Wikipedia:Former administrators

The following is a list of former administrators. Many are no longer active contributors. For current administrators, see Wikipedia:List of administrators.

There are various reasons why adminship has been removed from users:

• Bots: These are admin-bot accounts that were desysopped when the operation of the bot was discontinued.
• Compromised: Each of these former administrator accounts was desysopped when it became clear that the account was being used by someone other than the Wikipedian associated with the account.
• For cause: These are administrators who were desysopped in response to concerns of misuse. Except for early cases in the project history, decisions to revoke adminship have been made or ratified by the Arbitration Committee.
• Inactive: These administrators were desysopped for inactivity per Wikipedia's procedure for desysopping inactive administrators. Inactive administrators were desysopped for being inactive for over a year (defined as making "no edits or administrative actions for at least 12 months"). Former administrators desysopped this way may request their rights be restored by a bureaucrat at any time.
• Passed away: These administrators passed away.
• Renamed: These accounts have been desysopped, but the same Wikipedian is now an administrator using another account.
• Resigned: These administrators voluntarily relinquished their adminship. Many of these users requested that their adminship be revoked either because they were no longer active at Wikipedia, because they were chiefly interested in editorial contributions rather than technical administration, or because they wished to focus on other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. Some of the users listed voluntarily resigned their adminship status in recognition of the community's dissatisfaction with their activities. Some of these cases, though nominally by user request, are not entirely voluntary. Former administrators who resigned their adminship in good standing may be reinstated at the discretion of any bureaucrat, while 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.
• Temporary: These were temporary administrators for various reasons, which are noted below.

Inactive

Main page: Wikipedia:Former administrators/Inactive

See also

• Wikipedia:Former bureaucrats
• Automatically generated list of administrators
• Chart of the growth in number of administrators (up to 2007)
• List of administrators with promotion dates
• Meta:Administrators of various Wikipedias – administrators in all Wikipedias.
• Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians
• Wikipedia functionaries