User blog:Withersoul 235/The Not-so Legendary King

Ah, yes. Man is it GOOD to be retired. Nothing more fun than dorking around on a beach, sipping some delicious madeira and enjoying my good old day.

Except I'm not quite doing that. Nah. I got called back to the wiki since apparently, stuff ain't too great right now. And after taking a quick gaze at the site, I can verify they're damn right.

To the point: I've received complaints left and right about the new admins, who were described as immature and toxic. Apparently, Sentai and Helloyoungchaps are both on hiatus, and with the three of us gone, all hell appears to have broken loose:


 * LightGKandle went on a power abusing rampage and made a random user, Soldier Rupert Price, into a bureaucrat for no apparent reason before demoting himself back to admin and getting the banhammer. I noticed this a while earlier, so I finished him off by removing his admin rights.


 * Rupert Price appointed some new admins in the meantime and many people have been questioning their position.

From what I saw, I'm fairly certain that Sentai ment to leave Light in charge until he came back, but we all know how that turned out. Due to this, the wiki is technically without proper leadership. Upon Sentai's request, I kept my bureaucrat / admin rights so I could jump in if needed.

This seems like such a time.

Many people appear to be open to my return, and with weird stuff going down here in my absence, it seems like it's necessary.

So what am I going to do?

First of all, I will demote an administrator who was clearly unfit for the job, after receiving several complaints. Yes, he made good edits, but at the same time:


 * He consistently screams in all-caps when even lightly annoyed;


 * He threatened to ban a user because he disliked their art. He attempted to defend himself by claiming that the piece was NSFW. In reality, it literally just depicts a girl wearing a dress, leaving her legs visible. Nothing "Rule 34" about that.


 * He refers to users as "idiots" and one time in the Discord server, he called someone an "unevolved creature" for not getting what he meant;


 * Several users have accused him of editfarming and of unfairly planting harsh permabans for even the tiniest one-time offences;


 * Another time on the Discord, when someone said that they were going to draw art, he replied with "No. One. Asked.";

Overall, I believe that it is in the best interest of the wiki that this administrator is removed from his role. Even if I don't mention him by name, you'll probably still figure out who is. In that case: Leave him be and don't do anything stupid. I'm saying this because I've seen more than enough cases of shunned people getting a full load of hate over them and that never advances anything.

Secondly, several users have approached me requesting the demotion of Rupert Price from bureaucrat to standard administrator. I am with them. While he may make good edits, Rupert Price was arbitrarily and randomly appointed by Light during his rampage and was not selected by either the community, nor the other admins. I believe that while Rupert is a good administrator, it's too early to have him as a bureaucrat, and that should just be an admin.

Pcj, the Fandom representative on the wiki, is willing to carry out the demotion, but needs more consensus. Many other admins have not commented on my request for more voices, so I ask of you to leave your thoughts on demoting Rupert Price to normal admin. I repeat, Rupert may keep his admin — the only thing he'd lose is bureaucrat.

And finally: I'll assume direct leadership / supervision over the wiki, at least until Sentai is back. I will not make any more bureaucrats, but I'll still seek out competent candidates to promote to admin. If any of you have ideas or suggestions, please feel free to leave them on my wall or in the comments. I'm open to them, and I won't judge.

I'll do my best to interact with the community as much as I can during this "trip", as well as after it if I decide to stay after Sentai's return.

Wither out.