KHWiki talk:Staff

New page
I found out the name of the place where you fight Final xemnas :D please let me add a new page--Splatt Matt 12:02, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Org. XIII
I just realized, we have enough people to be Org.XIII. I'll work on a design. (Edit): Here it is.-Azul (talk ・contribs) 06:04, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Pretty! And flashy 8D. But there is only one girl in Org. XIII and there is more than one girl in the staff... unless someone wants Xion... but who knows what he/she counts as XD. --Yer mom 15:53, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Or, all the unactive staff members keep their hoods up, so people know who is active. Ult ima 16:33, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

List of staff
Can someone please list all the staff members of KHW and their respective positions ? I see quite a lot of users with the Paopu badge/the Staff member black Keyblade template and a number of them haven't been listed in the Staff page.  TNÉ  En avant Bravo ! 01:38, October 1, 2009 (UTC)
 * The Paopu badge was made for users who were nominated for mod/adminship, it doesn't mean they are admins or mods except for the ones who actually got the spot which are Kryten (admin), DTN and HoO (mods). I think all the staff is listed here, if there's someone with they key template and is not listed here then they are probably misusing it. -- 01:47, October 1, 2009 (UTC)

Okay. So I guess the current list is correct.  TNÉ  En avant Bravo ! 02:53, October 1, 2009 (UTC)

Inactive Moderator
Troisnyxetienne is on Wiki-break for at least three weeks. Since this could be considered a long period of time, I think we should probably put her down as inactive until we know that she'll be fully active again. -- Door To  Nothing Kupo! 00:46, November 3, 2009 (UTC)
 * I was on her page and talk page over at the Kingdom Hearts Francophone Wiki to ask her something and her page said that the Francophone will be her permanent base from now on. - HeartOfOblivion 04:52, November 3, 2009 (UTC)
 * Pardon, gentlemen, but you're suggesting that contact towards the specified is pointless here? Or did she perhaps leave some other form of contact? - EternalNothingnessXIII 04:54, November 3, 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, first she said that she would be gone to help with some huge mess at the Francophone and two days for a summit. She then changed it to taking a hiatus for three weeks and that it might be an indefinite period. And as I said, she said on her userpage over at the Francophone that the Francophone will now be her homebase.


 * This could mean that she will be gone longer then three weeks. DTN suggested moving her name to inactive because we don't know when she will come back and so no one like an anon or new user tries to contact her for help and get no response. We could put a note saying if you urgently need to talk to her, contact her over at the Francophone. - HeartOfOblivion 05:13, November 3, 2009 (UTC)

Right... but when she says break, I think she means it. I don't think she really would want to be bothered. - EternalNothingnessXIII 05:30, November 3, 2009 (UTC)

Ultima Active?
I read a conversation between Ultima and NinjaSheik implying that he was active again. The conversation is on his talk page. Shouldn't he be moved back into "Active" in the Admin section? -- 21:06, November 29, 2009 (UTC)

I think so.-- 21:13, November 29, 2009 (UTC)

Kingdom Hearts Birth by sleep
Im wondering why on the front page it said not to add any Birth by sleep siolors. 24.184.224.100 03:11, January 10, 2010 (UTC) KingdomHearts530

I have information
I have information regarding Vanitas and master Xehanort. Why can't i edit. It's real and plausible information from the game plot.--XessEmperor 16:00, January 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * Because there's a spoiler policy enforced. You can add them in the talk page though, because talk pages are exempt from that. At least that's what I see from Vanitas' talk page. Ironic.  BLUER   一番   12:11, January 11, 2010 (UTC)

can you put a weekly poll on the home page
Keyhole15 00:45, February 28, 2010 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a good idea, but perhaps a forum thread to discuss this more?  BLUER   一番   02:41, February 28, 2010 (UTC)


 * I agree. It sound like a great idea :D (Whoops, I guess I'm not an admin)  -- 02:54, February 28, 2010 (UTC)

Hein ?

 * On that topic, TNE, since we only have two mods, what Heartless/Unversed would you prefer? We can switch to a different them for those guys if you want. Maybe Fortuneteller and Luna Bandit? Or Symphony Master/Iron Prisoner/Mimic Master/Trinity Armor. Glorious  CHAOS!  12:44, April 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, if it's an Unversed... Symphony Master FTW ! ^_^ But I think, to be fair, we'd have both of us take a similar type of Heartless/Unversed. If I'm a Blue sea-salt, then Urutapu would go along these lines, for example.


 * I leave it at your discretion ^_^ 12:52, April 11, 2010 (UTC)

EDIT 12:55, April 11, 2010 (UTC) : Should I come up with something for the Admins table ? I could link each image to the user profile, but I'll have to upload each icon to PB... I dare not use the Wiki servers for this.

EDIT 02:11, April 12, 2010 (UTC) : Yes, and for the last time, NELOANGELO IS A GIRL ! XDDDDDDDDD 02:11, April 12, 2010 (UTC)  P.S. : I really ROFL-ed at that one.

