Wookieepedia:Policy and consensus updates

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From time to time, the Wookieepedia community will discuss and pass policy changes or come to consensus on certain issues. Such decisions will be noted here, as will proposed ideas from the Consensus track.

[edit] October 6, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Era tags – Eras tags will only be used on "non-timeless" articles, such as characters, ships, and only on known appearances, not presumed eras of appearance. Atarumaster88 ^{(Talk page)} 18:32, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] September 28, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/GA proposal – A new panel of users, deemed the AgriCorps, has been created to regulate Good articles; the Good article nomination process has changed to require five total votes including two votes either from Inquisitors or AgriCorps members, the AgriCorps may remove the "Good" status of articles it deems unworthy, and objections on the GAN page may be stricken by an AgriCorps vote. Graestan^(Talk) 18:38, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] September 24, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/New continuity section – Consensus was to remove the "New continuity" header from the Manual of Style entry for OOU articles.
• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Revamp of the good article nomination rules revisited – Consensus was to update the Good article rules as laid out in the forum. Graestan^(Talk) 22:35, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] September 12, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/FAN rule amendment – Consensus was to amend FA rule 5 to "...following the review process, it is stable, i.e., it does not change significantly from day to day and is not the subject of ongoing edit wars. This does not apply to vandalism and protection or semi-protection as a result of vandalism." Graestan^(Talk) 22:35, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] September 9, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Skin color in infobox – Consensus was to allow and support the creation of skin color fields in infoboxes. Graestan^(Talk) 01:47, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] September 5, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Aliases problem – Consensus was to keep and allow all nickname articles as needed. Graestan^(Talk) 03:54, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] August 23, 2008

