Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-36579093-20191222211821/@comment-366087-20191225001619

To help clarify the "staff" issue…

If on your wiki (OWO?) where you use "staff" to mean one of the administration (Mod+) of your wiki a user comes along and starts talking about "staff" but they mean someone on another wiki, I trust you can see where the confusion can happen. *You* think they're talking about one of your people when they're not, so you ask them to ensure proper use of terms.

On *this* wiki, Community Central, any casual use of "staff"/"Staff" is understood by the longer/experienced users to mean FANDOM Staff (and here I personally like to use Cap-S to clarify). Their masthead tags read Staff (indeed, should be the same across ALL (English language) wikis), and there is a special tag to their signatures. Any Usage of the word will catch the attention of any actual Staff casually looking over the feeds. And it catches our eyes too, those of us who are small-s "staff" (admin levels) on Central.

It's mainly boils down to a form of "situational awareness"; a word/term/phrase on one wiki may have different meaning(s) on other wiks.

I hope that helps cut through any confusion.

Welcome to Central!