Zelda Wiki:Staff

The Zelda Wiki staff team are the administrators of Zelda Wiki. Their responsibilities include quality control, guiding editors, and enacting policies among other various administrative tasks. You can learn more about staff membership below.

Contact the Staff
Active Zelda Wiki staff members can be reached in two ways:
 * To report problems, make small requests, and ask wiki-related questions, please leave a message at the Discussion Center. The Discussion Center is regularly monitored by staff.
 * To contact an individual staff member, leave a message on their talk page.

About Staff Membership
Staff membership allows users to help Zelda Wiki in more ways than editing articles. Their main responsibilities are:
 * Patrolling, i.e. quality control.
 * Leading the site's editor base and coaching new users.
 * Working with editors to create, amend, and implement policies.
 * Enacting said policies and enforcing the Code of Conduct.
 * Combating vandals and spambots.
 * Performing general site maintenance.

A sub-team of the staff is specifically responsible for web development and server administration. The staff is given administrative rights to execute their tasks. Admin rights include deletion, page protection, banning, text replacements and more.

Admin status  does not  give staff ultimate authority over users. At the Zelda Wiki:Discussion Center and on talk pages, all users have an equal say. At Zelda Wiki, the majority of decisions are made by consensus. The staff will only make the final decision themselves if no consensus can be reached (for the sake of progress). There are certain issues which must be handled by staff only. These include server administration, funding, bans, promotions, demotions, and page protections. Staff members reserve the right to make final decisions regarding these issues, though they will certainly consider other editors' concerns.

The staff was formerly divided into three groups: Patrollers, Admins, and Bureaucrats, each with their own rights. This outdated staff structure was a vestige of Zelda Wiki's Mastermind system and was scrapped in 2014. All staff members are now administrators with full rights.

Becoming Staff
Users wishing to become staff may find helpful information here.