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The following are user groups administrators are able to grant and revoke. Note the granting guidelines may link to the admin instructions at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions. You can refer to these pages for the accepted prerequisites of a given permission.
Importers have the additional ability to import articles directly from XML (which may come from any wiki site), as well as to merge the history of pages together using the mergehistory right (see WP:HM for more information). The importupload permission is also included in the stewards group.
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.
Once an administrator has granted a permission or decided to deny a request, they should add {} or {} respectively under the request with their comments. If a user already has the requested permission, or is autoconfirmed and requesting confirmed, {{ already done }} should be used.
Administrator instructions for Requests for permissions: . Administrators are permitted to grant account creator, autopatrolled, confirmed, file mover, mass message sender, pending changes reviewer, rollback and template editor flags to any user who meets the criteria outlined at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions#Permissions and can be trusted not to abuse the tool(s).
Note if a request was recently declined for a given user/permission, a bot will comment with a link to that discussion. You may wish to ping the administrator who declined the previous request asking for their input before responding to the new request. To grant the permission: Grant the user right(s) to the user at Special:UserRights.
Note if a request was recently declined for a given user/permission, a bot will comment with a link to that discussion. You may wish to ping the administrator who declined the previous request asking for their input before responding to the new request. To grant the permission: Grant the user right(s) to the user at Special:UserRights.
Note if a request was recently declined for a given user/permission, a bot will comment with a link to that discussion. You may wish to ping the administrator who declined the previous request asking for their input before responding to the new request. To grant the permission: Grant the user right(s) to the user at Special:UserRights.