• Mofference results
  • Consensus was to keep the Knowledge Bank with some conditions: that it is stressed on the forum page that only verifiable answers may be given; that "KB" be automatically added to the names of each Knowledge Bank thread that is created (as well as "CT" to Consensus Track, "SH" to Senate Hall, and "NB" to Administrators' Noticeboard) in order to easily identify KB threads on the RCs; and finally that any users who take exception to the Knowledge Bank may leave it to be dealt with by those who are more willing.
  • Consensus was to advertise the policy and consensus updates page on the sitenotice from time to time as well as to add a link to the updates page to the new user welcome message as well as the Monobook sidebar.
  • Wookieepedia:Userbox proposal – It was decided to kill this page, as its function has steadily decreased over time. In its place, a more updated guide to making custom userboxes will be created.
  • It was decided to create both a header template as well as a sectional template in order to warn users of potential conflicting sources with regards to impending conflicts dealing with Star Wars: The Clone Wars
  • The addition of a "recently featured" link to the FA space on the Main Page in anticipation of the one-FA-per-day system's arrival was approved.
  • Consensus was not to relax the featured article rules in cases where a "Personality and traits" section would be somewhat difficult.
  • There was no consensus as to whether collapsible appearances for television episodes should be allowed.
  • It was decided that interviews should not be publicized off the site for now.
  • Consensus was to allow the creation of similar contests to Coolest Thing Ever or Lamest Thing Ever, as well as a more competitive contest involving Good article nominations.
  • There was no consensus as to whether family fields should be added to character infoboxes.
  • There was no consensus on whether eras tags should be used for when the subject appeared in canon sources, or it can be conjectured that the subject existed in the time period.
  • Consensus was to keep hair and eye color as infobox fields; no consensus on skin color as an infobox field.
  • Consensus was to add CT to the Monobook sidebar.
  • Consensus was to Add links establishing Firefox as the "official browser" of the site for ease of viewing.
  • It was decided that there should be a good article removal/review process, to be hashed out later in consensus threads.
  • Starting with the set of nominations currently on the page, good article nominations will have to have five support votes in addition to the nominator's vote for quality assurance, similar to the current FAN system.
  • Read the full log for complete and gory details. Atarumaster88 ^{(Talk page)} 03:17, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] August 22, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Separate categories for Anakin/Vader images? – Consensus was to categorize all images of Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader in a single category. Graestan^(Talk) 15:24, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] August 11, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/If something appears in a source, does it really appear? – Consensus was to create the Gamecameo template and implement it where necessary, i.e. when a character's appearance in a game is non-storyline and therefor not canonical. Graestan^(Talk) 02:38, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] July 27, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Expansion Packs: Gotta keep 'em separated. – Consensus was to separate information on game expansion packs into their own articles and create articles covering any collector's editions. Green Tentacle ^(Talk) 16:33, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] July 25, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Droid article layout – No consensus was reached. In droid articles, either "Personality and traits," "Characteristics," or "Personality and programming" is an acceptable section title, and no restriction has been placed on new titles for similar sections. Graestan^(Talk) 13:28, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] July 22, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Quote length – Consensus was to restrict quotes in articles to below ten lines of dialogue (not lines of text), and preferably much less. Particularly long statements/speeches/soliloquies should not be quoted as part of a dialogue, but may be quoted individually. Graestan^(Talk) 12:10, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] July 20, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Re-evaluating the S apostrophe issue – Consensus was to allow either s's or s' provided each article is consistent throughout, while encouraging (but not requiring) users to use s' after a name that ends in a Z-sound. Gonk ^(Gonk!) 12:17, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] July 16, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Axing silly sourcing rule – Consensus was to adopt rule; abbreviations are now officially tolerated in references, particularly for shorter articles.
• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Stopping FA leeches – No consensus, no change made to policy.
• CT: Forum:CT Archive/New FAN voting proposal – No consensus, no change made to policy.
• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Main page pagetitle Wikia's test was inconclusive, main page will remain as is. Atarumaster88 ^{(Talk page)} 16:31, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] July 7, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/"X (language)" or "X language"? – Consensus was to adopt "X language" where applicable. Atarumaster88 ^{(Talk page)} 15:50, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] June 28, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Character infobox changes (multiple votes) – The result was No consensus to adopt any of the proposals for any of the proposed changes. The result was:
  • Titles and ranks — Characters names are to be used only. The last known title or rank is not to be used.
  • Relations fields — these are not to be added or used in infoboxes.
  • Consolidating character templates — the current character templates/infoboxes will stay as is, and no efforts at consolidating them will be done.
  • Booting the eras field — split vote. The era field system will stay as is in our infoboxes.
  • Removal of bullets — writers are allowed to continue using bullets to organize lists in infoboxes. Greyman^(Talk) 00:27, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] June 11, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Clearing up Appearances and Sources (multiple votes) – No consensus for change on the last two open sections, "Use of compendiums and omnibuses" and "HoloNet News articles." —Xwing328^(Talk) 04:19, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
• CT: Forum:CT Archive/FAN red link addendum, pt. 2 - Sources – No consensus to update the redlink rules. —Xwing328^(Talk) 02:10, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
• CT: Forum:Main page pagetitle – The result was to allow two-week testing of modified text on MediaWiki:Pagetitle. —Xwing328^(Talk) 02:04, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] June 5, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/FAN red link addendum – The result was that the new rule wording for FA redlinks will read "have no more than 3 redlinks and none in the introduction, infobox, or any templates." —Xwing328^(Talk) 19:54, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] June 4, 2008

• CT: Forum:SH Archive/"Gallery must die" revisited – The result was that in those few instances where in-article galleries are proved to be useful, as with book articles and cover galleries, etc., they are allowed to be used. This CT was not an attempt to overturn or revert the deletion of gallery pages which was decided through previous consensus votes. Greyman@wikia^(Talk) 01:41, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

