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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.


May 11, 2012Edit

CT: Forum:CT Archive/BTS in OOU articles – Change the ninth item in WP:MOS#OOU articles on reference works from "Behind the scenes" to "Continuity." 1358 (Talk) 09:47, May 11, 2012 (UTC)

CT: Forum:CT Archive/Showcasing Good articles: Final round!! – Vote 1: Approve creation of following new pages and templates; Vote 2: Showcase the first GA on Monday, April 16; Vote 3: Float the queue by 12 weeks; Vote 4: No consensus. Images will be aligned left by default; Vote 5: Do themed weeks. Toprawa and Ralltiir 20:10, May 11, 2012 (UTC)

May 9, 2012Edit

CT: Forum:CT Archive/Search icon duplicates – Vote 1: Do not allow more than one search icon to point to the same target; Vote 2: Allow more than one search icon to visually depict the same subject. 1358 (Talk) 16:27, May 9, 2012 (UTC)

April 15, 2012Edit

CT: Forum:CT Archive/Did you know... – Vote 1: "Did you know" feature to be used for new articles only; Vote 2: Add note to main page; Vote 3: Expansions to remain excluded from "Did you know"; Vote 4: No consensus. Toprawa and Ralltiir 01:27, April 15, 2012 (UTC)

March 26, 2012Edit

CT: Forum:CT Archive/Showcasing Good articles: Part II – Showcase daily Main Page Good article under the FA queue, include full picture and intro and Showcase new GAs from Monday to Friday, and old GAs on the weekend. Toprawa and Ralltiir 20:21, March 26, 2012 (UTC)

March 16, 2012Edit

CT: Forum:CT Archive/Can we please add triva? – Place all properly sourced in-universe information in the main part of the article, and place all proper out-of-universe information in the Behind the scenes section; rejection of motion to include trivia." Toprawa and Ralltiir 18:15, March 16, 2012 (UTC)

CT: Forum:CT Archive/Showcasing Good articles: Part I – Give Good articles their own Main Page queue and showcase a new GA daily. Toprawa and Ralltiir 18:19, March 16, 2012 (UTC)

CT: Forum:CT Archive/Protection policy update and rewrite – Approve Wookieepedia:Protection policy rewrite; approve new padlock icons for Super-semi-, Move-, and Upload-protection pages. Toprawa and Ralltiir 18:25, March 16, 2012 (UTC)

January 15, 2012Edit

CT: Forum:CT Archive/Layout Guide change for categories – Support proposed change to Category section of the Layout Guide: "Every article must have all applicable categories." Toprawa and Ralltiir 01:11, January 15, 2012 (UTC)

December 28, 2011Edit

CT: Forum:CT Archive/Databank position on Sources lists – Support change to Layout Guide regarding position of StarWars.com Databank entries in article Sources lists. Toprawa and Ralltiir 20:52, December 28, 2011 (UTC)

December 16, 2011Edit

CT: Forum:CT Archive/Music Theme Layout Guide – Closed early and without prejudice, so that an OOU Layout Guide can be developed and issues regarding copyright and the reproduction of lyrics can be resolved first. jSarek 10:51, December 16, 2011 (UTC)

December 12, 2011Edit

CT: Forum:CT Archive/Minor change to the naming policy – Remove all text before the word "Plain" in the Years and plain numbers section of the naming policy. jSarek 11:21, December 12, 2011 (UTC)

November 26, 2011Edit

CT: Forum:CT Archive/Routine tweak to naming policy – The "Years and plain numbers" section of the naming policy will be changed to include real world years up to 2020 instead of 2015. Any further similar tweaks are also allowed as per consensus. 1358 (Talk)

CT: Forum:CT Archive/Re-featuring restored Featured Articles take 2: No gap! – All articles that have been repromoted to Featured status will now appear on the Main page a second time, instead of the old date limit. This consensus will also retroactively be applied to Glurrg. 1358 (Talk) 00:25, November 26, 2011 (UTC)

CT: Forum:CT Archive/Re-featuring restored Featured Articles – Articles re-promoted to Featured status will now appear on the Main page a second time if they were first featured on the Main page before February 11, 2009. 1358 (Talk) 00:25, November 26, 2011 (UTC)

November 5, 2011Edit

CT: Forum:CT Archive/Merging articles – Keep the articles; do not merge. Toprawa and Ralltiir 03:45, November 5, 2011 (UTC)

October 24, 2011Edit

CT: Forum:CT Archive/Citing the new Star Wars site – Update canon policy as proposed, Amend Layout Guide with Addendum I, Amend Layout Guide with Addendum II, Amend Layout Guide with Sources Addendum III, and Amend Layout Guide with External links addendum. 1358 (Talk) 14:13, October 24, 2011 (UTC)

