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This page is where the Wikipedia community considers requests made for a Wikipedian to become an administrator. In addition to requests for adminship, the page is also used for requests to become a bureaucrat. (If you came to this page using the shortcut WP:RFA and were looking for Wikipedia:requests for arbitration, please use the shortcut WP:RFAr instead.)

Admins, also sometimes called sysops, are users with access to a few technical features that help with Wikipedia maintenance. See Wikipedia:Administrators for a more detailed discussion of what this entails. The administrators' reading list is a good preparation before you become an admin. Consider reading this before applying for adminship. New sysops can learn how to use their new features at the Administrators' how-to guide.

Bureaucrats are simply users with the ability to make other people admins or bureaucrats, based on community decisions reached here. For lists of users who currently have these abilities, see Wikipedia:List of administrators and Wikipedia:Bureaucrats.

Procedures and guidelines

A user may be nominated to become an administrator by someone else, or the user may make the request personally. The nomination is posted on this page for 7 calendar days measured from the time of nomination. During this period, members of the community may comment on the nomination and vote to support or oppose it. At the end of the 7-day period, if there is general community support for the nomination, a bureaucrat will make the nominee an admin and record this fact at Wikipedia:Recently created admins. The process for bureaucrats is similar, but is generally by request only; new bureaucrats are recorded at Wikipedia:Recently created bureaucrats.

Nomination. Many users become administrators by being nominated by another user. If you wish to nominate someone, get permission from them first. Along with the nomination, please give some reasons as to why you think this person would make a good administrator. (The nominator may also vote to support the nomination.)
Self-nomination. If you wish to become an administrator, you can ask someone to nominate you, or you can make the request yourself. Be aware that some people scrutinize self-nominations more closely, because they don't already have a community member vouching for them; as a result, you may want to wait until you are sure that you exceed the usual guidelines.
Anonymous users. Anonymous users cannot be nominated, nominate others, or support or oppose nominations. The absolute minimum requirement to be involved with adminship matters is to have a username in the system.

Qualifications for adminship

Current Wikipedia policy is to grant administrator status to anyone who has been an active Wikipedia contributor for a while and is generally a known and trusted member of the community. Most users seem to agree that the more administrators there are the better.

Administrators have no special authority when interacting with other users, but because they have additional abilities, other people will generally expect them to be courteous and exercise good judgment. Wikipedians are more likely to support candidates with enough experience to evaluate these qualities and determine whether the candidate is familiar with Wikipedia policies. Many people consider the length of time a user has been contributing, as well as the number and quality of contributions.

There are no definite requirements on this, but most users seem to expect three to four months of participation and 500-1000 edits before they will seriously consider a nomination. Some users apply higher or lower requirements on a personal basis, which they are entitled to do in voting on this page.

Unsupported nominations

In some cases, a candidate will have general support but a smaller group opposing the nomination, and it may be unclear whether a consensus exists to grant adminship. If the bureaucrats are uncertain about whether there is a consensus in a particular case, they may suggest that the vote continue beyond seven days, thus giving more time to see if a consensus will develop.

If your nomination fails, it is not necessarily a permanent rejection — the community may just be suggesting that you "try again later." However, please wait a reasonable period of time before renewing a request, and make good use of the time to gain additional experience.

If a candidate is obviously unqualified (for example, has been participating for one month and made fewer than 100 edits), the nomination may be removed before the seven-day period is over. Similarly, if the candidate was rejected very recently or the voting makes it obvious that the nomination has no chance of success, it may be removed before voting is complete. Past experience has shown that continuing the discussion in these cases only fosters ill feelings, and makes it more difficult if the nominee seeks adminship later.

Note: You can see a list of past unsuccessful nominations at Wikipedia:Recently_created_admins#Unsupported_applications.



Current nominations

Note: Nominations have to be accepted by the user in question. If you nominate a user, please also leave a message on their talk page and ask them to reply here if they accept the nomination.

Please place new nominations at the top.

