Editing Battlestar Wiki:Chiefs' noticeboard

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This noticeboard is a location to discuss and coordinate administrative tasks for the Battlestar Wiki.

It is my hope that this place can serve as a location for administrators to coordinate their efforts on the maintenance tasks of the Wiki (it's not ALL fun and games), as well as a spot for our contributors to be able to bring things to the attention of the admins if something needs to be done. Need a protected page edited? An article or picture deleted? Admins will watchlist this page so that your request won't get lost in the shuffle.

These are the archives:
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| items = {{archive-item|03|Where to file feature request on MediaWiki}} {{archive-item|03|Help for Wiki Review Article}} {{archive-item|03|Mark as Read}} {{archive-item|03|Login Problems}} {{archive-item|03|The Merovignian Ban}} {{archive-item|03|Vandal}} {{archive-item|03|Battlestar T-shirts}} {{archive-item|03|Forced Skin Update}} {{archive-item|03|Think Tank Voting in Progress}} {{archive-item|03|Dogtags}} {{archive-item|03|Wiki PHP Errors}} {{archive-item|03|Way to Go!}} {{archive-item|03|Bad Link on Search Results Page}} {{archive-item|03|temp}} {{archive-item|03|The "Answers to Questions" policy regarding episode articles}} 
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== Current Administrators ==
===Bureaucrats===
Bureaucrats are administrators who have the ability to make other users into administrators. 
Currently Bureaucrats are:
*[[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]]
*[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]]
===Sysops===
Sysops are administrators who have access to move, delete and restore pages as well as blocking malicious users. The current administrators are:
*[[User:CalculatinAvatar|CalculatinAvatar]] 
*[[User:Day|Day]]
*[[User:Gougef|Gougef]]
*[[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin Jr.]] 
*[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] 
*[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]]
*[[User:Serenity|Serenity]]
*[[User:Shane|Shane]]

*[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]]
*[[User:Talos|Talos]]

See [[Battlestar Wiki:Administrators|list of all admins on Battlestar Wiki]]

== Javascript Reported Vandals ==

== Kara Thrace and Maelstrom Discussions ==

Admins: I just put my virtual foot down in the Character Elimination subtopic in the Humanoid Cylon Speculation article, asking discussions to cease, because unnecessary and circular debate on Starbuck was going on. The talk was a perfect example of what we're [[BW:NOT|not a place to chat forever]]. I know that Wikipedia has had a similar problem with other popular pages there, like the various articles for the TV show "Heroes." I don't want our wiki to look like an ugly Windows operating system with more banners and warnings than content like what Wikipedia has become, so let's be on our toes throughout the week to keep talk page discussions relevant and brief, warning users on their talk pages if necessary. Hopefully I'm not being too brash, but understandably there are many fans who are unglued by "Maelstrom" and we have to keep the consistency and accuracy of the wiki as well as managing questions but limit talk page speculation. In a way it's a good thing; Starbuck and the show have become dear to our hearts. But "it's just a TV show: we should really just relax..."--[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 21:28, 7 March 2007 (CST)
: No problem. Thanks Kevin! -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 21:40, 7 March 2007 (CST)
::But... but... but... That's fine with me. If there were novel arguments being made, I would advocate continuing the discussion. As it stands, it seems to be one person attempting to argue against a crowd. This is NOT a democracy, so the sheer numbers shouldn't be the only deciding factor. A lone voice making an impassioned, logical argument CAN sway consensus. That being said, the consensus seems pretty clear in this matter, and unless new evidence comes to light or there are novel arguments to be made, we should just let that one drop for right now. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 07:43, 8 March 2007 (CST)
:::Yeah, I didn't want to just end the discussion because it was annoying, but because it become less a debate than what should be in the article based on its subject matter. Starbuck's resurrection (if it happens) isn't a real topic appropriate to that article, nor is the metaphysicals of other SF in comparison to BSG. It really got off a tangent from the article subject. If a similar discussion (if kept brief) happened on Thrace's character page, I'd be less likely to ask the discussion to end given the circumstances. --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 10:17, 8 March 2007 (CST)