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:

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

• 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

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

• Copyrights

• Banning policy
• Blocking IP addresses
• Blocking policy

• Protection policy

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

• Rollback feature

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

• Dealing with vandalism
• Vandalbot

• List of controversial issues
• NPOV dispute
• Wheel war

• 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.