Current time is 15:46, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

User:Ed g2s (2/0/0) Ends 03:07, 29 July 2004

Joined in August 2003; a couple of thousand edits, about three quarters of which have been in the main-space; has contributed quite a few photos, diagrams, &c., as well as general copyediting and so on; even attended the first ever wikimeet. Disclaimer: Personal friend. James F. (talk) 02:22, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Accepts, honoured. Ed g2s 03:32, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Support

  1. James F. (talk) 02:22, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  2. Neutrality 03:29, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral

Comments

Plus a dozen odd from when I wasn't logged in (User:81.86.146.159) (for the very curious). Ed g2s 03:32, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters, if you care to respond:

1. Have you read the section on Administrators?
A. Yes, a while ago and .... just now.
2. Are you interested in, and do you think you'll have some time to perform, the chores that only sysops have access to do, to help keep Wikipedia up to date?
A. Sadly, I have far too much free time at the moment, so yes, see below.
3. If you become a sysop, which sysop chore or chores (WP:VFD, recent changes, watching for vandals and vandalism, responding to editor requests for assistance, any other) do you especially think you would be able to help with.
A. My two favourite pages are Random Page and Recent Chagnes, so I come across a lot of vandalism. It would be nice to be able to deal with it myself.
4. In your opinion, what article have you contributed the most succesfully and helpfully to?
A. Euro 2004, London Underground tube line images, I created the football kit template used on hundreds of football club websites, lots of photos/diagrams/image cleanups, see User:Ed_g2s/Images, far too many edits to random pages, and lots of templates.
5. In your opinion, what has your best contribution to the running and maintenance of Wikipedia been? (i.e., have you reverted a bad stretch of vandalism, done extensive work categorizing articles, helped mediate a dispute?)
A. Not hugely into categorisation, yet. Lots of edits to pages that look ugly, creating templates, fixing layouts, using image boxes. Oh, and chasing up image copyright info.
6. Of your Wikipedia edits and experiences thus far, what is your biggest regret? What do you wish you'd done differently?
A. Not playing with the mediawiki code.
Вопрос 7: Do you promise to always use proper British English, never the corruption that is American English?

User:Thue (2/0/0) Ends 22:31, 28 July 2004

About 1000 edits in main namespace since August 2003. A careful editor, and calm and rational in exchanges with other editors. Someone I consider a solid contributor. Wile E. Heresiarch 22:31, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, I'm honored :). I accept the nomination. Thue | talk 23:07, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Support

  1. Wile E. Heresiarch 22:31, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  2. Neutrality 22:31, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  3. Rhymeless 04:08, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Oppose


Neutral

Comment

Questions for the candidate

A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters, if you care to respond:

1. Have you read the section on Administrators?
A. Yep. I have also checked out the sysop functions while playing with the mediawiki software on my own computer.
2. Are you interested in, and do you think you'll have some time to perform, the chores that only sysops have access to do, to help keep Wikipedia up to date?
A. I plan to have a look at the mediawiki code at some point, so that will take priority over committing to do a sysop chore on a regular basis. (I am thinking of integrating the wikipedia:new pages patrol functionality of saying "I reviewed this edit" into special:newpages and maybe special:recentchanges)
3. If you become a sysop, which sysop chore or chores (WP:VFD, recent changes, watching for vandals and vandalism, responding to editor requests for assistance, any other) do you especially think you would be able to help with.
A. I often watch the new pages part of recent changes, I think I will keep doing that. It is quite possible that I will do some maintainance at WP:VFD, WP:CP or vandalism if either thing needs doing.
4. In your opinion, what article have you contributed the most succesfully and helpfully to?
A. I think I did a good job of writing the synopsis of The Little Mermaid. Almost a stub, but Cell chip is also a nice reference.
5. In your opinion, what has your best contribution to the running and maintenance of Wikipedia been? (i.e., have you reverted a bad stretch of vandalism, done extensive work categorizing articles, helped mediate a dispute?)
A. I have spend a good deal of time watching special:newpages: copyediting, expanding, vfd'ing and watching for copyright problems. Fx I caught Gatch gereftani the other day, what looks like an example of false information.
6. Of your Wikipedia edits and experiences thus far, what is your biggest regret? What do you wish you'd done differently?
A. No big regrets come to mind.
Thanks and good luck! -- Cecropia | Talk 23:01, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Thanks! Thue | talk 00:10, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Вопрос 7: Do you promise to always use proper British English, never the corruption that is American English?