October 17, 2011Edit

September 12, 2011Edit

August 22, 2011Edit

August 17, 2011Edit

July 15, 2011Edit

July 11, 2011Edit

July 6, 2011Edit

June 8, 2011Edit

May 13, 2011Edit

March 17, 2011Edit

February 18, 2011Edit

February 9, 2011Edit

February 7, 2011Edit

  • CT: Forum:CT Archive/Out-of-universe Layout Guide – update GAN item 15 to read: include a "Behind the scenes" section for in-universe articles (The other two sections have not reached consensus yet and have still had voting activity in the last 5 days.) —Xwing328(Talk) 04:34, February 8, 2011 (UTC)

January 16, 2011Edit

December 28, 2010Edit

  • CT: Forum:CT Archive/Official Wookieepedia Skin: Monobook – Add the following statement to {{W}}: For an optimal viewing experience, Wookieepedia recommends using the Monobook skin. For help changing your skin preferences, see Help:Skin; Add the following statement to Main Page: For an optimal viewing experience, Wookieepedia recommends using the Monobook skin. For help changing your skin preferences, see Help:Skin; Add the following notice visible only on the new skin, based on technical feasibility: For an optimal viewing experience, Wookieepedia recommends using the Monobook skin. For help changing your skin preferences, see Help:Skin. Toprawa and Ralltiir 18:48, December 28, 2010 (UTC)

December 27, 2010Edit

December 25, 2010Edit

December 10, 2010Edit

December 8, 2010Edit

October 28, 2010Edit

October 25, 2010Edit

October 11, 2010Edit

October 9, 2010Edit

October 1, 2010Edit

September 30, 2010Edit

September 12, 2010Edit

August 24, 2010Edit

August 10, 2010Edit

August 9, 2010Edit

July 29, 2010Edit

July 27, 2010Edit

July 16, 2010Edit

  • CT: Forum:CT Archive/Comprehensive articles – Implement a Comprehensive article process; Create a usergroup to oversee the Comprehensive article nominations process; Review group will be called the EduCorps; Implement a voting procedure for admitting members to the EduCorps group; One GC vote will be required for an article to pass; Implement a Comprehensive article removal process; Implement a user removal from master reviewing list process; Circular icons will be used for CAs. Grunny (talk) 00:18, July 16, 2010 (UTC)

July 5, 2010Edit

July 2, 2010Edit

June 12, 2010Edit

June 7, 2010Edit

June 2, 2010Edit

May 31, 2010Edit

May 28, 2010Edit

May 23, 2010Edit

May 18, 2010Edit

May 16, 2010Edit

May 15, 2010Edit

May 6, 2010Edit

May 2, 2010Edit

April 29, 2010Edit

April 27, 2010Edit

April 20, 2010Edit

March 29, 2010Edit

January 24, 2010Edit

December 9, 2009Edit

November 17, 2009Edit

November 11, 2009Edit

October 23, 2009Edit

October 19, 2009Edit

October 10, 2009Edit

October 1, 2009Edit

  • CT: Forum:CT Archive/Atlas and systems – Keep and continue to create articles for systems named conjecturally after the first column in the Atlas Appendix, with the exception of nebulae and space stations. Provide the articles with a {{Conjecture}} tag until the system name actually appears in another source. Treat the objects confirmed to be located in deep space as notable exception. Toprawa and Ralltiir 03:40, October 1, 2009 (UTC)

September 30, 2009Edit

September 29, 2009Edit

September 26, 2009Edit

September 19, 2009Edit

September 18, 2009Edit

September 8, 2009Edit

September 3, 2009Edit

August 29, 2009Edit

  • CT: Forum:CT Archive/No more flow-walking! – No consensus on creating a policy to treat info provided on covers and brief publisher summaries of the future products alone as invalid sources for IU-articles. Grunny (Talk) 01:54, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

July 28, 2009Edit

July 24, 2009Edit

July 14, 2009Edit

July 12, 2009Edit

July 5, 2009Edit

July 1, 2009Edit

  • CT: Forum:CT Archive/GA word limit – Consensus was that Good article nominations that are comprehensive cannot exceed 3,000 words. Comprehensive nominations more than 3,000 words must be nominated for Featured article status. Toprawa and Ralltiir 21:53, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

June 30, 2009Edit

June 16, 2009Edit

June 7, 2009Edit

June 6, 2009Edit

  • CT: Forum:CT Archive/How to name publication edition, redux:
    1. Article naming conventions:
      Comma where part of the formal title, parenthesis only if it is not literally a part of the book's title.
    2. How to treat these books in source lists:
      Galaxy Guide 3: The Empire Strikes Back, Second Edition (Note: edition follows a comma and is not italicized) —Xwing328(Talk) 21:53, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

