Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-9062114-20140907030841/@comment-1251315-20140907202339

Ghost has a point. Without the mainspace, there would be no wiki and therefore, no community to exist.

I think the proper course of action is to create new flags for the wiki. Specifically: I should note that "half-sysop" would refer to users who are almost admins, but are not actually proper admins at all. Think of it as a "Quasi Admin" role, a sort of in-between for those who are not active in mainspace, but are trusted enough to be able to do specific sysop like tasks, such as blocking users, deleting threads completely (this is beyond the "remove posts/threads" stuff) and so on.
 * A proper forum moderator flag that gives the ability for said users to:
 * Edit all posts in the forums
 * Remove posts from view
 * Close threads (not the "remove this thread" method) so they cannot be posted in
 * Highlight important threads
 * A half-sysop flag.

Whether a "half-sysop" should be allowed to grant flags like forummoderator and chatmoderator is questionable, but up to the community.