Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention

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Do you need an administrator to... (What is an administrator?)

If you are here because you are involved in a content dispute, you may want to read Wikipedia:Resolving disputes.

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 whether a user is making many damaging edits click their username and then User contributions.
- What is vandalism?

Delete a page? Visit:
- Wikipedia:Articles 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

Undelete a page or allow you to view a deleted page? Visit:
- Wikipedia:Deletion review (used to be called Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion)
- Learn more by reading the undeletion policy

Protect (lock) or unprotect a page? Visit:
- Wikipedia:Requests for page protection

Edit a protected page?
- Ask on the talk page. For example, for changes to MediaWiki:Blockedtext, ask at MediaWiki talk:Blockedtext
- or try the Administrators' noticeboard
- Learn more by reading the Wikipedia:Protection policy
- Use Template:Tl

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 the three-revert rule?

Unblock a user?
- Email the sysop who carried out the ban via their User page or ask at the Administrators' noticeboard
- Learn more by reading the blocking policy.

Help with cleaning up a backlog to a major Wikipedia process?
- Tag the process with Template:Tl
- And drop a message on WP:AN to get more admin attention

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.
- However, sysops, or other experienced users, may be willing to informally offer an opinion if you ask them privately (for example, via user_talk page).
Fix bugs.
- You can report them at MediaZilla though.
Make administrators.
- Only bureaucrats and stewards can do this, and only following community consensus at Wikipedia:Requests for Adminship.
Remove administrator status from anyone.
- This is done by stewards and only on the request of the Arbitration Committee or on request from the affected administrator, or, in emergency cases only, by developers.
Query the Wikipedia database
- Ask at Wikipedia:SQL query requests
- or download the database and run them yourself.
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:Username#Deleting your user account
Protect pages on a specific version, or "from" a specific user, or decide which version is "correct" or "NPOV".
- See Wikipedia:Protection policy br:Wikipedia:Goulenn ouzh ar verourien