Wikipedia:Terms of consideration of requests

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Wikipedia is purely voluntary. Wikipedia contributors (including administrators) do not serve in any hierarchical structure and do not receive any payment for their activities. Each user contributes to Wikipedia to the extent that he considers possible and acceptable for himself. So on Wikipedia, it's fundamentally impossible to force someone to do something if they don't want to.

Therefore, Wikipedia does not have clearly established deadlines for considering requests (to administrators, to delete, to rename, etc.), as well as there are no sanctions for a hypothetical violation of these deadlines. This distinguishes Wikipedia from government agencies (for example, in Russia, in accordance with Article 12 of Federal Law No. 59-FZ, citizens have the right to expect compliance with the established deadlines for considering written applications).

It is not customary on Wikipedia to rush other contributors to take any action.

If you feel that your issue is taking too long, then you have the following options: either be patient and wait, or try to get the appropriate credentials yourself and help participants consider other similar requests - this may expedite your consideration. Another way to expedite the consideration of the application is to sum up the preliminary result by creating a separate section “Preliminary result” in the application and describing the draft of the proposed result there, or in any other way to order all the considered opinions so that it would be easier for summarizing to navigate the topic.