Commons:Administrators

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This page explains the role of administrators (sometimes called admins or sysops) on Wikimedia Commons. Note that details of the role, and the way in which administrators are appointed, may differ from other sites.

If you want to request administrator help, please post at Administrators' noticeboard.

There are currently 185 administrators on Commons.

What is an administrator?

Administrators as of May 2024 Listing by: Language • Date • Activity [+/−]

Number of Admins: 185 -revi, ko, en-3 1234qwer1234qwer4, ru, de-4, en-3 1Veertje, nl, en-4, de-1, fr-1 32X, de, en-2, hsb-1, ru-1 99of9, en (bureaucrat) A.Savin, ru, de-4, en-2 Aafi, ks, ur-5, en-3, hi-2, ar-1 Abzeronow, en, fr-1 Achim55, de, en-3, nds-3, la-2 AFBorchert, de, en-3 Ahonc, uk, ru-4, en-2, de-1 Aka, de, en-3 Alno, fr, en-3, es-2, pt-1 Андрей Романенко, ru, en-3, uk-3, be-2, fr-2, lv-2 Ankry, pl, en-2, ru-1 AnRo0002, de, en-2, fr-2, es-1 Anthere, fr, en-3 AntiCompositeNumber, en, fr-2 (steward) Aude, en, ar-2, de-2, es-3 Bedivere, es, en-4, pt-1 Benoît Prieur, fr, en-3, pt-2, es-1, it-1, hy-1 Billinghurst, en Blackcat, it, en-3, fr BrightRaven, fr, en-3, nl-2, es-2, zh-1 Butko, ru, uk-2, en-1 Captain-tucker, en Christian Ferrer, fr, en-2, es-2 Ciell, nl, en-2, de-1 Common Good, en CptViraj, gu, hi-4, en-3 Cromium, en, de-1, fr-1 Cybularny, pl, en-2, es-1, de-1 Czar, en DaB., de, en-1 DarwIn, pt, en-3, es-2, fr-2, gl-2, ca-1, it-1, oc-1 Davepape, en DerHexer, de, en-3, grc-3, la-3, es-1 (steward) Dharmadhyaksha, mr, en-3, hi-3 DMacks, en Didym, de, en-2, fr-2 Dyolf77, ar, fr-5, en-2, it-1, es-1 D-Kuru, de, en-2, it-1 Ebrahim, fa, en-3 Elcobbola en, de (checkuser) Ellin Beltz, en (bureaucrat) Ellywa, nl, en-2, de-1, fr-1 Emha, de, bar, en-3, fr-1 Érico, pt, en-2, es-1 EugeneZelenko, ru, be, en-2, bg-1, pl-1 (bureaucrat) Explicit, en, es, ko-2 Ezarate, es-3, en-1 Fitindia, en-3, hi-2, mr-2 FunkMonk, da, en-4, no-3, fo-2, sv-2, de-1, es-1 Gbawden, en-3, af-1 Geagea, he, ka-3, en-3, ru-1 Geni, en George Chernilevsky, ru, uk-3, de-2, en-2, bg-1, la-1, be-1, fr-1 Gestumblindi, als, de, en-3 Gnangarra, en, nys-1 GPSLeo, de, en-2 GreenMeansGo, en Grin, hu, en-3, de-1 Hekerui, de, en-4 Herbythyme, en, fr-2, es-1, it-1 Hesperian, en Holly Cheng, en, ja-2 Huntster, en Indeedous, de, en-3, fr-2 Infrogmation, en, es-1 IronGargoyle, en, de-1 Jameslwoodward, en, fr-1 (bureaucrat, checkuser) Jaqen, it, en-2 Jarekt, pl, en JarrahTree, en, id-1 Jcornelius, de, lt-2, la-2, en-2, pt-2, fr-1 Jdforrester, en Jean-Frédéric, fr, en-4, es-1 Jianhui67, en, zh-4, ja-2, ms-1 Jmabel, en, es-3, ro-2, de-1, ca-1, it-1, pt-1, fr-1 Joergens.mi, de, en-3 JoKalliauer, de, en-3 Jon Kolbert, en, fr-4, de-2 (steward) Josve05a, sv, en-3 Julo, pl, en-2, de-1, ru-1 Jusjih, zh, en-3, fr-2, ko-1 Kadı, tr, en-5, fr-2, az-2 Kallerna, fi, en-3, sv-2, de-1 King of Hearts, en, zh-3, es-2, ja-1 Klemen Kocjancic, sl, en-3, de-2, hr-1, bs-1 