User:Hypernovean (16/0/0) Ends 12:46, 25 July 2004

Nearly 2000 edits since 20 December 2003. Excellent user. Handles disagreements well, and has done extensive work, particularly on Australia-related articles.

I accept the nomination. What I'm currently focusing on edit-wise is the Australia and Melbourne related articles and page-series, especially within the Melbourne WikiProj. Although as I'm migrating piecemeal to a new computer, (among other things), I haven't been able to do as much as I would have liked to by now. Still, I'm trying to do things like categorization, filling in infoboxes (that's one hell of a task in some places!), and uploading images and diagram series when I can. When it comes to maintainence-type tasks, I've been here-and-thering with welcome messages, VFD discussion, RP watch and the like. All of this I'd like to do more often, and if everything falls into place, I'll be able to finish off my looming to-do list. I'd particularly like to do more welcoming and watching anon users on RC. (Also, for the record, I've got a name-change request in the works from Hypernovean to TPK). TPK 13:40, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Support

  1. Ambivalenthysteria 12:55, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  2. Well deserved :) Chuq 13:58, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  3. EddEdmondson 15:53, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  4. Danny 16:18, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  5. —No-One Jones 16:19, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  6. Merovingian✍Talk 19:05, Jul 18, 2004 (UTC)
  7. Lst27 23:58, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  8. 172 05:49, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  9. Cribcage 06:00, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  10. Spectatrix 03:08, 2004 Jul 20 (UTC)
  11. GeneralPatton 04:36, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC) Great contributor.
  12. Geoff/Gsl 05:03, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  13. Mark 05:28, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  14. Support. --H. CHENEY 16:08, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  15. Neutrality 23:06, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  16. Arminius 03:34, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral

Comment

  • "Handles disagreements well." — Any examples in particular? I looked at Hypernovean's talk page and couldn't spot any disagreements. (I think that is a good thing, btw). — David Remahl 14:01, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

  • A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters, if you care to respond:
1. Have you read the section on Administrators?
A. ...Wait... just a second... Done. Sure have!
2. Are you interested in, and do you think you'll have some time to perform, the chores that only sysops have access to do, to help keep Wikipedia up to date?
A. Definitely, and I'll make sure I scrounge up the time to do them in.
3. If you become a sysop, which sysop chore or chores (WP:VFD, recent changes, watching for vandals and vandalism, responding to editor requests for assistance, any other) do you especially think you would be able to help with.
A. RC-watch and things like reverting vandalism and CSDing, as well as welcoming new users (although not specifically a sysop task, I want to do more of it). And if anyone needs assistance, I'll help if it's within my knowledge to do so, of course.
4. In your opinion, what article have you contributed the most succesfully and helpfully to?
A. (Excluding a few lists); probably the City Loop, Melbourne page. If you do want to count lists, then List of Melbourne railway stations would be in there.
5. In your opinion, what has your best contribution to the running and maintenance of Wikipedia been? (i.e., have you reverted a bad stretch of vandalism, done extensive work categorizing articles, helped mediate a dispute?)
A. I can't really say that I've done life-saving reversions or categorizing, but bits and pieces; although I did categorize a lot of public transport for Melbourne, that's sort of a niche area. Mostly I've been just editing, like any good Wikipedian.
6. Of your Wikipedia edits and experiences thus far, what is your biggest regret? What do you wish you'd done differently?
A. Creating the godforsaken adjaceny table for the Melbourne suburbs, and hoping they would sort themselves out... Not only are there a few hundred empty tables floating around, most of them have dummy "To North", "To South" links which have shown up right at the top of the Wikipedia:Offline reports/This is a most wanted article. It's my top priority for fixn'.
Thanks and good luck! -- Cecropia | Talk 19:09, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Thankyou all for the support. TPK 06:05, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)

User:Ssd (17/0/0) Ends 20:58, 24 July 2004 (UTC)

