Editing Dark and Light Wiki:Administrators guide (section)

==Impartiality==
Most active administrators also actively edit the wiki. This occasionally causes conflict of interest. For example, if people start personally attacking you after an edit to an article, blocking them yourself makes it appear as if you're using your administrator tools to control wiki content.

Thus:
*If you're editorially involved in a conflict, request another administrator's intervention.
*If you're personally involved with a member of a conflict, request another administrator's intervention.
*Only mention your administrator status when justifying or explaining an administrative action.

===Cultural reverence of administrators===
Administrators do not have any say in the editorial process beyond that of any other editor. At least, that's what we like to say. More accurately, administrators absolutely do have a bit more voice than non-administrators. This extra voice is completely unintentional and stems completely from the culture of the wiki -- people look up to administrators and are more reluctant to dispute them. Even though this reverence is not the administrator team's fault, nevertheless, ''every administrator should be careful to avoid abusing this additional editorial power.'' Specific suggestions on how to do this are, by nature, controversial -- thus, if you disagree with any suggestion below, please note flaws with said suggestion here instead of simply removing it. If you really feel it doesn't belong, take your case to the talk page.

Some possible ways to avoid abusing non-systemic administrator authority follow, roughly sorted from simple to complex.

* Negate the importance of the administrator role if it gets brought up in an editorial discussion.
* Be a little more explanatory than usual. Justify edits more completely. Post in talk more often if something might become controversial. This is good advice for everyone, but it's doubly important for administrators -- a lack of an edit summary for any non-minor edit can give the impression of unilateral action.
* Remind people that usual cultural considerations apply to administrators, too. For example, occasionally add "if you disagree, please revert" to your edit summary or talk post. Even though people are always free to revert like this, explicitly stating so helps them get over the fear of reverting an administrator.
* If you get administratively involved with an article, avoid being editorially involved with that article for some time.