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This page or section is an official policy on Wookieepedia.

It has wide acceptance among editors and is considered a standard that everyone must follow. Please use the Consensus track to propose changes to this policy.

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If an administrator's decision is in question, then the administration should deliberate on the matter collectively. We don't want to be stepping on each others' toes!

The administrative autonomy policy prevents Wookieepedia administrators from making conflicting changes using their administrative privileges, also known as sysop rights. Administrators are responsible for enforcing site policies as a group, trusting each other with appropriately deleting articles and blocking users, and keeping Wookieepedia running as smoothly as possible. For these reasons, an administrator may not unilaterally overturn any action by another administrator without a group consensus from the rest of the administration.

Rules

  1. No single member of the administration may overturn any action by another administrator without a group consensus from the rest of the administration. The following exceptions apply:
    • Undeletion – An item may be undeleted if there is canonical evidence to justify its existence, pursuant to the Notability policy, or if it was clearly deleted erroneously, such as a file being deleted for being unused despite the contrary.
    • Page protection – If an administrator places a permanent protection of any level or type on an article, administrative autonomy expires six months after the protection's original institution.
    • Former administrators – Administrative autonomy does not apply to former administrators. With the exception of blocks (see below), any decision by a former administrator may be overturned by a current administrator at any time.
  2. Decisions approved by community consensus, such as page deletions voted through the Trash compactor process, are not affected by administrative autonomy (i.e. they should not be reversed without a community vote) as they are subject to the Consensus policy instead.

Procedures for reversing an administrator's decision

  1. In the event an administrator feels that another administrator's decision should be overturned, a good-faith effort should be made to discuss the issue with them.
  2. To determine whether to overturn any administrative decision, including blocks issued by a former administrator, the entire administration must be contacted (e.g. a ping on Discord)—with each administrator asked to respond and given the opportunity to participate in relevant discussions—and come to a majority agreement. If an administrator is on a hiatus (e.g. using {{Vacation}}), the administration need not wait for outstanding responses after a period of 2 days, though a longer waiting time is recommended for non-urgent matters.
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