Help:When to place technical requests in "Administrator needed"
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This page in a nutshell: Most requests at RM/TR can be done by non-admins, except those involving move-protected or salted titles. |
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Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests is a common place for editors both new and old to seek assistance. It's also a part of projectspace which editors, especially newer ones, may not entirely understand the inner workings of. Many editors are confused about whether a move they can't perform themselves should be placed under "Uncontroversial technical requests" or "Administrator needed". The overwhelming majority of moves most editors will take to RM/TR do not require an administrator, but some will; this page explains what requests should be placed where.
What moves require administrators?
Moves require administrators when non-administrators are prevented via
Move protection, to the surprise of some editors, does not permit
Similarly, if the target title is fully "salted" (creation-protected), only admins are able to move to it. Be careful to check that this is indeed a full salt; many pages are only 'ECP' salted and can be made by any extended-confirmed (500+ edits and 30+ days tenure) editor. Please note that salted titles are often such because they have been repeatedly deemed inappropriate. New editors seeking to have a page, especially a draft, moved to a salted title may be strongly encouraged to go through the
Special case: title blacklist
Contrary to the warning given when trying to perform them, title blacklist moves are not admin-only! Creating a page on the title blacklist, or moving a page to a blacklisted title, is possible for all administrators, page movers, and
The source of the confusion here is that the error message given to people without any of those user rights attempting to create a page at a blacklisted title only mentions administrators. Consensus has not yet formed for an alternative wording, so people place blacklisted moves under "Administrator needed". Nonetheless, these moves can be executed by any page mover.
What moves do not require administrators?
In short, everything else. Edge cases exist that this page cannot cover, but the substantial majority of moves not involving protected articles are doable by any page mover.
Page mover right
The
Not everyone making their first foray to RM/TR is aware the page mover right exists, let alone that most people who patrol the page have it rather than
Because of RM/TR's page mover dominance, requests placed under "Administrator needed" often take longer to be resolved; some may sit there for extended periods while requests around them are handled. This is one reason placing things in the right section is important, as moves executable by page movers may be missed and languish.
The page mover role has moderate requirements (roughly six months tenure,
See also
Notes
- ^ Account age is used as a somewhat unfortunate proxy for tenure. People do get rejected for the right when the bot calls out their account's age as just barely short of the mark, while others who were inactive for long periods and have accounts much older than their true tenure get approved.