Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-4845243-20150718191558/@comment-4845243-20150718230554

@Agent Spy:

I have a few things to say that are highly relevant to your argument.

1) The community already voted to disallow discussions on admin talk that impact the entire community. Thus, nothing that is relevant to bureaucrat rights should be discussed on admin talk.

2) As a corollary, most admin discussions are already public. The exceptions are blocks, bureaucrat promotions, and some demotions. Blocks do not usually impact the entire wiki, unless it is to prevent the wiki from being vandalized/trolled and are in the exclusive purview of the admin team. Bureaucrat promotions technically are already within the purview of the community. Demotions can be discussed by the community, and it is a matter of debate whether we should be allowed to carry them out on admin talk or not.

3) According to recent votes, the admins now lack the authority to promote anyone to any user right without consulting the community. However, there is a discrepancy between that and the fact that no Requests for Bureaucrat has actually been created. To be in alignment with our current policy, a RfB is necessary.