SmashWiki:Administrators

This page documents an official SmashWiki policy, a widely accepted standard that all users should follow. When editing this page, please ensure that your revision reflects consensus. If in doubt, consider discussing changes on the talk page.

The symbol representing SmashWiki's administrators.

Different users have access to different functions of the site. While anyone can do most things on the site, including reading and editing, administrators can access a few additional functions to maintain the high standard of content on SmashWiki. They are usually entrusted to mediate user disputes, arbitrate users, and interpret policy during times of argument.

Users can request adminship at SmashWiki:Requests for adminship.

Abilities

These additional functions are:

• Deleting and undeleting pages, page histories, and uploaded files.
• Locking (protecting) a page so it cannot be edited or renamed by users without admin rights.
• Blocking or unblocking IP addresses or user names from editing; and very quick "rollback" of undesirable edits.
• Change the text and style of the interface by editing the pages in the MediaWiki namespace.
• Can view Special:Unwatchedpages to see pages which may be more vulnerable to vandalism.
• Have access to the SmashWiki email account and YouTube account.

A bureaucrat can make other users into bureaucrats or administrators. They can also remove rollback and administrator status.

Who are the administrators?

Listed below are SmashWiki's administrators. For a complete list of users with administrator access, see Special:Listusers/sysop. This list does not include those who did not re-acquire adminship once SmashWiki vacated Wikia.

Active

• Omega Tyrant (Sysop)
• PenguinofDeath (Sysop)
• Toomai (Bureaucrat, Sysop)

Inactive

• Clarinet Hawk (Bureaucrat, Sysop)
• Emmett (Bureaucrat, Sysop)
• Miles of SmashWiki (Sysop)
• Pikamander2 (Sysop)
• Porplemontage (Developer, Bureaucrat, Sysop)
• Semicolon (Sysop)

What can administrators not do?

Administrators should not use their administrator powers to settle editing disputes; for example, to lock a page on a version he or she prefers in an editing dispute that isn't vandalism. Administrator powers should be used to help keep the wiki clear of vandalism, spam, and users who make malicious edits, but not for simple disagreements between users acting in good faith. Ideally an admin shouldn't be considered "in charge". The ideal admin is just someone who is trusted to have a few extra buttons and to use them for the benefit of the SmashWiki community.

Administrators are not kings

However, administrators have no additional say in the content of SmashWiki. Administrators are equally valuable to every contributor. Most administrators actively contribute to SmashWiki - they will, inevitably, get into conflict disputes with other users.

Likewise, no non-administrators should back down in a content-related argument with an administrator simply because the administrator has extra user rights. Administrators are not universally-knowledgeable about all things related to Super Smash Bros.; normal users or even IPs are not immediately wrong because they disagree with an administrator.

Any arbitrary decisions made by admins should not be applied to conflict disputes, only user disputes. Additionally, such decisions should be clearly marked as an administrative decision. Users are not required nor expected to remember who the administrators are, nor are they supposed to be able to recall offhand who admins are. Users should view the comments of other users as just that- comments from just another user.