Wikipedia:Administrators and bureaucrats

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Administrators, also called sysops - short for system operators, are editors that have access to technical features that help keep Wikipedia running smoothly. They have access to these features because they are meant to be trusted by the community, but this does not make them better or more important than anybody else. The opinion of an administrator, for example, should not be more valid than the opinion of a person who chooses to edit Wikipedia with an IP address because they have administrator rights.

Things administrators can do:

If you would like to become an administrator, please create a nomination request in this section, but please look at the archives first so you can see why other people's requests have failed or succeeded. Jimbo Wales, the founder of the Wikimedia Foundation, said "this should be no big deal".

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Bureaucrat

A bureaucrat is a slightly higher administrative level that can perform a few additional functions. Bureaucrats can give administrator or bureaucrat status to other users following a successful request on this page. Bureaucrats can also help users who want to change user names. They can also "flag" bots, which means to hide their contributions from the new changes and put them in the bot group. Requests for name changes should be made directly to the talk page of one of the listed bureaucrats.

List of administrators

An automated list of accounts with admin status is available at Special:Listadmins.

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Inactive

Nominations and requests to be an administrator/bureaucrat

Archive of older requests for administrator status: Archived requests (up to November 12 2006), Archived Requests (from November 13 2006 onward)

FrancoGG

I'd like to nominate Franco to become an admin. Whenever I open recent changes, he's always there, tagging pages for quick deletion, reverting vandalism, and so I think he'll make good use of the admin tools. He's been around since late January, and has around 1100 edits. He's also an admin on commons and the Spanish Wikipedia, so can certainly be trusted. I keep thinking he is an admin, so let's make that so! ;) Majorly (hot!) 00:20, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

I accept this nomination. Thanks! FrancoGG ( talk ) 00:24, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong support as nominator. Good luck! Majorly (hot!) 00:20, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Support -- Creol(talk) 00:29, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Support -- Az1568 00:32, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Support per nom Blockinblox - talk 02:07, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

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