Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki

The recent release of the book "Marvel Studios' The Marvel Cinematic Universe: An Official Timeline" requires a lot of analysis. Members of WikiProject:Timeline team are working on editing pages in response to the information revealed in the book. If you wish to contribute, please do not immediately edit these pages, and instead visit the Timeline Discussion.

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The Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki is continually revising our policies.
If you locate any unwritten rule that should be clarified, use the talk page to make a proposal


The Wiki Staff Policy defines the roles, duties and promotion process for the different roles in the mainspace of the mainspace of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki.

Staff Positions[]

Members of the the Marvel Cinematic Universe Staff are basically a small set of editors the wiki considers to be highly experienced, trustworthy, knowledgable, mature and responsible, able to lead by example and correctly handle most situations that may arise in order to help the community to reach the site's goals.

  • Content Moderators: Content Moderators are editors who have been entrusted with access to restricted technical features ("tools") which help with maintenance of the articles, files and general body of the site ("content").
  • Administrators: Administrators are editors who have been entrusted with access to the tools entitled to Content Moderators and, additionally, a set of tools dedicated to handle other editors' accounts, mostly the ability to block accounts from editing the site.

Staff Functions[]

Abilities[]

  • Delete pages, page histories, files etc.
  • Rename pages and files.
  • Lock (protect) a page so it cannot be edited by users without staff rights.
  • Revert bad edits more easily using a "rollback" link.
  • Block a user name from editing. (Administrators only)
  • Edit the MediaWiki namespace to make changes to the interface. (Administrators only)

A guide for the use of Staff functions written by Fandom can be accessed at the following Help page: Administrators' How-to Guide.

Duties[]

As part of their position, staff are regularly expected to:

Misuse or neglect of these duties may and most likely will result in the loss of the staff position.

Code of Conduct[]

Staff members are reliable contributors who have been entrusted with the means to maintain the overall quality of the site. With this in mind:

  • Staff members have no right to ignore or infringe the policies of the wiki. Moderators and administrators are expected to follow the same rules as any other editors.
  • Staff members's opinions regarding the subjects covered in the wiki have the exact same value as any other editor's opinion.
  • Staff members are expected to behave in a mature way regarding problems and disputes that may arise with or between other editors. On the other hand, this is absolutely not a free pass to disrespect them on the belief that their response to that can be dismissed as an abuse of power. Every member of this community deserves respect, and has the obligation of treating others respectfully.

Activity[]

Staff members should stay active to be able to assist the wiki, which is the main reason that they have been entrusted with additional user rights.

  • Staff members may always alert the community to a leave of absence by using Template:Inactive and changing their status to inactive. Leaves of absence may be for any length up to three months.
  • If the staff member does not edit for 60 days without explanation, it will be assumed that they have left the wiki and they will be demoted. If a staff member does not return from a leave of absence, they will be demoted 60 days after the leave of absence was supposed to finish.

Staff Promotion[]

In order to get promoted to a staff position, editors must fulfill a series of prerequisites of eligibility.

  • Candidates have a user page and profile picture for easy identification.
  • Candidates have edited and contributed for at least six months to the wiki.
  • Candidates have had some form of major wiki contribution, in both quality and quantity, across the site, instead of merely focusing on a category or group of articles.
  • Candidates have demonstrated an understanding, respect and willingness to uphold the wiki's guidelines, rules and policies.
  • Candidates are responsive on a regular basis, treating users with fairness.
  • Candidates are willing to take on the additional responsibilities that the moderation and administrative tools entail.
  • Candidates have joined the wiki's Discord server for an easy communication with other staff members.
  • Candidates must be nominated by other editors.
  • Candidates must be approved by a 75% of the current staff for a promotion to content moderator. All promotions are for an amount of six months before becoming practically permanent.
  • Candidates already holding a position of content moderator may be promoted to a position of administrator after at least a year of outstanding performance, and willingness to keep contributing, and approved unanimously by current administrators.
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