Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Cleaning backlogs

Wikipedia is a backlog, in and out. There's always plenty of work to do as an admin, and the best way to find an endless supply is via the noticeboards.

Administrators' noticeboards

• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard (WP:AN) – for anything that affects administrators; General announcements, discussion of administration methods, ban proposals, block reviews, and backlog notices
• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents (WP:AN/I) – reports of incidents requiring admin intervention
• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring (WP:AN/EW) – reports of edit warriors and violations of the three-revert rule
• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure (WP:AN/RFC) – requests to have uninvolved administrators assess, summarize, and formally close a discussion

Urgent matters

• Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism (WP:AIV) – reports of vandalism requiring immediate administrator intervention
• Wikipedia:Requests for page protection (WP:RFPP) – reports of disruption to pages that may require protection as a preventive measure, or templates that are of high-risk due to high transclusion count
• Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention (WP:UAA) – reports of usernames that are such blatant and serious problems that they may need to be immediately blocked

Other

• Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations (WP:SPI) – requests that we investigate whether two or more Wikipedia accounts are being abusively operated by the same person
• Wikipedia:Requests for permissions (WP:PERM) – requests changes in user access levels
• Wikipedia:Requested moves (WP:RM) – retitling (moving) of pages that may require an admin to delete the target page to make way for the move
• Wikipedia:Requests for history merge (WP:RFHM) –
• Wikipedia:Copyright problems (WP:CP) – reports of possible copyright problems that may require admins to delete revisions from the page history, or the page altogether