Trial (pardon me for the fact that I'm not using the Sandbox)
Alright, so right now, we need to gather characters from the iSeries, since that's the best way to go about the admin site for now. We don't have enough BBS icons... And using the talk sprites is going to bring back an age-old strategy which I had initially planned for the Staff page.
 * I kind of like the Organization thing, since we now have exactly 14 admins, but if we have to change, why not use the Mobile sprites that most of us already use? Glorious  CHAOS!  13:18, April 11, 2010 (UTC)

Aaaaa, good idea. I'll get to it right away. ^_^ I think there's one for everyone. You're using Firion, aren't you ? 13:27, April 11, 2010 (UTC)

EDIT 13:34, April 11, 2010 (UTC) : Who do I use for the rest ?

EDIT 13:37, April 11, 2010 (UTC) : OXIII wouldn't work unless... we switch NeloAngelo to Xion, since NA's a female. So I'll copy/paste the entire thing back here, with links.
 * For Mobile, I'm using Trickmaster.
 * NA's a girl?! That...that actually explains a lot. Wow. Glorious  CHAOS!  13:50, April 11, 2010 (UTC)

Bluer was the one who told me over on the IRC, shhhhh ! :P So all the pics on the Staff page are linked to the respective user pages, rather than the file pages. So that way I don't think anyone can tamper with them. 13:53, April 11, 2010 (UTC)

where on the IRC channel do i chat
--Keyhole15 20:51, May 18, 2010 (UTC)

Retired
So, I'm pretty sure we decided to do this once BBS was released in English. I just want to lay some groundwork here.

We currently have four fully retired admins (Bluerfn is still a beuracrat, and Hexed still shows up on IRC).

When we do the next set of promotions:
 * 1) Do we want to have discussion on replacement admins, or just move up the current mods and elect replacements for them?
 * 2) Do we want to request bureaucracy for some of the current admins, so that in the future we don't have to wait on Bluerfn? I think BK and GS would be the best fit for that, if they want it. Glorious  CHAOS!  23:33, May 27, 2010 (UTC)
 * I think we should see how we are doing when the time comes; based on what little vandalism we already get, I do not think that creating more administrators would be necessary. Let's just wait until the time comes for this one, methinks. However, I don't support the movement of a regular user up to an administrator without first becoming a moderator, since moderators are part of a "path-like" hierarchy toward adminship.
 * Secondly, that sounds great, as long as the receiving administrators are active and available at the time. -- 23:52, May 27, 2010 (UTC)

Addition
How do you show your avatar and get colors when you post??-Later Kupos

Remember, this talkpage is for discussions about the staff page. Let's continue this conversation on your talkpage.-- Xion 4  ever  19:40, June 15, 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually, the help section, etc., tells people with questions to "ask the staff", and points them to this page. If we don't want them here, that needs to be redirected. However, since the staff page is (or should be) locked to sysops only, I don't see why we couldn't use this talk page for general purposes. Glorious  CHAOS!  20:37, June 15, 2010 (UTC)

I say we build a page that has a contact list for staffers. It could link to talk pages and stuff. Like, Kingdom Hearts Wiki:Staff/Contacts or somethin. 00:21, June 16, 2010 (UTC)
 * So this is a bad idea? -- 21:02, July 4, 2010 (UTC)

Just Asking...
Hi I wanted to know that i've been editing some "stub" articles and i want to ask if i could make my own theory on the Soul Article i just wanted to know if i could and ask u guys and get your permission... Write back to me ASAP please... Thanks. 7th heaven 18:03, June 19, 2010 (UTC)

No theories. Period. And stop adding questions to the articles.--ΧƳƵach. 18:07, June 19, 2010 (UTC)

Sorry :' ( You don't have to be so mean... i'm sorry i even asked.7th heaven 18:25, June 19, 2010 (UTC)

I was going to undo everything i typed but it was all gone. I'm sorry that i add questions on some articles, but the questions are worth thinking about. 7th heaven 18:31, June 19, 2010 (UTC)

There's a problem with the IRC
There have been no OPs on. Kryten was a temp OP,but he spammed. DemonicSaint,Cherries, and maggosh cursed even when he was a temp op. AT this moment he is one. Just now Azul deoped him. Can you do something about this? -- 01:31, June 25, 2010 (UTC)
 * I did not spam, and I did not curse. I talked to maggosh, and he doesn't know what you're talking about either. Glorious  CHAOS!  02:27, June 25, 2010 (UTC)\

Dang it! I would've loved to have been there. I'm not sure if Glorious Chaos does that kind of stuff, but admins have there moments.

