Descendants Wiki:Staff

The Staff of the Descendants Wiki are a group of users responsible of watching over the Community's general activity and providing help to users. They are users granted with special powers to carry out tasks that other normal users cannot. There are currently 1 bureaucrat and 1 administrator still active.


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Who are part of the Staff?
The Staff consist of a group of users with several additional functions that allows them to keep the wiki well organized. The Staff consist of Bureaucrats, Administrators and Moderators.

Bureaucrats
The Bureaucrats have the rank of Head Administrators. They have the same abilities as other Administrators, in addition to the ability to give other users the rank of Bureaucrat, Administrator or Moderator, and to remove said ranks.

Administrators
The Administrators, or Admins, are directly below the Bureaucrats. They have the same abilities as the Bureaucrats with the exception of promoting or demoting ranks.

Moderators
The Moderators, or Mods, are directly below the Administrators. There are two types of Moderators: Content Moderators and Discussion Moderators. Unlike Bureaucrats and Administrators, they cannot block or unblock users.

Other FANDOM Staff
FANDOM Staff have full access to all wiki pages. They will be shown in Special:Listusers/staff on any wiki. Please use Special:Contact to contact FANDOM staff. Keep in mind that the FANDOM Staff are not the same as the Descendants Wiki Staff.

They are responsible for monitoring the wiki and fighting vandalism when Descendants Wiki Staff are unavailable. They have the same abilities as Bureaucrats.

What are the Staff's duties?
The Staff team has two main duties: monitoring the general activity and aiding users in all matters within the Descendants Wiki. Users can contact any Staff if they need assistance in:
 * Technical issues, such as editing, text formatting, page moving and media uploading.
 * Content verification and source checking to confirm if certain information can be trusted or not.
 * General queries, any questions or proposals relating to the wiki's content.
 * Reporting an user for vandalism or misconduct.
 * Getting in touch with other users.
 * Mediating in technical conflicts between users of the wiki.

What can the Staff do?
In general, all Staff can:
 * Delete and restore pages, category pages, comments, messages, images and videos.
 * Lock (Protect) pages so they cannot be edited or moved by users without permission. They can also remove said protection from pages.
 * Issue Reminder and Warning messages to users when they commit an infraction.
 * Answer any queries or proposals on behalf of the entire Staff team.

Only Bureaucrats and Administrators can:
 * Block and unblock users.
 * Modify the wiki's appearance and general interface.

What can the Staff not do?
In general, all Staff cannot:
 * Use their power as a symbol of strength.
 * Edit, move, protect and delete pages arbitrarily. There must be a justified reason to apply those actions.
 * Warn or block users arbitrarily. There must be clear evidence for a sanction to be applied.
 * Intervene in personal life matters of users.

Becoming a Staff
For an user to become a member of the Staff team, a Bureaucrat must make them one. Any user can apply to be part of the Staff team as long as they meet the following criteria:


 * Have a clean record. No block or ban record, no active warning strikes.
 * Have done over 200 edits.
 * Be an active contributor for at least 2 consecutive weeks.

Staff applications are currently open .

Please get in contact with any active member of the Staff team for more information.