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To delete all pages created by a particular user, use Special:Nuke.For other mass-deletion needs, use Twinkle's "D-batch" module (see tools).Remember that even if performing a batch deletion the burden is still on you to make sure all of the pages you are deleting in fact meet the criterion you use to delete them.
An administrator is simply a volunteer Wikipedian who can access some of the few restricted Wikipedia software functions: deleting articles and files, protecting and unprotecting pages, and blocking and unblocking users.
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).
The file mover right is intended to allow users experienced in working with files to rename them, subject to policy, with the ease that autoconfirmed users already enjoy when renaming Wikipedia articles. This right is automatically assigned to administrators. See Special:ListUsers/filemover for a list of the 389 file movers.
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.
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Repeated, consistent, or egregious misuse of a tool or user permission that is bundled with the administrator toolset (such as moving files or the use of rollback) – an administrator can be stripped of their administrative privileges completely just to remove access to a bundled user permission. Repeated or consistent poor judgment.
Such a page can be deleted by any administrator if, after seven days, no one objects to the proposed deletion. Once there is an objection or a deletion discussion, a page may not be proposed for deletion again. This process only applies to pages in the main namespace (article namespace) and the file namespace.