User:Steve Smith/Administrative stuff

The following is a (doomed to be forever incomplete) list of places editors can help out on the "administrative" side of Wikipedia (the term is used generally, and not intended to apply solely to administrators).

Page	Purpose	Who can help	What help is required	Useful policies, guidelines, and essays
Deletion
Articles for deletion	To allow editors to discuss whether articles should be deleted	Anyone	Participation in deletion discussions. Admins can help by closing expired discussions.	Deletion policy, AFD Wikietiquette, Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
Images and media for deletion	To allow editors to discuss whether images and other media should be deleted	Anyone, though for most discussions a good understanding of Wikipedia's Non-free content criteria is needed	Participation in deletion discussions. Admins can help by closing expired discussions.	Deletion policy, Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions, Non-free content criteria
Templates for deletion	To allow editors to discuss whether templates should be deleted	Anyone	Participation in deletion discussions. Admins can help by closing expired discussions.	Deletion policy, Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
Stub types for deletion	To allow editors to discuss whether a given stub type should be deleted	Anyone	Participation in deletion discussions. Admins can help by closing expired discussions.	Deletion policy, Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
Miscellany for deletion	To allow editors to discuss whether pages not dealt with elsewhere should be deleted (usually those in userspace or Wikipedia space)	Anyone	Participation in deletion discussions. Admins can help by closing expired discussions.	Deletion policy, Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions, User page policy
Category:Proposed deletion	To view articles tagged for proposed deletion	Anyone, although administrators are generally more useful here than are non-administrators	Any editor can remove the proposed deletion tag from an article that he/she doesn't feel should be deleted. Any editor may "second" a proposed deletion by adding Template:Prod-2 (though the usefulness of doing so is questionable). Admins may deleted articles that have been proposed for deletion for more than five days.	Deletion policy, Proposed deletion
Category:Speedy deletion	To view articles tagged for speedy deletion	Generally only administrators are useful here, though any editor can review the articles and remove tags if they feel that they were placed inappropriately.	Admins may delete articles that meet the criteria for speedy deletion.	Deletion policy, Criteria for speedy deletion
Deletion review	To allow editors to discuss whether administrators correctly dealt with specific disputed deletion decisions	Anyone	Participation in deletion discussions. Admins can help by closing expired discussions.	Deletion policy
Items for discussion
Categories for discussion	To allow editors to discuss whether categories should be deleted, renamed, or merged	Anyone	Participation in discussions. Admins can help by closing expired discussions.	Category deletion policy, Category naming conventions, Overcategorization guideline
User categories for discussion	To allow editors to discuss whether user categories should be deleted, renamed, or merged	Anyone	Participation in discussions. Admins can help by closing expired discussions.	Category deletion policy, User categories, Overcategorization of user categories guideline
Redirects for discussion	To allow editors to discuss whether redirects should be deleted	Anyone	Participation in discussions. Admins can help by closing expired discussions.	When should we delete a redirect?
Non-administrator noticeboards (project-wide - there are also a number of wikiproject-specific noticeboards)
Neutral point of view noticeboard	To discuss the application of the policy on neutral point of view to problematic articles	Anyone with a good understanding of the policy on neutral point of view	Participation in discussion, fixes on articles deemed to need them	Policy on neutral point of view
No original research noticeboard	To discuss the application of the policy prohibiting original research to problem articles	Anyone with a good understanding of the No Original Research policy	Participation in discussion, fixes on articles deemed to need them	Policy on original research, Policy on verifiability
Biographies of Living Persons noticeboard	To focus attention on violations and potential violations of Wikipedia's policy on the biographies of living persons	Anyone with a good understanding of Wikipedia's policy on the biographies of living persons	Participation in discussions, fixes on articles deemed to need them	Policy on the biographies of living persons
Reliable sources noticeboard	To discuss the reliability of disputed sources	Anyone with a good understanding of Wikipedia's guidelines on reliable sources	Participation in discussions	Reliable sources guideline, Policy on verifiability
Bot owners noticeboard	To discuss issues relating to bots on Wikipedia	Anyone with a good understanding of Bot policy	Participation in discussions	Bot policy
Conflict of interest noticeboard	To draw the community's attention to areas in which editors are editing under a conflict of interest	Anyone with a good understanding of the conflict of interest guideline	Participation in discussions	Conflict of interest guideline
Ethnic and cultural conflicts noticeboard	To draw the community's attention to areas in which nationalist sentiments are preventing consensus and/or neutral point of view from being reached	Anyone with a good understanding of Wikipedia's policy on neutral point of view, though a good dose of masochism is also helpful	Participation in discussions	Policy on neutral point of view
Fiction noticeboard	To discuss the application of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines to articles on fictional topics	Anyone with a good understanding of Wikipedia's core policies and an understanding of how to apply these core policies to fictional topics	Participation in discussions	Policy on verifiability, Policy on original research
Fringe theories noticeboard	To discuss articles in which fringe theories are being treated in a fasion not compliant with the policy on neutral point of view and/or the guideline on fringe theories	Anyone with a good understanding of the relevant policies and guidelines	Participation in discussions	policy on neutral point of view, guideline on fringe theories
Administrator noticeboards
Administrators' Noticeboard	To discuss items requiring administrators' attention	Anyone is welcome to discuss items, but many of the items require intervention that only administrators can provide	Discussion of items
Administrators' Noticeboard for Incidents	Nominally to discuss incidents (as opposed to general items) requiring administrators' attention, but in practice it is essentially a second Administrators' Noticeboard	Anyone is welcome to discuss items, but many of the items require intervention that only administrators can provide	Discussion of items
Administrators' Noticeboard for Arbitration Enforcement	To discuss administrative actions required as part of the enforcement of arbitration cases	Anyone is welcome to discuss items, but many of the items require intervention that only administrators can provide	Discussion of items
Administrators' Noticeboard for 3RR	To report violations of Wikipedia's edit-warring policy.	As there is rarely discussion surrounding 3RR cases, non-administrators are not generally very useful here	Administrators can issue blocks for edit-warring	Three revert rule
Bureaucrats' Noticeboard	To discuss items requiring bureaucrats' attention	Anyone is welcome to discuss items, but many of the items require intervention that only bureaucrats can provide	Discussion of items
Editor conduct issues
Wikiquette alerts	To report low-level problems with editor conduct	Anyone with reasonably good communication/conflict-resolution and with an even temper	Discussion of items, providing outside opinions, low-level mediation	Wikiquette, Civility policy, Policy prohibiting personal attacks, Guideline on the assumption of good faith
Request for comment on user conduct	To discuss ongoing behavioural problems by editors	Anyone	Providing opinions
Requests for arbitration	To request a judgment from the Arbitration Committee on a behavioural issue that could not be resolved by any other step in dispute resolution - the final step in dispute resolution.	Anyone, though only members of the Arbitration Committee are permitted to make judgments	Providing opinions and advice to the Arbitration Committee on proposed cases and those it had already agreed to hear, providing evidence in cases that the Arbitration Committee has already agreed to hear	Arbitration Committee
Copyright issues
Requests for privileges
Page assessment and promotion
Article dispute resolution
Abuse reporting
Village pump
General help