Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-1251315-20140820175011/@comment-1251315-20140820202312

Cerez365 wrote: What is another Bureaucrat needed for exactly? From what I can see the wiki isn't having any issues bureaucrat-related are we? I've never messaged Dan and he's not either replied directly to me, or to the issue I pointed him to. Dan will never be an active in the day to day running of the wiki. He said so himself, and I'm weary of repeating it. A bureaucrat user is someone who is able to grant and revoke the sysop flag, as sysops are not allowed to do that themselves.

You may not have noticed, but sysops are starting to drop like flies lately: That leaves, at best, 3 sysops to manage this wiki. That's not enough when you can see that we have an active forum community, and talkpages with 100+ messages being left every week. Dantman hasn't edited on the wiki for a month or considered looking for any further sysops and I think the wiki would benefit greatly from having another user to be able to manage the wiki with a crat flag.
 * Suki left the wiki 2 years ago, but the wiki was still manageable since we had plenty of users to keep things in check.
 * Simant has left the wiki (his last edit being at least 3 months ago now without any explanation, nor replying to his TP messages)
 * Omnibender hasn't been on the wiki for the past 3 weeks (his userpage not indicating he's away or anything).
 * Issues are coming up that Ten Tailed Fox cannot involve himself in for fear of being biased, which means he can't get involved.
 * UltimateSupreme is also quite busy (and mainly focuses on the wiki's javascript/css, as well as other things and isn't always around).

Let me put it this way: You can do the math ;)
 * 1) If we have no active bureaucrats, it means nobody can be promoted to sysop.
 * 2) What would happen if every sysop stopped coming here?
 * 3) Who would be responsible for blocking users, protecting articles and deleting images if there's no sysops?

While us rollbacks can just give other people rollback flag if we feel it's necessary, none of us can actually grant sysop, apart from Dantman or Wikia Staff (and they're quite unlikely to get involved unless there are problems on the wiki or if we all agree on needing another sysop and Dantman isn't around to promote).