Bulbanews:Staff

Administrative Hierarchy
Board of Editors
↙	↘
Bureaucrats	Sr. Writers
↓	↓
Admins	Columnists
↓	↓
Support Staff	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

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.

Username	Activity	Since	Location	Position
George Hutcheon (Bikini Miltank)	Active	2010	United States	Editor-in-Chief (since 2012)
Adyniz	Active	2010	Pakistan	Deputy editor (since 2012)
SnorlaxMonster	Active	2010	Australia	Associate editor (video games, events, community)
the dark lord trombonator (trom)	Hiatus	2009	New Zealand	Former Bulbanews Editor-in-Chief (2011-12)
RexRacer	Hiatus	2009	United States	Former Bulbanews Editor-in-Chief (2009-2011)
MAGNEDETH	Active	2008	United States	Former Bulbapedia Editor-in-Chief (2010-2012)
Werdnae	Active	2010	New Zealand	Bulbapedia Editor-in-Chief (since 2012)
Archaic	Inactive	2003	Australia	Bulbagarden Webmaster (since like almost forever)
Argy	Inactive	2005	United States	Former Bulbanews Editor-in-Chief (2005-2009)
evkl	Inactive	2004	United States	Bulbagarden Vice-Webmaster
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
Evil Figment	Active	June 10, 2012	Canada	Bulbagarden Vice-Webmaster
Kogoro	Active	May 26, 2009	Canada	Bulbapedia staff
Kenji-girl	Active	January 30, 2010	Unites States	Bulbapedia staff
Rocket Girl	Active	June 10, 2012	United States	Head Administrator, Bulbagarden Forums
Zesty Cactus	Active	February 10, 2012	Canada	Bulbapedia staff
Zhen Lin	Inactive	2005	Malaysia	Bulbagarden Vice-Webmaster
While Bulbanews makes every effort to keep this list updated, this list may contain more recent information.

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.

Username	Activity	Since	Location	Position	Interests
Fabu-Vinny	Inactive	November 7, 2005	England	Former member of the Board of Editors	Anime
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
Darkeiya	Inactive	March 4, 2010	United States	Bulbapedia staff
Dogasu	Inactive	June 26, 2007	Japan	Bulbagarden forums staff
Jioruji Derako	Inactive	November 2, 2009	United States	Bulbapedia staff
PPNSteve	Inactive	September 16, 2009	United States	Bulbacast staff
$aturn¥oshi	Inactive	June 23, 2011	United States	Bulbagarden forums staff
Umeko	Active	January 7, 2010	United States	Bulbapedia staff
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
Hurristat	Active	September 14, 2010	United States	National Bulbagraphic Production Editor
Kevzo8	Inactive	June 5, 2009	The Philippines	Events, community
Maverick Nate	Active	December 3, 2008	United States	TCG
tc26	Inactive	January 6, 2009	The Philippines	Anime, video games, events
While Bulbanews makes every effort to keep this list updated, this list may contain more recent information.

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
BaileyPlaysPokemon	Inactive	December 14, 2011	United States	Video games, Events
G50	Active	August 12, 2012	United States	Video games, Anime, TCG, Events, Merchandise, Manga
Jo The Marten	Active	April 3, 2012	United States	Video games, Anime, TCG, Manga (Adventures)
Quagbert	Inactive	January 13, 2006	United States	Anime
‎Ryu Shoji	Active	March 14, 2013	United Kingdom	Video games, Anime
Water Max	Active	December 14, 2011	United Kingdom	Video games, Anime, TCG
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	Columnn title	Columnn focus	Update schedule
Daniedeter	Active	15 September, 2011	United States	Crunching the Numbers	Applications of mathematics in Pokémon	Monthly
George Hutcheon	Hiatus	25 April, 2010	United States	On the Origin of Species	Pokémon origins and biology	Weekly (currently on hiatus)
Yeoldejacob	Inactive	10 February, 2010	United States	Games reviewer		As required
While Bulbanews makes every effort to keep this list updated, this list may contain more recent information.

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.