Forum:GoTWiki Small Council meeting 5: Wild Card Day

It's Wild Card Day.

"Wild Card Day": September 15, 1946. The day the Wild Card Virus was released in New York City, granting super-powers to one out of every one hundred persons, in the "Wild Cards" novel series, co-created and edited by George R. R. Martin. http://wildcards.wikia.com/wiki/September_15,_1946

Season 5 is fast approaching. The trailer will be released in IMAX theaters starting tonight.

We were terribly under-staffed during Season 4, leading to a large work backlog. The current Administrators generally agreed that we needed to promote up several new Administrators.

Currently we have three Wiki-Bureaucrats, and two regular Administrators.

We've only promoted up Admins in the past one at a time or months apart, but to kick things into high gear I think we need to take the unprecedented step of promoting up 5 new Admins at once - hence, "Wild Card Day".

I've been researching and cross-referencing candidates as best as possible, based on factors such as duration of time on the wiki, and volume of editing (been here since Season 3 but only 100 edits, or been here only since Season 4, but 1,000 edits?) The biggest factors are dedication/devotion and responsibility. We want people who will stick around and keep an eye on things - it doesn't matter what you do, so long as you're active at it. One person might focus on character articles, another on episodes, or another just on background tidying up.

Keeping this in mind, I think the following five people are good candidates for Administratorship:


 * Daemon Targaryen
 * Rachel P
 * Lorisa214
 * Ragestorm
 * CorneliusAgrippa

Being an Administrator requires steady work and devotion, and some of these five might not even want to be Administrators if offered. Also, even if they want to be Admins I'm not sure if any of the current Admins would object (I don't think they would, these are all upstanding contributors). At any rate, these are my five suggestions, I think they'd be generally accepted.

And if any of them decline or get voted down, we'll move down the list I compiled.

--The Dragon Demands (talk) 01:36, January 30, 2015 (UTC)