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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.
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.
This page exists to help save you and us time, by making sure you're asking the right people before you actually ask. First and foremost, if your question is a general knowledge query not specifically related to Wikipedia, you probably want to visit the Wikipedia:Reference desk , where asking knowledge questions is welcome.
You can join the #wikipedia-en-help IRC chat room for live assistance. Adopt-a-User is where you can find experienced editors that "adopt" new users and mentor them. Contact Wikipedia is a page that describes how and where to contact Wikipedia directly for a variety of reasons.
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.
When you say that you or another user did something on Wikipedia, always include a diff of that edit. This allows others to quickly check for themselves what happened. You should include the date and time as part of the diff, unless the timing is not relevant to your request.
This is a guide to current practice at Wikipedia's requests for adminship (RfA) process, the mechanism by which editors are considered for administrator status. To become an administrator, there needs to be a clear consensus that you are committed to Wikipedia and can be trusted to know and uphold its policies and guidelines.