User:Tanaric/WikiBoss

The solution to the adminship issue is simple -- let me run the wiki.

No seriously, I'm not kidding

It worked incredibly well for the GuildWiki. I'm active enough to keep troublemakers in line and to make sure the sysops I appoint are behaving reasonably close to how I expect. I'm distant enough to keep my administrative mettle/meddle out of content issues.

Since I expect the builds wipe to be brought up in response to my last point, I submit these three counter arguments:

1. When I wiped the GuildWiki's builds, we lacked a foundational policy stating what our goals were. Wiping the builds was essentially the creation of that foundational policy. As long as this wiki had a foundational policy, I would never do something as unilateral as a content wipe.
2. I don't have the cooperation of Fyren the server admin here, so even if I wanted to, I could not implement a content wipe.
3. Seriously, the builds wipe (really, the split to PvX) was a very positive thing for the community in general. They're managing builds much better than the GuildWiki ever could.

Pros

1. I'm a well-respected contributor with years of experience and trust behind me. I'm known for being honest and straightforward, and I can admit mistakes. You're guaranteed this out the gate with me -- you don't have to tease it out during an elections process or read through pages of talk page arguments on an RfA.
2. There's a single point of failure. If I fuck up, I can either fix it or be replaced. With the GWW system, not only do you have to consider the individual members of ArbComm, you have to consider all the elections policies, all the sysops, all the behavioral policies that guide their interactions...
3. I know more than the plurality does, in general.

Cons

1. You have to trust me.

   That said, you have to trust all the ArbComms/Sysops in the other system -- in this one, you only have to trust me.

2. There's no check or balance to my authority.

   I'd step down if consensus were against me holding this position. In GWW policy, consensus is, in the end, the source of all its checks and balances as well, so I don't think these two suggestions are that much different in this sense.

3. What if you go inactive?

   When I went inactive on the GuildWiki, I appointed LordBiro to take the job while I was gone. Nobody appeared to have any problem with that.

Also, I don't generally play Guild Wars

And this is a huge bonus. I don't know all the things you guys bitch about, I don't have any political leanings toward PvP over PvE (or vice versa), and I don't chat or play with contributors in-game. I have an outsider's perspective on this whole thing, and I think it's been pretty helpful so far.