Wikipedia:Unbundling administrators' powers

There have been many discussions about "unbundling" the powers of Wikipedia administrators – into an either a range of "sub-administrator" user classes, or permitting them for all editors in good standing. Only a few of these discussions have achieved the consensus necessary to unbundle any of these abilities.

Successful proposals
Several such efforts – narrowly focused ones – been successful, resulting in the following:
 * Non-admin closure of consensus discussions (covered with regard to XfDs at Deletion process, and the Non-admin closure essay; also widely applied to WP:Requests for comments and various other non-XfD discussions, including particular rules for the WP:Requested moves process)
 * Rollback: passed January 2008
 * Template editor: failed May 2012, passed Sept 2013
 * File mover: passed Feb 2011
 * Page mover: passed April 2016
 * Account creator
 * Event coordinator
 * Autopatrolled: passed December 2021 (Note: this was not 'unbundling' in the traditional sense. Autopatrolled was already available as a discrete user-right, this proposal was around removing it from the  group.)

Failed proposals
Most such proposals fail, however. In particular, a generalized "unbundle everything" idea has been classified as a perennially unsuccessful proposal that should not be re-proposed. Here are of the discussions that did not result in changes.
 * BD2412's proposal at Talk:Requests for adminship, September 2005
 * Limited administrators, January 2006
 * Vandal fighters (at talk page and WT:RFA), August 2010
 * New Userrights Proposal at Village pump (proposals), October 2010
 * Unbundle the Block button at Talk:Requests for adminship, October 2010
 * Proposal by Jc37/1 at Talk:Village pump (technical), June 2012
 * Proposal by Jc37/2 at Talk:Village pump (technical), June 2012
 * Proposal by Jc37/3 at Village pump (technical), June 2012
 * Proposal by TomStar81 at RfA reform 2012, June 2012
 * Unbundling delete and undelete at Talk:Village pump (technical), June 2012
 * Un-bundling of the block tool at Village pump (policy), September 2012
 * New user right proposal at Village pump (proposals), October 2012
 * Unbundling the tools at Talk:Requests for adminship, October 2012
 * Moderators, January 2013
 * Vandal fighters again, January 2015
 * Moderators again, July 2016
 * User-right that allows non-admins to Semi-protect pages, July 2018
 * Unbundling blocks of IPs and new accounts at RfA reform 2024, Feb 2024

Pending proposals

 * Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Responder role