User:PedanticallySpeaking/Admin

'''This page is my links related to adminship and cleanup. See also my page of generally useful material here.'''

I was created an admin on Thursday, December 16, 2004 around 1900 UTC. The debate on my candidacy is here. I had an unsuccessful candidacy in September 2004, which is here.

Admins and Their Creation

 * List of administrators
 * Recently created admins
 * Requests for adminship--Voting on administrator status
 * Requests for adminship/Promotion guidelines
 * Requests for adminship/Standards
 * User:Netoholic/Admins--Netoholic's position on administrator status. (He was a candidate here.)
 * User:Blankfaze/admin--Blankfaze's position on administrator status. (He was a candidate here.)
 * User:Isomorphic/Essays/Adminship:Theory and practice--Isomorphic's position on administrator status
 * User:Grunt/Adminship--Grunt's position on administrator status
 * User:Jguk/admin criterion--Jguk's position on adminstrator status
 * Possible misuses of sysop rights
 * Requests for comment--Comments about admin actions
 * Administrators' reading list
 * Administrators' how-to guide
 * User access levels--In new software, there will be various status levels
 * Administrator's noticeboard

Useful Pages

 * Special:Newpages--What it says
 * User:Angela/useful stuff
 * Block a user or IP
 * Recent changes--Ditto
 * WP--List of shortcut abbreviations so you don't have to try to remember just what pages are called
 * Unusual articles--What is says
 * Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
 * WikiProject US Supreme Court Cases/to do
 * Categorization of people
 * Offline reports--Lots of useful reports on broken links, blank articles, stubs with many links, etc.
 * User:Topbanana/Reports--Similiar to above
 * People by year/Reports
 * Template messages/All
 * Pages needing attention
 * Peer review
 * Boilerplate text
 * Upload log
 * Protection log
 * Block log
 * Bureaucrat log
 * Special:Allpages
 * Special:Longpages
 * Special:Wantedpages
 * Special:Lonelypages
 * Special:Deadendpages
 * Special:Shortpages
 * Sysop vandalism

Deletion

 * Deletion_policy
 * Deletion log