Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-4544033-20160207013932/@comment-26107850-20160208085705

Atvelonis wrote:

High Goddess Venus-Afrodite-Finelia wrote:

Ottoman Hold wrote: The moot has handled whether or not to create a CT before. I thought Bron said he would do a CT first, but I wasn't a the moot though (personally I would have voted for a CT, but that's done now). I agree that it will help speed up the process. I know, I was at the moot. And they justified not CT:ing it by the fact that the majority of the voters agreed on the issue at the moot. But it shouldn't be about the vote in the moot, it should be about who should have a vote in the matter. If it affects the whole wiki, the whole wiki should have a say in it. Regadless of the fact if they actually use the function.

Again, according to moot guidelines you are not supposed to CT something unless it is highly contentious. It was a clear majority, so that was not necessary. Also remember that there is nothing stopping you from making a CT now. Instead of complaining here, do something about it if you think it's such a big problem.

Status article votes most certainly do not affect the whole wiki. They are a very minor part of the wiki and serve as examples of high-quality articles, nothing more. Most of the community has no clear idea of what being CA/GA/FA entails and as a result votes ended up placing bad articles in status positions, which is the exact opposite of what we want.

EDIT: Also note that the community still essentially controls it; if members of the Circle are doing a poor job of selecting the right articles they will be replaced via community consensus. So nothing is being taken away from the community here.

EDIT II: Also... the community can still comment and make suggestions on nominations. They make the nominations and suggest what needs to be fixed, and the Circle reviews it. The community is still in control of this. I think you're misinterpreting the meaning of controversial in this context. It's supposed to mean that if something could potentially be controversial on the community it should be made a CT, not controversial inside the Moot. But whatever. I thought only Admins can make CTs, maybe I will. But then again, I really like the Council/Circle idea and being the lazy bitch that I am, I'll just see how it plays out.