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This page documents an Official Policy on Warriors Wiki. This page was approved via contributor consensus. All edits must be discussed on the talk page prior to a Sysop making changes.
This policy in a Nutshell
Administrators are responsible for ensuring much of the cleanup and detail work gets completed.
Administrators are entrusted with tools to ensure that this can be done.
The administrators or sysops of the Warriors Wiki are charged with coordinating the project, cleaning and defending the Wiki all while contributing to the Wiki's primary goals. These hardworking members help to ensure that the Wiki is properly kept and always making forward progress. The current admins as of now are SnowedLightning, Spookywilloww, and Vector Sigma. Administrators are expected to perform housekeeping duties, such as deleting articles, tracking the recent changes, warning users of disruptive behavior, and keeping track of maintenance on the wiki. Admins are expected to be experienced, deserving of their rights, and users seeking help can often turn to them if advice is needed. To apply, fill out an RfA.
Administrators are entrusted with a number of potentially destructive tools to use for the good of the wiki. They handle many janitorial and administrative duties to keep the wiki clean, organized and progressing. They work to prevent edit warring, vandalism and the like. Administrators are expected to act as shining members of the community and support and defend community consensus.
Bureaucrats
Bureaucrats are administrators that have the additional ability to make other individuals into administrators or bureaucrats, and additional staff members usually following the passage of an application. To become a bureaucrat, one must become an administrator first. The wiki should ideally have at least two bureaucrats at any given time to ensure a balance of rights.
Special tools
Protect/Unprotect/Edit protected pages
Administrators have the power to protect pages, remove protection from pages, and edit protected pages.
Administrators are expected to use this ability responsibly, only protecting pages as needed. Incidents that warrant protection are templates that could be vandalized or unintentionally damaged and effect large numbers of pages, pages that are repeatedly vandalized, pages of high traffic, or in an effort to curtail an edit-war until the cause of the war can be settled. If any protected pages require edits, contact an administrator's talk page or in the Discord server #staff-contact channel.
Delete/Undelete pages
Administrators are trusted with the power to delete or restore pages.
Pages are to be deleted in accordance with policies and project decisions. In some cases, such as unused images, it is appropriate for administrators to eliminate pages without resorting to the wiki projects.
Block/Unblock users
Administrators have the ability to block users, and to lift bans placed on them.
Administrators should only ban users who have been causing trouble, and only after they have had a clear opportunity to correct the error of their ways. Bans should, in most cases, be short. Administrators should not use this ability to silence dissenters against their own actions, but personal attacks do not have to be tolerated. If an administrator is being attacked by a user, it is best to leave punishment of that user in the hands of another administrator.
Some reasons for blocking include breaking the wiki rules: excessive spam, vandalism, personal attacks, and sock puppetry. Users must be warned first of their behavior and be informed of their block on their talk page. Blocks are typically given in short terms, but can be increased if the user in question continues to break the rules despite being warned.
In extreme cases, user's behavior outside of the wiki can result in on-wiki blocks to protect other users on the wiki.
Bans against users should only be lifted in the case that it is decided that too long, or too severe a punishment was issued to a user.
Unending bans should be used rarely, and only in the most severe cases.
Bans should not be used for personal matters. If an administrator has a disagreement with another user that does not involve personal attacks, that does not give them the right to ban the user.
If there is a disagreement or the user asks for their block to be lifted, a block should not be lifted without administrators' consensus.
Rollback rights
Administrators have the power to rollback, or revert, edits, using a link found on the diff page. This is simply a faster way of undoing an edit.
This ability should be used only to quickly remove large quantities of incorrect information, or eliminate vandalism.
Ability to edit the MediaWiki namespace
Administrators have the power to edit pages that are a part of the MediaWiki namespace, including updating the main page.
These pages can do things such as affect the look and information provided on system pages, and in accordance administrators are to always edit them with the best interest of the Wiki at heart. In many cases, dramatic edits to the Namespace will be discussed on public channels to establish consensus and involve the community in dramatic changes to the site.
Duties
Housekeeping
Eliminate other pages in accordance with policies and wiki project decisions.
Eliminate unused images and other files from the Wiki.
Vote and endorse in all staff nominations, and demote staff members per wiki policy.
Social media
Wiki administrators maintain the wiki's social media accounts. Currently, the wiki just has a Twitter account.
At least two administrators will have access to the usernames/passwords at a time. Administrators running the social media accounts are expected to behave professionally as they are representing the wiki as a whole.
Administrators are responsible for maintaining the wiki Discord server and issuing invitations.
Behavior expectations
Administrators are expected to keep the good of the wiki in mind at all times. This means respecting others, maintaining wiki policies, and using the administrator tools for the good of all members. An administrator or bureaucrat should never:
Use their powers in an unjust way.
Use their powers to undo edits just because they believe that they are right.
Use their powers to make edit wars end in their favor.
Ban a user unjustly.
Undelete a page without a good reason that has been clearly stated and, if needed, voted on.
Delete pages made by another user to continue an argument.
Edit the MediaWiki namespace in a way that makes it difficult for other users to use the wiki.
Edit another user's personal skin customization pages, such as their common.css page, unless it is to revert vandalism that could not normally be edited by regular users.
Use their powers to edit the MediaWiki namespace in any way not beneficial to the wiki.
Think that, because they are an administrator/bureaucrat, they can bend any of these or Fandom's rules.
Administrators who are failing in their duties
In the event you feel an administrator is failing in their duty to do what it best for the wiki, please open an inquiry at the discussion area forum that clearly outlines what you feel that administrator is doing wrong. The community will review that inquiry, and the other administrators will gather the consensus and make a decision. To that regard, administrators are responsible for demoting other staff members in accordance with wiki policy. If the community has a disagreement with their decision, they may open an inquiry at the discussion area forum.
Admin+
The Warriors Wiki is currently an Admin+ Wiki. All administrators are required to take the Admin+ courses to maintain the wiki's status. New administrators have sixty (60) days from receiving their admin user right to complete the Admin+ courses, or the wiki will lose their A+ Wiki status.