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Archives staff 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 four 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.

Some users may be granted temporary access to the junior administrator tools; the following 4 users are not temporary.

Since January 22, 2011 Around Pattyman (Talk)	Since June 26, 2011 Active MisterE13 (Talk) Bulbapedia Junior Administrator
Since August 1, 2011 Active Vuvuzela2010 (Talk)	Since August 16, 2011 Active Marked +-+-+ (Talk)

Administrators

Full administrators have the ability to protect files, change protected files, delete files, and move files. They have the ability to "suppress" a redirect when a file is moved. They may also block troublesome users.

There are currently 15 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) Bulbapedia Bureaucrat	Since May 1, 2007 Hiatus Zeta (Talk)	Since May 1, 2007 Inactive Fabu-Vinny (Talk) Bulbapedia Junior Administrators
Since June 21, 2009 Active Kevzo8 (Talk) Bulbanews Senior Writer	Since July 20, 2009 Hiatus electAbuzzzz (Talk) Bulbapedia Bureaucrat	Since September 12, 2009 Active tc26 (Talk) Bulbanews Senior Writer Bulbapedia Administrator
Since October 4, 2009 Around UltimateSephiroth (Talk)	Since October 24, 2009 Hiatus Clarky13 (Talk) Bulbapedia Administrator	Since November 2, 2009 Around Darkeiya (Talk) Bulbapedia Bureaucrat
Since November 9, 2009 Around ht14 (Talk)	Since November 10, 2009 Around AiedailEclipsed (Talk)	Since January 4, 2010 Around Umeko (Talk) Bulbapedia Bureaucrat
Since October 9, 2010 Active Chosen (Talk)	Since August 15, 2011 Active Jo The Marten (Talk) Bulbapedia Administrator

Senior administrators

These are highly active staff who have all the powers of a full administrator. They also are able to lock and unlock editing to those below Junior Administrators.

There are currently 9 senior administrators.

Since September 29, 2010 Active Ataro (Talk) Bulbapedia Junior Administrator	Since October 3, 2010 Around Adyniz (Talk) Bulbanews Senior Writer Bulbapedia Administrator	Since January 6, 2011 Active nuva-kal (Talk) Bulbapedia Junior Administrator
Since January 6, 2011 Hiatus SnorlaxMonster (Talk) Bulbapedia Senior Administrator	Since March 23, 2011 Active Masatoshi (Talk) Bulbapedia Administrator	Since June 23, 2011 Active Carmenstar97 (Talk) Bulbapedia Administrator

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. They are sorted in order of their promotion to Bulbagarden Archives staff.

The Archives Advisory Council coordinate projects and define Bulbagaden Archives policy and style. This group currently has four sitting members: Kogoro, MAGNEDETH, the dark lord trombonator, and RexRacer.

Since April 13, 2005 Around Archaic (Talk) Bulbagarden Owner	Since April 24, 2005 Around evkl (Talk) Deputy Head of Bulbagarden	Since April 16, 2005 Bot BulbaBot (Talk) Evil Robot
Since April 13, 2005 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 June 9, 2008 Around Sketch (Talk) Bulbapedia Bureaucrat Archives Bureaucrat
Since July 17, 2008 Active Maverick Nate (Talk) Bulbapedia Editorial Board Former Archives Editor-in-Chief	Since September 16, 2008 Around MAGNEDETH (Talk) Bulbapedia Editor-in-Chief Archives Advisory Council	Since December 9, 2008 Active Kogoro (Talk) Bulbapedia Editorial Board Archives Advisory Council
Since December 29, 2008 Around Jioruji Derako (Talk) Bulbapedia Bureaucrat Archives Bureaucrat	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 Advisory Council
Since May 28, 2009 Around Kenji-girl (Talk) Bulbapedia Editorial Board Archives Bureaucrat	Since September 29, 2010 Active Zesty Cactus (Talk) Bulbapedia Editorial Board Archives Bureaucrat	Since October 25, 2010 Active Werdnae (Talk) Bulbapedia Editorial Board 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 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.