Staff

There are 5 diffrent staff positions on this wiki: administrator, bureacrat, content moderator, thread moderator, and rollback.

## Staff Rights

### Admin

An **administator** (admin, sysop) has the following rights:

* Changing and designing the theme and top navigation of the wiki
* Blocking users from editing specific pages
* All of the rights of both content and thread moderators

### Bureaucrat

A **bureaucrat** has the following rights:

* Blocking and unblocking users from the wiki for any certain amount of time
* Giving any other user admin, mod, bureacrat, or rollback rights
	+ Once a bureacrat gives another user bureacrat rights, it cannot be undone

### Content Moderator

A **content moderator** (content mod) has the following rights:

* Deleting, moving, and undeleting pages, including locked pages
* Locking and unlocking pages
* Editing locked pages
* Deleting, moving, renaming and undeleting files
* Turning on and off comments for pages

### Thread Moderator

A **thread moderator** (discussions moderator/mod) has the folling rights:

* Locking, deleting, undeleting, or editing discussion posts
* Changing the category of discussion posts
* Deleting, editing, or undeleting blog or article comments
* Deleting, editing, locking, or undeleting messages from any user on anyone's message wall

### Rollback

A **rollback** has the ability to completely revert an edit on a page with the special rollback tool.

## How to use correctly staff rights

### Rollback rights

Edits should only be reverted using the rollback tool if they must be. This indules vandalism edits or edits with false information. It is unnecessary to revert minor edits that do not affect the page. Rollbakcs must **not** revert minor edits that do not harm the page (such as adding description words).

### Thread Moderator rights

Thread mod rights must be used for the following:

* Only delete someone else's post, message or comment if it is not acceptable on this wiki.
* Edit posts, messages, or comments if they have a bad or offensive word or phrase in them, and if the user continues to use bad language please warn them.
* Lock posts, comments, or messages if:
	+ The post is getting to dramatic or out of hand
	+ It is a sensitive topic that shouldn't be commented on
* Always check to make sure posts are in the right category. If they're not, change the category to the correct one and tell the user what you switched it to any why, so they know for next time.

### Content Moderator Rights

Content mod rights must be used for the following:

* Delete pages if:
	+ It is a double page (a page on that topic already exists)
	+ It is an inappropriate or spam page
	+ If directed to by staff
* Lock pages if they are completed and at risk for vandalism. A completed page does not necessarily need to be locked, but if it has a history or risk of vandalism it should be.
* Keep pages such as rule pages locked so nobody can change them.
* Unlock locked pages if they are not finished and not at risk for vandalism.
* Undelete pages if they were accidentally or incorrectly deleted, or is directed to by staff.
* Turn off comments for pages if the page has a history of vandalism or spam comments, and doesn't need comments.
* Move pages if the page is meant to be something else (i.e. blog post, category page, etc) than it is.
* Rename files if the name is inappropriate, spam (such as a file named "84739502497297841749432104687"), or incorrect.

### Bureaucrat rights

Bureaucrat rights must be used for the following:

* Only give anther user staff rights if they qualify. Always discuss with the other staff members before giving anyone rights.
* Only remove rights if the user with rights has failed to uphold their position, and always discuss with the rest of staff first.
* Before blocking a user from the wiki, discuss it with the other staff members and make sure the user must be blocked.
* Reasons to block a user include:
	+ The user is rude, offensive, of inappropriate towards users or in general contsantly
	+ The user has a history of vandalism
	+ The user does not follow wiki rules and does not stop
	+ The user has been banned or warned before but does not listen to warnings
	+ Any other reason you think the user must be banned. Discuss it with the other staff members first.

### Administrator rights

**An admin must follow all of the rights applied to the content and thread moderator rights guidlines.** Along with these, and admin must:

* Only change the top navigation if discussed with the other staff members.
* Only change the background, theme, favicon graphic, community site image, etc *after* proposing the new one(s) on the discussion page and discussion it with the other admins.
* Reasons to block certain users from editing pages inclue:
	+ The user engages in edit wars contstantly and refuses to stop
	+ The user keeps vandalizing pages

## Why rights may be removed

If a thread mod, content mod, admin, or rollback fails to use their rights correctly, such as using them for personal matters or not using them when they should be used, they will be removed by a bureaucrat (with warning). Bureaucrat rights can only be removed by Fandom staff, so if a bureaucrat uses their rights incorrectly, Fandom staff with be notified and it may result in a ban.

If a staff member is inactive on Fandom or the wiki for 5 months or more without saying thay will be, their rights will be removed. This may be temporary if the user returns, or even permanant.