Wait, was it maggosh? I need to remember. Sorry Kryten, you only need something like "ass" once. -- 14:21, June 25, 2010 (UTC)
 * ass does not mention it being an obscenity. Glorious  CHAOS!  16:39, June 25, 2010 (UTC)
 * "The Supreme Court has found that, when used in the context of the First Amendment, the word "obscenity" is usually limited to content that directly refers to explicit sexual acts that are publicly accessible." Glorious  CHAOS!  16:40, June 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * I think SDC's point is... we need more or better active ops. -- 22:58, June 25, 2010 (UTC)

I think 2 more would be good. Personally, I don't like the voting process. I want the admins--scratch that.
 * All admins here are already ops. So... they would have to be non-sysop. -- 23:14, June 25, 2010 (UTC)

Yea we need more RESPONSIBLE OPS THAT WON'T ABUSE THEIR POWERS  (I'm not saying any ops currently abuses their powers) — Demonic Kunai undefined 23:32, June 25, 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree. Well, not saying that some op's DON'T abuse their powers, but I do think we need more ops, with Saph's absence and all. -- 23:36, June 25, 2010 (UTC)
 * A system of dealing with inappropriate chat is already in development. I do apologize for my recent deparetures from the IRC, I have had a few vacations and trips that I have been on. Appointing new channel operators does not solve the problem at hand. You have many active and responsible operators. What I think that you are all forgeting is that all channel operators are prone to having to leave for periods of time due to their lives outside of the wiki. You all know that has been happening to me lately, it has happened to other channel operators, and it will happen to any new channel operators we would decide to induct. For this reason, there will always be times when no channel operators are online. I think that appointing new channel operators is a hasty and overpowerful decision to make. The new function Adola is working on for NumberXVMoogle will be very helpful in dealing with profane chatters. For those who see a problem with KrytenKoro's style of monitoring the channel, he is new to the IRC, our channel's policy, and the OP abilities. I can very strongly suggest that we just let time go by, as these were all just certain situations caused by factors that are very unlikely to repeat themselves once these new measures are taken to monitor the language and outputs posted on the channel. However, most importantly, remember this: channel operators are not your babysitters. We are not there just to monitor your language and clean up the mess made by offensive or profane chat. When you log onto the IRC, you need to be responsible, and not just think that the channel operators are the only ones who are responsible for the problems with language and offensive outputs. From what I can see here, all that is being done is blaming the channel operators and working off of that. You, as an IRC user, are just as responsible for your own language and chat you use on the IRC, and you need to be a part of the solution even more than the OPs do. Therefore, there is more than just adding more users who can Kick those who are "bad." The community needs to straighten up and get serious as well. If this cannot be done, serious measures may have to be taken, such increasing the strcitness of our rules and policy or removing the channel completely. I'm sorry, but the problems on the IRC are getting ridiculous, and are having to be dealt with on the wiki. This was never intended to happen, and should never have to have been brought to the wiki. -- 00:31, June 26, 2010 (UTC)

You make an excellent point, DTN. I almost completely agree. I think the idea of inducting new ops came forth because, last time there were no ops around, three random users were oped. I believe the idea is to ensure that there is always an op online so that we don't have to op three random users who have NO op experience. This isn't entirely about the matter of assuming good faith. To me, this strikes as if there are ever any "incidents", and there are no ops to handle it, we'll need at least one trustworthy user online, I guess :P -- 00:48, June 26, 2010 (UTC)


 * I agree with you, DTN, but this week, four of the "most active" operators (DTN, SSC, Sapharus and Xion4ever) were absent. I totally respect the reasons for why they were not present, but for 3 or 4 nights in a row, people have been spamming and potty-mouthing. These people don't choose to listen to non-operative IRC users, so when these instances happened, there was no-one around to stop them. I know adding new OPs won't solve this problem in the long term, but I don't think that adding a potty-mouth-detection function to the bot will solve it either. Perhaps if something like this happens again (i.e. nearly all of the most active operators have to leave for a period of time) maybe temporary OPs wouldn't be such a bad idea to consider? Lego, I've had op experience before...   08:13, June 26, 2010 (UTC)

Sorry for the random but-in, but is spamming adding too many links to youtube videos or abusing the NumberXVMoogle? 10:03, June 26, 2010 (UTC)


 * I think so. {{AurorSig}

I agree with you DTN,but it's just like what the others said. Maybe 1 OP should try coming to the IRC long enough to select about 2 or 3 Temp Ops. It was kind of going well with the Temp OPS until Blue(I think it was) unoped them and the people with no experience always OP people that happen to curse alot. 13:46, June 26, 2010 (UTC)-- 13:46, June 26, 2010 (UTC)
 * Adola's system of monitoring profane chat through NumberXVMoogle is now functioning. In that case, Dan, the issue is not the operators, but the temporary channel operators who did not follow the ban policy in dealing with offences. I can tell you that, of those four channel operators, I am back, two others were on vacation (one of which is back), and the other is going to absent for an unknown period of time. We're around, but remember that you have more than just four channel operators.


