UDWiki:Administration/Policy Discussion/SysOps ARE Moderators

The Problem

There is no denying that sysops are the administrators of this wiki. Their actions are regarded (or should be) as a represention of the best interest of the community. When a sysop speaks for the administration, he speaks for the community as a whole.

Therefore, when a sysop is rude, when a sysop is mediocre, others think the community is rude, mediocre.

SysOps also have to live with to much red tape tying their hands, which eventually diminshes what they can do for the community because ... well.. its annoying to request permission and report every single action they do.

The Policy

SysOps are to be regarded as moderators, as it should always have been. They got promoted because they community trust them, and therefore they should abide to that trust and not abuse it.

Be Polite

Therefore, a moderator (as sysops should be referred as) should watch their thong, be polite to users while acting in administration areas and user talk pages. Moderators should'nt be the ones creating drama, they should be the ones helping to twart it.

If a disagreement between the moderation staff exist, it should be dealt in the talk pages of these users, not in administration pages.

A moderator with a loose thong could be brought to misconduct by other sysops, but only if he keep this behavior for long periods of time.

Less Red Tape

Since moderators are (or should be) trusted users, they can act without requesting permission for simple actions, and are not required to report them every single time.

Simple actions that can be done without request:

• protecting an archive page
• protecting their own user sub-pages
• deleting Criterion 1, 3 and 4 pages.
• moving pages
• warning users (reporting this action is still obligatory)

In these cases, the summary should always be well written, with the reasons why the action was done.