Bulbanews:Staff

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The staff of Bulbanews are the editors, writers, columnists, and administrative staff who make up the backbone of the wiki. While any registered user may submit a news draft, the Bulbanews staff need to approve the article before it can be published.

Bulbanews has seven staff groups divided into three tiers. Each of these has a different job description and set of Mediawiki tools. The staff members, along with their roles here at Bulbanews, are all listed below.

Editorial staff

Board of editors

The Bulbanews Board of Editors are the highest ranking staff group on the wiki. These individuals have the authority to approve news articles, columns, and opinion articles and to appoint new staff members. They can delete and protect articles, and block problematic users.

  • RexRacer - Editor-in-Chief
  • The dark lord trombonator - Managing Editor
  • evkl - Bulbagarden Chief of Staff
  • MAGNEDETH - Bulbapedia Editor-in-Chief
  • Archaic - Webmaster (not actual member of the Board)
  • Argy - Former Editor-in-Chief (not actual member of the Board)

Technical staff

The technical staff are mainly users who have staff roles on other Bulbagarden sites. These roles are largely analogous to the bureaucrat, administrator, and junior administrator roles on Bulbapedia, however most of the staff here are less than active and have powers to provide Bulbanews with additional support should it require. While these editors are more than welcome to submit news stories, and are encouraged to, they are not the core news staff. Users with an interest in journalism and regular reporting for Bulbanews may find themselves better suited in the Writer or Senior Writer group.

Bureaucrats

Members of the Bulbapedia Editorial Board are assigned the bureaucrat group on Bulbanews. Some former Bulbanews staff members may also be allocated membership of this group. They can edit published articles, move articles, delete articles, protect articles, block users, suppress redirects, change userrights, and lock the wiki to edits by staff members only of all groups below them.

  • Kogoro
  • Jioruji Derako
  • Sketch
  • electAbuzzzz
  • CoolPikachu!
  • Zhen Lin

Administrators

Administrators are mainly senior Bulbagarden staff members who have served staff roles on Bulbanews in the past. They can edit published articles, move articles, delete articles, protect articles, and block problematic users. Bulbanews:Administrators


Support staff

Bulbanews's support staff are users who have staff roles on other Bulbagarden sites, but are not regular writers. They can edit published articles, move articles, and delete vandalized revisions of articles.

Username Activity Since Location Position
Blazingfist Active August 26, 2014   Netherlands Bulbapedia staff
$aturn¥oshi Inactive June 23, 2011   United States Bulbagarden forums staff
Spriteit Active June 10, 2012   Australia Bulbapedia staff
While Bulbanews makes every effort to keep this list updated, this list may contain more recent information.

Translators

This group of users help out with translation of news articles. They have the ability to edit news articles

Username Activity Since Location Language of Expertise
Archaic Active 2003   Australia Japanese
Dogasu Inactive June 26, 2007   Japan Japanese
Believix Active Nov. 22, 2014   Lebanon French
Bluesun Active August 3, 2014   United Kingdom Japanese
DeviantDreamer Active Nov. 21, 2014   The Netherlands Dutch
Rhm2768 Active August 3, 2014   South Korea Korean
TheMew Active Nov. 21, 2014   The Netherlands Dutch
Wowy Active August 3, 2014   Australia Korean
Kyriaki Active August 3, 2014   South Korea Korean
神奇超龍 Active June 14, 2013   The Philippines Chinese
Littlenintengirl Active Sept. 3, 2017   United States Japanese
While Bulbanews makes every effort to keep this list updated, this list may contain more recent information.


News staff

These are Bulbanews's core staff. These users regularly report and publish news articles or opinion columns. Often, they have their own specialist fields on which they report.

Senior Writers

The senior writers are dedicated writers who know and understand Bulbanews style. In addition to being able to report their own and other contributors' articles, they can delete articles, protect articles, bypass redirects, and block problematic users.

Username Activity Since Location Interests
Funktastic~! Active June 13, 2013   United States Video games, Events, Merchandise, Manga
Pokemaster97 Active June 13, 2013   United States Video games, Anime, Events, Merchandise


Writers

The writers are some of Bulbanews's regular reporters. They can publish directly in the mainspace, as well as move others' articles to this area. They should be familiar with most Bulbanews style.

Username Activity Since Location Interests
‎Ryu Shoji Inactive March 14, 2013   United Kingdom Video games, Anime
神奇超龍 Active June 14, 2013   The Philippines Anime, Manga
While Bulbanews makes every effort to keep this list updated, this list may contain more recent information.


Columnists

From time to time, Bulbanews will hire columnists to write regularly-scheduled opinion articles on a topic of their own choice (at the Board of Editors' discretion). They can publish their columns directly in the main namespace.

Username Activity Since Location Column title Column focus Update schedule
ArchivistGeek Inactive 5 November 2014   United States Can we catch ‘em all? Media archaeology Weekly
Daniedeter Inactive 15 September 2011   United States Crunching the Numbers Applications of mathematics in Pokémon Monthly (currently on hiatus)
Xan Hutcheon Inactive 25 April 2010   United States On the Origin of Species Pokémon origins and biology Weekly (currently on hiatus)
Maxite Inactive 20 February 2014   United States Upcoming Upcoming


More information

If you seek more information about Bulbanews staff groups, perhaps consider reading this page. If that does not help, contact an active staff member.

If you wish to be part of Bulbanews staff, you will need to impress the Board of Editors through regular reporting and knowledge of Bulbanews style. If you wish to write a regular column for Bulbanews, you may contact the editors directly.