 * Furthermore, I am not against using temporary channel operators, sinc eI have granted users temporary channel operator status before. My only concernw tih it is that when you become a temporary channel operator, you follow the same rules taht a regular channel operator does, and that the functions are given to an online user(s) that is monitoring the channel. In addition, the temporary channel operator(s) should be de-OPed immediately when a function-granted channel operator logs in. -- 16:30, June 26, 2010 (UTC)


 * I realise that we have more than 4 active operators, but I was just giving an example of the "most" active ops. Also, I'd like to add that I've had to remind several users about Rule 1 - "Play nice with others" several times over the past few days. 16:41, June 26, 2010 (UTC)
 * I apologize for my abscene on both the wiki and IRC (most of you know why). However, I will admit that we've had a similar problem before when I first joined the wiki/IRC. We fixed that problem with another channel operator election. I'm not sure if this is necessary, but it is a thought. I don't believe our problem is a lack of operators, but a result of conflicting real life and wiki life problems. This is a reminder to all (including the spammers/rule breakers, should you be reading this): we [channel operators] usually find out who's causing problems rather quickly. Don't think the rule breaking will go unnoticed, we will find out eventually. To those users present when such spamming/bashing was happening: Yuan and Gamer can be found on the FF Wiki's IRC channel along with a few other channels. Just because they aren't on #wikia-kingdomhearts doesn't mean they aren't online somewhere else. You could always ping ( /query ) them or look on other channels. Also, we could have users from Central Wikia's IRC channel (#wikia) become operators on our channel, if Yuan or Azul give them the proper flags. Maybe this is a better solution? Similar to the few times central wikia users had to ban a few vandals on the wiki when our admins weren't active at certain times. That is just a thought..

I'm sorry for my sudden inactivity. Hopefully, that will soon change... -Xion4ever

Xehanort Report!!!!
Ummmm....

Where to get Xehanort report #12?! I need it, since I'm playing Proud mode in KH BBS, to get to the Final Episode? PRETTY PLEASE, and THANK YOU very much, this wiki rocks! :D

New layout, please DNT !
... what? -- 05:59, August 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * We had discussed this already. By "we" I mean half of us at least. 06:02, August 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * Azul said he wanted to be retired, though. Glorious  CHAOS!  22:47, August 24, 2010 (UTC)

As of last night, he has returned. - 22:49, August 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * TNE: Was this decision on the IRC? If consensus is being made on the IRC, it needs to be present on the wiki as well, for all parties to take part in. If that was done, the issue with our conflicting reorganizations could have been avoided, and I would have gotten another hour of sleep instead of reorganizing the page only to find it completely different the next day.
 * On the subject of Azul81677, he told me last night on an IRC Channel that Bluerfn asked him to be an administrator again, and he agreed to take his position back. -- 02:21, August 25, 2010 (UTC)

Yes, it indeed was. On your req, I'll have it documented, later tonight after dinner/prayers. 11:07, August 25, 2010 (UTC)

EDIT 02:21, August 26, 2010 (UTC) : Okay. This is what happened. I signed in. BK and Bluer and Neumannz and Maggosh and Azul and ENX were there. That made six of us. And it was on the main KHIRC channel that we discussed the layout together. It's from those discussions that I'm applying whatever I remember here.

And whilst I'm at it, the final leg of the remodel begins... now.

Any staff on duty
The images here need to be moved to their new names, and have the links corrected across the wiki. Glorious  CHAOS!  13:09, September 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * Understood, I'll get to work. maggosh 13:16, September 2, 2010 (UTC)
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Glorious  CHAOS!  13:19, September 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * The deed is done, sir. maggosh 14:14, September 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Glorious  CHAOS!  14:27, September 2, 2010 (UTC)

Kryten's icon
Will handle it once I'm in Hertfordshire. 15:55, September 12, 2010 (UTC)

Restructuring
Confirmed Declining
 * Kryten (Axel)
 * DTN (Ventus)
 * Neumannz (Roxas ?)
 * Ultima (Sora)
 * Maggosh (Vanitas)
 * Xion4ever (Xion ?)
 * ENX (Terra)
 * Myself (Aqua)
 * Azul
 * Hexed ?

Has anyone else said yes, has anyone declined or do we have to do staff elections soon ? Tambours Tonnerre Ensemble !  06:18, 11 February 2011 (EST)
 * I never said no. maggosh 18:11, 11 February 2011 (EST)

Well, it has to be a yes then. ^_^ 147.197.190.70 18:13, 11 February 2011 (EST)
 * Okay, Azul and Hexed said that if they ever decide to edit again, they would like to be re-opped, but for our purposes their seats are open.
 * We still need word back from bluerfn or bebop - if neither of them want to edit here, we do immediate staff elections, otherwise we wait until the 18th.
 * Otherwise...anybody who doesn't show up for this, we don't both with staff notices again. 18:43, 11 February 2011 (EST)

I'd like to bring about something from the forums back on the KH-Wiki. There was a discussion about premoting users to mods, right? I was wondering if that was still standing.-- 18:47, 11 February 2011 (EST)
 * Yeah — shouldn't it be on ? We were short on mods the whole time... 147.197.190.70 20:17, 11 February 2011 (EST)

