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Wikipedia has no central editorial board. Contributions are made by a large number of volunteers at their own discretion. Edits are neither the responsibility of the Wikimedia Foundation (the organisation that hosts the site) nor of its staff and edits will not generally be made in response to an email request.
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.
Wikipedia's administrative tools are often likened to a janitor's mop, leading to adminship being described at times as being "given the mop".Just like a real-world janitor might have keys to offices that some other workers are excluded from, admins have some role-specific abilities, but – also like a real-world janitor – they're not more important than the other editors.
Wikipedia is a freely licensed encyclopedia; most of our content can be copied and used for any purpose. The exception to this is content used as "fair use". Fair use media is clearly identified if you go to the page about that file; you should see that the file is identified as "fair use under United States copyright law.
Excessive chatting unrelated to Wikipedia or its purposes: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a social network. Your goal should not be to hang out with as many friends as possible. The best way to make friends on Wikipedia is to improve the encyclopedia; other editors will notice and be willing to work and chat with you.
If you are not an English Wikipedia administrator, you can ping Oshwah to have him remove the user right for you. Otherwise, if he is unavailable, you must contact an English Wikipedia administrator to have them remove the user right. First, look for a tool admin sysop on IRC and ping them in the #wikipedia-en-accounts-admins channel for help.
Tip of the day – provides "very useful" advice daily on how to use or develop Wikipedia more effectively. See also Wikipedia:Tips , the complete library of tips arranged by subject. User page design center – where you will find all the resources for developing your user page.
If you are a member of the press looking to contact the Wikimedia Foundation, our press department can be contacted at press wikimedia.org, or by phoning +1 415-839-6885. We also have international contacts, some of whom work for various affiliated organisations and some of whom are editors.