Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-31420441-20170827150344

{{Suggestion|''The Council of the Galvan is made up of a group of users of Ben 10 Planet that decides on how the wiki is run, changes to be made, and gives advice to active administrators. In addition, the Council acts as a tie-breaker for suggestions.'' (Source: Ben 10 Planet:Council of the Galvan)

Back in the day the "CotG" was an active group that dealt with a lot of problems, including all the suggestions that ended in a tie. Now-a-days, however, the story is completely different. The CotG is a dead group with only 1 active member out of 5. (Madlooney6 is inactive)

Membership
The CotG requires one of each:
 * Bureaucrat
 * Administrator
 * Custodian/CVU
 * Rollback
 * Regular User

Problems

 * 1) What is a group made for discussion with only 1 member?
 * 2) Blaziken, the only active member, is a Bureaucrat himself, so he already has pretty much all powers he needs for efficient management of the Wiki. Also, the Council is supposed to "give advice" to the administrators/bureaucrats, so there is no logic in having a bureaucrat in the group.
 * 3) It is supposed to act as a tie-breaker in suggestions. However, All suggestions in the last 1 year that have ended in a tie have been left pending by the CotG. Nothing is done at all.
 * 4) I get it that the idea is to have users with all kinds of power levels to participate in this, but why do we need users who are already in some sort of position to dictate policies or at least make significant changes to the Wiki a part of this group. (I am talking about the rule of having a custodian, admin, rollback all in the group)

Solution
So here's my suggestion, change the membership requirements to five really active members (details about activity for eligibility to be worked out soon) on the Wiki who '''do not have admin/bureaucrat powers.

Why not give powers to users who actually need it, rather than giving power to users who already have it.

So, under this scheme, Blaziken and Madlooney should be removed from the CotG and instead other regular users who contribute to the Wiki a lot (more than even the admins) but do not have admin positions take up the positions instead which will enable them to deal with issues quickly and solve tie-breakers in suggestions efficiently.

Thank You. }} 