Heroes Wiki:Administrators

The primary responsibilities of an administrator are to:

1. Handle article/file deletion requests according to the deletion policy
2. Appropriately deal with acts of vandalism
3. Appropriately deal with revert wars

Vandalism is the intentional malicious modification of a page. Examples include blanking out pages or inserting inflammatory comments. If someone inserts incorrect information onto a page, it's not inherently vandalism even if it affects a large number of pages.

Minor acts of vandalism that are not on-going should be dealt with by notifying the user on their talk page. If the vandalism continues, a ban may be placed on the user.

Major acts of vandalism such as maliciously blanking or inserting inflammatory messages on a large number of pages may be dealt with by an infinite ban, at an Administrator's discretion.

Revert wars may arise from time to time when there's a differing opinion on content or how the content should be displayed. When you see a revert war appear to begin, encourage discussion of the changes on the article's talk page. Try to reach a consensus or a compromise.

Persuade, don't dictate. An administrator's opinion on an article doesn't inherently carry any more weight than anyone else's opinion. Respect the decisions of the community even if you don't agree with them personally. In the end this is just a wiki, don't take anything personally. :)

Remain civil. As an administrator even though your opinions carry the same weight, you're still held to a higher standard. With great power comes great responsibility afterall. Try to set a good example.

Tips

1. On differences pages and user contribs, there's a link to rollback edits. This link doesn't let you provide a comment and it rolls back all sequential edits by the last editor, but the link on contribs is useful if you get a mass vandal. If using Firefox or another tabbed browser, you can just keep the tab with the contribs open and CTRL-click the rollback link for each of the vandal's edits. You can undo about an hour's worth of vandalism in about 3 minutes. Nothing is quite as disheartening to a vandal.
2. If you move an article to an existing redirect, the history is moved, too (it shows up as moved "over redirect" in recent changes). If you get a move vandal, it works great, provided you work backwards through any moves. (You just have to delete the extra redirects when you're done).
3. If you go to Special:Preferences and select "Mark edits I make as patrolled" on the editing tab, then you can use "hide patrolled edits" on Recent Changes and it will hide edits by Administrators who are also auto-patrolling their edits. It's still recommended to review all changes to the wiki but this makes it faster.
4. As for patrolling edits: if you click the "mark this edit as patrolled" link on a difference page (or a new article page), the red exclamation point will go away and the article won't appear in the aforementioned view on Recent Changes. Makes it easy to see what has already been checked by an Administrator.