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Administrators
Administrators are Tip Sensens users that have a responsibility to keep Tip Sense running, and thus some additional privileges over and above normal. Administrators have shown a good appreciation of the Tip Sense policies and guidelines and made significant contributions on Tip Sense articles.
The main features available only to administrators are:
- Deleting a page. Only administrators can permanently delete an article or file; see the Deletion policy for details.
- Restoring deleted pages. Administrators can restore a page which has been deleted.
- Deleting an image.
- Protecting/unprotecting a page. An administrator can mark certain pages as protected; these pages can only be edited by other administrators. See the Protected page policy for details.
- Blocking and unblocking IP addresses and users. If an IP address or a user account has been used for vandalism, and the perpetrator does not comply with given warnings, an administrator can block (and unblock) the user. This is a very very seldom used feature on Tip Sense.
- Viewing unpatrolled edits and marking an edit as patrolled. An admin can mark an edit that looks alright as patrolled. The edits that aren't marked as such show a red exclamation mark ("!") next to them when an administrator views it in the recent changes. This enables him or her to check for suspicious edits.
The decision to give these privileges to certain users is pragmatic. Most vandalism and other changes that don't conform to policy can be reverted or changed by more committed Tip Sensens. Protection and deletion cannot; therefore, these privileges are only granted to certain users.
Note that plenty of longtime Tip Sensens may not want the responsibility of being an administrator. Administrators are the plumbers and janitors of Tip Sense, and have to do a lot of pointless busywork.
It's also important to remember that any user can edit, change, redirect, move, or otherwise muck with almost any article on Tip Sense. It's not really necessary to wait for an administrator to do some "administrative" work; in fact, it's best to just plunge forward and do the job yourself.
Becoming an administrator
If you think a Tip Sense citizen -- including yourself! -- should become a Tip Sense administrator, feel free to Contact us with a brief description of why the Tip Sense citizen should have administrator privileges.
Ending administrator privileges
Unused high-privilege user accounts are a security risk. For this reason, administrators who don't use their user accounts for 3 months will be notified by email and their privileges will be revoked. Administrators who know they don't have the time or interest to continue as admins should request to have their privileges revoked voluntarily.
Administrators who abuse their privileges can have those privileges revoked.
After losing admin privileges for any reason, a Tip Sensen must go through the request process again to regain those privileges.
Current administrators
You can see a list of administrators here.
