Forum:Policies Development





As you may know, one of my long-term goals has been to eventually create policy/guideline pages for the benefit of users. This forum thread is a good way to keep track of ideas for said pages and to gather community feedback on them.

Potential topics for policy/guideline pages: For a long time now, I've been visiting other wikis and observing how they function and organize. I'm particularly impressed with user 452's work on the Saints Row Wiki - here is their category for policies and guidelines that I've been studying. For comparison, here is the Steven Universe wiki's Regulations page.
 * User behavior (i.e. expectations for users | civility)
 * Blocking policies (may need to have standardized blocking rules?)
 * Manual of style (e.g. spelling/grammar/punctuation | rewriting | perspective etc)
 * Article Creation (when should an article be created; formatting policies)
 * References (this will be necessary once a citation system is implemented)
 * Images (uploading and sourcing? | also maybe a categorization policy)
 * Wiki FAQ?
 * Policies for blogs, talk pages, and profiles?
 * Forum policy (I realize that the old forum style may be confusing. I also realize that I've been using headers for some of my forum posts when they're probably uneccessary. I should go fix those. A guidelines page could clarify how replying works as well as lay down civility guidelines)
 * Mission statement?
 * What the Baccano! Wiki is not

Once again, this forum is meant to serve as a sort of to-do list for me in terms of policy page needs, but it's also a place for the community to give feedback. If you'd like to suggest policy pages not mentioned here, or stress which policies are the most urgent (and so on), please share your thoughts.

Revriley (talk) 17:44, December 31, 2016 (UTC)