EnglishJoker the Moderator
I was a Moderator on the old KH Wiki but I'm not on the list on this new Wiki. Could someone please add me if I still hold that position? EnglishJoker 19:01, 24 April 2011 (EDT)

DeviantART
What's the point in this? I don't see how it benefits the wiki, as one of goals isn't to set up an artistic guild or community. That's totally unrelated to the goal of creating a complete encyclopedia of our topic in the greatest breadth and depth as possible. Our goal isn't to become the "KHWiki Empire" across the Internet, setting up accounts wherever we can. We use only what we need directly for the promotion of the site--not the creation of a group of fanartists. We don't even approve of fanart, for crying out loud. Nonetheless, the notion was appreciated, but certainly should have been discussed first among the community. I, though, find it rather useless to our goals. -- 00:04, 14 May 2011 (EDT)
 * Its just some harmless fun with art, like an off-wiki Mirage Arena. Not everything has to benefit us to exist. -- 08:10, 14 May 2011 (EDT)
 * We don't approve of fanart on the wiki. When you think about it, this is going to help keep fanart off the wiki. Users who want to share their fanart with other wiki users can now do so without using the wiki itself. Also, drawing competitions like the good ol' Naminé's Drawoff could now be held there, not on the wiki, and heck, if you really want, we could feature each month's featured images there in order to promote ourselves. 09:07, 14 May 2011 (EDT)
 * SilverCrono: If we are going to use our wiki's definite name as an account name, then yes, it does need to benefit us somehow. There's no purpose in us making a bunch of accounts on social networking sites, for example, to simply post jokes and quotes rather than try to spread the word of our wiki. While simply having an account does in an odd, twisted sense spread the "word" of the wiki, you have to take into account what audience is being targeted. On Facebook and Twitter, for example, the communities are huge and diverse, meaning that we can attract people who are willing to edit and work hard to improve the wiki. A fanart site, on the other hand, only promotes us to fanartists, which are useless to the growth of an encyclopedia.
 * Dan36: No, it really won't. Fanart isn't allowed on this wiki's database at all, so it makes no difference whether or not it's linked to from the user's Photobucket or Imageshack rather than their DeviantART account. It doesn't provide any new service with fanart: we already have TWO, if not THREE accounts for this wiki on Photobucket that we use to share images, and that has been working perfectly for us. Simply put, there is no reason or problem that would justify or prompt changing our external image host. Competitions like Naminé's Drawoff are meant to be hosted on the wiki since we have more control with full-coded editing on a page, rather than being without a central hosting location or project page. Competitions should be hosted on the wiki because they are for the wiki, produced by the wiki, promote the wiki, and celebrate the wiki.
 * My opinion remains unshaken; I find no purpose in having a deviantART account for this wiki, one that especially does not benefit the wiki. -- 20:38, 14 May 2011 (EDT)
 * I have to admit, DTN has a point. Having an account on a database that promotes fandom really doesn't help this wiki; it actually promotes fandom on this wiki.


 * (Also, why are we talking about DeviantART on the Staff page?) -- 20:49, 14 May 2011 (EDT)
 * This was the first place I saw it, since it's featured in a section on the page. -- 20:58, 14 May 2011 (EDT)

I really see no point in having an off wiki Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter accounht, in all honesty. How many new users have we gained from those? Close to none. Heck, our regular editors barely even found it (I had manually invite Kryten and Bluer). The people that follow us on Twitter are either editors or Kingdom Hearts related websites, not new people seeing a Twitter page called #KHWiki and going "Hey, look, a wiki, I'll go become a full fledged editor there!". 21:49, 14 May 2011 (EDT)
 * If we are planning on having regular fanart contests, a deviantart would certainly make sense. However, it doesn't make a whole ton of sense otherwise. I suppose it would be useful for community socialization, but we do already have a photobucket and all that.
 * This should probably be opened up for a forum. 22:51, 14 May 2011 (EDT)
 * If used properly, I believe the Twitter (and maybe even facebook, for that matter) account could be beneficial. It could be used as sort of an offsite Trinity Archives for users who can't get online all the time (such as myself, as of recent events). I believe this solution was the general consensus for the fate of the Twitter account during the last Roundtable. This should absolutely be discussed during June's Roundtable -- I have already taken the liberty of adding it to the topic list. As for me, I completely agree with DTN here -- though I'm not opposed to using it as a host for future fanart contests, the deviantART account really doesn't do much for us; we shouldn't spread out the community just for the sake of spreading out the community. We aren't an empire.
 * Stuff like this needs to be discussed before it is done... ...TNE, are you listening here? -- 03:14, 15 May 2011 (EDT)

