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Administrators, or Sysops, are editors who have access to technical features that help with maintenance. Those include protecting and deleting pages, blocking other editors, and undoing these actions as well. RuneScape Wiki's practice is to grant this access to anyone who has been an active and regular RuneScape Wiki contributor for a while, is familiar with and respects RuneScape Wiki policy, and is generally a known and trusted member of the community.

Any user, administrator or not, can perform functions similar to that of administrators. With every administrative tool (explained below), there is an action associated with it that does not require a tool itself to carry out. One can mark a page for deletion, report vandals for the administrators to block, and report need for other administrative actions even if the user does not have the tools themselves. Users doing so are more likely to be nominated to be administrators by members of the community and more likely to be chosen when they are finally nominated. From early on, it has been pointed out that administrators should never develop into a special subgroup of the community (See the All editors have equal status policy), but should be a part of the community like anyone else only equipped with a few more tools to do some chores that would potentially be harmful if everyone were entrusted with them.

The community does look to administrators to perform essential housekeeping chores that require the extra access administrators are entrusted with. Among them are watching the Page Maintenance debates and Yew Grove discussions and carrying out the consensus of the community therein, keeping an eye on new and changed articles to swiftly delete vandalism, and meeting user requests for help that require administrative access. Since administrators are expected to be experienced members of the community, users seeking help will often turn to an administrator for advice and information. In general, administrators acting in this role are neutral. They do not have any direct involvement in the issues they are helping people with.

What can administrators do?

The wiki software has a few important features that are restricted to only administrators.

Edit fully protected pages.
Protect and unprotect pages.
Delete pages, including images, and their history.
View and restore deleted pages, including images, and their history.
Block and unblock users, IP address, and IP ranges.
Revert pages quickly via the rollback method.
- One-click rollback is mainly intended for vandalism, spam, etc. Disputed content deserves an explanation, either in the edit summary or on the talk page, and it is not nice to omit that (either by rolling back, or by leaving the summary field blank).
Move files, and suppress the creation of a redirect when moving any page.
Change the text and style of the interface by editing the pages in the MediaWiki namespace (for all messages and interface settings, see Special:AllMessages Warning: very large page).
Can view Special:Unwatchedpages to see pages which may be more vulnerable to vandalism.
Moderate the forums.
Enable Special:Protectsite if the need should ever arise, according to the criteria set forth at Protect site Conditions
Determine consensus in discussions (while not a tool, it is still an ability reserved only for administrators^[1]).

How do I become an administrator?

If you have been around for a while, other users will notice your good work. If another user notices this work, they may nominate you and add your name to RuneScape:Requests for adminship. Discussion will then take place by fellow editors in order to determine if there is consensus that you should become an administrator.

Be careful, please! If you are granted access, we ask that you exercise care in using these functions, especially the ability to delete pages and their history, to delete images, and the ability to block users. You may benefit from reading the Administrators' reading list on Wikipedia before using any of your administrative abilities.

I need help from an administrator

Sometimes in the course of editing content on a wiki you need access to some of the special protected functions of an administrator even though you haven't gone through the process of becoming an administrator yet.

For most reasonable requests that will be seen by all of the administrators (instead of just on their individual talk pages), please make a request on RuneScape:Administrator requests. You can also bring up issues that may require administrator intervention, or perhaps you've simply made a whole bunch of mistakes and may need an experienced editor to help clean up a bunch of pages you've created by mistake.

To request a page be deleted, see the instructions at RuneScape:Criteria for speedy deletion.
To request a file (or page) be renamed, see the instructions at RuneScape:Criteria for speedy move.
To request a vandal be blocked, report them at RuneScape:Counter-Vandalism Unit. Use only for vandals that need to be blocked.

Access types

Types of identified users, listed here in roughly ascending order of number of tools, include:

IP addresses - Visitors who haven't "signed in" can still do most things, including editing articles.
Registered/Logged-in users can do everything IP addresses can do, but they can also upload files, move pages, hold a watchlist, maintain preferences, and mark edits as minor. Registered accounts four or more days old can edit semi-protected pages (as long as they also have 10 edits) - . See Special:UserLogin to sign yourself up!
Rollbackers are regular users that have been entrusted with the rollback button, and are also not affected by rate limits which prevent page moves and user account creations. All sysops, helpers, and Wikia staff also have this button. The rollback button automatically reverts all revisions by the last author of a page and is only to be used for obvious vandalism, and not disputed edits which deserves an explanation. Please see RuneScape:Rollback for more information.
Bots have their edits flagged with a "b" in recent changes and whose edits are hidden by default. A minor edit made by a bot to a user talk page will not trigger any notifications. See Special:ListUsers/bot for a list and RuneScape:Bots.
Custodians have the ability to move files, suppress the creation of redirects while moving, and view the history of deleted pages, files, and contribution history of users (but not the revisions' contents). See RuneScape:Custodians for more information.
Forum Administrators have full sysop powers on the forums (lock topics, delete posts, warn and ban users, and perform numerous other actions). In addition, they can create and modify stickies, announcements, global announcements, and polls. See Special:ListUsers/forumadmin for a list.
Administrators (sysops) see the What can administrators do? section and Special:ListUsers/sysop for official list of all administrators. Active and inactive status are listed below.
CheckUsers can find a user's IP address, or accounts used by an IP address. See RuneScape:CheckUser for more information, and Special:Listusers/checkuser for a list.
DeleteRevision can be used to hide the visibility of individual revisions. See this page for more information, and Special:ListUsers/deleterevision for a list.
Bureaucrats can turn other users into rollbacks, bots, custodians, sysops, bureaucrats, and forum admins. They can also revoke any of these powers except bureaucrat. Bureaucrats are created by other bureaucrats on projects where these exist, or by Wikia staff or Helpers on projects that do not have an active bureaucrat. Changes to user rights are recorded in Special:Log/rights. Bureaucrats can also delete specific revisions of pages without having to delete/undelete the entire page (as a sysop can), which hides the revision from every editor who is not a bureaucrat (or staff) - this is only used in the case of severe copyright infringement, extremely offensive language, or the posting of someone's personal information which could be used to identify them. All bureaucrats are also administrators, so can also do everything they can do.
VSTF (Volunteer Spam Task Force) are volunteers who have been given global sysop powers. They are not legal workers of Wikia. Their role is to fight vandalism and spam across Wikia. See Special:ListUsers/vstf for a list as well as Help:SpamTaskForce.
Helpers have global sysop powers, but are interns or volunteers working for Wikia and not regular editors. Helpers can make users part of the bot, rollback, sysop and bureaucrat groups, as well as remove all of these. See Special:ListUsers/helper for a list as well as Wikia Helper Group. Helpers can be identified by the tag in their signatures.
Wikia Staff are employees of Wikia Inc. They have global bureaucrat rights, and therefore can edit the user right on all wikis. In addition, they can see the IP of any logged in user using the checkuser function. They can also use the oversight function to delete revisions of a page so that only other Wikia staff members can view or restore them. See Special:ListUsers/staff for a list as well as Wikia Staff. Staff can be identified by the tag in their signatures.

