Ballotpedia:Administrators
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Administrators, commonly known as admins and also called sysops (system operators), are Ballotpedia editors who have access to technical features that help with maintenance. They can protect and delete pages, block other editors, and undo these actions as well. Administrators undertake additional responsibilities on a voluntary basis.
A list of administrators can be found at Special:Listusers/sysop.
Administrator tools
Deletion and restoration
- Delete pages, including images, and their history. For information and guidelines, see Ballotpedia:Deletion policy. Deletion is generally a technical matter, in which a redirection page has to be removed to make way for renaming an article, or a page whose history has been broken up has to be deleted and the pieces recombined.
- View and restore deleted pages, including images, and their history.
Block and unblock
- Block IP addresses, IP ranges, and user accounts, for a specific time or indefinitely.
- Unblock IP addresses, IP ranges, and user accounts.
- See Ballotpedia:Blocking policy for more information on when blocks are appropriate and when they are not. See Special:Ipblocklist for currently blocked addresses and usernames.
Reverting
- Revert pages quickly. Administrators have an automated tool to help them revert edits.