Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-8-20151207212621

As you may have seen on the Lion King Wiki, Ginnyharry4ever has been banned from Wikia for a while. It's important now that this community move on and try to improve this wikia.

I have some suggestions of how to do that, I'll give a summary first because it's such a long post.


 * You need to responsibility for your part in the drama.
 * Be very careful who you make admins.
 * Block/revert/ignore is a powerful strategy.
 * This community has too many admins.
 * I suggest you vote on who are the very best admins and bureaucrats
 * Don't edit other peoples comments unless absolutely necessary.
 * If you do have to edit other peoples edits, then always say on the post that you have done so.

Firstly, you need to take responsibility for your part in the drama. It's really not possible for it to be completely one-sides, drama needs more than one person for it to happen. I realize Ginny was an admin, and that made it harder, but admins here should be shutting down drama, not getting involved in it. That means being very careful with who you make admins; blocking anyone disrupting the wikia; removing drama threads as needed; and probably most importantly not responding to those trolling you or creating drama.We call this block/revert/ignore.

And talking of admins, as I've said before you have way too many. This community needs a few admins, and even less bureaucrats. Remember the only extra job of a bureaucrat is managing people's rights. So they have to be people you trust not to remove rights without the other admins or the community's agreement, but it also means you don't need 22 of them!

So what I recommend is that you have a vote to decide who should stay admin/bureaucrats. The number is up to you, but I would think 4 admins and 3 bureaucrats (so it's easier to come to decisions).

I said the vote should be about who to keep, because there may be many people who would be good admins, and they don't need to hear people have voted them out. Better to focus on who are the very beat, rather thank thinking about who is the worst!

One thing I have seen on this wikia, is people changing other's comments. This was not just Ginny, others have done so too. This has to stop. Admins and Rollbacks are given the right to change these messages if they have to. And when I do, they should always say that at the bottom of the post. Editing comments is rarely necessary and is a privilege that must be taken seriously.

I think that's all for now, I'll be back if I think of anything else! This is a good community, I know it can recover from the recent problems :) 