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Archives administrators are users who have been granted administrative powers by the Archives Advisory Council. They have more editing functions at their disposal than regular users, and are responsible for watching over the Bulbagarden Archives and settling any disputes. Many of them are also administrators on Bulbapedia or Bulbanews.

There are three levels of administrator powers.

In this listing, those administrators who are also administrators on other Bulbawiki sites are listed as such.

If in need of administrator assistance, please contact an Active administrator for quickest results; all active administrators generally check messages daily. To see which administrators have been recently online, see the list of recent changes. If you cannot find an active administrator, try finding one listed as Around; these staff members are considered active on other Bulbagarden projects, but don't spend as much time here.

Junior administrators

The junior administrator group is the most basic staff group. These users have the ability to move files, among other trivial privileges.

Since September 23, 2010 Active Snowrunt (Talk)	Since September 29, 2010 Active Zesty Cactus (Talk)
Since September 29, 2010 Active Ataro (Talk)	Since October 3, 2010 Active Adyniz (Talk)

Administrators

Full administrators have the ability to protect files, change protected files, delete files, and move files. They may also block troublesome users.

There are currently 14 administrators. In this listing, they are sorted in the order they were promoted. Active administrators are likely to be at the bottom of the list.

Since June 20, 2006 Inactive Pie (Talk)	Since May 1, 2007 Hiatus Zeta (Talk)	Since May 1, 2007 Inactive Fabu-Vinny (Talk)
Since May 28, 2009 Around Kenji-girl (Talk)	Since June 21, 2009 Active Kevzo8 (Talk)	Since July 20, 2009 Around electAbuzzzz (Talk) Bulbapedia Editorial Board
Since July 20, 2009 Around CoolPikachu! (Talk) Bulbanews Board of Editors	Since September 12, 2009 Active tc26 (Talk) Bulbanews Board of Editors	Since October 4, 2009 Around UltimateSephiroth (Talk)
Since October 24, 2009 Active Clarky13 (Talk)	Since November 2, 2009 Around Darkeiya (Talk)	Since November 10, 2009 Around AiedailEclipsed (Talk)
Since January 4, 2010 Around Umeko (Talk)	Since July 25, 2010 Active PsychicRider (Talk)

Senior administrators

These are highly active staff who, in addition to all powers of a full administrator, also have the ability to "suppress" a redirect when a file is moved and the ability to promote other users to the junior administrator group.

Since November 9, 2009 Active ht14 (Talk)

Since July 9, 2010 Hiatus Jello (Talk)

There are currently X senior administrators.

Higher staff members

Some users on the Archives technically have more power than senior administrators; however, most of them are not especially active. Generally, they are more active on Bulbapedia and Bulbanews.

Maverick Nate is the Editor-in-Chief of the Bulbagarden Archives and the coordinator of the Archives Advisory Council.

Since December 21, 2005 Active Archaic (Talk) Bulbagarden Owner	Since April 24, 2005 Active evkl (Talk) Deputy Head of Bulbagarden	Since April 16, 2005 Bot BulbaBot (Talk) Evil Robot
Since November 28, 2006 Hiatus Zhen Lin (Talk) Former Bulbapedia Editor-in-Chief Archives Bureaucrat	Since February 25, 2007 Inactive Argy (Talk) Former Bulbanews Editor-in-Chief Archives Bureaucrat	Since February 25, 2007 Active TTEchidna (Talk) Bulbapedia Editor-in-Chief
Since June 9, 2008 Around Sketch (Talk) Bulbapedia Editorial Board Archives Bureaucrat	Since September 16, 2008 Active MAGNEDETH (Talk) Bulbapedia Editorial Board Archives Bureaucrat	Since December 9, 2008 Active Kogoro (Talk) Bulbapedia Editorial Board Archives Advisory Council
Since December 29, 2008 Around Jioruji Derako (Talk) Bulbapedia Editorial Board Archives Advisory Council	Since March 29, 2009 Active The dark lord trombonator (Talk) Bulbapedia Editorial Board Archives Advisory Council	Since March 31, 2009 Around RexRacer (Talk) Bulbanews Editor-in-Chief Archives Bureaucrat

Authority

Administrators of full or senior level have the authority to:

• Impose bans
• Settle disputes over images

Becoming an administrator

Temporary administrative power may be issued by a senior administrator or bureaucrat; long-term power will be assigned by the Archives Advisory Council.

Users who have contributed regularly and who have demonstrated initiative are candidates for administratorship.