Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25979511-20180129192821/@comment-27631794-20180207223017

One negative effect I'm afraid of is a situation exactly like this, where the opinions of the majority of the community are not considered. Every regular editor here has stated that they want the same thing but it seems the outcome of this issue is still up in the air.

Sxerks believes that this wiki is his personal property. Toe the line and he'll rollback edits or remove rights without a word (but he won't tell you where the line is, either). Sxerks was unable to appoint Chrome as an admin without a passing "You did something I didn't like so I removed your rights without addressing it; behave this time." It would be a joke to think he's ever considered promoting another editor to bureaucrat on this wiki.

We're not afraid of having two bureaucrats. We're anxious about continuing to deal with Sxerks' temperament and unpredictability.

Where in the past has Sxerks not considered the opinions of the majority? Most recently, in his parenthetical expression of annoyance at my edits to the policy page made to reflect community-agreed upon changes that he did not participate in. In addition, it was Sxerks' policy that any edits concerning voice actors made here had to be added to the Animanga wiki, where he is also a bureaucrat. Not only is it not the responsibility of Durarara!! editors to edit the Animanga wiki, but taking information from this wiki and adding it to another is plagiarism.

Sxerks, the relevance of Thread:8702 was in reference to edits made on May 12, 2016, where you rolled back my edits on seven pages I was working on, thousands of bytes of information per page made over months. When I reached out to you for an explanation, you noted that undoing work is harder "if some changes are good and others bad," but rollbacks that remove all changes don't seem particularly taxing. Your responses are scathing and empty, and your most oft repeated reply to feedback concerning your attitude and behavior is "It's off base and I don't appreciate the tone," and with every single message from you in mind, Sxerks, I have never liked your tone.

Why don't I think two bureaucrats would work for this wiki? To begin, she has introduced portable infoboxes, deleted pages, organized, blocked trolls, restricted pages and reverted edits, knows the source material in and out, and studied code deeper to become a more capable admin. A bureaucrat should be knowledgeable, and Sxerks is not. He doesn't know the source material, the novels and manga, spinoff series, sequels and collaborations, music, other works in the same universe, and he's hasn't in eight years tried to acquire that information.
 * If a visitor or new editor saw Sxerks talking to Chrome or any of the rest of us the way he has in the past, it diminishes everyone's credibility.
 * If the votes and opinions of the majority of the community are ignored, we're being told we're not a community. This isn't a decision we just arrived to. We had a similar discussion in October, and the thoughts we expressed then were ones we'd each spent months or years forming. We have all made meaningful changes to this wiki and we are equally relevant.
 * We absolutely could function with one crat present for material support (one who knows the source material, responds to inquires, engages in community discussion, and creates page uniformity) and one for functional support (code, templates and tables, reverting troll edits, etc.) but all of all of the functional changes to the Wiki (and many of the cosmetic ones) made in the two years I've been here have been performed by Chrome, and she will continue to carry the weight.
 * Crats should be responsive and always working to improve themselves. Sxerks is unresponsive to feedback. He does not listen to Chrome as a frequent editor or as an admin and he won't listen to her as a crat with the same rights, either. He believes in a sense of hierarchy on the wiki. He still sees himself as above the rest of the editors, no matter the quantity or quality of well-meaning edits to their names.
 * We need a bureaucrat we can rely on. A community with two bureaucrats should have two bureaucrats they can rely on. Sxerks is unreliable and his promises are empty. When he says he plans to stick around, he vanishes. When he says he will help, he adds a bot under his own account. When he says he has more to contribute, he does nothing, and when he tells an editor they made bad edits, he overlooks the inaccurate, incomplete, and outdated information he's been sitting on for years. He is reluctant to protect pages that are frequently targeted by trolls and in doing so shows that he isn't willing to defend the community, either. A bureaucrat needs to do his share of the upkeep and maintain a presence on the wiki. We do not have faith in Sxerks to respond to the community's needs.

I don't want to see any more underhanded remarks toward the active editors from Sxerks. I really intend for my edits here to mean something, and I've been learning a lot over the few years I've been editing, not only about coding and editing, but also about recognizing the differences between a good and poor community leader. The community looks to Chrome because she is helpful, encouraging, and quick to respond to both questions and editing mistakes. We trust her to make active changes that improve this wiki and steer it in a positive direction. Sxerks lends aid after watching, passing out passive-agressive admonishments. He can barely be called a contributor here. It's been clear that he has no interest in this series anymore and that his only interest is sitting on this wiki while other people work on it. He founded it, but we built it. I welcome Sxerks to continue editing this wiki with the rest of us as regular editors. His tone may be a lot different when the hierarchy that exists in his head is broken down and he understands that we're all equals doing our best to compile information about a series we love. Sxerks been active on countless wikis for around a decade and even though he has many other online obligations, he'll always be welcome to contribute whatever he can here.

As a closing note, removing bureaucrat privileges is a serious issue but we are absolutely serious that it is the best course of action for this wiki.