User blog:JCM/Staff Reform

Now that we've completed the category reform, I'd like to focus my attention on another pressing issue: our staff. It's currently bloated and disorganized, and I have some ideas for how to improve it.


 * The chatmoderator and rollback groups are meant to contain users who have chatmod/rollback rights but not administrator rights. The administrator group already has chatmod and rollback rights included, so there isn't a purpose in putting a user in all three of those groups at the same time. Since it doesn't affect anybody's rights, I went ahead and took all of the wiki's administrators, including myself, out of the chatmoderator and rollback groups to make those groups less crowded.


 * The administrator and bureaucrat groups are full of users who rarely edit and/or are duplicates of other, more active accounts. These are the administrators whose rights I want to contest:


 * Azulafan20 - Sockpuppet of Dave, has made 2 edits
 * Definitely not Da Nerd. - Sockpuppet of Da Nerd, globally disabled by Wikia, has made 11 edits
 * Family guy sucks bot - Sockpuppet of Dave, has made 13 edits, hasn't edited since July 7
 * Hot4Isabella - Blocked by Wikia, has made 2 edits, hasn't edited since July 26
 * LegitUsername1234 - Sockpuppet of Da Nerd, has made 2 edits, hasn't edited since July 6
 * Teletubbies are Kool - Sockpuppet of Dave, has made 208 edits, hasn't edited since July 4
 * Tvguy347 - Has made 12 edits, hasn't edited since December 21, 2012; was promoted because he was the Director in Chief of SBU but is DIC no longer
 * TopherGopher - This one's a bit of a special case. Though Topher is active and has over 1500 edits, he has admitted to participating in Star Alliance activities that led to three other bureaucrats getting banned by Wikia. Since a full removal of rights seems harsh in this case, I'll only recommend that his bureaucrat rights be suspended until further notice


 * Once I can tell that there's community approval, I'll have these users demoted from their highest positions, and we'll be one step closer to a smaller, more efficient staff. If any of you take issue with any of my suggestions, please say so in the comments, and I'll try my best to address them. That's all for now. Remember to give your input so we can get this staff reform going as soon as possible.