Board Thread:Staff Membership Requests/@comment-24003134-20140430063238/@comment-24003134-20140507085419

Hi Kuby! Overall I am in favor of you as a person becoming bcrat, but I have some concerns/questions for you.

My first concern is about your relations towards other users. How you handled the situation with DecuGamer I was unsure about as demotion is a process that should be handled with the entire staff team, and not a decision made by one user, especially not out of anger towards the user. Some other ways you have handled users and blocks previously I would also question, but don't have the time at the moment to search through all the logs!

Nextly, I had a talk to Justin about his inactivity as of late, and think that it would really be best for the wiki for him to choose if he does want another bureaucrat, as when his exams or whatever finishes he will most likely return to the wiki and continue his activity on it.

Something slightly more major that needs to be addressed is your previous demotion. I wasn't on the wiki but I have gone over the records but I would like Justin to have a say about that and if he thinks that someone who has been demoted due that what happened should be a bcrat. I know that when you applied for admin this was a major point against promoting you, so I'm not sure how you would be in a more important and administrative role.

Edits aren't really something that is looked for when appointing bureaucrats, although I have noticed that roughly 50% of your edits are either the auto-message of welcoming a user to the wiki or editing your user page. I have seen that you are also very active in the wiki, which is good and necessary for a bcrat.

Also looking back, in theory a Bureaucrat Requests works perfectly but in reality bureaucrats are only needed when the current bureaucrats are inactive or unable to help, or the wiki is in desperate need of new management. It would be preferable to have this thread closed and bureaucrats appointed as done in the past (requesting bcracy on a bcrat's page or if completely inactive through the adoption requests on comm central).

All up I will remain neutral in this decision until I know a bit more about what happened with your demotion and what Justin has to say.

08:54, May 7, 2014 (UTC)