Battlestar Wiki:Requests for bureaucratship

This page is an official policy of Battlestar Wiki. This policy is considered by the community and its leadership to be the status quo of Battlestar Wiki and is not to be countermanded or ignored, though changes to it can be discussed on the appropriate talk page. This policy was implemented on 5 January 2007.

Requests for bureaucratship (Rfb) is the process by which this wiki's community decides who should be a Bureaucrat (or B-Crat). Bureaucrats have access to changing usernames, changing "user rights" to create trusted users, and may lead in moderating Requests for Comment disputes.

About RfB

The community grants bureaucratship status to trusted users who are familiar with Battlestar Wiki's policies. Bureaucrats, or B-Crats are held to high standards, as they are often perceived as the "official face" of Battlestar Wiki. Bureaucrats should be courteous and should exercise good judgment and patience in dealing with others. Nominees should have been with Battlestar Wiki long enough for people to see whether they have these qualities. However, they do not need to be a sysop to be nominated as a bureaucrat.

Nomination standards

There are no official prerequisites for B-Cratness, other than a basic level of trust from other editors. However, some users set a variety of standards on a personal basis. You may nominate yourself. Some people apply higher standards to self-nominations, while others view them more favorably as showing initiative and desire to serve the community.

Nomination process

Any user in good standing may nominate any other user. Nominations remain for seven days from the time the nomination is posted on this page, during which time interested users register their opinions or make comments. At the end of that period, candidates who receive consensus supported will be made a bureaucrat. Head Wikipedian for Battlestar Wiki, Joe Beaudoin Jr., reserves the final decision on nominations.

In exceptional circumstances, Joe Beaudoin may extend the deadline or call for a revote if this will make the consensus more clear. If your nomination fails, please wait a reasonable period of time – at least a month – before nominating yourself again or accepting another nomination.

Bureaucrats, please use {{subst:rfbp}}-{{subst:rfbb}} as a header and footer, respectively, when closing a successful nomination. Similarly, use {{subst:rfbf}}-{{subst:rfbb}} for a failed nomination.

How to nominate an editor to be a bureaucrat

To nominate either yourself or another user for B-Crat, follow the instructions on this page.

Voting and commenting

Any Wikipedian with an account is welcome to vote, including the nominator (however, because the focus is on whether other people in the community trust the user, self-nominating candidates or nominees should not vote for themselves). To add your vote, click the "Vote here" link for the relevant candidate. You may then indicate whether you support or oppose the nomination by signing your name under the relevant heading.

Please include a short explanation of your reasoning, particularly when opposing a nomination. Remember that we are all people with feelings, emotions and pride: please respect others in your comments and responses.

Neutral votes are also permitted, but not necessarily counted in determining percentages, although they will be considered by bureaucrats in borderline cases. Discussions should be held in the Comments section. Long discussions should be held on the discussion page of the individual nomination.

If you are new to Battlestar Wiki, it is believed that new users may not fully understand the nuances or job responsibilities of a bureaucrat. Therefore, while new users are encouraged to comment on RFBs, they may not vote. Should they vote, their votes will not be counted. A new user, as defined by this RFB process, is a user who has joined the wiki. A user is no longer "new" after a period of a 30 days. It should be made exceptionally clear that this is not an effort to disenfranchise voters, but to ensure that voters know the duties and responsibilities of an B-Crat and to vote accordingly based not on superficial criteria but on the actions of the potential bureaucrat.

Executive privilege

Please note that in special, extenuating circumstances, Joe Beaudoin, as head Wikipedian of Battlestar Wiki, may exercise executive privilege and appoint a user to bureaucrat status. (At the same time, should the issue arise, any bureaucrat may have their privileges revoked by Joe Beaudoin for any reason.)

Current nominations

Nominations must be accepted by the user in question. If you nominate a user, leave a message on their talk page and ask them to reply here if they accept the nomination.

Please remember to update the vote-tallies in the headers when voting.

Current time is 10:32, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

Archived requests

• Battlestar Wiki:Requests for bureaucratship/Successful requests
• Battlestar Wiki:Requests for bureaucratship/Unsuccessful requests

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