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Main policy links: Wikipedia:Administrators#Misuse of administrative tools, Wikipedia:Administrators#Uninvolved admins Misusing the administrative tools is considered a very serious issue; they are provided to trusted users for maintenance and other tasks, and should always be used with thought, care, and with due diligence and good judgment.
Twinkle – Offers a wealth of powerful administrative tools. More info in the sections below. More info in the sections below. MoreMenu – Adds up to two drop-down menus to the menu bar containing links to useful common tasks, user/page logs, analytic tools/statistics, and tools for administrators.
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.
All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity. Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to ...
Wikipedia administrators are editors with specific permissions to perform various administrative tasks, sometimes referred to as sysops, the traditional term for computer bulletin board administrators. There are three primary tools that administrators can use to affect the day-to-day editing of non-administrators: preventing user write access ...
Even very experienced admins—including those elected to higher positions than admin—usually don't know how everything works. Admins are users that the community has trusted to operate the tools. If an admin goes for a year without making an edit, it doesn't necessarily have an impact on their trustworthiness when they return to editing.
They can also help manage temporal discontinuities (i.e., when one party is unavailable, the other party may make misattributions), and reduce power differences among editors." [ 1 ] For user conduct issues, in 2003, Jimmy Wales created the Arbitration Committee (ArbCom), an overarching authority for binding resolution of conduct disputes.