May 31, 2009Edit

May 23, 2009Edit

May 13, 2009Edit

April 29, 2009Edit

April 27, 2009Edit

March 31, 2009Edit

March 23, 2009Edit

March 21, 2009Edit

March 5, 2009Edit

February 26, 2009Edit

February 19, 2009Edit

February 16, 2009Edit

February 8, 2009Edit

February 6, 2009Edit

January 26, 2009Edit

January 25, 2009Edit

  1. Grae and Imp will come up with changes to the welcome template. Any objections should be left on a talk page they will specify. CT will not be created, but specifics will be worked out by the aforementioned Grae and Imp.
  2. Admin age exception: contributors under 18 who want to become admins must have made valuable contributions for 2 years before being RFA'd. This sets an effective age floor at 15.
  3. The interested parties will create new search icons, remove old bad ones, and in general work their will on icons. . . .from a SH page coming soon, probably.
  4. Mr./Ms SW are staying. Their presence in sitenotice is not.
  5. Absent admins will be contacted after 4 months of absence. They will be warned of impending removal of their power after 5 months of absence with no communication. After six months of not hearing from a given absent admin, they will lose their adminship via Wikia staff removal. And showing up in #wookieepedia does not count as contribution to the website.
  6. No consensus on making civility a policy.
  7. Comments on the Mofference agenda prior to the Mofference will be reverted and/or the user leaving comments will be reminded to save their thought for the Mofference. Save the keystrokes for the meeting.
  8. Comic quotes will be limited to italics only for emphasis.
  9. This phrase will be added to Wookieepedia:Consensus: "After one week from the start of voting on an issue, if the votes overwhelmingly support one option, the thread may be closed early."
  10. Plating color will be added to droid infoboxes.
  11. Ataru's RFP page draft is epic win and will be implemented after he adds reason fields and archive capabilities.
  12. WP:AP will be gently laid to rest. bahleeted, just like WP:UP.
  13. Postponed sector capitalization issue until Essential Atlas.
  14. Enochf's proposal approved, with the corollary that quotes must have six months minimum in between their appearance on the Main Page.
    • Proposal is: Be it resolved that a QOTD can be renominated, providing that the vote threshold be raised. Whereas a first-time QOTD requires a total of +10, a second-time QOTD would require a higher total, a third-time QOTD higher still. My suggestion is that the vote threshold be raised by +5 for every time: +15 for a second appearance, +20 for third, etc. An interval of +3 might also be acceptable. I'll go with the consensus, assuming there's agreement on the renomination system.
    • What constitutes a renominated quote will be somewhat broad. A dialogue which includes a previous QOTD, but expands on it will be considered a renomination. Also, vice versa, a quote that has been included in a previous QOTD dialogue will also be considered a renomination. The nominator is free and encouraged to rewrite the tagline and is also free to inject their own [bracketed sections] describing action; the quote itself must remain verbatim from the source material.
  15. WP:DASH is now official policy.
  16. Succession boxes will be revamped per Fiolli's proposal.
  17. The policy outlined in Forum:CT Archive/Single issue voters will now apply to Mofferences. I.e., one must have 50 main space edits in order to attend. Results posted by Atarumaster88 Jedi Order.svg (Talk page) 16:31, 25 January 2009 (UTC)


January 17, 2009Edit

January 10, 2009Edit

December 24, 2008Edit

December 17, 2008Edit

December 2, 2008Edit

November 22, 2008Edit

November 10, 2008Edit

November 8, 2008Edit

November 7, 2008Edit

October 21, 2008Edit

October 6, 2008Edit

  • 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 Jedi Order.svg (Talk page) 18:32, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

September 28, 2008Edit

September 24, 2008Edit

September 12, 2008Edit

  • 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)

September 9, 2008Edit

September 5, 2008Edit

August 23, 2008Edit

  • 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 Jedi Order.svg (Talk page) 03:17, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

August 22, 2008Edit

August 11, 2008Edit

July 27, 2008Edit

July 25, 2008Edit

  • 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)

July 22, 2008Edit

  • 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)

July 20, 2008Edit

July 16, 2008Edit

July 7, 2008Edit

June 28, 2008Edit

  • 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)

June 11, 2008Edit

June 5, 2008Edit

June 4, 2008Edit

  • 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)

May 18, 2008Edit

May 4, 2008Edit

May 2, 2008Edit

April 19, 2008Edit

April 16, 2008Edit

April 8, 2008Edit

March 30, 2008Edit

  • 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)

March 22, 2008Edit

March 8, 2008Edit

March 5, 2008Edit

February 24, 2008Edit

February 20, 2008Edit

  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)

February 16, 2008Edit

January 30, 2008Edit

January 25, 2008Edit

January 18, 2008Edit

January 14, 2008Edit

January 7, 2008Edit

December 20, 2007Edit

December 8, 2007Edit

  • 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.

November 27, 2007Edit

  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.

November 5, 2007Edit

  • 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.

November 1, 2007Edit

October 19, 2007Edit

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

October 17, 2007Edit

  • 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.

October 14, 2007Edit

October 5, 2007Edit

September 9, 2007Edit

MofferenceEdit

(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.

August 12, 2007Edit

July 11, 2007Edit

May 7, 2007Edit

May 3, 2007Edit

April 23, 2007Edit

  • 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.

March 29, 2007Edit

March 1, 2007Edit

January 12, 2007Edit

October 12, 2005Edit

  • CT: Namespace dispute - Decided to adopt Wookieepedia as the official wiki namespace.
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