Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list
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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 important regarding the use of abilities entrusted to admins that 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
- Administrators' guide
- Administrators' noticeboard, where admin issues are discussed
- Administrative action review noticeboard, where administrative actions by administrators can be discussed and reviewed
- Wikipedia:List of policies
Blocking
Closing discussions
- Accountability
- Closing discussions
- Ending RfCs
- Requests for closure noticeboard
- Rough consensus
- Supervote
Content policies
Controversy
Copyright
Deletion
- Criteria for speedy deletion
- Deletion guidelines for administrators
- Deletion policy
- Deletion process
- Undeletion policy
- Revision deletion policy
Page protection
Requests
- Backlogged processes requiring attention
- Changes related to Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention
- Enforcement of arbitration rulings
Rollback
Security
Vandalism
Miscellaneous
- Advice for new administrators
- Editing the main page
- Fixing cut and paste moves
- Goals of the adminship process
- Image use policy
- MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook
- Office actions
- Open proxies
- Requested moves/Closing instructions
- Village stocks – some things administrators have done by mistake in the past. Laugh, and avoid repetition.
- What adminship is not
- The mushroom effect