Battlestar Wiki:Policy

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This page is one of Battlestar Wiki's many projects.
This page serves to coordinate discussion on a particular aspect of this Wiki. The formal recommendations of a project may be treated as policies.


This is a listing of all the policy's on this Battlestar Wiki and what a policy can enforce. Please note that many projects can be considered policies because of their unique ability to set formal recomendations, in a project form, and not in policy form, which is not updated as often. (i.e. Battlestar Wiki:Standards and Conventions is a project, but is enforcable.)

What is a Policy?

Project-Policy

Project-Policy pages on Battlestar Wiki take the form of something that tons of people work on. However, sometimes certain projects can also be policies. This can get confusing. Those projects, though marked with the {{Project}} tag, could still fall under this page's rules and guidelines. It all depends on the project's goal when trying to determine if it is a legitimate project-policy page. Even though anyone can create a project, the mere creation of a policy page does not make it an official policy. It still has to go through the policy procedures to become an official policy. A current listing of project-policy pages that are also official policies are listed below.

Policy

A policy on Battlestar Wiki is a document that was created to set procedures or to make an "official" act based on what is needed for this Wiki. Some of the policies might be the same (i.e. Battlestar Wiki:Candidates for deletion vs Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion) but still have some slight changes in the wording and procedures for operating. The reason for this is because Battlestar Wiki has a relatively small number of users in comparison to Wikipedia's user base of 100,000+.

Enforcement of a Policy

Though everyone can enforce a policy, by just reverting to an earlier version of a page, certain people have the power to make the final word. When a dispute arises about a policy enforcement occurs, members of the Policy Enforcement committee vote a simple Yea or No to determine if the policy was being enforced correctly. If the committee ties on a vote, the administrators of the Battlestar Wiki take up the same matter and vote a simple Yea or No vote. However, at anytime the Wiki master, Joe Beaudoin, can decided it's fate with a veto or affirm the dispute. The Wiki master can still vote with the administrators or make the decision himself.

During these votes, no explanation is made because the policies are only to be interrupted on and not debated on. If a change to a policy is needed, it should go on the policy talk page.

The Policy Enforcement Committee is made up of 6 users and rotates every month. A member can not be on it for more than two consecutive terms. Every week, another member is the presiding chairperson who would accept or not accept a dispute.

Detailed Instructions

  1. Create a new page by typing the following in the search box, substituting PAGENAME with the page name of the page that is under dispuite: Battlestar Wiki:Policy Disputes/PAGENAME. Hit "Go". In the resulting page, click on "Create this page".
  2. Add the following line to the page: {{subst:PLD}}
  3. Save the edit.
  4. Edit the page, giving a reason why you believe the incorrect policy is being applied.

Once the Committee accepts the dispute, it will be added to the list below. All past disputes are placed in the Battlestar Wiki:Policy Disputes/Archive page.

Current Members

Current Chairperson: User 1.

  1. User 1.
  2. User 2.
  3. User 3.
  4. User 4.
  5. User 5.
  6. User 6.

Election's

Steps to getting a policy consensus

Forthcoming..

Without consensus

Only the site admin, Joe Beaudoin, can make a policy official/active without consensus. All other policy recomendations must pass through consensus.

Active Policies

Project-Policies

  • Citation Jihad - How to properly cite information in an article, and what is a proper source to cite from.

Inactive Policies

Current Policy Enforment Disputes

  • No disuptes currently exsit.

See Also