This page is a basic how-to guide to using your Wikipedia:Administrators powers. This page explains how to carry out sysop actions, and does not cover the Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines that you must follow before doing these. Please read the pages linked to from Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list and ensure you are aware of the relevant policies before doing anything described on this page. ==Deleting a page== Click the ''delete'' or ''delete this page'' link on the page you want to delete. If you are using the monobook skin, you can use the shortcut alt+d. You will be shown a page with a box to type in the reason for deletion, and a confirm box. The box will often contain the first 150 characters of the page. For speedy deletions, it may be acceptable to leave the full text as the reason. In other cases, you should specify why you are deleting it. An example reason is "listed on VfD for 5 days with 18 votes to delete and 1 to keep". This confirmation page will give you a warning if the page has more than one revision in its history. If something looks like a Wikipedia:Candidates for speedy deletion but has a page history, you must check the history before deleting it. The revision you are looking at could be just a vandalised version of a real article. After you have deleted it, check if it has a talk page and delete this too. If the page is being deleted because it should not exist, check that nothing links to it to prevent it being created again. If the page was listed on VfD or a similar page, follow the guidelines at Wikipedia:Deletion process, which may include archiving the deletion discussion. See Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators and Wikipedia:Deletion policy. ==Deleting an image== A common mistake made by new sysops is to delete the Wikipedia:Image description page instead of the image. An image description page has a ''delete'' link like any other page. Do not use this! To delete an older revision of an image, you must click the ''del'' link which appears next to the image. If there is more than one revision of an image, clicking the "Delete all revisions of this image" will do exactly that. You can not delete the most recent one without deleting all older copies as well, and also deleting the image description page. After clicking ''Delete all revisions of this image'', you will see a confirmation screen similar to that used for page deletion and the deletion will be Special:Log/delete. There is no such confirmation if you are deleting a single old revision, but the deletion will still be logged. Image deletion is not reversible so please be careful when doing this. ==Undeleting a page== Pages can be undeleted for as long as they are in the archive. This archive is occasionally cleared out, and occasionally lost in database crashes. The message at the top of WP:VFU will tell you when the archive was last cleared. If a page has not been recreated since it was deleted, there will be a message on the page telling you how many deleted revisions there are. Clicking on this will take you to a page which displays the deleted revisions. You can look at each revision separately. You undelete a page by clicking the ''restore'' button which appears on the confirmation page; this will restore all deleted revisions by default. If you wish, you can choose specific revisions to undelete by selecting the checkboxes that appear next to them. Undeletion occurs as soon as you click this; there is no further confirmation screen or a place to type a reason. Undeletions are logged just like deletions; if you do not restore all revisions of a deleted page, the log will record how many you did restore. If a page already exists but you want to undelete previous revisions of it, go to the page history. There you will see the link to undelete as described above. You can also type the full URL to undelete. For example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Undelete/Foo. The Special:Undelete page is not recommended as it is very slow to load. See Wikipedia:Viewing and restoring deleted pages by sysops and Wikipedia:Undeletion policy. ==Merging page histories== Merging page histories is a means of fixing cut and paste moves. Basically, it involves deleting a page, moving another page there and undeleting the original over the top of the one you just moved. This action is not reversible so please do not attempt it unless you understand the procedure described at Wikipedia:How to fix cut and paste moves. ==Protecting or unprotecting a page== To protect a page, click the ''protect'' or ''protect this page'' link. If you are using the monobook skin, you can use the shortcut alt+=. This will lead to a confirmation screen very similar to the one used for deletion. Enter the reason for protection in the box, check the confirm box and press confirm. This will be Special:Log/protect, but you should also note it at Wikipedia:Protected page. In cases of edit wars, you should add
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This page is a basic how-to guide to using your Wikipedia:Administrators powers. This page explains how to carry out sysop actions, and does not cover the Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines that you must follow before doing these. Please read the pages linked to from Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list and ensure you are aware of the relevant policies before doing anything described on this page. ==Deleting a page== Click the ''delete'' or ''delete this page'' link on the page you want to delete. If you are using the monobook skin, you can use the shortcut alt+d. You will be shown a page with a box to type in the reason for deletion, and a confirm box. The box will often contain the first 150 characters of the page. For speedy deletions, it may be acceptable to leave the full text as the reason. In other cases, you should specify why you are deleting it. An example reason is "listed on VfD for 5 days with 18 votes to delete and 1 to keep". This confirmation page will give you a warning if the page has more than one revision in its history. If something looks like a Wikipedia:Candidates for speedy deletion but has a page history, you must check the history before deleting it. The revision you are looking at could be just a vandalised version of a real article. After you have deleted it, check if it has a talk page and delete this too. If the page is being deleted because it should not exist, check that nothing links to it to prevent it being created again. If the page was listed on VfD or a similar page, follow the guidelines at Wikipedia:Deletion process, which may include archiving the deletion discussion. See Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators and Wikipedia:Deletion policy. ==Deleting an image== A common mistake made by new sysops is to delete the Wikipedia:Image description page instead of the image. An image description page has a ''delete'' link like any other page. Do not use this! To delete an older revision of an image, you must click the ''del'' link which appears next to the image. If there is more than one revision of an image, clicking the "Delete all revisions of this image" will do exactly that. You can not delete the most recent one without deleting all older copies as well, and also deleting the image description page. After clicking ''Delete all revisions of this image'', you will see a confirmation screen similar to that used for page deletion and the deletion will be Special:Log/delete. There is no such confirmation if you are deleting a single old revision, but the deletion will still be logged. Image deletion is not reversible so please be careful when doing this. ==Undeleting a page== Pages can be undeleted for as long as they are in the archive. This archive is occasionally cleared out, and occasionally lost in database crashes. The message at the top of WP:VFU will tell you when the archive was last cleared. If a page has not been recreated since it was deleted, there will be a message on the page telling you how many deleted revisions there are. Clicking on this will take you to a page which displays the deleted revisions. You can look at each revision separately. You undelete a page by clicking the ''restore'' button which appears on the confirmation page; this will restore all deleted revisions by default. If you wish, you can choose specific revisions to undelete by selecting the checkboxes that appear next to them. Undeletion occurs as soon as you click this; there is no further confirmation screen or a place to type a reason. Undeletions are logged just like deletions; if you do not restore all revisions of a deleted page, the log will record how many you did restore. If a page already exists but you want to undelete previous revisions of it, go to the page history. There you will see the link to undelete as described above. You can also type the full URL to undelete. For example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Undelete/Foo. The Special:Undelete page is not recommended as it is very slow to load. See Wikipedia:Viewing and restoring deleted pages by sysops and Wikipedia:Undeletion policy. ==Merging page histories== Merging page histories is a means of fixing cut and paste moves. Basically, it involves deleting a page, moving another page there and undeleting the original over the top of the one you just moved. This action is not reversible so please do not attempt it unless you understand the procedure described at Wikipedia:How to fix cut and paste moves. ==Protecting or unprotecting a page== To protect a page, click the ''protect'' or ''protect this page'' link. If you are using the monobook skin, you can use the shortcut alt+=. This will lead to a confirmation screen very similar to the one used for deletion. Enter the reason for protection in the box, check the confirm box and press confirm. This will be Special:Log/protect, but you should also note it at Wikipedia:Protected page. In cases of edit wars, you should add
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