Attack on Titan Wiki:Administrators

Administrators are experienced members of the  community who have been entrusted with access to restricted technical features ("tools") which help with maintenance. They are a small set of editors the wiki considers to be highly trustworthy, mature and responsible, able to lead by example.

Those seeking help will often turn to an administrator for advice and information. In community discussion and interaction, administrators may help provide a thoughtful voice in some kinds of consensus, and can also be helpful as discussion moderators. However, administrators' words and votes do not carry more weight in any form of discussions on the site.

We are not currently looking for any new administrators.

Administrators
All administrators are marked in blue links

Administrator's Additional Abilities

 * Back.png All rights from the discussions moderator and content moderator groups.
 * Lock_Icon.png Lock (protect) both a page and a file so it cannot be edited or renamed by users without adminship or content moderator privileges.
 * Antagonist.png Block users who are vandalizing the wiki from editing and other actions.
 * Bureaucrat_Star.png Grant and revoke both the discussions moderator and chat moderator rights.
 * Wikia_Icon.png Edit whitelisted MediaWiki pages, including the community's skin and format.

Becoming an administrator
For you to become an administrator, someone with bureaucrat access must make you one. If you wish, you may request admin rights at Requests for adminship and a bureaucrat will determine if you deserve the rights or not.

What can administrators not do?
Administrators should not use their administrator powers to settle editing disputes; for example, to lock a page on a version he or she prefers in an editing dispute that is not vandalism. Administrator powers should be used to help keep the wiki clear of vandalism, spam, and users who make malicious edits, but not for simple disagreements between users acting in good faith. Ideally an admin should not be considered "in charge". The ideal admin is just someone who is trusted to have a few extra buttons and to use them for the benefit of the Wikia community.

Bureaucrats
Bureaucrats are one level 'up' from administrators. Bureaucrats only have the ability to manipulate user rights, as well as block and unblock users. However, on the  all bureaucrats are also administrators, so they have all their rights as well.

They have the ability to promote and revoke staff members as well as appointing new bureaucrats. While they cannot directly revoke another user's bureaucrat status, they can revoke their own. Bureaucrats also have the ability to revoke a user's bot status in case the bot is malfunctioning, but community consensus is required for the addition of users' bot status.

Bureaucrat status can only be removed by Wikia Staff, or by themselves.

Bureaucrat's Additional Abilities

 * Bureaucrat_Star.png Grant and remove user rights. They can grant other users bureaucrat rights as well, but can only remove their own bureaucrat rights. They can remove bot rights but only Wikia Staff can grant them.
 * Antagonist.png Block users who are vandalizing the wiki from editing and other actions.

Becoming a Bureaucrat
To become a bureaucrat, you must be an administrator, with few exceptions. There are cases where an administrator is doing an amazing job with editing, is trusted by the community, and is stopping vandalism where they will be most likely nominated. There are many cases where two people both deserve the rights and the community will vote for who they want as the new bureaucrat over two administrators.