Bulbanews:Staff

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Support Staff	Columnists
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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
RexRacer	Hiatus	2009	United States	Editor-in-Chief (since 2009)
the dark lord trombonator (trom)	Active	2009	New Zealand	Managing Editor, Bulbapedia Deputy Editor-in-Chief (since 2010)
evkl	Active	2004	United States	Bulbagarden Chief of Staff, National Bulbagraphic Managing Editor (since 2011)
MAGNEDETH	Active	2008	United States	Bulbapedia Editor-in-Chief (since 2010)
Archaic	Inactive	2003	Australia	Bulbagarden Webmaster (since like almost forever)
Argy	Inactive	2005	United States	Former Bulbanews Editor-in-Chief (2005-2009)
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.

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. Bulbanews:Administrators

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
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
‎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
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.