Krd, de, en-3 (bureaucrat, checkuser) Krinkle, nl, en-3, de-2 Kritzolina, de, en-3, fr-2, it-1 Leit, de, en-3, fr-1 Léna, fr, en-3, es-1 Leyo, gsw, de, en-3, fr-3, es-1, la-1 Lofty abyss, en, mt, it-2 Lymantria, nl, en-3, de-2, fy-2, fr-1, zea-1 Magog the Ogre, en, es-2 Mahagaja, en, de-4, fr-2, ga-2, la-2, cy-1 Maire, pl, en-4, es-2, fr-2, de-2, ru-1 Marcus Cyron, de, en-2 Masur, pl, en-3, de-1 Materialscientist, en-4, ru-4, nl-3, fr-1, es-1 Matrix, en, ta-2 MB-one, de, en-3, fr-1, pt-1 MBisanz, en Mdaniels5757, en, es-1 MGA73, da, en-3, de-2, no-1, sv-1 Mhhossein, fa, en-3, ar-1 Micheletb, fr, en-3, it-1, es-1 Mike Peel, en, pt-2, fr-1 Minorax, en, zh (oversighter) Missvain, en Mitchazenia, en, es-2 Miya, ja, en-2 Moheen, bn, as-1, bpy-1, en-3, hi-1, hif-1 Morgankevinj, en MPF, en, da-2, de-1, fr-1 Multichill, nl, en-3, de-1, fr-1 Mys 721tx, zh, en-3 Nagy, de, en-3, fr-2, es-1, sv-1 NahidSultan, bn, en-3, bpy-1 Natuur12, nl, en-3, de-1 notafish, fr, en-4, de-3, es-2, it-2 odder, pl, en-4, de-2 (bureaucrat, oversighter) Otourly, fr, en-2, it-1 P199, en, nl, fr-2, tl-2, de-1 Pi.1415926535, en, es-2 Platonides, es, en-2, fr-1 Poco a poco, es, de-4, en-3, fr-2, it-2, pl-2, pt-1 Podzemnik, cs, en-2 Polarlys, de, en-2, fr-1, no-1 Pyb, fr, en-2 Pymouss, fr, en-3, de-2, it-2, he-1 Racconish, fr, en-4 Ragesoss, en, de-1, fr-1 Ra'ike, de, en-2 Rama, fr, en-3, de-2, la-2, es-1, it-1, ja-1 (oversighter) Rastrojo, es, en-3, fr-2, eo-1 Raymond, de, en-3, nl-1 (oversighter) Red-tailed hawk, en, es-4, pt-2, ug-1 Regasterios, hu, en-1 Rehman, en, si-1 Reinhard Kraasch, de, en-3 Rimshot, de, en-4, fr-2, it-1 Romaine, nl, en-3, de-2, af-1, fr-1 Rosenzweig, de, en-3, fr-1, la-1 Royalbroil, en, es-1 RP88, en, de-1 Rubin16, ru, tt, en-4 Rudolphous, nl, en-3, de-2 Ruthven, it, fr, en-4, es-4, nap-4, ca-2, de-1 Sanandros, als, de, en-3, fr-1 Satdeep Gill, pa, en-5, hi-5, es-3, fr-2, fa-1 Shizhao, zh, en-1, ru-1 Spiritia, bg, en-3, ru-2, mk-2, de-1 Sreejithk2000, ml, en-3, hi-3, ta-1, kn-1 Steinsplitter, bar, de-4, it-3, en-1 Stifle, en, ga, fr-2, de-1 Storkk, en, fr-3, de-2, eo-2 Strakhov, es, en-2 TadejM, sl, en-3, de-2, fr-2 Taivo, et, en-3, ru-3, de-1 Tarawneh, en, ar, de-1 Teles, pt, en-3, es-2 Themightyquill, en, fr-2, de-1, hu-1 The Squirrel Conspiracy, en Thibaut120094, fr, en-2, ja-1 Thuresson, sv, en-3, no-2 Tulsi, ne, mai, en-3, hi-2, hif-2, bh-1 Túrelio, de, en-3, es-1 VIGNERON, fr, de-2, en-2, zh-1 Wdwd, de, en-2 Well-Informed Optimist, ru, uk-4, en-3 Wikitanvir, bn, en-3, de-2, as-2, bpy-1 Wutsje, fy, nl, en-3, de-2, fr-1 Yann, fr, en-4, hi-2, gu-1 Yasu, ja, en-2, de-1 Ymblanter, ru, en-3, de-2, fr-2, nl-2, it-1, es-1 Yuval CT, he, en-3 Zzyzx11, en, es-1, fr-1 علاء, ar, en-4, he-1, es-1 (steward) Abuse filter, (automated account) CommonsDelinker, (bot) see request KrinkleBot, (bot) see request If 185 is not the last number on this list, there may be an error or there are some users assigned temporarily.