Let me introduce you to this great user, Ssd. He has over 6200 contributions and has edited Wikipedia since February 21. He has put in a lot of work concerning our categorization system and CSS styles, which I have no clue about (I’m still using the classic skin). Anyway, Ssd has expressed some concerns on helping out more with the maintenance of our encyclopedia. I think we should give him this chance. - Merovingian✍Talk 20:58, Jul 17, 2004 (UTC)

I accept nomination. I can't take credit for much CSS stuff; while I understand it, I probably didn't spend more than 10 wikiminutes on that. Please understand that I'm still balancing looming wikiholism with other things, so what I do with the adminship will be limited to what I have time for after doing other wiki-stuff I want to get done. Right now, my primary task is cleaning up categories, and admin will probably help with that a bit, especially with cleaning of Wikipedia:Categories for deletion. The rest is listed on my user page.

Support

  1. Merovingian✍Talk 20:58, Jul 17, 2004 (UTC)
  2. Neutrality 22:35, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  3. Lst27 00:41, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  4. Spectatrix 06:39, 2004 Jul 18 (UTC)
  5. VV 07:20, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  6. Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 07:25, 2004 Jul 18 (UTC)
  7. David Remahl 09:09, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  8. EddEdmondson 10:22, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  9. Dysprosia 13:02, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  10. Michael Snow 16:16, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  11. Danny 16:17, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  12. —No-One Jones 16:19, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  13. 172 05:51, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  14. Cribcage 05:59, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  15. jengod 03:08, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)
  16. GeneralPatton 04:38, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  17. Support. --H. CHENEY 16:08, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral

Comment

Questions for the candidate
A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters, if you care to respond:

1. Have you read the section on Administrators?
A. Can't remember which I've read, but I did look into the administrator stuff. I've read everything I could find on categories, category deletion, and deletion in general. (I have not restricted myself to reading in these areas of course.) If I decide to persue other admin responsibilities, I will be sure to read up on it fully before doing it.
2. Are you interested in, and do you think you'll have some time to perform, the chores that only sysops have access to do, to help keep Wikipedia up to date?
A. As stated in my acceptance, I will do what I have time for with priority to what I am already doing. I make occasional ventures into VfD, recent changes, vandalism watch, etc., but don't expect me to frequent those areas (except randomly) until I've got categories under control.
3. If you become a sysop, which sysop chore or chores (WP:VFD, recent changes, watching for vandals and vandalism, responding to editor requests for assistance, any other) do you especially think you would be able to help with.
A. I could help with any or all of those, but will only have time to do so randomly until I have completed other things I am already doing. (In a pinch, I'll help if I can.)
4. In your opinion, what article have you contributed the most succesfully and helpfully to?
A. Probably Antenna (electronics), which parallels my recent entry into another hobby. But a lesser contribution to UFS, which is a piece of filesystem and unix info that I will continue to contribute other articles to as I have time.
5. In your opinion, what has your best contribution to the running and maintenance of Wikipedia been? (i.e., have you reverted a bad stretch of vandalism, done extensive work categorizing articles, helped mediate a dispute?)
A. I've done a very little bit of vandalism reversion, but mostly lately I have been working on categorization. Probably 80% of my edits in the last month have been about categories, with a reduction in other areas I will eventually get back to.
6. Of your Wikipedia edits and experiences thus far, what is your biggest regret? What do you wish you'd done differently?
A. I nearly always regret hitting save page instead of show preview, but that's easily fixed after the fact. I regret creating Category:Science fiction authors which will (I hope) eventually be renamed to Category:Science fiction writers. (Right now, it's hopeless without a bot, perhaps I'll write one later.) --ssd 21:37, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Thanks and good luck! -- Cecropia | Talk 21:05, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Self nominations for adminship

Self-nominators, please review the qualifications above. Many editors feel that self-nominees should "exceed the usual guidelines by a good measure," have an account name that is many months old and have many hundreds of edits. This is not to say that self-nominators are necessarily any less qualified than "sponsored" nominations; however, many editors use their knowledge of the nominator as a "jumping off" point for considering nominees, and it is human nature to be more skeptical of those asking for a position than those being proposed by others. If you self-nominate, a good solid background is therefore very important.


Requests for bureaucratship

Please add new requests at the top of this section (and again, please update the headers when voting)


Other requests
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