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Bureaucrats, Administrators, Content Moderators, Thread Moderators and Rollbacks, also called wiki staff, are able to exercise certain rights within the community. However, keeping in mind certain rules, they can exercise these rights.

Staff

Bureaucrat(s)

Icon User Position First Promoted Timezones Status
400 I'm Piyush.
  • Bureaucrat
  • Administrator
August 26, 2022 IST (UTC+5:30) Active
400 Ellis99
  • Bureaucrat
  • Administrator
October 18, 2023 GMT/BST (UTC±0/+1) Active

Administrator(s)

Icon User Position First Promoted Timezones Status
400 Kettlon
  • Administrator
August 12, 2023 GMT/BST (UTC±0/+1) Active
400 Gematarix
  • Administrator
October 24, 2024 PT/PDT (UTC–8/7) Active

Content Moderator(s)

Icon User Position First Promoted Timezones Status
400 Jokeman20
  • Content Moderator
January 23, 2019 EST/EDT (UTC–5/4) Inactive
400 Kittystyler
  • Content Moderator
April 15, 2021 CST/CDT (UTC–6/5) Active
400 Arcane Lightning
  • Content Moderator
January 21, 2024 CST/CDT (UTC–6/5) Active
400 CelsiusXS2
  • Content Moderator
April 28, 2024 EST/EDT (UTC–5/4) Inactive
400 Chatot04
  • Content Moderator
April 28, 2024 EST/EDT (UTC–5/4) Active
400 TheHacktivist42
  • Content Moderator
April 28, 2024 IST (UTC+5:30) Inactive
400 Diana lover
  • Content Moderator
April 30, 2024 AEST/AEDT (UTC+10/11) Active
400 DragonSpore18
  • Rollback
June 13, 2024 EST/EDT (UTC–5/4) Active

Thread Moderator(s)

Icon User Position First Promoted Timezones Status
400 TheHacktivist42
  • Thread Moderator
June 13, 2020 IST (UTC+5:30) Inactive
400 Crazy Keirra
  • Thread Moderator
November 13, 2020 IST (UTC+5:30) Active
400 PeacockFeatheredRaccoon
  • Thread Moderator
January 11, 2023 CST/CDT (UTC–6/5) Active
400 Arcane Lightning
  • Thread Moderator
January 24, 2023 CST/CDT (UTC–6/5) Active
400 ObsessionUnbound
  • Thread Moderator
August 28, 2023 AEST/AEDT (UTC+10/11) Active
400 Talking Gina
  • Thread Moderator
August 28, 2023 AEST/AEDT (UTC+10/11) Active
400 ShadowKitsune85
  • Thread Moderator
April 9, 2024 CST/CDT (UTC–6/5) Active

Rollback(s)

Icon User Position First Promoted Timezones Status
400 JoseRubenOctorio
  • Rollback
April 28, 2024 WIT (UTC+7) Active
400 Mewtwoclone
  • Rollback
April 28, 2024 Active
400 NegimaLover
  • Rollback
April 28, 2024 AEST/AEDT (UTC+10/11) Active
400 Pokemonfan201
  • Rollback
April 30, 2024 Active

Policies

Reverting

Anyone with or without rights can undo another user's edits, but it takes a lot of clicks to do so. Users who have rollback rights can revert multiple edits of another user with a single click.

Rules

Read the rules below carefully before exercising this right:

  • Do not use this right unnecessarily.
    • If someone has made an edit that is inappropriate or doesn't match the topic of the wiki, you are free to revert it.
  • If you feel that another user made an edit with good intentions, but the edit turned out to be incorrect, please let them know.
    • It is not mandatory to send a message to a user who vandalizes community pages.

Protecting

Administrators or Content Moderators can protect or unprotect pages, including ones that do not exist. Protecting a community page or image means that no other user, who is not an admin, can make any edits to that page or image.

The majority of pages on the wiki should remain publicly editable, and not protected. Pages may, however, be temporarily or permanently protected for legal reasons (for example, license texts should not be changed) or in cases of extreme vandalism, edit warring or abusive re-creation.