Technical

Administrators are users with the technical ability on Wikimedia Commons to:

• delete and undelete images and other uploaded files, and to view and restore deleted versions
• delete and undelete pages, and to view and restore deleted revisions
• protect and unprotect pages, and to edit admin-protected pages
• block and unblock users, individual IP addresses and IP address ranges
• edit less-restricted interface messages (see also Commons:Interface administrators)
• rename files
• add and remove user groups
• configure Upload Wizard campaigns
• delete and undelete specific log entries and revisions of pages
• import pages from other wikis
• merge the history of pages
• modify abuse filters
• not create redirects from source pages when moving pages
• override the spoofing checks and title or username blacklist
• send a message to multiple users at once (massmessage)
• use higher limits in API queries

These are collectively known as the admin tools.

Community role

Administrators are experienced and trusted members of the Commons community who have taken on additional maintenance work and have been entrusted with the admin tools by public consensus/vote. Different admins have different areas of interest and expertise, but typical admin tasks include determining and closing deletion requests, deleting copyright violations, undeleting files where necessary, protecting Commons against vandalism, and working on templates and other protected pages. Of course, some of these tasks can be done by non-admins as well.

Administrators are expected to understand the goals of this project, and be prepared to work constructively with others towards those ends. Administrators should also understand and follow Commons' policies, and where appropriate, respect community consensus.

Apart from roles which require use of the admin tools, administrators have no special editorial authority by virtue of their position, and in discussions and public votes their contributions are treated in the same way as any ordinary editor. Some admins may become more influential, not due to their position as such, but from the personal trust they may have gained from the community.

Suggestions for administrators

Please read Commons:Guide to adminship.

Removal of administrator rights

Under the de-admin policy, administrator rights may be revoked due to inactivity or misuse of sysop tools. In a de-admin request, normal standards for determining consensus in an RfA do not apply. Instead, "majority consensus" should be used, whereby any consensus to demote of higher than 50% is sufficient to remove the admin.

Apply to become an administrator

All intending administrators must go through this process and submit themselves to RFA, including all ex-administrators who are seeking to return to their previous role.

First, go to Commons:Administrators/Howto and read the information there. Then come back here and make your request in the section below.

• After clicking the appropriate button and creating the subpage, copy the link to the subpage, e.g. "Commons:Administrators/Requests/Username", edit Commons:Administrators/Requests and paste it in at the top of the section, then put it in double curly brackets (e.g. {{Commons:Administrators/Requests/Username}}) to transclude it. Request a watchlist notice at MediaWiki talk:WatchlistNotice, or edit MediaWiki:WatchlistNotice to put up one if you are an administrator.

• If someone else nominated you, please accept the nomination by stating "I accept" or something similar, and signing below the nomination itself. The subpage will still need to be transcluded by you or your nominator.

