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Administrator conduct review is a process by which the behavior of some of the Wikipedia community's most highly-respected members (administrators and bureaucrats) is reviewed. Administrators and bureaucrats were placed in their positions by the community, and are accountable to the community for their actions involving their tools. The administrator conduct review, or "ACDR" process entails two parts: an initial discussion phase, followed by a petition phase.

During the initial discussion, members of the community are invited to discuss recent unsavory actions, or a pattern of unsavory behavior, by an administrator or bureaucrat (or multiple administrators or bureaucrats). The discussion phase takes a week. When that week is closed, one of four ACDR coordinators, who have been selected by the community to serve one-year terms, gauge the consensus in the discussion phase. The coordinator may then send the ACDR request to the next phase, or archive it with no further action.

If an ACDR request passes the initial discussion, it moves on to the petition phase. The community may then decide what happens to the administrator or bureaucrat (or administrators or bureaucrats) involved, including, but not necessarily limited to, removal of advanced permission, a ban, an admonishment, or no action at all. Petitions are closed by uninvolved bureaucrats. A bureaucrat may also decide, if a petition falls into a discretionary range, to start a bureaucrat discussion in an attempt to achieve consensus among multiple uninvolved bureaucrats.