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Administrators monitor each other; nearly all admin actions are reversible by any other admin (including page deletions, page protections, and blocks). The Arbitration Committee also has the power to sanction administrators, and does so fairly regularly.
Administrators are less likely to be subject to restrictions on editing, are rarely blocked by fellow administrators (and when they are, it may create WP:DRAMA). There is currently no way for the community to remove administrative rights from a user except by appeal to the arbitration committee , a lengthy and difficult process that often ...
Administrators should not normally unblock users blocked in good faith by another administrator. If you plan on undoing another admin's block, ask them to consider unblocking first . The blocking administrator may have further information and history (e.g.,: action taken at WP:ANI or WP:AE ) that is not immediately visible on an unblock request.
Protection is a technical restriction applied only by administrators, although any user may request protection. Protection can be indefinite or expire after a specified time. The various levels of protection can be applied to the page edit, page move, page create, and file upload actions.
A restriction against casting aspersions, assuming bad faith, and other forms of incivility; Failing to abide by these restrictions, in the estimation of any administrator, will result in restoring the indefinite block without further warning or discussion.
The blocking administrator may be consulted for their comments on your request (this is a common courtesy). The process can take hours or a few days; for major discussions sometimes it can take a week or more. Administrators will carefully avoid blocking and unblocking fights, which are a serious breach of administrator policy.
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Blocks resulting from this restriction can only be appealed to the blocking administrator or the community, where community consensus takes precedence. The civility restriction can be appealed to the community after one year since the restriction was imposed or the last enforcement action (whichever is later), and each year thereafter. ANI link