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This page concerns the process by which Meta administrators are removed for inactivity, as mandated by prescribed criteria. It was created in response to discussion at Meta talk:Administrators/confirm—see here—and replaces the former administrator confirmation process.
The next formal administrator review takes place on: April 1, 2026
The next formal administrator review takes place on: April 1, 2026
Removal criteria
- Administrators who have made fewer than ten edits in the six months immediately prior to the designated removal date (April 1 or October 1) are desysopped without notice.
- Administrators who have made more than ten edits but fewer than ten actions requiring admin privileges (remember, this includes edits to protected pages, etc.) in the same period are given a week to indicate they would like to retain their access. Users in this category are to be notified on the first day, and adminship is removed without notice on the seventh day if there is no response.
- Administrators who are desysopped also lose bureaucrat, interface administrator and CentralNotice administrator rights, if they have them, but not translation administrator rights.
- Interface administrators who are not also local administrators lose their access if they fail to make at least 10 global edits in the last 6 months. This is to be checked every April 1 and October 1 as well.
- CentralNotice administrators that are not Meta-Wiki administrators will automatically lose the permission if they have not made any edit or logged action for which this permission is required in the last 12 months immediately prior to the designated review date (October 1).
- Any translation administrator inactive on Meta will have their translationadmin user right removed. "Inactivity" is defined as total inactivity (no edits or logged actions) in the past two years. This is to be checked every April 1 and October 1.
Current removals
1 admin was removed without notice. 5 were given a week to sign; 0 of those were removed.
Legend: Removed • Undecided • Kept
Administrators
Automatic removal
- Adminship (and other rights) removed without notice.
- Rights removed by steward SHB2000 after request from bureaucrat M7
- Time signature: 10:23, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
Melos (talk • email • contributions • deleted contributions • all logs • blocks • deletions • protections)
Proposed removal
- Admins here are given a week to sign to indicate they wish to retain their rights.
- Message sent out at 10:23, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
- No rights were removed
Syunsyunminmin (talk • email • contributions • deleted contributions • all logs • blocks • deletions • protections)
- Signature: Yes. I'm here. Please retain.--Syunsyunminmin 🗨️talk 10:29, 1 April 2026 (UTC)[]
TheSandDoctor (talk • email • contributions • deleted contributions • all logs • blocks • deletions • protections)
- Signature: Please retain. Like the others, I might use these more rarely but I do use them correctly. I increased activity so as to avoid last October's listing but just missed this one with IRL stuff. --TheSandDoctor Talk 15:28, 4 April 2026 (UTC)[]
Base (talk • email • contributions • deleted contributions • all logs • blocks • deletions • protections)
- Signature: Little opportunity IRL to use the rights proactively, but I use them every now and then. --Base (talk) 09:37, 2 April 2026 (UTC)[]
MF-Warburg (talk • email • contributions • deleted contributions • all logs • blocks • deletions • protections)
- Signature: --MF-W 11:14, 1 April 2026 (UTC)[]
Amire80 (talk • email • contributions • deleted contributions • all logs • blocks • deletions • protections)
- Signature: Please retain, I use the rights rarely, but correctly. Thank you. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 12:12, 1 April 2026 (UTC)[]
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Interface administrators
- Interface administrators who are not also local administrators lose their access if they fail to make at least 10 global edits in the last 6 months.
None currently
Notes
- Use /Template/ for construction of removal pages.
- Notification templates: /RemovalNoticeAutomatic/, /RemovalNoticeProposed/, /RemovalNoticeNoResponse/. (need to be substed)
- One useful resource is Xtools Adminstats. Please remember to exclude temporary administrators from the removal and those who were elected or re-elected within the last 6 months.
- Another page to check is User:Krd/inactive admins.