Use the box below, replacing Username with your username:

Voting

Any registered user may vote here although those who have few or no previous edits may not be fully counted. It is preferable you give reasons for both Support and Oppose votes as this will help the closing bureaucrat in their decision. Greater weight is given to an argument, with supporting evidence if needed, than to a simple vote.

Promotion normally requires at least 75% in favour, with a minimum of 8 support votes. Votes from unregistered users are not counted. However, the closing bureaucrat has discretion in judging community consensus, and the decision will not necessarily be based on the raw numbers. Bureaucrats may, at their discretion, extend the period of an RfA if they feel that it will be helpful in better determining community consensus.

 Neutral comments are not counted in the vote totals for the purposes of calculating pass/fail percentages. However, such comments are part of the discussion, may persuade others, and contribute to the closing bureaucrat's understanding of community consensus.

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Requests for adminship

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When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Administrators/Archive.

• Please read Commons:Administrators before voting here. Any logged in user may vote although those who have few or no previous edits may not be fully counted.

Aurelio de Sandoval

Related requests:

• Administrators/Requests/Aurelio de Sandoval

Vote

Aurelio_de_Sandoval (talk · contributions · deleted user contributions · recent activity · logs · block log · global contribs · CentralAuth) (Activity: Talk Commons DR)

Scheduled to end: 14:47, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Aurelio. I would like to request administrator tools to handle copyright violations, such as copyvios, previously I have already nominated copyvio images very well, unfortunately in some months I was not active due to problems with my PC or cell phone, but I have been active now that they have already resolved these issues. I say goodbye for now, vote and say if I can be an administrator Aurelio de Sandoval (Mensajes aquí please) 14:47, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Votes

•  Oppose (regretfully). While I do think this request is well-intentioned, I do have concerns regarding activity levels. You have only made 500 edits since July 28, 2023 (more than 9 months ago as of typing this). Do come back after your activity levels increase over a continuous period, though! --SHB2000 (talk) 07:17, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

  @SHB2000 Yes, I had problems with my PC and I didn't have a cell phone to work with, that's why I couldn't. Aurelio de Sandoval (Mensajes aquí please) 21:44, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

  That still doesn't explain that 300 of those 500 edits were in the last week. SHB2000 (talk) 01:48, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

  and just after one week they request adminship. I do appreciate Aurelio but I don't think it's the time for them. More activity is truly needed before thinking of another RFA Bedivere (talk) 02:48, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

•  Neutral  Weak Support We always need more Spanish-speaking admins, but activity is sporadic, with 300ish edit bursts 24-48 hrs prior to this RFA being posted . Changing to weak support on the condition of returning to active editing. Thank you for your work at license review! All the best -- Chuck ^Talk 15:47, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

  @Alachuckthebuck My activity on Wikimedia had been reduced because I had not had a PC or cell phone to work, now I do have the means. Aurelio de Sandoval (Mensajes aquí please) 21:40, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

•  Weak oppose - Per concerns over activity levels. Seawolf35 (talk) 15:52, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
•  Weak oppose per above. --Bedivere (talk) 17:09, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
•  Oppose, unfortunately, per SHB. Queen of Hearts (not related) 17:15, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
•  Oppose per above. Concerns with minimal recent activity levels -Fastily 05:18, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
•  Support - 2 edits per day are not that bad. If 500 edits in 9 month be the only cause for opposing, I can not really follow. -- Marcus Cyron (talk) 05:33, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
•  Weak oppose the answers worry me a bit because I don't see understanding of some key elements of deletion requests (URAA per Q2, the fact that Commons should not decide whether an image is "accurate" and that should be left to local projects per Q5). Also the answer to Q1 is a clear misunderstanding of the question - it is about the application of INUSE and the superseded image policy, not threshold of originality (that is not relevant here). While I understand some of this can be attributed to mistranslation, I still think without a proper grasp on policy, it will be hard to justify supporting adminship, as actions on Commons have the potential to affect the whole of Wikimedia. If the candidate was more active in areas such as Commons:Deletion requests, I would wholeheartedly support adminship. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 20:35, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
•  Oppose. Q1. Sometimes such logos should be deleted as out of project scope. Q2. At first, USA demands 95 years from publication and the photo is copyrighted. At second, fact that I and you do not know the author does not mean anonymous. German photographs need evidence of anonimity. Q4. This is question of scope. Some "quite obscure" things are notable nevertheless and if we have only few photos about it, deletion would be wrong. But some "quite obscure" things are non-notable. Q5. Usually I say to user: at first upload new version, then nominate for deletion. And sometimes even old and outdated versions should be kept to show history. Taivo (talk) 09:37, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

