Bulbanews:Staff

Administrative Hierarchy
Webmasters
Board of Editors
Bureaucrats Sr. Writers
Support Staff Columnists
Writers

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

Webmasters

This group of staff are the webmasters of Bulbagarden. They can delete and protect articles, and block problematic users.

Username Activity Since Location Position
Archaic Active 2003   Australia Bulbagarden Webmaster (since like almost forever)
evkl Inactive 2004   United States Bulbagarden Chief of Staff
Evil Figment Active June 10, 2012   Canada Bulbagarden Chief of Staff
Zhen Lin Inactive 2005   Malaysia Bulbagarden Vice-Webmaster
MAGNEDETH Active 2008   United States Vice-Webmaster, Former Bulbapedia Editor-in-Chief (2010-2012)
Iteru Active April 28, 2011   England Deputy Chief of Staff, Former BMGf Head Administrator  
While Bulbanews makes every effort to keep this list updated, this list may contain more recent information.

Executive staff

The Executive staff have previously served as Editors-in-Chief of Bulbanews. This group also contains the current and former Bulbapedia Editor-in-Chief. They can delete and protect articles, and block problematic users.

Username Activity Since Location Position
Argy Inactive 2005   United States Former Bulbanews Editor-in-Chief (2005-2009)
Xan Hutcheon (Bikini Miltank) Inactive 2010   United States Former Bulbanews Editor-in-Chief (2012-14)
the dark lord trombonator (trom) Inactive 2009   New Zealand Former Bulbanews Editor-in-Chief (2011-12)
RexRacer Inactive 2009   United States Former Bulbanews Editor-in-Chief (2009-2011)
Kogoro Active May 26, 2009   Canada Bulbapedia Editor-in-Chief (since 2014)
Werdnae Inactive 2010   New Zealand Former Bulbapedia Editor-in-Chief (2012-2014)
While Bulbanews makes every effort to keep this list updated, this list may contain more recent information.

Board of editors

The Bulbanews Board of Editors 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.

Username Activity Since Location Position
G50 Active 2012   United States Editor-in-Chief (since 2014)
SnorlaxMonster Active 2010   Australia Deputy Editor-in-Chief (since 2014)
Maverick Nate Active 2014   United States Associate Editor-in-Chief (since 2014)
Adil Active 2010   Pakistan Former Deputy Editor-in-Chief (since 2014)
Water Max Active 2011   United Kingdom Associate Editor-in-Chief (since 2017)
While Bulbanews makes every effort to keep this list updated, this list may contain more recent information.

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.

Username Activity Since Location Position
Kenji-girl Active January 30, 2010   Unites States Bulbapedia staff
Zesty Cactus Active February 10, 2012   Canada Bulbapedia staff
Ataro Active August 3, 2014   United States Bulbapedia staff
Jo The Marten Active April 3, 2012   United States Bulbapedia staff
Pokemaster97 Active June 13, 2013   United States Senior Writer; Bulbapedia Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Abcboy Active March 19, 2017   United States Bulbapedia staff
Darkeiya Inactive March 4, 2010   United States Bulbapedia staff
While Bulbanews makes every effort to keep this list updated, this list may contain more recent information.

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.

Bulbanews staff usergroups
Editorial staff Executive staffBoard of editors
Technical staff BureaucratsSupport StaffBots
News staff WritersSenior WritersColumnists