• CT: Forum:SH Archive/Manual of style: Citing forum posts – The result was no consensus to proceed with an MoS change. When referencing forums in articles, it is suggested that the writer chose to use a consistent form for how they present forum posts titles in references; however, there is no consensus on establishing a hard layout that writers must follow. Greyman@wikia^(Talk) 01:41, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Re-FAs on the main page – The result was that former featured articles that achieved featured status before 29 January 2007 (the date the Inquisitorius were created) will be added to the queue to appear on the Main Page when, and if, their status is restored. Greyman@wikia^(Talk) 01:28, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Adopt vandalism policy – Wookieepedia:Vandalism now policy rather than a long-time proposed policy. —Silly Dan _(talk) 21:21, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] May 18, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Intermediate article milestone – No consensus on whether or not to create a new article milestone- article milestones will remain the same. Atarumaster88 ^{(Talk page)} 20:13, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
• CT: Forum:Clearing up Appearances and Sources (multiple votes) (Note: 2 of the 4 votes still open) – Update the Layout Guide as follows:
  • Under Appearances: "Bulleted list of films, novels, comics, cartoons, roleplaying adventures, and computer games that the subject has appeared in"
  • Under Sources: Bulleted list of reference books, including sourcebooks from West End Games and Wizards of the Coast, Databank entries, pages on the WotC website, StarWars.com articles, LucasArts websites, game strategy guides, Insider articles, and any other official non-fiction sources.
  • Under Sources: Apply {{1stm}} and {{1stID}}. If subject first appeared in a vignette within source material, use {{1st}} in conjunction with {{C|Vignette}} —Xwing328^(Talk) 22:57, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] May 4, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/GAN: A Chance for Everyone – Consensus to update Wookieepedia:Good article nominations to prevent articles passing with unresolved objections. Green Tentacle ^(Talk) 14:30, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] May 2, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Quote policy addendum – Consensus to adopt slight wording change to the Manual of Style regarding quotations. jSarek 12:18, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] April 19, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Cut content in the bio section, redux – consensus was to "place cut content in the BTS or its own section, not in the main section, for in-universe articles." —Silly Dan _(talk) 02:45, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] April 16, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Fan-made maps, redux – Consensus to overturn Forum:CT Archive/Fan-made Maps, and thus prohibit use of fan-made maps in articles. jSarek 19:43, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
• CT: Forum:"Yoda's species" vs. "Unknown tridactyl species" – Consensus was to move "Unknown tridactyl species" to "Yoda's species." Atarumaster88 ^{(Talk page)} 19:58, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] April 8, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Capitalizing "sector" – Consensus to change the Manual of Style to make the word "sector" in all sector names lowercase, except where indicated by canon. - Lord Hydronium 07:36, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] March 30, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Unnamed, unknown, nameless – Consensus to use "unidentified" with no category piping for articles without a known, canonical name. Example: "Unidentified Blue Blob" as the title and [[Category:Blobs]] for the category. The title starts with "unidentified," and the lack of piping in the category means, by default, it is categorized under "U" in the "Blobs" category. —Xwing328^(Talk) 18:09, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] March 22, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Synchronize – Consensus to use UTC for all official timekeeping purposes on Wookieepedia, including voting and Mofference times. —Unsigned comment by Xwing328 (talk • contribs).

[edit] March 8, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Consensus section – The result of the debate was to add a new section(s) to Wookieepedia Administrators to explain the administrative responsibilities with regards to the Consensus Track. Greyman^(Talk) 05:57, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] March 5, 2008

• CT: Forum:Articles on RPG character templates - Consensus was not to allow articles based on RPG character templates. Graestan^(Talk) 04:56, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] February 24, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Non- and semi-sentient species sections - New section on non- and semi-sentient species added to the layout guide. Graestan^(Talk) 03:32, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] February 20, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/RFR requirements - Consensus to add the following requirements to requests for rollback nominations.

1. Registered users' votes must have a 2/3rds supermajority for the request to be accepted.
2. Administrators' votes must have a 2/3rds supermajority for the request to be accepted. (Separated from user votes)

Greyman^(Paratus) 17:15, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] February 16, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Fansite webmasters - Consensus to add "Webmasters: If a person is recognized purely for creating and/or maintaining a Star Wars fan site, he or she is not considered notable enough to warrant his own article" to Wookieepedia:Notability of fan projects. —Silly Dan _(talk) 15:29, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Why the New Boring Templates? - No consensus, templates to be kept as is (some "fun" templates, some "professional" templates.) No further general format changes without prior discussion. —Silly Dan _(talk) 15:29, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] January 30, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Making an official policy for "What a Quote is" - Consensus was policy approved, new guidelines on quotations enacted, defining what is and is not suitable as quotations for insertion into articles. jSarek 21:02, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] January 25, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Proposed addition to Wookieepedia:Administrators - Consensus was policy approved, new guidelines on administrator absence approved. jSarek 21:02, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Categorization by company? - Consensus was Categorization by company was agreed upon by the community. jSarek 21:02, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] January 18, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Bureaucrat veto - Consensus is to abolish bureaucrat veto powers on Wookieepedia:Requests for user rights and Wookieepedia:Requests for removal of user rights. —Silly Dan _(talk) 17:26, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] January 14, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Clone trooper names vs. numbers - Consensus was to refer to clone troopers by their numbers instead of their names in article titles, should the numbers be provided in canon.
• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Valid reasons to put something back in the trash - Never went to vote, result was no consensus; however, the recent Mofference decided that there are indeed valid reasons to re-TC an article, though the conditions are yet to be set.
  • Graestan^(Talk) 18:18, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] January 7, 2008

