User:The Wordsmith/Requests for comment/Administrator conduct
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Requests for comment/Administrator conduct is a process enabling users to discuss problems with specific English Wikipedia Administrators who may have violated Wikipedia administrative expectations or misused administrative tools. The goal of this is to determine if the community has achieved consensus that administrative permissions should be removed from this user, though lesser results such as warnings and restrictions may also be valid results. This is not for requests concerning non-Administrators, issues regarding other user permissions such as Bureaucrats, Checkuser or Oversight. This venue also focuses exclusively on User conduct issues concerning Administrators, as opposed to content disputes which should be handled at an appropriate noticeboard. |
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| Guidance on creating or participating in RfC/ADMINs |
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How to proceed[edit]
Are you in the right place? Thinking about creating or certifying an RfC/ADMIN? Has an RFC/ADMIN been created about you? See Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Administrator conduct/Guidance.
Instructions for this page[edit]
All participants in a Administrator conduct RfC are expected to comply with the rules and guidelines, stated here, and below.
- Once an RfC is created, it should be listed in the "Candidates pages" section, until the minimum requirements (listed below) have been met. Any uninvolved administrator who did not participate in the original noticeboard discussion may mark the RfC as Certified.
- Once the requirements are certified, the RfC should be moved from the "Candidate pages" section to the "Certified pages" section of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Administrator conduct/UsersList.
- If the minimum requirements are not met within 48 hours, see closing and archiving (listed further below).
Minimum requirements[edit]
Before requesting community comment, editors must have opened a community discussion, tried but failed to resolve the problem, and obtained a consensus to open a Request for Comment. Any RfC not accompanied by evidence showing consensus to proceed may be deleted after 48 hours as "uncertified". Valid locations for achieving this consensus include Administrators' Noticeboard, Administrators' Noticeboard/Incidents, or referral from the Arbitration Committee. The thread requesting an RfC/ADMIN must have been open for a minimum of 72 hours before closure with consensus to proceed.
Closing and archiving[edit]
RfC/ADMINs should be closed in line with the rules and guidelines for closing an RfC/ADMIN. Certified disputes which have been closed in this way may be removed from this page and archived.
If the above criteria have been met, remove the link from the list (Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct/UsersList) and add it to the archives at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct/Archive.
RfCs which do not meet minimum requirements should be delisted from the "Candidate pages" section - they are not archived as they are considered "uncertified".
Active Requests[edit]
See Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Administrator conduct/Guidance for the steps on creating an RfC/ADMIN.
Once you have created the RfC/ADMIN, list the dispute by editing Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Administrator conduct/UsersList. A note must also be placed at WP:AN.
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