Forum:SH:Disbanding the Council of Seers? Interest check

We currently have 3 featured article nominations. Geist Weiss has been nominated for nearly a year. There's one Seer vote, and no Seer has even touched the nomination for nearly 7 months. Calid Baatch has been nominated for nearly 5 months now. It's my article, I've voted on it, but no other Seer has done anything with it. Imperial State Security Committee has 1 Seer vote and only 1 Seer review. No one else has touched it.

Let's head over to the good article nominations. There are three nominations: Holonet Transceiver, Unit 1337, and Sword of Edo Tesu. Each one has only 1 Seer vote. None of them have any Seer reviews. Hell, the only one to have a review is Holonet Transceiver, and that review was from Ataru. Ataru. Think about that. If you're a Seer, Ataru&mdash;whose skin curls at the idea of reviewing a GAN or FAN&mdash;reviewed an article before you did.

It is clear to me that while the Seers once served a purpose, back when we had a lot of FA and GA nominations, they are now not only ineffective but an actual hindrance to the process. Yes, GAs and FAs need non-Seer votes too, but if Seers aren’t going to do their jobs then why are we bothering with it in the first place? Why create a system that can hold up passage of a nomination when no one does their job? We don’t need knee-jerk reactions to FAs and GAs anymore to the point where we need an oversight board, and plus we don't need to be holding ourselves to a Wookieepedia/encyclopedia idea of "quality" and "professionalism" either. I put those in air quotes because this is a fanon wiki, not Encyclopedia Britannica.

In my opinion, if a person is concerned about the quality of FA and GA nominations, then they should review it in spite of what their title is. We don’t need a bureaucratic, elite body that is above the rest of the so-called community here. Besides, most of the people who vote on these things end up being Seers anyway, so do we really need to pat ourselves on the back with a fancy title when it’s basically just us anyway? I don’t think so.

This is an interest check. Please post here with your thoughts. - Brandon Rhea (talk)  18:44, July 11, 2013 (UTC)