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• Block a vandal or spammer who has been sufficiently warned? See Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism.
• Block someone who has violated the three-revert rule or edit warred? See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring.
• Block someone for a blatant username policy violation? See Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention.
• Block someone for abusing multiple accounts? See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations.
• Block someone for other reasons? See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.

  Learn more by reviewing Wikipedia's blocking policy.

• Respond to a threat of physical harm or self-harm? See Wikipedia:Responding to threats of harm for instructions on how to do this immediately.
• Delete a page?
  • See Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion if the page appears nonsensical, just someone testing the wiki, or meets another of the criteria for speedy deletion.
  • See Wikipedia:Proposed deletion if the deletion is likely to be non-controversial.
  • See Wikipedia:Deletion process if you feel the page does not belong on Wikipedia and wish to start a discussion.

  Learn more by reviewing Wikipedia's deletion policy.

• Undelete a page or allow you to view a deleted page?
  • See Wikipedia:Deletion review if you wish to discuss or appeal a deletion that was performed.
  • See Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion to request an undeletion of a page that was not controversially deleted via proposed deletion.

  Learn more by reviewing Wikipedia's undeletion policy.

• Protect or unprotect a page? See Wikipedia:Requests for page protection to file a request.
• Help with redirect or page move issues? See Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion or Wikipedia:Requested moves. You can also try the Administrators' noticeboard.

  To learn more about redirects, visit Wikipedia's redirect editing guideline

• Edit a protected page?
  • Reach consensus on the page's talk page and then request an edit by adding ((Edit protected)) to the talk page.
    • If the talk page is protected too, use WP:RFED.
  • For minor tweaks of the Main Page, make a request on Talk:Main Page.
  • To report errors on the Main Page, use Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors.

  Learn more by reviewing Wikipedia's page protection policy.

• Revert an edit or a small number of edits? See Wikipedia:Reverting for more information.
• Remove sensitive or offensive information or copyright violations from the article history? See Wikipedia:Revision deletion.
• Unblock a user? See Wikipedia:Appealing a block.
• Enforce an arbitration ruling? See Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement.

  Learn more by reviewing Wikipedia's arbitration policy.

• Answer some other question about how Wikipedia works? See Wikipedia:Help desk.

• Do something else? Either contact an administrator directly, or try the Administrators' noticeboard. Click here for a list of recently active admins.

Please note that administrators cannot...

• Resolve disputes.
  • Try the dispute resolution process instead.
  • However, administrators, 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 Phabricator.
• Make someone an administrator.
  • Only bureaucrats can do this, and only following community consensus at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship.
• Remove administrator status from someone.
  • This is done by bureaucrats or stewards, and only on the request of the Arbitration Committee or by request of the administrator.
• 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 global renamer at Wikipedia:Changing username.
• Delete accounts.
  • This is not possible. See Wikipedia:Username policy#Deleting an account.
• Protect pages on a specific version, or "from" a specific user, or decide which version is "correct" or "NPOV".
  • See Wikipedia:Protection policy.