Editing Encyclopedia:Administrators (section)

==== Administrator recall ====
{{main article|Wikipedia:Administrator recall}}

The community may start a [[Wikipedia:Administrator recall|recall petition]] to require an administrator's status to be reconfirmed through a re-request for adminship (RRfA); administrator privileges will be removed if the administrator does not start an RRfA within 30 days of a successful recall petition, or does not pass the RRfA.<ref name="recall">Recall RFCs: {{blist|1={{slink|WP:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I|Proposal 16: Allow the community to initiate recall RfAs}} and {{slink|WP:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I|Proposal 16c: Community recall process based on dewiki|nopage=y}}|2=[[WP:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase II/Administrator recall]]|3={{slink|Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)|Administrator Recall}}}}</ref>

In addition to this procedure, individual administrators may [[Wikipedia:Administrators open to recall|pledge to voluntarily step down]] if specified criteria are met. These criteria are set by each administrator for themselves, and usually detailed in their userspace. Administrators who made such pledges may change them at any time, or decline to adhere to previously made recall pledges. Most of these voluntary pledges were made before the RRfA procedure was introduced for all administrators.