What is a custodian?
A custodian is a person that holds all permissions for a few if not all the pages from a specific author. Those permission has been granted by the author themselves, and allow the custodian to basically edit, delete or rewrite any page they have custody upon to their liking. They basically own said pages, until the original writer chooses to take them back if needed.
Why have a custodian?
If you are going away from the community for some time, or even forever, having a custodian on the wiki can be beneficial. Indeed, this allow people to contact someone easily if they have questions or if they need to for specific reasons (like expanding the lore of your pages, or asking permission for a rewrite). This also allows your work to be in the hand of someone that can be active enough to work on it if needed. On staff behalf, this also helps them when a change on the wiki requires contacting the owner of the page.
How to assign a custodian?
Simply tell the person, as well as staff! This allows both parties to make sure the custody is enforced. You can give custody of your pages to multiple people at once, to staff or even the greenlighter team.
Note that if you are banned from the wiki permanently, staff will ask you to assign an active custodian on the wiki, or to give custody of your pages to the greenlighter team as a whole. This doesn't apply to deleted pages.
Can I change custodian?
You can! If you come back to the community, or if you feel like the custodian is abusing their rights, you can contact staff, who will modify the permissions to give them back to you. However, make sure to choose someone trustworthy in the first place!
Remember that you can still request to have some of your pages, or all of them, being on the no-rewrite list, even with a custodian. This mean said custodian will still not be allowed to rewrite or give rewrite permissions to your pages.
NOTE: If you have been permanently banned without any chance for appeal before the release of this policy, the permissions has been transfered to the GLMP. If you wish to give them to someone else currently on TS, please contact staff to let them know. This includes the following users:
Custodian list
Here lies a list of all authors who gave custody of some of their pages, if not all, to one or more people. Please contact said custodians if you need to:
Stretchsterz ->
MC_Crafter_24_7
Mctoran ->
scutoid studios for invididual pages and
Spectre48 for the Pantheon canon as a whole
Ross Dear -> staff from the french backrooms wiki
r a t i f ->
C-Graph
TheGameOwl11 ->
Nikuchan
Kai4C ->
Natedagreat563
Atom_Rutherford ->
Almarduk
If you are an unlisted custodian, or if you have given a custodian that isn't on this list, feel free to add it yourself, or to contact staff so that they can update the list themselve.