Administrative action review may be used:

1. to review an individual administrator action, including (but not limited to) a block, a page protection, or an override of the title blacklist
2. to review an individual action of someone using one of the following advanced permissions
   • Account creator
   • Articles for Creation Helper script
   • Autopatrolled
   • AutoWikiBrowser
   • Event coordinator
   • File mover
   • Mass message sender
   • New page reviewer
   • Page mover
   • Pending changes reviewer
   • Rollback
   • Template editor

Administrative action review should not be used:

1. to request an appeal or review of an action with a dedicated review process

   For review of page deletions or review of deletion discussion closures, use Wikipedia:Deletion review (DRV)

   For review of page moves, use Wikipedia:Move review (MRV)

2. to ask to remove a user's permissions:

   Permissions granted at WP:PERM may be revoked by an administrator if XRV finds them to be misused.

   Repeated or egregious misuse of permissions may form the basis of an administrators' noticeboard or incidents noticeboard report, or a request for arbitration, as appropriate.

3. to argue technicalities and nuances (about what the optimal action would have been, for example), outside of an argument that the action was inconsistent with policy.
4. to ask for a review of arbitration enforcement actions. Such reviews must be done at arbitration enforcement noticeboard ("AE"), at the administrators’ noticeboard ("AN"), or directly to the Arbitration Committee at the amendment requests page ("ARCA").
5. for urgent incidents and chronic, intractable behavioural problems; use Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents (ANI) instead
6. for serious, entrenched or persistent disputes and cases of rule-breaking; use Wikipedia:Arbitration (ArbCom) instead
7. for a block marked with any variation of {{CheckUser block}}, {{OversightBlock}}, or {{ArbComBlock}}; Contact the Arbitration Committee instead
8. to attack other editors, cast aspersions, or make accusations of bias. Such requests may be speedily closed.

1. Before listing a review request, consider attempting to discuss the matter with the performer of the action as this could resolve the matter more quickly. There could have been a mistake, miscommunication, or misunderstanding, and a full review may not be needed. Such discussion also gives the performer the opportunity to clarify the reasoning behind a decision.
2. Start a new discussion by clicking below and filling out the form.Start a new discussion
3. Inform the person of this discussion.

   You must leave a notice on the editor's talk page.

   The use of ping or the notification system is not sufficient for this purpose.

   You may use {{subst:XRV-notice}} ~~~~ to do so.

   Manually listing a discussion

   You can also do this manually by creating a new section, copy-pasting one of the templates, and filling it out. Copy this template skeleton if requesting review of an action on a page (including articles): {{subst:XRV |page= |action = <!-- The action you're asking to be reviewed --> |performer = <!-- Name of editor who performed the action --> |discussion = <!-- Name of the section of performer talk page where discussion took place --> |reason = }} ~~~~ Copy this template skeleton if requesting review of an action on a user: {{subst:XRV |user= |action = <!-- The action you're asking to be reviewed --> |performer = <!-- Name of editor who performed the action --> |discussion = <!-- Name of the section of performer talk page where discussion took place --> |reason = }} ~~~~