User blog:C.Syde65/An Important Announcement

{|width="100%" {|style="background: white; border: 3px solid navy; -moz-border-radius: 10px; -webkit-border-radius: 10px; font-size:95%; width: 95%" align="center" It is time for me to announce a couple of changes that I have recently made to this wiki, and to announce another future change that I am currently contemplating.
 * colspan="2" align="center"| An Important Announcement

Due to the low number of users with user rights in addition to the ones extended to regular users, I have merged the pages concerning Administrators and Moderators together. The page that lists the current administrators and moderators can be found here.
 * For the first change that has just been made:

For one year, and two months, Chat Moderators and Discussion Moderators were allowed to issue warnings to users. However as of the 6th April 2016, today I have decided to withdraw this allowance, and restrict use of the warning template, to those that have the ability to use rollback, and/or block and unblock users.
 * For the second change that has just been made:

Don't get me wrong, I have not made this change because I feel that Chat Moderators and Discussion Moderators are untrustworthy to issue warnings to users. I have made this change out of concern that perhaps Chat Moderators and Discussion Moderators have enough privileges that regular users lack, since they have the abilities to kick and ban disruptive users from using chat.

When the policy allowing Chat Moderators and Discussion Moderators was passed on the 31st January 2015, Discussion Moderators (or as they were known back then - Thread Moderators, or simply Moderators) did not have any of the rights extended to Chat Moderators, and thus they weren't allowed to use the Banned from Chat template when the Discussion Moderator user-group was first introduced.

Similarly because almost no one on C.Syde's Wiki uses chat, I decided to give Chat Moderators the privilege to use the warning template. But because Roll-backers, Content Moderators, and Assistants don't have the privileges extended to Chat Moderators and Discussion Moderators, and because they have access to the rollback tool, which Chat Moderators and Discussion Moderators don't have. I felt the best practice to address this fact was to limit the privilege of using the warning template to users that have the editing tools that are specifically designed to quickly revert vandalism and bad faith edits.

If you are a Chat Moderator or Discussion Moderator and would like the permission to use the warning template reinstated, you will need to apply for Rollback, Content Moderator, or Assistant rights. Any users who apply for rollback rights will have their requests granted, unless they have been found to have a history of bad faith edits on another wiki.

The Requests for administrator and Requests for moderator pages will be merged into a new page titled "C.Syde's Wiki:User Rights Requests" at my earliest convenience. The old user rights archive pages will also be merged into one page.
 * For the third change that I am currently contemplating:

The reason I am doing this is because here at C.Syde's Wiki, we don't have very many users applying for user rights, so I feel it will make sense to have just one page where users can requests for rights of a certain user-group. Users will still be able to apply for Chat Moderator, Rollback, and/or Discussion Moderator rights through a single nomination, if they do not wish to make too many requests for rights.

I am also planning to give Chat Moderators, Roll-backers, and Discussion Moderators the option to apply for both Content Moderator and Assistant-ship through a single nomination, should they lack the interest or patience to request for those rights separately.

Best regards. ―  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 05:28, April 6, 2016 (UTC)