For a full list of tools and abilities available to all user groups, see Special:ListGroupRights.

List of administrators

Bureaucrats can be identified by their turquoise name; administrators can usually be identified by their green name.

While the E-Mail address for administrators is provided, you are encouraged to use their talk pages instead for wiki related business.

Active bureaucrats


Username	Talk Page	Email	Contributions
Calebchiam ([[RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Email\|RfA]])	Talk	Contributions	Log actions
Dtm142 ([[RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Email\|RfA]])	Talk	Contributions	Log actions
Karlis ([[RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Email\|RfA]])	Talk	Contributions	Log actions
Laser Dragon ([[RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Email\|RfA]])	Talk	Contributions	Log actions

Active administrators


Username	Talk Page	Email	Contributions
Ajraddatz ([[RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Email\|RfA]])	Talk	Contributions	Log actions
Amaurice ([[RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Email\|RfA]])	Talk	Contributions	Log actions
AndorinKato (RfA)	Talk	Contributions	Log actions
Atlandy (RfA)	Talk	Contributions	Log actions
Azliq7 (RfA)	Talk	Contributions	Log actions
Cook Me Plox ([[RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Email\|RfA]])	Talk	Contributions	Log actions
Degenret01 ([[RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Email\|RfA]])	Talk	Contributions	Log actions
Gaz Lloyd ([[RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Email\|RfA]])	Talk	Contributions	Log actions
Haloolah123 ([[RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Email\|RfA]])	Talk	Contributions	Log actions
Iiii I I I ([[RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Email\|RfA]])	Talk	Contributions	Log actions
Liquidhelium ([[RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Email\|RfA]])	Talk	Contributions	Log actions
Psycho Robot ([[RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Email\|RfA]])	Talk	Contributions	Log actions
Rsa23899 ([[RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Email\|RfA]])	Talk	Contributions	Log actions
Ryan PM ([[RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Email\|RfA]])	Talk	Contributions	Log actions
Sentra246 ([[RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Email\|RfA]])	Talk	Contributions	Log actions
Sir Revan125 ([[RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Email\|RfA]])	Talk	Contributions	Log actions
Suppa chuppa ([[RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Email\|RfA]])	Talk	Contributions	Log actions
Thebrains222 ([[RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Email\|RfA]])	Talk	Contributions	Log actions
Tienjt0 (RfA)	Talk	Contributions	Log actions
ZamorakO_o ([[RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Email\|RfA]])	Talk	Contributions	Log actions

Active forum admins


Username	Talk Page	Email	Contributions
Dave Lopo (RfA)	Talk	Contributions	Log actions
Dtm142 ([[RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Email\|RfA]])	Talk	Contributions	Log actions
Soldier 1033 ([[RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Email\|RfA]])	Talk	Contributions	Log actions

Inactive bureaucrats

Inactive administrators

Inactive forum admins

Former administrators

Shadowdancer was given sysop status in July 2006, but had it taken away by Sannse in August 2006 when he went on a blocking spree after a disagreement with other community members.
Dreadnought was sysopped in October 2006, and had it taken away by Sannse in October 2007 due to flaming, personal attacks, incivility, and keeping his account insecure.
Puremexican had his sysop powers removed in February 2009 with community consensus after abusing his powers and blocking a fellow administrator.
Richard1990 requested to have his sysop powers removed in February 2009 after he became inactive on the wiki.
Stinkowing's tools were removed after an outburst on the Yew Grove and his request to have them removed.
Bonziiznob requested his tools removed in March 2010.
Jediadam4 had his forum admin tools removed on 13 February 2011, after abusing his CC rank, and deleting multiple posts on the forums.

Remember, it's not a big deal

Adminship is not a big deal. It's not a position of power, authority, or anything of the sort, but merely being trusted with a few abilities that can cause damage in the wrong hands. Jimbo Wales, Founder of Wikipedia and cofounder of Wikia (the original wiki and the host company of this site, respectively), offered this on the topic of administrators:

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