Wikipedia:Inactive administrators (2005)
 | Update: Following a request for comment in July 2011, the community resolved that administrator accounts which had been inactive for over a year (defined as making "no edits or administrative actions for at least 12 months") may be desysopped by a community process. |
 | This is a failed proposal. Consensus for its implementation was not established within a reasonable period of time. If you want to revive discussion, please use the talk page or initiate a thread at the village pump. |
Users are expected to remain reasonably active on the Wikimedia projects where they hold sysop status. The intent of this policy is to help guard against the possibility of a dormant sysop account being compromised. Should a sysop be inactive for a period of three months, an email will be sent to ascertain the reason(s) for this and to remind the user that without further activity their sysop privileges will be removed. After a total of 6 months of inactivity, sysop privileges will be removed. If the user begins editing within the following 6 months and sends an email to a bureaucrat from the email address registered to their user login, sysop privileges will be restored without the need for a renewed RfA. Any absence from the project for longer than 12 months will mandate an RfA before sysop privileges are re-instituted. Decisions regarding the sysop status of users with very low activity not covered by the preceding criteria (for example, <10 edits/year) will be made at the discretion of stewards.