Comments

 Question Do you see yourself doing other admin work outside of copyvios, and if so, what areas? All the best -- Chuck ^Talk 15:49, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

@Alachuckthebuck If, for example, delete images that are not in the public domain, or restore images that were deleted by mistake and that were suitable for Wikimedia Aurelio de Sandoval (Mensajes aquí please) 21:43, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Protect pages to avoid vandalism. Aurelio de Sandoval (Mensajes aquí please) 21:43, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

 Question I see you haven't been that active on Commons lately, but I'm sure that will change once you acquire adminship. Regardless, here are a few questions about common DRs (feel free to answer inline btw), answer with your first thoughts (of course this may change through the course of the discussion). —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 17:52, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

1. Someone nominates File:Random logo.png for deletion with the rationale "redundant to File:Random logo.svg". Assume File:Random logo.png is not INUSE.
2. Someone nominates a 1945 WW2 photo was published in 1945 in Germany. Assume the author is anonymous per Template:PD-anon-70-EU.
3. Someone nominates a company logo for deletion with the rationale "copyright violation".
4. Someone nominates a photo that they made 5 years ago for deletion stating "I don't want it on the internet anymore". The photo's subject is quite obscure and we don't have many photos of that subject. Assume no GDPR or related issues.
5. Someone nominates a photo for deletion stating the data is unreliable and out of date. They provide a link to the correct data but haven't uploaded a file yet with the correct data. The file is in use on multiple projects.

@Matrix

1- It varies if the logo does not exceed the threshold of originality, if they are just geometric figures there can be no problem, Otherwise, if it were with logos from China because its originality threshold is quite low.

2- The photograph is fine since the time determined for it to be in the public domain has passed, more now that you take into account that they have passed 79 years.

3- It would have to be reviewed if this logo does not exceed the threshold of originality.

4- Well, this site has photographs of that type, so they could not be deleted.

5- It would have to be reviewed check if the data is correct and if it is a photo where years have passed, review the year. Aurelio de Sandoval (Mensajes aquí please) 20:15, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

•  Comment It's well past May 5 – should this request be closed? --SHB2000 (talk) 00:16, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

  It should be closed soon, but I wouldnt be surprised if this user passes a second RFA in about a month or 2.

  All the best -- Chuck ^Talk 22:23, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

  That is a very short time span. I'd give it one year. Bedivere (talk) 00:32, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

  • I've posted a request to close this RfA at the Bureaucrats Noticeboard since it's been a week since the deadline. Abzeronow (talk) 17:21, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

    anyone (not even sysops) could have closed this, since closure involves almost no sysop action. RZuo (talk) 19:19, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Requests for bureaucratship

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When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Bureaucrats/Archive.

• Please read Commons:Bureaucrats before posting or voting here. Any logged in user may vote although those who have few or no previous edits may not be fully counted.

No current requests.

Requests for CheckUser rights

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When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Checkusers/Archive.

• Please read Commons:Checkusers before posting or voting here. Any logged in user may vote although those who have few or no previous edits may not be fully counted.

No current requests.

Requests for Oversight rights

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When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Oversighters/Archive.

• Please read Commons:Oversighters before voting here. Any logged in user may vote, although those who have few or no previous edits may not be fully counted.

No current requests.

See also

• Commons:User access levels
• Commons:Administrators/Inactivity section
• Commons:Administrators' noticeboard