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- What is the three-revert rule?
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Please note that administrators do not...
- Resolve disputes.
- Try the dispute resolution process instead.
- However, administrators, or other experienced users, may be willing to informally offer an opinion if you ask them privately (for example, via user talk page).
- Fix bugs.
- You can report them at MediaZilla.
- Make administrators.
- Only bureaucrats and stewards can do this, and only following community consensus at Wikipedia:Requests for Adminship.
- Remove administrator status from anyone.
- This is done by stewards and only on the request of the Arbitration Committee or on request from the affected administrator, or, in emergency cases only, by developers.
- Query the Wikipedia database.
- Ask at Wikipedia:SQL query requests
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- Ask a bureaucrat at Wikipedia:Changing username.
- Delete accounts.
- This is not possible. See Wikipedia:Username#Deleting your account
- Protect pages on a specific version, or "from" a specific user, or decide which version is "correct" or "NPOV".
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- This page was last modified on 31 August 2008, at 15:38.
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