ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:Administrators' reading list

Admins are expected to have an intimate understanding of Wikipedia policy. They are also expected to consistently demonstrate comprehension of these policies. This is especially paramount regarding the use of abilities entrusted to admins which are unavailable to regular users and editors of Wikipedia.

The following items are considered highly recommended reading material. These pages detail prerequisite knowledge required by an admin:

Should already know

• Five pillars of Wikipedia
• Founding principles: Core principles guiding all Wikimedia projects.

General

• Administrators
• Admins' how-to guide
• Admins' noticeboard for general discussion of admin issues
  • Admins' noticeboard where 3RR violations are reported
  • Admins' noticeboard where incidents are reported
  • Wikipedia:List of policies
• New admin school

Security

• Security

Content policies

• Reliable sources (medicine)
• Biographies of living persons
• Neutral point of view
• No original research
• Verifiability

Copyright

• Copyrights

Blocking

• Banning policy
• Blocking IP addresses
• Blocking policy

Page protection

• Protection policy

Deletion

• Criteria for speedy deletion
• Deletion guidelines for administrators
• Deletion policy
• Deletion process
• Undeletion policy
• Revision deletion policy

Rollback

• Rollback feature

Requests

• Backlogged processes requiring attention
• Changes related to Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention
• Enforcement of arbitration rulings

Vandalism

• Dealing with vandalism
• Vandalbot

Controversy

• List of controversial issues
• NPOV dispute
• Wheel war

Miscellaneous

• Advice for new Administrators
• Editing the main page
• Goals of the Adminship process
• How to fix cut and paste moves
• Image use policy
• MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook
• Office actions
• Open proxies
• What Adminship is not
• Village stocks – some things administrators have done by mistake in the past. Laugh, and avoid repetition.