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Merge Force Power variants? - Overwhelming support for merging Force power variants into their parent articles, such as Force Push and Force Pull into Telekinesis. -- Darth Culator ^(Talk) 05:17, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] December 20, 2007

• CT: Forum:CT Archive/Two weeks for TC discussions? - Updated Wookieepedia:Consensus to reflect new Wookieepedia:Trash compactor rules on time alloted for discussion and when to close threads early. —Silly Dan _(talk) 12:11, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] December 8, 2007

• CT: CT Archive/Spoiler policy—Decided that a spoiler is considered a spoiler up to and until one month after the official US (or country of origin's) release date of the particular product. Therefore, any new information from said source must contain a spoiler tag until one month has passed since the product's release.
• CT: CT Archive/User template—Decided to handle Template:User as follows:

1. Bring back the user template. (Previously passed)
2. No consensus on number of redlinks pointing to a userpage before using the template.
3. Amend Denial of Recognition policy.
4. Do not subst the template.

• CT: CT Archive/Original Research restriction—Decided to relax the Original Research policy, with a follow-up CT on how specifically to do so.

[edit] November 27, 2007

• CT: CT Archive/Canon/noncanon—Decided to handle non-canon and semi-canon material as follows:

1. No consensus on whether to remove or keep cut content in main article body.
2. Remove Infinities content from main article body.
3. Keep ambiguous Tales content in main article body.
4. No consensus on whether to remove ambiguous Polyhedron, etc., content from main article body.

[edit] November 5, 2007

• CT: CT Archive/FA-a-Day for 2009—Decided to switch to a daily FA queue system on January 1, 2009 if the FA rate reaches one successful FA nomination per day.

[edit] November 1, 2007

• CT: CT Archive/Word count limit on fanon—Decided to limit fan fiction on user pages to 250 words or less.

[edit] October 19, 2007

• CT: RFA Rule 5—Decided that RFA Rule 5 should be reworded to require "major article contributions" instead of "major article creations".

[edit] October 17, 2007

• CT: Non-licensed art by officially licensed artists—Decided that only published, licensed images can be used within in-universe sections of articles for canonical subjects.
• CT: Sentient vs Sapient—Decided that the term "sentient" should generally be used instead of "sapient" in an article's text, and should always be preferred in headings.

[edit] October 14, 2007

• CT: Links within references—Decided that links must be added to all references.

[edit] October 5, 2007

• CT: Revan... virtual Master of Darth Bane?—Decided that holocrons do not count as masters.

[edit] September 9, 2007

[edit] Mofference

(Transcript)

• A new IRC policy was established.
• Search icon guidelines were adopted.
• The "Did you know" section on the Main Page is now for all trivia, not just new articles.
• Wookieepedia:Three-revert rule was changed to a guideline, and will be handled on a more case-to-case basis.
• The Single issue voters limit now applies to all votes.
• We adopted a new trivia policy.
• American English spelling, grammar and punctuation are now policy.
• As opposed to a simple one-link-per-article, it is now acceptable (but not required) to link to a given page in an article's introduction, body, infobox, captions, and quotes attributions.
• All image galleries will be deleted and replaced with categories.

[edit] August 12, 2007

• CT: Shortening the featured article time—Decided that after August 13, 2007, featured articles will appear on the Main Page for 3.5 days each, instead of the former full week.

[edit] July 11, 2007

• CT: Capitalizing "galaxy"—arguments against, and request for revote—Decided to stop capitalizing "galaxy."

[edit] May 7, 2007

• CT: Userbox Proposals - Any userbox proposals that receive downvotes can be deleted within the day, if the ratio is above 1 for/5 against.

[edit] May 3, 2007

• CT: Full implementation of scrollboxes - Unanimously decided to use scroll boxes for long appearance lists rather than separate pages.

[edit] April 23, 2007

• CT: Single issue voters - Votes by any users that have less than 50 main namespace edits will NOT be counted, with special limited votes such as Mr./Miss SW and Coolest/Lamest being the exceptions.

[edit] March 29, 2007

• CT: Twi'lek names - Decided to use Basic names for Twi'leks.

[edit] March 1, 2007

• CT: QOTD vote counting and timeouts - New rules for Quote of the Day approved without objection.

[edit] January 12, 2007

• CT: Restrictions on custom user signatures - Decided to allow signatures to have a small (appropriate) picture, one font color, and an optional link to talk page.