Rearranging
I believe that we should alter the layout of the page to differentiate between "retired" and "inactive". For instance, users such as Xion, Crono, and maggosh, who are all self- admitedly inactive, but still contribute when they can, should be listed in the section "inactive", while users like Hexed, Bluer, and Kryten (who should still be listed here, as retired) would be listed under "retired", as they no longer edit, or choose to no longer use their staff powers. 20:00, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Kryten is not retired, Kryten is demoted. Kryten could not use his old op powers even if he wanted to. Kryten should be removed from the page entirely, and Kryten also recommends an election to get the wiki at least back to two bureaucrats. 22:30, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Not only should we move someone up to bcrat, we should move 1 or 2 people up to admin, as quite a few admins have gone inactive recently. 01:09, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Even if Kryten is "demoted", Kryten should still be listed on this page, as Kryten was staff, even if Kryten was demoted on Kryten's own admission. My recommendation about the "retired" staff is exactly that; users who don't retain their powers, but once had them (which is why I think we should bring over the names of users like Scottch and Riku, our founder).   03:09, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * The issue is not with having active admins; not at all. We have plenty of active ones plus at least two that can be contacted by the IRC for emergencies. KHWiki.net also does not get very much vandalism or issues requiring the use of administrative rights. As KrytenKoro suggested, however, it may be a good idea to add a new bureaucrat. -- 06:51, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * The retired staff is not for "all previous staff". It is for staff who have specifically kept their powers, but choose not to be active anymore -- they are listed as a "last resort" for asking for help. If they don't have staff powers, then there is no purpose listing them on the page -- all it will do is encourage messages from confused users.
 * Scottch and Riku are not our founders. We are a different wiki now. DTN, Neumannz, and the other staff at the time could fairly be said to be our founders.
 * Kryten was gotdang fired, and would prefer to not be listed on the page at all, so that people can just forget about the situation and not remind him of it and humiliate him with it all the time. 07:16, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * And yet we have this lovely Talk page discussion to remind him. All the time. maggosh 16:44, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * All right, everyone, simmer down! First of all, I hardly think it's necessary for anyone to be moved to admin because we haven't gotten a lot of vandalism yet. I agree with the point of moving someone up to bureaucrat. As for the restaffing, maybe we can wait until more news of Kingdom hearts 3D or something to come out. I think if users are inactive they should be place under inactive, but shouldn't be strip of their powers. Once the new Kingdom Hearts games come out, we're going to be busy again and we might need those powers again. Plus, many of those users who chosen to be inactive right now may come back when news of Kingdom Hearts come out. Isn't the September Toyko Game Show or whatever is coming pretty soon? I'm not happy about anyone becoming inactive as the next person, but I think we should slow down and take one step at a time.-- 16:52, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree with Ninja. I, for one, think Kryten's "firing" was childish, immature, and unwarranted. There are others involved more deserving of such an act, and Kryten is NOT one of them. maggosh 16:57, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Seconded. Well said, maggosh. My thoughts exactly! - 16:58, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you, both. Kryten being "fired" isn't the word I would use. Kryten said it himself: He just demoted his powers. Although I think it was unnecessary, because as I said above, when the wiki becomes busy with the hustle and bustle when more Kingdom Hearts news, we might need those powers again. I think Kryten should get his powers back, because we will need them when the time comes. If he would to become inactive for certain reasons, I won't argue about placing him under inactive, but I know for certain that we won't leave us forever or anything. He's our translator for one thing, so the Kingdom Hearts Wiki will ALWAYS need him, no matter what.-- 17:03, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I never said, anywhere in this conversation, that we should restaff. And DTN, I never said the issue was with having active staff; did you even read my first two posts?   17:40, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * The Inexistent... asdfjkl; asdfjkl; asdfjkl; asdfjkl;. That post was not in reply to you and I'm not sure how you interpreted it that way. See Chitalian's message. -- 19:57, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I figured that right after I responded. I was just assuming that, because I have brought this up before, it wa directed to me, even if indirectly.   20:23, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I think I have missed (again) some important development here. What's the demoting and firing of Kryten about? --ShardofTruth 21:03, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Basically, Kryten says that he doesn't edit that much anymore, and he doesn't see a reason to have Staff powers anymore. His reasoning is here. 22:09, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * ^this. I think it's funny that for once I'm not involved at all and have no idea what's going on.
 * What IS going on? -- 23:51, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Then, by all intents and purposes, Kryten is a retired staff member, and belongs under that section. And if you whine about forgetting about the situation, and being humiliated, man the hell up. maggosh 00:09, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Now, now, everyone. Simmer down, all right? No need to curse or get worked up. I think Kryten shouldn't be considered "retired". As I said before, he might need his powers back one day, and even he doesn't think he needs them now, he will need them soon.-- 00:13, 12 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Regarding Kryten's self-demotion, all of you need to relax and stop drama-ing it up. Nothing has been done that can't be undone if and when it's ever necessary, and it's Kryten's prerogative to take himself out of the role of staff for as long as he wants, even if it's indefinitely.
 * As far as the staff page goes, all the members listed, both active and inactive, are editors with moderator, admin, or bureaucrat rights (assuming they logged in at least once after we moved). The list is supposed to direct those who are looking for those with authority and staff powers. While Kryten could still be considered an "authority" of sorts, since he has divested himself of all powers, he is practically the opposite of the "Retired and Inactive staff", who "retain all of their powers... but are inactive".
 * I am against listing Kryten on this page, since that would be essentially counterproductive to his stepping-down in the first place, but if you insist on it, you're gonna need a new heading. (Something like " wise crotchety old hermit".) -- 02:33, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
 * So, can I proceed with the distinction between the two, if Kryten is left out?  02:49, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Knock y'self out. -- 02:56, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
 * How's "Powerless Retirees"? maggosh 04:49, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
 * "Elderly and irrelevant invalids".
 * Elderly perphaps but irrelevant? Every time I check the enemy template (to see if I can use some part for other purposes) I'm not able to see any words, they just look like foreign shapes which lead to confusion and angry outbursts. That's how your templates are. How can we hope to understand them without you Kryten? --ShardofTruth 17:16, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Retiring
Not sure where to mention this, but I'm going to be retiring from my 'Administrator' position. I'll still be present on the wiki, and the IRC channels. I just won't be handling any 'Admin' duties. This isn't a full retirement since I plan on coming back, but it's just for now until I can actually have time to contribute. Thought I'd mention it here for discussion. 23:39, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I would like to say something here, I do plan on un-retiring (if that's even a word) come Summer, as my academic year at University will be over by the 3rd/2nd week of May. Just saying that from now until then, I'll be semi-active, then I'll return to being active after May. 23:51, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Declaration of temporary inactivity
So, pretty much what I said over on Neumannz's talkpage and on the IRC...and the past month. >>; But just to follow along with our new staff policy...

