Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention

(What is an administrator?)

Do you need an administrator to ...

• Unblock you? See Appealing a block.
• Block someone for ...
  • vandalising or spamming who has been sufficiently warned? See Administrator intervention against vandalism.
  • violating the three-revert rule or edit warred? See Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring.
  • blatantly violating the username policy? See Usernames for administrator attention.
  • abusing multiple accounts? See Sockpuppet investigations.
  • other urgent reasons? See Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
• Delete a page?
  • See Speedy deletion if the page appears nonsensical, just someone testing the wiki, or meets another criterion for speedy deletion.
    • See Proposed deletion if the deletion is likely to be non-controversial.
    • See Deletion process if you feel the page does not belong on Wikipedia and wish to start a discussion.
• Restore or view the contents of a deleted page?
  • See Deletion review if you wish to discuss or appeal a deletion that was performed.
  • See Requests for undeletion to request an undeletion of a page that was not controversially deleted.
• Protect or unprotect a page from editing? See Requests for page protection.
• Edit a protected page?
  • Reach consensus on the page's talk page, and then request an edit by making an edit requests.
  • To fix errors on the Main Page, use Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors. For minor tweaks, make a request on Talk:Main Page.
• Remove sensitive or offensive information or copyright violations from the article history? See Revision deletion.
• Grant you advanced permission? See Requests for permissions.
• Enforce an arbitration ruling? See Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement.
• Respond to a threat of physical harm or self-harm? See Responding to threats of harm for instructions on how to do this immediately.
• Answer some other question? Place {{Admin help}} on your talk page and ask your question.
• Do something else? Either contact a recently active administrator directly, or try the Administrators' noticeboard.

However, administrators cannot ...

• Decide disputes. If you are involved in a content dispute, use the dispute resolution process instead.
• Fix bugs. You should report bugs at Phabricator.
• Make someone an administrator. Only bureaucrats can do this, and only following community consensus at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship.
• Remove administrator status from someone. Only bureaucrats or stewards can do this, but you can initiate a review of an administrator's privileges using the administrator recall process.
• Query the Wikipedia database. Ask at SQL query requests, or download the database and run them yourself.
• Reassign edits or change your username. Ask a global renamer at Changing username.
• Delete accounts. This is not possible. See Delete account for alternatives.