User blog:William Leonard/Bureaucrats

I'm sure there are people here who want to become a bureaucrat, and I am not trying to stop this from happening - I think the wiki, with all its growth in recent times, should allow for more staff. However, I do  want to make clear the implications of being a bureaucrat, and why the position is so hard to get.

Let's start with the most basic, and also one of the biggest, reasons.

The Bureaucrat position cannot be removed. Once you become a bureaucrat, there is no way of removing that title (unless you contact the Wikia Staff, and that is really only for spammers). This means that we have to be extra careful while choosing our bureaucrats - we have to make sure that the requester is suitable for a permanent job.

Also, just because you are an admin does not automatically qualify you to become a bureaucrat. Say you have become an admin a few days ago, and today you apply for a bureaucrat position. There is a reason why we will say no - you have to work in order to get it, just like any other position on the wiki. The bureaucrat position is not an "upgrade" from the administrator position, it is a whole new level, and as such should be treated like one.

Finally, the bureaucrats of this wiki have another job as well. That job is to run the wiki, and make the major decisions. We try our very best to be as democratic as possible with our decisions, and allow the community to have a say in what should happen and what should not (this is why we set up the Admin Requests in the first place). Becoming a bureaucrat does not automatically give you the rights to make anybody admins, without anybody else's consent - any action of that sort is considered power abuse, which may (in some very extreme cases) end with your bureaucrat rights being removed by Wikia. Don't forget, bureaucrats have rules too!

If you have any questions, or believe that I have left anything out, please say so, and I will make changes to this blog post if necessary. Thanks for reading this. :)