I, Xion4ever, will be temporarily inactive starting tomorrow (August 10, 2014) until the first/second week of December due to university. This is not to say I will not edit; I plan on editing here during the school year when I can. However, every day activity on here will not be a priority. Which I am sad to say. However, I can always be contacted daily off the Wiki on Facebook and email. If there is anything else to discuss or determine of this, I leave it to the editors of the Wiki and staff. 03:08, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Declaration of temporary inactivity (part 2)
As per our staff policy again....I will be temporarily inactive starting this weekend (January 10)/next week until the second/third week in May due to university studies. I still plan on editing here during the school year when I can, especially with Operation: Keychain in motion. Checking in every couple of days is highly likely for me. However, every day editing/activity on here will not be a priority, sorry to say. I do not intend on leaving this place; I will [completely] return once finals are over. I plan on continuing activity on the off site accounts in which I am responsible for: Twitter and Facebook. Likewise, I will be available for contact every day off-Wiki through the means of Facebook and email-heck, maybe even Twitter if you find my personal account. I am listed/known on the Facebook page, and a few editors know my email. I will still be here for the rest of this week to edit/do staff things/etc. Thanks guys, just wanted to let you know. 20:21, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

"The door to a new journey is just about to open."
I hereby submit my resignation as administrator on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki as per our staff policy. I will be inactive for a period of two years starting May 20, 2015, and will not be checking-in during that time. Additional information can be found here There are some notable duties that may have to be reassigned: I'll be setting up a folder with all my wiki-related work and give access to certain people on the wiki, should any of the contents prove useful (like the Featured User award template, Twilight Times logo and magazine cover files, etc.)
 * 1) Mirage Arena, which should be handled by the Mirage Arena Staff.
 * 2) Our Google+ page. Please message me before May 10 if you're interested.
 * 3) Twitter. I leave the decision on whether to replace me or to just remove me to Pea14733 and Xion4ever. Namely, though, someone will have to take care of the #KHGuessthatQuote, #MirageArena, and #KHFavorite tweets.
 * 4) SEIWA. We need someone to keep pushing to get this back together. This includes the Square Enix Wiki!
 * 5) Operation:Keychain - Just someone to monitor the Kingdom Hearts Fanon Wiki, please! Other details, Chainoffire and Xion4ever should be able to take care of, because not much has been done that they don't know about.

I appreciate all your trust and friendship that all you guys have given me, and will see you guys again in two years' time. 20:12, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Redoing this page
The Staff list is horribly outdated. Who's doing what? A new set of images and links is due. <font color="#222222">TRS <font color="#444444">NX  22:24, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
 * If you get me your ideas soon on what you want, I could probably make it work. But I'd need to know by tomorrow for me to do something (specifically anything related to making images on Photoshop). Otherwise, someone else would have to make them. I thought Erry had just recently made these images, though. 22:31, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

I have a choice of:
 * the black KH symbols.
 * specific thumbnails depicting characters of the Staff's choice.
 * I MAY be able to source GIFs of these, but they're most likely going to be really brightly-coloured PNGs with some swatches of colour thrown in.

