WikiIndex:Consensus

Consensus is arrived at on WikiIndex through discussion. There is a hierarchy on the site for technical and legal reasons but decision-making is encouraged through community input. In practice, this can be difficult to achieve when the community is small or many members are inactive.

WikiIndex is owned by Raymond King who owns the domain, the hosting service and controls the backup data. The people who work for him have the backend access, therefore he is our God-king. The content of the site is under the licence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike and as such theoretically "owned" by the public. Sysops are appointed and dismissed by bureaucrats who are accountable to no one. Any sysop can unilaterally take an action such as blocking a user or deleting an article. If no other sysop reverses the action, then it stands. Actions like deletion and blocking should be done with caution and community input: once a pattern of such actions has been identified, the practice and the principle behind it can be codified by any user as an official WikiIndex policy. Sysops making contentious actions can be discussed at the WikiIndex:Community portal. If the community finds these actions unacceptable, other sysops can undo them or that person can have his rights modified.