Hosta

This page is my links related to adminship and cleanup. See also my page of generally useful material here.

I was created an admin on Thursday, December 16, 2004 around 1900 UTC. The debate on my candidacy is here. I had an unsuccessful candidacy in September 2004, which is here.

Admins and Their Creation

• Wikipedia:List of administrators
• Wikipedia:Recently created admins
• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship--Voting on administrator status
• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Promotion guidelines
• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Standards
  • User:Netoholic/Admins--Netoholic's position on administrator status. (He was a candidate here.)
  • User:Blankfaze/admin--Blankfaze's position on administrator status. (He was a candidate here.)
  • User:Isomorphic/Essays/Adminship:Theory and practice--Isomorphic's position on administrator status
  • User:Grunt/Adminship--Grunt's position on administrator status
  • User:Jguk/admin criterion--Jguk's position on adminstrator status
• Wikipedia:Possible misuses of sysop rights
• Wikipedia:Requests for comment--Comments about admin actions
• Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list
• Wikipedia:Administrators' how-to guide
• Wikipedia:User access levels--In new software, there will be various status levels
• Wikipedia:Administrator's noticeboard

Useful Pages

• Special:Newpages--What it says
• User:Angela/useful stuff
• Block a user or IP
• Wikipedia:Recent changes--Ditto
• Wikipedia:WP--List of shortcut abbreviations so you don't have to try to remember just what pages are called
• Wikipedia:Unusual articles--What is says
• Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
• Wikipedia:WikiProject US Supreme Court Cases/to do
• Wikipedia:Categorization of people
• Wikipedia:Offline reports--Lots of useful reports on broken links, blank articles, stubs with many links, etc.
• User:Topbanana/Reports--Similiar to above
• Wikipedia:People by year/Reports
• Wikipedia:Template messages/All
• Wikipedia:Pages needing attention
• Wikipedia:Peer review
• Wikipedia:Boilerplate text
• Wikipedia:Upload log
• Wikipedia:Protection log
• Wikipedia:Block log
• Wikipedia:Bureaucrat log
• Special:Allpages
• Special:Longpages
• Special:Wantedpages
• Special:Lonelypages
• Special:Deadendpages
• Special:Shortpages
• Sysop vandalism

Deletion

• Wikipedia:Deletion_policy
• Wikipedia:Deletion log