Administrators on Meta are users who are able to perform janitorial tasks, such as protecting/unprotecting pages, blocking and unblocking users and deleting/undeleting pages, among other things.
Appointment[edit | edit source]
Meta administrators are nominated by stewards or by already appointed administrators. Nominations are confirmed if the request meets the following requirements:
- A 75% or higher support rate from users is met, and;
- 7 days has passed since the request was made.
Revocation[edit | edit source]
Any user may initiate a revocation request against an administrator. A revocation request is considered successful if the request meets the following requirements:
- A 60% or higher support rate from users is met, and;
- 7 days has passed since the request was made.
Steward revocation[edit | edit source]
A steward may remove administrator at any time if the administrator has been;
- Inactive for 3 months (90 days);
- Not performing any sysop actions within 6 months (180 days);
- Abuse of administrator tools, and;
- Violating any global policies, such as User Conduct Policy.