Forum:User rights

I would like to propose some user right adjustments. The main reason I'm doing this now as opposed to later is due to the bureaucrat situation which we may as well get sorted out now. The sysop and bot situation can be dealt with later as far as I'm concerned.

Sysops
As of now we have seven admins, which strikes me as unnecessary under the circumstances. Firstly, we should reach out to all of the inactive admins (namely User:Hunterj and User:Tigernose) to ask if they plan to serve in any administrative capacity anymore. In both cases, they haven't edited in over or nearly a year, respectively.

In Tigernose's case, since he's not a bureaucrat, we could probably just remove the rights and he can have them back should he decide to return, though in Hunterj's we would need to contact Wikia, in which case we may as well contact him first.

User:Torta de Limão, while not technically inactive, has had a history of inactivity (even allowing the adoption of the wiki by another user), and has not engaged in any administrative manner for a while. I guess this is also an opportunity for administrators to decide if they would like to continue fulfilling admin duties or not, and if not, to state so.

Of course from here on out I also propose we establish tighter standards for adminship, something this wiki has never had a history of (I mean, really). Considering admin status can be viewed as merely technical, there's no reason to have more than necessary.

To address myself, I consider myself to be more of an adjunct administrator for now. Light Daxter and Techno are leading the charge currently while I work at the Jak Wiki, and my role is limited to the things I specialize in (which is rewriting articles, site design, and architecting policy).

Bots
We also have five bots. We don't need separate bots for different tasks, and the only resident users who maintain a bot are Light Daxter and Technobliterator, and quite honestly they're the only ones that really need to have one. This eliminates Maintenance script, HunterG-88, and CapitalizeBot.

Bureaucrats
I also propose we add another bureaucrat, as currently we only have one. If history has taught us anything it's that bureaucrats fall off the face of the planet and then we have no internal recourse for promoting new admins. This results in needing to go through Wikia's adoption process, which is slightly inconvenient. In fact, the bureaucrat we have now had to go through the adoption process precisely because of the thing I'm talking about. And due to his declination of any serious involvement due to off-wiki obligations, it seems natural to promote another bureaucrat.

I hereby nominate either User:Light Daxter or User:Technobliterator, though the case could be made for both. The former is an experienced bureaucrat who has remained a reliably active administrator at the Jak Wiki since 2009, taking no breaks of inactivity since. He has also shown good judgment in accepting or declining admin requests, and determining what's involved in being an admin, etc.

Techno on the other hand is extremely involved in Wikia as a whole. She's an active admin at three different wikis and a mentor at an official Wikia wiki. Not to mention she is also part of Wikia's Vanguard team, so needless to say she's a committed user, and longevity and helpfulness are two key criteria for being a bureaucrat, in my opinion. While I tend to disagree with her on her general view of adminship, admins will be promoted on a conensus basis, so this shouldn't matter anyway.

As I said, the case can be made for both, and having three bureaucrats seems within appropriateness. 04:57, October 28, 2016 (UTC)