Thread:GorillaMan/@comment-5754239-20150323034845/@comment-27158281-20150325231000

Barnswallow wrote: Fair enough, GMan, and thanks for your comment. I share Iron's concern about the apparent contradiction between stating you wanted to discuss things with the team and a few sentences later stating that as a bureaucrat you would do so and so, as if it was a done deal and without having discussed it with the person who has been actively managing the community for as long as I've been here.

Since you speak about straightforwardness, what are the changes you and Brady are talking about? And why would you need to become a bureaucrat to make them? It's been said before when community editors discussed and reverted changes which, if I remember well what was said, aimed at making the wiki look more like the Clash of Clans one that this is not the Clash wiki. Different game, different players, different needs. Don't get me wrong, I'm convinced there is room for improvement on this wiki and I'm absolutely sure you and Brady can bring very good ideas to this community but things that fit or work on the Clash one may not fit or work here. I'm not saying you're not aware of that. I just don't know what you meant.

I don't want you to think I'd be a good admin because you've heard good things about me. I would like you to have made your own opinion about it. I've been an editor and community co-manager for almost a decade. That does give me some experience but it really didn't mean much here nine months ago and with good reason: Iron didn't know me; each wiki or collaborative project in general is different and I needed to learn how things were done **here**. I wouldn't have wanted him to make me an admin after a few weeks. I know what being an admin means to him; I know why he wants to become a bureaucrat; I know what kind of commitment he's willing to give to this wiki. I believe the same goes for me because we got to know each other and these are things we've openly talked about here.

Also, as I said before, I have absolutely no desire to tackle on some tasks without the help of other admins or bureaucrats or whatever you wanna call them. I haven't seen this addressed yet. I understand it looks like I want to convert this to look like the Clash Wiki. However, that design has been around since 2013 and is used on many Wikis around. Yes this is a different Wiki but I want to update it from the old 2012 look to 2014-2015. I will discuss my plan when we have a Skype conversation going. I will say that I will be helping with a new design for the pages. It doesn't have to look like what I added in my sandbox, as my sandbox is just for ideas. If you want to change up a little bit go ahead and edit my sandbox or create your own. I won't be adding the new design until we all agree on one. I also want to rename the pages and images to have capital letters starting with them, all consistant, and so on. Some things I can't think up right now I would need Admin for. Admin would give me the opprotunity to change up things without anything getting in the way. Again before I would make a major change we would talk about it. GMan and I talked on skype about new images and image/page names. For example the image I created for the wordmark and banner on the main page.