Admins are expected to have an intimate understanding of Wikipedia policy. They are also expected to consistently demonstrate comprehension of these policies. This is especially paramount regarding the use of abilities entrusted to admins which are unavailable to regular users and editors of Wikipedia.

The following items are considered highly recommended reading material. These pages detail prerequisite knowledge required by an admin:

General

• Account suspensions
• Administrators
• Administrators' how-to guide
• Administrators' noticeboard
• Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
• Administrators' noticeboard/3RR

Content policies

• Copyrights
• Verifiability
• No original research
• Neutral point of view

Blocking

• Blocking policy
• Banning policy
• Bans and blocks

Page protection

• Protection policy
• Semi-protection policy
• Protected pages

Deletion

• Deletion guidelines for administrators
• Deletion policy
• Deletion process
• Undeletion policy
• Candidates for speedy deletion

Requests

• Recentchangeslinked/Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention Requests for administrator attention
• Requests for arbitration/Admin enforcement requested
• Wikipedia backlog

Vandalism

• Dealing with vandalism
• Vandalbot

Controversy

• List of controversial issues
• NPOV dispute
• Wheel war

Miscellaneous

• Editing the main page
• How to fix cut and paste moves
• Image use policy
• Office Actions

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