Battlestar Wiki:Guideline: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 15:39, 21 February 2007

This is a proposed policy for Battlestar Wiki.
This non-policy is considered by the community and its leadership is to be considered for the status quo of Battlestar Wiki, though changes to it can be discussed on the appropriate talk page.

A guideline is any page that is:

Actionable (i.e. it recommends, or recommends against, an action to be taken by editors)
Authorized by consensus. Guidelines are not set in stone and should be treated with common sense and the occasional exception.

Amendments to a guideline should be discussed on its talk page, not on a new page — although it's generally acceptable to edit a guideline to improve it. Disputes over the wording of a guideline are resolved by considering and discussing objections and counter-proposals and coming to agreement, often using compromise language; such a dispute does not "suspend" the guideline or "turn it into" something other than a guideline. People are sometimes tempted to call a vote on a guideline, but this is a bad idea because it can polarize the issue.

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+A '''guideline''' is any page that is:
+# Actionable (i.e. it recommends, or recommends against, an action to be taken by editors)
+# Authorized by consensus. Guidelines are not set in stone and should be treated with common sense and the occasional exception.
+Amendments to a guideline should be discussed on its talk page, not on a new page — although it's generally acceptable to edit a guideline to improve it. Disputes over the wording of a guideline are resolved by considering and discussing objections and counter-proposals and coming to agreement, often using compromise language; such a dispute does not "suspend" the guideline or "turn it into" something other than a guideline. People are sometimes tempted to call a vote on a guideline, but this is a bad idea because it can polarize the issue.