Wikipedia:Admin reconfirmation

A request for admin reconfirmation is a process where the community can petition for an administrator to undergo a reconfirmation of community trust to hold administrative privileges. An editor may start a petition if they believe that an administrator has lost the trust of the community. If the petition passes, then the administrator must re-request administrative privileges from the community. It is one of the four ways that an admin may lose privileges, along with voluntary resignation at the bureaucrat's noticeboard, the arbitration committee deciding to request removal, and procedural removal for inactivity.

Recall petition

Any extended-confirmed editor may begin a recall petition for an administrator:

A recall petition may not be opened for 12 months after an administrator has successfully passed a request for adminship, a request for bureaucratship, a re-request for adminship, or an administrator election, or has been elected to the Arbitration Committee. The editor who opens the petition must notify the admin via their talk page using the {{subst:Admin recall notice}} template and post a notice to the administrator's noticeboard using the {{subst:Admin recall notice/AN}} template.

Any extended-confirmed editor who has supported less than five currently active administrator recall petitions may add their signature to a petition, with or without reasoning. Any editor may comment in a discussion section on the recall petition page. Any signature or comment may be struck based on the same criteria used during requests for adminship.

A recall petition will be closed after one month. A petition passes if it gains 25 signatures within 30 days. If a petition fails, another petition for the same administrator may not be brought until 6 months from the date of closing.

Re-request for adminship

If a recall petition for a given administrator has passed, a bureaucrat will open a re-request for adminship (RRfA) after the administrator has had reasonable time to request up to a 30-day delay, subject to the discretion of the bureaucrats. Should the administrator not initiate an RRfA nor run in an administrator election within the granted delay period, a bureaucrat may, at their discretion, remove administrative privileges from the admin.

In an RRfA or administrator election, any administrator who obtains at least 60% support will retain the administrator role. If the administrator receives between 50 and 60% support, the consensus outcome will evaluated by the bureaucrats.

See also

• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase II/Administrator recall – discussion that led to the creation of this process
• Administrators open to recall – voluntary recall procedure used by some administrators
• Requests for de-adminship – history of previous attempts to create an administrator recall process