It's likely going to be in grid form like the examples further above the page, but considering we've become a lot better in making our own templates, I wonder if that grid can be updated aesthetically. <font color="#222222">TRS <font color="#444444">NX  12:27, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Personally, I don't see anything wrong with the current staff page but if you want to make an improvement draft, go ahead. 17:11, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

I don't think there's anything wrong per se, it's just that it still shows Maggosh as admin when by wiki protocol, he ought to be retired -- and a lot of the staff is outdated, or needs updating. <font color="#222222">TRS <font color="#444444">NX  18:44, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Updating Icons
I know this is probably the last thing people want to discuss, but you know how anal I can be about consistency :P Given our KHX/KHUX theme, I had the idea that we could update the staff icons to one of the following: I understand if this is not something people want to do; just thought I'd make the suggestion and volunteer my services. - 21:44, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
 * The staff members' in-game avatars (send me a screenshot and I'd happily try to make an avatar of it).
 * This may not be the best choice, since it's possible not all staff members play KHUX…
 * Images of KHX characters (of the staff members' choice), as seen here.
 * Images of KHX Heartless (of the staff members' choice), as seen here.
 * This one, to me, allows for more of a "unified theme" and presents a greater variety of choices.
 * Since no one has responded to this, I went ahead and made some Heartless icons for everyone; here is how they'd look on the staff page:

http://s23.postimg.org/4mdm0liqj/Screen_Shot_2016_04_13_at_10_11_59_PM.png http://s22.postimg.org/g0lx89vtd/Screen_Shot_2016_04_13_at_10_12_07_PM.png http://s22.postimg.org/42kcuds29/Screen_Shot_2016_04_13_at_10_12_12_PM.png
 * Thoughts? I think they look pretty good! - 02:21, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * It looks okay for the main wiki staff, but I don't like it for the offsite accounts. Those use different icons specifically to indicate it's a different type of staff, and especially since Xion is in multiple places, it runs together. 04:20, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Perhaps we could use images from here for the offsite staff? - 07:25, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I think it looks good. Would it be possible to update the retired staff's icons as well? The retired staff page is a mess of different style icons now. 17:03, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, I was going to update the retired staff icons, too. I'm gonna use the KHX Disney characters for those. - 19:23, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Another Question
I'm on a roll for asking questions like some newbie on the wiki this week. It's actually a request: Permission to resume helping with the wiki's Facebook and Twitter pages? 06:39, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Go for it. We have a KHUX wiki facebook page too, if you want to work on that. 15:18, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Cool. Thanks. I don't know if I can help with KHUχ, since I don't currently play the game or anything, but if there's anything I can do, let me know! 19:06, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Welp, after scrounging my files for an hour, I finally found the password, but Twitter said that it wouldn't let me in and would send an request to the wiki's email. If someone could verify my identity there (because I no longer have access to the wiki's email), I'd be much obliged! Thanks! 20:40, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
 * There is this | Teams feature on TweetDeck where you can share access to an account to another person without having to share the password. But still, to share access to another account, you need to log in as an admin or actually an owner. I'm stuck at the verification as well. 21:46, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
 * It gave me a temporary code to verify identity. If you can get on the wiki messenger chat, I can give it to you. Can you e-mail me through the wiki, so I can give you my realworld name so you can friend me so I can add you? 12:52, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Done. Wouldn't it be easier to just email it through the wiki, though? 14:44, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Update
Slight update, see here. The only thing not there that would be is the actual staff tables, only for the sake of space, but it would go where they currently on this page. Thoughts? 05:48, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Looks good. But this is the project page for detailing information regarding the staff members and their responsibilities, right? In regards to having sections that details how the wiki deals with vandalism disagreements, and etc., I think they should be moved to KHWiki:Policy (once it's created) and sub-sections should be created detailing specifics policies (and linking to to those with their own pages), such general policies that applies to all users, Videos Policy, Image Policy, Deletion Policy, Blocking/Banning Policy, and et cetera. I can't explain it very well, but I do want to make a rough draft of what I have in mind later down the road.-- 20:34, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Right, of course. All the stuff after "KHWiki:Staff Manual" would actually replace the set of pages currently found in KHWiki:Administrators. I've proposed those changes in the talk page. I just combined it all as one page to save space (since I had a lot of things I was writing drafts for at the time). I've always been in favor of a KHWiki:Policy page to be created as a general hub for all the policy pages on the wiki, too, though. 05:57, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Posting my comments on this and for the KHW:Administrators page: How you have things split up looks good to me. In regards to this staff manual, this was always something BebopKate/TNE/Kryten (?)/Yuan/whoever else from "the old days" tried getting into motion. There may be more information in the userspace on such material- not sure. 00:39, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

Update 2
With KrytenKoro leaving the KHWiki and Neumannz being MIA for a year now, I think the time is as good as any to talk about staff and revising it. The community has talked about this in the past, but since we're so busy in RL and updating articles on the mainspace, we never gotten quite to it. While I wanted to wait until it was properly discussed, Porplemontage promoted me to bcrat. From our existing pool of active users/staff members, I think it's time for the community to reelect new staff members since so many users are inactive. I've been mean to bring this, but as KeybladeSpyMaster‎ was also an admin before leaving due to RL circumstances, and seeing as KSM has returned and has been consistently editing since his return and his excellent conduct, I've been meaning to request that he'll be reinstated as an admin.-- 23:08, 1 February 2018 (UTC)