Forum:New right for Committee Members

Week after week, more and more pages are locked, preventing their update in a timely fashion. With only three admins(one who is currently MIA), I think Committee members should be given the ability to edit protected pages. All that needs to be done is for community consensus to be reached here and then for a message to be sent to Wikia staff linking to this forum. In doing this, the committee could help with faster updates, and Sun would be able to catalog her own images when she uploads them, saving time for the admins.--

Discussion
It would definitely make my life easier being able to manage images and pages that need them when they might be protected!! If I was able to catalogue images it would also mean less work for administrators and members can come to me about it too!! Would be great!!
 * And now just realized there's things I could be doing like the technique articles that I just did the replacement images for I could be making the but the Redirects need deleted first!!

I sympathise a lot with this. I think the situation could be improved if there was less locking of pages and/or shorter locks on our part. In particular when a new chapter comes out and several people add different things, I see a lot of such pages are being locked without time limit as "high traffic," which is a legit reason obviously but I feel strongly that it warrants a day long protection at most. It can be relocked if need be and counter productive edits are easily undone. Same would go for pages being locked to stop edit wars. A day will sort it out in most cases imo. As for how would Committee members be with this extra right? I think they'd all handle it well and they are not the people that the pages are being locked to protect from. I don't really mind either way on this new right. 15:09, December 8, 2012 (UTC)


 * I just wanted to point out Yyp that you might be missing the point for this call on a new right. The majority of articles are not locked commonly no more then 5 if that are being locked due to a number of issues from high traffic, maintenance, edit warring and vandalism. The reasoning here is about pages that require locks because of page integrity such as image archiving and yes so that trusted editors can help the pages without having to worry about them being vandalized or what have you while such attempts are a high risk. I believe the general rule for length of time has always been a the discretion of who locks it and what they feel warrants a reasonable amount of time. Though the real issue is whether such a right should be warranted and considering the situation of page integrity that we have on the site I think this would work.--

I will leave this open for another day before I send it off to staff to look over. Seeing as all but one members of the committee have voted and the two active admins have voted as well, I'd consider that a pretty good community consensus. But who knows, maybe Arrancar will show up by tomorrow.--

Votes

 * 1) As topic creator--
 * 2) If this is able to be done of course!!
 * 3) I agree with this, especially with some of the media articles this would be benefitical. -- 23:53, December 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * 4) It'd be very convenient option for the Committee members.
 * 5) With page locking being a regular thing with each new chapter, it does make editing terribly inconvenient.  Mohrpheus   (Talk)  05:51, December 6, 2012 (UTC)
 * 6) I will support this Committee members are highly trusted users because of their good editing skills, dedication to the upkeeping the wiki and they wouldnt be in the group if not for that.--