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A discussion moderator or debate moderator is a person whose role is to act as a neutral participant in a debate or discussion, holds participants to time limits and tries to keep them from straying off the topic of the questions being raised in the debate. Sometimes moderators may ask questions intended to allow the debate participants to ...
There is not much room for re-definition, and squirreling is strictly prohibited. The World Schools Debating Championships is attended by many countries, and uses this format. A similar format, with 7-minute speeches and Points-of-Information, is known as the Asian Parliamentary Format and is used by the United Asian Debating Championships
Debate is a process that involves formal discourse, discussion, and oral addresses on a particular topic or collection of topics, often with a moderator and an audience. In a debate, arguments are put forward for opposing viewpoints.
Moderator variable, in statistics, a qualitative or quantitative variable that affects the direction and/or strength of the relation between dependent and independent variables; Sound moderator, a suppressor attached to a firearm; A faction in the Regulator–Moderator War; Discussion moderator, a person who controls the tone of a discussion or ...
A semi-presidential republic is a government system with power divided between a president as head of state and a prime minister as head of government, used in countries like France, Portugal, and Egypt. The president, elected by the people, symbolizes national unity and foreign policy while the prime minister is appointed by the president or ...
A "moderator" is one name for the formal position of one who presides over a discussion, helping to ensure that the discussion is balanced among its many voices, for example in the Methodist church's use of the term for the heads of its conferences. A neutron moderator is used to slow down neutrons in a nuclear reactor.
Wikipedia does not have a group of people known as moderators. You may be looking for: Wikipedia:Administrators, who carry out many of the tasks assigned to moderators on other sites; Wikipedia:Mediation, for help with the Wikipedia:Dispute resolution process; Wikipedia:Moderators/Proposal, a 2016 proposal that did not gain consensus
Wikipedia's administrative tools are often likened to a janitor's mop, leading to adminship being described at times as being "given the mop".Just like a real-world janitor might have keys to offices that some other workers are excluded from, admins have some role-specific abilities, but – also like a real-world janitor – they're not more important than the other editors.