Wikipedia: Requests for sysop attention
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ja:Wikipedia:管理者への要請
Do you need an administrator to... (What is an administrator?)
- Delete a page? Visit:
- Wikipedia:Votes for Deletion if you feel the page does not belong in Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Candidates for speedy deletion if the page appears nonsensical or just someone testing the wiki
- Wikipedia:Requested moves if the wiki stops you moving a page.
- Learn more by reading the deletion policy
- Delete a category? Visit:
- Categories for deletion
- Learn more about categorization
- Undelete a page or allow you to view a deleted page? Visit:
- Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion
- Learn more by reading the undeletion policy
- Protect or unprotect a page? Visit:
- Edit a protected page?
- Ask on the talk page. For example, for changes to MediaWiki:Blockedtext, ask at MediaWiki talk:Blockedtext
- Learn more by reading the protection policy
- Report a vandal? Visit:
- Wikipedia: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?
- Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress
- Revert one or two vandal's/inexperienced user's edits? Visit:
- Wikipedia:revert
- To see how many damaging edits a user is making click their username and then User contributions.
- What is a revert?
- Wikipedia:revert
- Redirect or Page move issues? Visit:
- Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion or Wikipedia:Requested moves
- or try the Village pump
- What is a redirect?
- Unblock a user?
- Email the sysop who carried out the ban via their User page or ask at the Wikipedia:Village pump
- Learn more by reading the blocking policy.
- Query the Wikipedia database? Visit:
- Wikipedia:SQL query requests
- or download the database and run them yourself.
- Enforce an arbitration ruling? Visit:
- Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration
- Learn more by reading the arbitration policy
To ask an administrator a question, seek advice and so on see the list of administrators
Please note that sysops do not...
- Resolve disputes.
- Try the dispute resolution process instead.
- Fix bugs.
- You can report them at MediaZilla though.
- Make administrators.
- Only bureaucrats and stewards can do this.
- Remove administrator status from anyone.
- This is done by stewards, or, in emergency cases only, by developers.
- Reassign edits or make name changes.
- Ask a developer at Wikipedia:Changing attribution for an edit or Wikipedia:Changing username.
- Delete accounts.
- This is not possible. See Wikipedia:Account deletion
- Protect pages on a specific version, or "from" a specific user, or decide which version is "correct" or "NPOV".
