Wikipedia:Former administrators/reason/resigned

Resigned: These administrators voluntarily relinquished their adminship (some of these cases, though nominally by user request, are not entirely voluntary). Many of these users requested that their adminship be revoked either because they were no longer active at Wikipedia, because they were chiefly interested in editorial contributions rather than technical administration, or because they wished to focus on other Wikimedia projects. However, some administrators resigned in recognition of the community's dissatisfaction with their activities. Former administrators who resigned their adminship in good standing may be reinstated at the discretion of any bureaucrat after a 24-hour wait period to evaluate the circumstances in which they were desysopped. Administrators who resigned under controversial circumstances must reapply for adminship by the usual means. Unless otherwise specified by the Arbitration Committee, the determination of whether "controversial circumstances" existed is left to the discretion of the bureaucrats.

Active
These former administrators are still active by definition of long-term inactivity (they have not gone without an edit or logged action for two consecutive years).

Long-term inactive
These former administrators are, by definition, considered long-term inactive (they have gone without an edit or logged action for two consecutive years).

Vanished
These long-term inactive former administrators exercised their right to vanish and resigned adminship, in either order. Users who vanished and resigned at the same time are listed at Former administrators/reason/vanished instead. As at that list, vanished users' previous usernames are not stated, and their contributions and logs are not listed, unless they returned to editing after they vanished.

Blocked or locked
These former administrators are currently blocked or locked. Unless otherwise noted, they are indefinitely blocked in the English Wikipedia. See also: Former administrators who were desysopped for cause and are currently blocked or locked

Deceased
These former administrators have died. See also:  Administrators who died in office, Administrators who died after they were desysopped for cause, and Administrators who died and were desysopped for inactivity