Forum:Merge Staff

Please place your vote in the corresponding section with your signature on it. Comments should be placed in the discussion down them.

In favor of merging staff

 * All existing staff of both wikis will receive their existing staff powers on both wikis. These staff may or may not be marked as inactive without any removal of their powers.

In favor of merging staff and pruning inactive

 * All existing staff of both wikis will receive their existing staff powers on both wikis, but staff who have not made ten edits in the last month will have their powers removed. If a shortage of staff results, elections will be run to fill the empty seats.
 * 1) -- So  ve
 * 2) maggosh
 * 1) maggosh
 * 1) maggosh
 * 1) maggosh

In favor of picking staff anew

 * All existing staff will have a deadline to their powers, and a new set of staff will be picked from the merged community. Options for switchover are to either remove current staff's powers now (with at least one bcrat remaining to promote the new staff, before abdicating), or may keep them until the election is finished.

Discussion
So, DE and I discussed it on the IRC, and we realized that no one's really figured out who'll be "staffing" the merge process. Below is our list of ideas. Whether any of these remain permanent or not should be discussed later.


 * Bureaucrats
 * KrytenKoro
 * Neumannz
 * Dark-EnigmaXIII
 * Soxra
 * maggosh
 * Administrators
 * TroisNyxEtienne
 * NinjaSheik
 * LevL
 * ShardofTruth
 * Chitalian8
 * The_Inexistent
 * Erry
 * Moderators/ Artists
 * FinalRest
 * RoxasXIIILK
 * KyoWolfe
 * As If!
 * LegendAqua
 * UnknownChaser
 * CaelumLucisCaliga

So, here we are. Short, simple, and to the point. Discuss *hand gesture*

23:08, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

@Crono - "Whether any of these remain permanent or not should be discussed later."

@maggosh - Feel free to add yourself if you feel you'll be able to participate.

02:48, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Done and done. maggosh 02:56, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Not sure where I fall on this. It is for the following that I personally won't add my name to the list. Although inactive, I do stop by occasionally and do some editing. However, I am most definitely not as active both IRC, and editing/Wiki wise as a staff member should be. I know I probably won't be able to participate with the merging as much either. So, you guys decide. I'm all for staying as an admin, moderator, etc. if you guys see it fit. If not, I understand. Regardless, I respect the decision. Thanks.-- Xion 4  ever  00:11, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Just trying to bring some life to this forum. We need more input on what to do about staff members.-- 09:56, 22 January 2012 (UTC)


 * But isn't a poll, like... very easy to contaminate? Unless you mean a sined poll, like every other classic wiki votation. I'll apply the latter. Also, I really like As if idea, since that would mean that no one will actually lose their powers, just moved to the inactive section with them already applied as someone else picks their place. The best of both worlds, to be honest. Regardless of the choice, I do believe new staff should also be appointed-- 17:00, 25 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Okay, I think we're getting confused here. The question is whether to grant staff powers to all the keyhole staff, grant staff powers to all the keyhole staff but remove staff powers from any inactive staff from either site, or discard all current staff powers and rerun elections from scratch. The active/inactive list thing is really only an aesthetic choice for the staff article, not anything that would require a poll or community decision. Functionally, merging the staff but moving inactive staff to the inactive list is the same as just merging all staff, so I've moved your votes to that section and made some tweaks to the verbiage of the options.


 * So, apparently, we'll merge the staff and purge the inactive. Where would this voting end? Saturday? If so, we should get this done with this weekend and see if we need elections or not.-- 19:19, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Right now, it's tied between "disop inactive" and "just mark inactive". If it's still a tie tomorrow, I think we have to go with "just mark inactive", since it's the lesser change.
 * However, I think it's plain to see that the consensus is clearly for "merge all staff", whether we decide to prune some tomorrow or not. Is anyone opposed to me and Neumannz going ahead and doing the promotions now?192.249.47.195 21:57, 27 January 2012 (UTC)


 * It'll have to be you, I got Shabbas in like two minutes. -- 22:04, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

If we are indeed going with the ten edit thing, then Crono would fall under the de'op.  20:37, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

May I make all the new staffers icons? I experimented and know how to make the font look identical to the one used in the current ones. So if everyone gives the okay, I can make new icons for all the new staff members. Of course, you'd have to send me a request first. -- 01:39, 30 January 2012 (UTC)