Forum:Renaming user rights to user roles

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I'd like to propose a small change. I think it might make sense for us to rename "user rights" to "user roles." I know that within the context of MediaWiki these are referred to as user rights, but I feel the name "user rights" might be misleading to inexperienced editors. Someone might see a link to User Rights and think that it was talking about rights as opposed to user groups or user permissions. I think the term 'user roles' more clearly and unambiguously gets to the heart of what we're talking about when we mention user rights; the sets of special permissions and tools given to designated user groups.

This rename proposal would involve moving the User Rights page to The Sims Wiki:User roles, and rewording our existing user rights pages to reflect the new wording. The MediaWiki terminology would be untouched, as would the "UserRights" special page.

Is there any opposition to this idea? Or does someone have a name they would suggest instead of 'user roles'? -- LostInRiverview ^{talk · blog · contribs} 23:57, May 31, 2019 (UTC)

If it provides better clarity to the title, then I am not opposed to this potential change. Ѧüя◎ґ (talk) 16:45, June 2, 2019 (UTC)

I'm not opposed to this change, and agree it would provide better clarity of what actually is at issue. However, I don't think I understand how the pages will be re-written: which term will we use: "roles" or "rights"? You wrote that the MediaWiki page would be left untouched. Does that mean the content of the pages would not match with new title? --RoseGui^{✿ (talk)} 08:54, June 7, 2019 (UTC)