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This is a guide to current practice at Wikipedia's requests for adminship (RfA) process, the mechanism by which editors are considered for administrator status. To become an administrator, there needs to be a clear consensus that you are committed to Wikipedia and can be trusted to know and uphold its policies and guidelines.
Instructions to create an account: Log in, if you haven't already. It's important to create these accounts while logged in. Check Special:Listusers to see if the name or a similar name already exists (remember that case - other than the first character - and punctuation affect location in the list; so JoeSmith, Joesmith, Joe.Smith, and Joe.smith will not always be next to each other in the list).
Wikipedia's administrative tools are often likened to a janitor's mop, leading to adminship being described at times as being "given the mop".Just like a real-world janitor might have keys to offices that some other workers are excluded from, admins have some role-specific abilities, but – also like a real-world janitor – they're not more important than the other editors.
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If your desire to account for the edit overrides your desire for anonymity, you can log in, make a dummy edit, and add a note in the edit summary about the previous edit. If you make a comment on a talk page without logging in, then your signature will include your IP address.
Administrators monitor each other; nearly all admin actions are reversible by any other admin (including page deletions, page protections, and blocks). The Arbitration Committee also has the power to sanction administrators, and does so fairly regularly.