A page can be permanently protected for following reasons:

  • Protecting highly vandalized pages.
  • Maintaining the integrity of key copyright and license pages.
  • Preventing repeatedly created vandal or spam pages from creation.

MediaWiki pages are automatically protected, leaving only Administrators with the option to edit them.

A temporary protection is used for:

  • Enforcing a "'cool down'" period to stop an "edit war", upon request.
  • Protecting a page or image that has been a recent target of persistent vandalism or persistent edits by a banned user.
  • An Administrator or a Content Moderator can protect the page from any other user without their user rights. This includes rollback users.

Rules

These are the guidelines for protecting pages:

  • Do not make the common mistake of protecting pages unnecessarily. For example, do not protect a page simply because it is the Main Page.
  • Do not edit a temporarily protected page except to add a notice explaining the page is protected.
  • Do not protect a page you are involved in an edit dispute over.
  • Avoid favoring one version of the article over another, unless one version is vandalism.
  • Temporarily protected pages should not be left protected for very long.
  • Talk pages and Message Walls should not be protected except in extreme circumstances. This includes a personal attack from another user, by writing slurs or posting inappropriate content.
  • The protection of a page on any particular version is not meant to express support for that version and requests should therefore not be made that the protected version be reverted to a different one.

Deleting

Administrators or Content Moderators have the ability to remove or restore any page in this community. Pages that violate community guidelines are removed.

Reasons

Below are some of the reasons under which these pages can be removed:

  • Copyright infringement: Pages that infringe copyright should be removed immediately.
  • Rubbish, Does not exist, Exists already: A page that is rubbish or does not match the subject. Additionally, if any page is in the wiki and another similar page is made, then it should also be removed.
  • Marked for deletion: If any page is marked as candidate for deletion, please act on it as per your common sense.
  • Fanon/Speculation: Pages focused on fanon/speculation are not needed.
  • Spam: Spamming pages or files is strictly prohibited.

Blocking

In case a user has violated the rules, a Bureaucrat or an Administrator can block them.

Depending on the severity of the crime, a user can be blocked from either three days or longer. The Administrator or Bureaucrat must provide a reason for blocking a user.

After the block expires, if a user returns to the site and violates another rule, the Administrator or Bureaucrat can block them for a longer period of time. In case where the user has violated the rules repeatedly (four or more times), the block placed is permanent. Blocks for vandalizing articles can be granted without warning; in other cases the user should be warned to stop their behavior.

Promotion

Any user who wishes to become a community staff member must complete all of the prerequisites for their preferred roles and apply here, following the rules and criteria outlined there. Alternatively, the Community Administrative Council, which consists of administrators and bureaucrats, has the authority to select anyone to the positions of Content Moderator, Thread Moderator, and Rollback using a simple majority consensus.

Emergency Appointments

In the event of an emergency, Bureaucrats are granted the power to designate any qualified individual (who meets at least two requirements for the position) to any administrative level, without the need for a voting process. If the appointed individuals remain in their positions for a period of five months without any instances of misconduct, they will be considered permanent and will be entitled to the same privileges. However, within the initial five-month period, the appointing authority retains the power to remove the individual at any given time.

Demotion

Due to inactivity or a proven abuse of authority, a wiki staff member may be demoted.

  • For security reasons, an inactive staff's rights are taken away. The person receives their role back once they've returned.
  • In cases of abuse of authority, a proper vote is necessary, much like one for promotion, and a full inquiry must be carried out. The vote must pass with the same number of votes needed for the promotion of the individual in question to the same position. For users holding the positions of Content Moderator, Thread Moderator, and Rollback, an alternative method of demotion is to hold a proper discussion and investigation inside the Community Administrative Council, which is made up of administrators and bureaucrats. A majority consensus is required for the resolution to pass.

Any self-demotion, regardless of the cause, is not considered a permanent demotion, and the user is always permitted to reclaim their position after committing to serve the wiki.

Transfer of rights

A wiki staff can, at any time, transfer their rights to another account of their own.

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