Project:Administration policy

• WIKI POLICY
  This is an official policy of the Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken Wiki. The rules covered below only apply to current members of the local administration. Attempts to exploit a loophole by obfuscating the intent behind a rule will still be punished accordingly. Some cases may be forwarded to Fandom staff.

This page outlines the Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken Wiki's administration policy, which is the rules by which local administrators may make use of administrative tools and the punishments for misuse. For clarity, the term "local administrator" will be used to refer to a moderator, administrator, and/or bureaucrat of the Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken Wiki.

Use of administrative tools

The administrative tools such as deleting, protecting, and blocking that are covered in our wiki policies have clearly set rules by which local administrators may make use of them. To ensure that the usage of these tools always abides by these policies, the item in the policy by which they are used must be stated within the reason (the text added to the action shown in Special:Log). The exception is moderation on the forum and article comments.

How to deal with violations of policies is often intentionally left up to the discretion of the local administration. Even if a situation warrants the use of an administrative tool according to a wiki policy, there are cases in which a simple message wall post is sufficient. Local administrators should take into account the intent behind a rule and the severity of the situation before making use of an administrative tool. In more extreme cases, resolving situations using administrative tools when they could've been resolved otherwise is considered misuse.

Community consensus

Even though only local administrators have access to administrative tools, they are meant for the community to use. Local administrators are merely trusted with executing their usage in accordance with policies. Thus, if the wiki's community collectively agrees that an administrative tool should be used to deal with a situation, even if it's not for a reason covered in a policy, a local administrator must perform the action in question (unless it violates a rule). This applies to editing protected pages, but the notable exception is blocking.

To propose a change to a policy, create a forum post or bring it up on the policy's talk page. Any substantial changes to a policy must be agreed upon by either the community or the local administration team. Swapping template calls, restyling the pages, and other similar edits do not count as substantial. If a policy is changed, whatever was removed is unenforceable, effective immediately. Violations of new rules can't be punished with a block until a week after they're added unless it's announced with a sitewide announcement, site notice, edit notice, or in some alternative way. Violations of the rule that occurred before it was in place do not count as violations.

To prevent groups of trolls from misusing these permissions, the local administration may veto a decision by the community in order to make a change that is judged to be objectively necessary in regard to the Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken Wiki's goal or stop a change that is deemed to be objectively negative or against an existing policy. This right should never be used to force a local administrator's personal preference onto the wiki and the penalty for abusing it is the loss of administrative tools.

Important assets

Pages are classified as important assets if they are the main page, a block log, found in the MediaWiki, Project, or Help namespaces, or anything that's important to the user interface. Any rules for deciding content by majority and using administrative tools do not apply to important assets and the local administration retains complete autonomy. Similarly, any templates, files, or other pages that are integral to an important asset are exempt from other rules in the same manner.

In the case of wiki policies, the main content and rules themselves are still subject to the item above on community consensus and can't be deleted freely, but they can be similarly restyled, reworded, and protected however the local administration wishes.

Reasons for dismissal

Local administrators do not own the wiki and are not more important than regular users. They are merely trusted with administrative tools. Local administrators that meet any of the conditions below will have their access to administrative tools revoked.

1. The local administrator is inactive. Contributors will need to reach out to administrators for a variety of matters, so the local administration needs to be active so contributors' issues are resolved. Anything above a period of 45 days or longer without a major contribution is considered inactivity. Edits that fix grammatical errors or spelling mistakes and other contributions of similar importance are not deemed major.
2. The local administrator needs to be blocked. Users with these rights are expected to be examples of how other contributors should behave. Violating the wiki's policies enough to warrant a block is not acceptable behavior for a local administrator.
3. The local administrator has purposefully executed misuse of an administrative tool. All the rules regarding deleting, protecting, blocking, and other administrative actions outlined in policies outline the usage deemed proper for these sorts of tools. Deviating from these rules is misuse and is strictly prohibited for a local administrator.
4. The local administrator cannot properly fulfill their role. If they have demonstrated time and time again that they are too inexperienced or clumsy to properly and efficiently make use of their rights, the local administrator should be demoted. Though this would apply to those who make mistakes with administrative tools too often, even with good intention, this rule doesn't apply to any and every local administrator that makes a mistake.

Bureaucrats are administrators who can assign and remove rights to and of other users and local administrators. Offending local administrators will be demoted by the active bureaucrat(s). Of course, local administrators can step down from their position for any reason, in which case they already have the ability to demote themselves.

There may be cases in which a local administrator is eligible for removal according to the administration policy, but a bureaucrat either refuses to remove them or is the one eligible for removal themselves. Bureaucrats cannot be demoted by anyone among the local administration, so Fandom staff should be made aware of the situation through Special:Contact in these cases. If you're unsure of whether a local administrator needs to be removed by Fandom, consider making a post to Community Central to ask for advice.

Promotion

There is no set standard regarding how regular users should be considered for promotion. As long as the candidate doesn't match any of the descriptions of local administrators that should be dismissed listed above, it's up to the local administration team to promote or not promote a user. It's completely fine for a user to recommend themselves or another user for a position on the local administration, but repeatedly asking after being denied violates the code of conduct.