Forum:Staff Discussion 2013

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		DrakeyC - Crossing the distant night...Wandering the desert sea...The gods' voices are mirages... TALK - 03:39, June 27, 2013 (UTC)
		Titled so because I'm sure other people will be brought up. I'll start it off with the dude I'm making it for, JBed. We trust him with CSS, we should trust him with Modship too. The only concern some may have is he's strongly for image naming consistency, which is fine, but would create a lot of redlinks, so if we make him mod and he takes it upon himself to overhaul image names I'd ask we have him fix his links, or he inform Catuse or myself so we can have a bot change things. Otherwise, I think he'd make a fine mod, was before, and many of our image archives can use some naming fixing.

		Shockstorm TALK - Shockstorm (talk) 04:26, June 27, 2013 (UTC)
		Yeah, I would support that. I would also say that Fenrir should be a mod, because it could be helpful when working with files, and he's made huge contributions to the older games, primarily FFVI. Finally, I think Catuse should be an admin, considering his knowledge of coding, anti-vandalism/RC patrolling, and good judgment regarding policy and such.

		Catuse says at 06:05, June 27, 2013 (UTC) "Somewhere a zealous god threads these strings between the clouds and the earth, preparing for a symphony it fears impossible to play. And so it threads on, and on, delaying the raise of the conductor's baton."
		Yeah, JBed and Fenrir would make good mods. In fact in JBed's case Drake and Yuan said on IRC that they thought he was already a mod :p I'd also like to suggest that Shockstorm (40k edits, all but <100 userspace edits have been very useful, and filemove rights would help him keep the wiki maintained) and/or Espritduo (very knowledgeable, uploads countless useful images, and filemove would make life easier for him there). Me as an admin? Dunno, Drake and Kelt have been here for years more and probably would have more use for the tools, but I wouldn't mind having them -- means less work for me (having to track down admins to do adminy things) and the current admins.

Definitely JBed for, uh, re-modding, double-modding? I understand the old reasoning why he wasn't in the past, but it seems that's in the past now, and he practically runs the place, honestly. Me? Nah. I haven't been nearly as active on the wiki as I want to be (currently my excuse is recently falling in love with One Piece and trying to watch all 600 episodes all at once - 271 episodes down in two weeks!). It'd be nice to be able to rename images, delete duplicates, and other tidying-up type things when I get my upload binges, but otherwise, I've just been lurking around watching the recent changes for things to correct or revert. (I look so lame without a talk bubble....) Espritduo (talk) 07:37, June 27, 2013 (UTC)

You don't have any objections from me. I support JBed to be remodded. Jeppo (Talk | contribs) 09:34, June 27, 2013 (UTC)

JBed said before he doesn't want to be a mod, just admin rights or equivalent. The idea that all filenames would follow a template would make things neater and then things would be in alphabetical order in the image categories for easier finding...but is also a soul-destroyingly boring task to do and we'd probably have to rename every new file new people will upload.

I think Catuse would make a great admin. It takes a certain kind of person to want to do maintenance work like deleting files (I for one am not at all keen to start doing stuff like that) so if anyone steps up wanting to do that, then let's utilize it! The wiki can only win really. And people who upload images a lot would benefit from having the ability to rename them if needed, so support mod rights for Espritduo and Fenrir9 if they want them.Keltainentoukokuu (talk) 11:51, June 27, 2013 (UTC)

Right-on. Although it kind of looks silly now that I'm a Designer and all, I don't want the title and all that comes with it (like commitment (:3 yeah fooking right, being a staff causes lack of commitment)). Designer isn't also fully-recognised, and I'd still be happy to retain that job even after he stop editing (although I'd very much like someone to learn all I know and outdo me).

In any case, I was basically told I could be modded before I even started using this account.

With that said, you guys know what I want. JBed (talk) 14:45, June 27, 2013 (UTC)

		BlueHighwind Q? 15:59, June 27, 2013 (UTC) TALK - So if you care to find me, look to the Western Sky!ツ:
		I'd go so far as to say, JBed for Adminship. Since he's the one most deeply obsessed with this wiki, and I think he needs those extra powers. Now, due to tradition, I must also say, BH for Adminship, just because. And finally, TA for High Primarch.

		DrakeyC - Crossing the distant night...Wandering the desert sea...The gods' voices are mirages... TALK - Drake Clawfang (talk) 16:01, June 27, 2013 (UTC)
		support Fenrir for mod too, and perhaps Esprit.

		Kaimi - "People's hearts are pure chaos. Formless and ever-changing—a mystery no one can solve. That is why humans are such contradictions. One moment they're at each other's throats, the next they're forming shaky alliances." TALK - 16:14, June 27, 2013 (UTC)
		I support mod rights for Esprit in order to help him with the filespace, but I'm not so sure about Fenrir and Shockstorm: I think that Fenrir could expand his range of FF knowledge (although I noticed him doing some FFXII NPC weapon stuff which might actually speak for the promotion) and Shockstorm's main objectives seems to be wiki and interwiki links, although I might have missed something notable of his work. JBed for mod? I see no prob. Is there an article you think is of an exceptional quality? Vote for it here!

		Catuse says at 17:58, June 27, 2013 (UTC) "Somewhere a zealous god threads these strings between the clouds and the earth, preparing for a symphony it fears impossible to play. And so it threads on, and on, delaying the raise of the conductor's baton."
		JBed and Kelt - Oh yes, moving files is so sooooooul-destroying @_@ but I wouldn't worry too much about the commitment of it. Especially because giving anyone a staff position that actually requires more work is cursed, and causes inactivity less than a year later. As for me "outdoing" you, maybe, but I doubt it. Only actual experience I have with webdesign outside of wikis is my mostly empty personal website. And I wouldn't mind you as an admin -- you'd do a lot of good work with it --, but avoided mentioning it in my first post because I didn't want to open that can of worms (see: Admin Nominations thread, Staff Discussion 3D (though that happened right after the Article Creation Policy incident), and probably others). But now it's open, so I'm fine with it. Kaimi - I figure that Fenrir actually knows more than a lot of us do, thanks to his knowledge of hexediting, FFAdventure, and the FFLegend games, which he pretty much singlehandedly added to the wiki. There'll always be more people to add FFIX stuff and FFXIII stuff, but that's not the case with obscure spinoffs that maybe 10 people have played. And mod rights help with linking -- redirect-suppress and all.

		Shockstorm TALK - 22:15, June 27, 2013 (UTC)
		Yeah, I don't really have much of a desire for mod rights, as I don't really want rollback (too easy to misclick :p) and I'm ok with SDing a redirect or using the Badname template to move a file in the rare instances that come up.

		Tia-Lewise - Tread lightly, she is near, under the snow. Speak gently, she can hear the daisies grow TALK - Summoner of Nyan 20:51, June 28, 2013 (UTC)
		I support Fenrir for modding, however I feel his English may need a touch of improvement if he took up the position, as I'm often editing his edits to make a little more sense. (sorry Fenrir).