Thread:WingZeroKai/@comment-3255675-20140101045146/@comment-3255675-20140103042005

TopsyKretts3 wrote: On the contrary, LovingKate's nomination was ran through Zero before being officiated. I admit, though, that Muddapaka's feature was not ran through any person or group. However, if I had thought that I could do whatever I want, and pick whoever I want, then I guarantee you that I would have been the first person to be featured by myself.

Though it's not a direct community vote, I never pick people for the award who 2/3 of the community would oppose. Well, why then, is Blue August is selected as featured user of the month? Have you collaborated with the community about this? According to your blog here, it looks like you have selected Blue August as a featured user because of your steam group games (where most people are not really barred from participating, under the conditions that they have to sacrifice more unnecessary time into finding the password for the game room).

Why then, is LovingKate is selected as featured user of the year? Again, you have only collaborated with an inactive bureaucrat about this, but the community was not informed about the action you are about to take. Let's say you wanted to shut down the whole wiki. You go by the same action without letting the community know. Will the action be approved by the community? How will the community react upon this? Just because two people agree with an idea, doesn't mean it's correct.

I believe an idea, such as large as a featured user, should be decided by the community. I believe the power lies within the community. This is a community wiki. Otherwise, the wiki would be a diarchy. Muddapaka wrote: I was featured?

No, you were appointed to moderator without majority of the community knowing. Even I, myself, did not know about this until I read about somewhere on someone's message wall. LunarWing wrote: The community voting system for a "Featured User" would be, imo, biased. How is it biased when you are required to give reasons why the user deserves to be a featured user? We have been selecting featured users based on community nomination. We have been doing this way before you even joined this wiki. ZeroExalted wrote: Featured Users don't always have to be run through the Community first...

An example would be here and Bulbapedia.

You guys can certainly nominate someone else---you always have the option to---but otherwise, Topsy's call is perfectly fine. Administrators, by default, are allowed to choose new featured users based on merit. Well, are we those wikis? Do we have to follow the same way they are doing? Absolutely no. Different wikis have different processes, different rules, different editing styles, etc.

We have been nominating users based on the community in the past, so why can't we continue that? The community here has never decided to let the administrators choose the featured users. Take a look at WingZeroKai himself. He has been nominated as a featured user in the past by the community.

Oh, on a side note, let me remind you that TopsyKretts3 is not an administrator anymore.