, but I see hints these tools are mostly why he edits here:...

expectations and responsibilities of administrators as outlined in WP:ADMINACCT. He may regain the administrative tools at any time via a successful request...

would be an entirely objective analysis, and administrators will form their own conclusions. Administrators will also see that my Moderation Cabal message...

2 December 2010 (UTC) You're on the wrong noticeboard. Administrators don't have the tools for that. Uncle G (talk) 20:58, 2 December 2010 (UTC) Resolved...

Administrators look over the rational behind InShaneee warnings for a block and finally the two blocks imposed against me by the same administrator....

isn't really an issue requiring administrator attention, and unfortunately there is no Developers' noticeboard. Administrators can't do anything about the...

Commission – November 2014; proposal to appoint administrators and to remove rights Wikipedia:Administrators/RfC for an Admin Review Board – November 2014...

for administrators, and it is critical that administrators understand that. This is the kind of action that is most likely to lead to administrator sanction...

that there are at least a few honest administrators who would agree. Is that a reason to block that administrator for some period short of going to ArbCom...

abuse (Firefox et. al.). They're all tools that have good uses and which can be abused. When we can tell what tools are being abused and what aren't, it's...

uninvolved administrators. The three administrators will then discuss at the talk page of the XfD how the debate should be closed. The administrator who referred...

soon-to-be-banned Wifione would be ineligible for automatic restoration of admin tools (the tools are normally returned as a matter of course when an admin voluntarily...

of the tools sets a terrible standard. Correction for abuse of the tools in such a repeated and blatant fashion is simple: remove of the tools. This will...

part of the core administrator tools, an admin could be stripped of their administrative privileges entirely to remove those tools. Dan Koehl (talk)...

And there's plenty of downloadable tools within the Wikipedia namespace which are effectively entirely off-wiki tools and could be replaced with far more...

shows this to be a routine desysop for lack of use of the tools, Violetriga can get the tools back any time just by asking. There is absolutely no shame...

thread(s) (older than 24h) to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive714, Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive713." The four...

admin tools. Keeper ǀ 76 21:14, 5 September 2008 (UTC) In this case, he also made no prior attempt to discuss with me - but if he used his tools I haven't...

using tools or not using tools. It's a paranoid perspective, in my view. Most of the obnoxious parties at Wikipediocracy not only don't have tools to be...

of tools and your point would probably be a good place to make a fresh start with that discussion. This discussion should be about the abuse of tools, this...

discussion on the incident board here: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive219#Use_of_admin_tools_in_content_dispute --Timeshifter 21:53, 2...

thinks that the block wasn't misuse of the tools then see Wikipedia:ADMIN#Misuse of administrative tools (RE: Conflict of interest, non-neutrality, or...

front page under the title: "Wikipedia has fascist Administrators!" "Wikipedia fascist administrators like ProhibitOnions persecute russian heroes who fight...

the tools, 2) dismissive treatment of the editor punished by the misuse of the tools, 3) failure to heed those pointing out the misuse of the tools, 4)...

sockpuppet accounts. I would greatly appreciate it if someone with the right tools could explore this in greater detail. Thanks. --AaronS 18:51, 5 July 2006...

not the correct answer to this problem. Abuse of administrator tools is abuse of administrator tools. This represents a clear misunderstanding of both...

Wikipedia:Administrators - "Administrators are expected to respond promptly and civilly to queries about their Wikipedia-related conduct and administrator actions...

for action against the following administrators. The concerned administrators are user:YellowMonkey the administrator who made the first block without...

instruction: Please make your comments concise. Administrators are less likely to read long diatribes. Are administrators exempt from WP:AGF? I brought this issue...

users misusing the tools, not the tools for being misused. Just because a few users make an ass of themselves when they use the tools is not a reason to...

tools against him" WTF? If you are even slightly tempted to use your admin tools against someone because they have accused you of abusing admin tools...

even as a user of these tools, I think the situation of various antivandalism tools is escalating to the point where the tools themselves are ALSO to blame...

withheld or unbundled from the rights of current administrators. Administrators who use the rollback tool will therefore be subject, in the course of the...

and not something that administrators can correct, the bugzilla is a better place to bring your discussion. We administrators are rather powerless on...

This discussion started at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Mantanmoreland ban discussion/Part 2#User:WordBomb but really needs a wider audience....

may be presumed to be paid advocates. Paid use of administrators' tools by Wikipedia administrators or bureaucrats is incompatible with the duties these...

resigns his administrative tools, this case shall be automatically closed, and Jonathunder shall be permanently desysopped. If tools are resigned or removed...

org/wiki/User_talk:Garion96#Christine_Marais Is it standard Wiki practice for administrators to be dismissive of reasonable requests? Is it possible that sufficient...

appealed to the imposing administrator, the appropriate administrators' noticeboard, or the Arbitration Committee. Administrators are not to reverse such...

where avoiding tool use is often required: Conflict of interest or non-neutrality – Administrators should not normally use their tools in matters in which...

contributors and administrators to make timely, informed decisions when harassment occurs. Four focus areas have been identified where new tools could be beneficial...

which can be seen at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~robchurch/semiProt.php and one on all protected pages, at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~robchurch/fullProt...

experienced editor or administrator. The names of genuine editors and administrators are often used (for example, the names of administrators who have deleted...

dealing with this issue without support from administrators: this is a content dispute with an administrator who has announced that he is above Wikipedia...

just want to get across, I'm not calling into question Julian's use of the tools, I think he's acted admirably throughout our little disagreement and within...

the Tang Dynasty. Ryulong: A case regarding Ryulong's use of his administrator tools. Obama articles: A case opened to review behavior of editors of articles...

authorized to use those tools as weapons of "punishment" or other forms of assault. Please do not ask for administrators to abuse their tools. --FOo 03:54, 16...

Administrators and other editors here may perhaps be interested in Wikipedia talk:Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure#RfC about listing discussions...

obvious, deletion makes content more inaccessible for both administrators and non-administrators alike. Sdrqaz (talk) 11:41, 9 October 2022 (UTC) If someone's...

columns should be self explanatory. Wikipedia Administrators and System Operators have essential tools at their disposal to greatly improve WikiProject...

that at the talk page of the article two administrators supported keeping the protection and zero administrators opposed keeping it.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:57...

have the tools, but some are just as experienced -- and just as widely respected -- as some who do have the tools. Further, administrators are in theory...

Fleet Command had the tools for this closing, so had sufficient tools as per WP:NACD to make a non-admin closure.  Administrators with a COI should not...

not misused administrative tools in this dispute. Any editor may revert changes, and many non-administrative editing tools include a rollback function...

that administrators are expected to follow Wikipedia policies and have actions that are compatible with the status of administrator. No admin tools were...

them. I’m not sure what you mean by tools-based ban. TonyBallioni (talk) 18:26, 23 December 2018 (UTC) I mean tools-based as in "you're not allowed to...

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