Forum:CT:Policies and "guidelines" review

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The result of the debate was Support all. —spookywilloww^talk 19:55, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

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Previous CT: Forum:SH:Rethinking Wookieepedia guidelines. That page lays out all the reasoning, hopefully succinctly. They're all quite intertwined due to the structure of our policies and how our links work, so the three parts below can't really do without the other parts passing as well. I've nevertheless split this in three parts as laid out in the SH in the interest of clarity and transparency. The proposals are already chunk as they are, but I give brief expalantions below, and of course pages like About and Attribution can be expanded and cleaned-up in the future.

Part I

• Wookieepedia:About (basically empty) — change it like so
• Redirect Wookieepedia:Policies (also basically empty) and Wookieepedia:What Wookieepedia is not (key points adapted in the new About page) to the About page
• Relocate Wookieepedia:What Wookieepedia is not#Wookieepedia is not the place for fan fiction to the bottom of the "Key principles" section of Wookieepedia:Attribution (it's time they're put together)

Support

1. My thanks to everyone who's helped along the way. OOM 224 10:22, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
2. Bonzane10 11:59, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
3. Mor9347 ^(Talk) 13:17, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
4. Tommy-Macaroni (he/they) 14:33, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
5. —spookywilloww^talk 17:57, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
6. CometSmudge (talk) 23:00, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
7. Lewisr (talk) 04:07, 22 September 2025 (UTC)
8. ThePedantry (talk) 05:52, 22 September 2025 (UTC)
9. Yasen Nestorov (talk) 14:21, 22 September 2025 (UTC)
10. Booply (talk) 19:43, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Oppose

Part II

• Delete Wookieepedia:Avoid instruction creep (unhelpful "guideline")
• Redirect Wookieepedia:Soft redirect to Template:Softredirect (final "guideline"—key points have been moved to the template documentation)
• In Wookieepedia:Notability policy, remove "Alternatively, {{Softredirect}} may be used to point to a product's corresponding Fanpedia page." (in keeping with an earlier CT

Support

1. OOM 224 10:22, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
2. Bonzane10 11:59, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
3. Mor9347 ^(Talk) 13:17, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
4. Tommy-Macaroni (he/they) 14:33, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
5. —spookywilloww^talk 17:57, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
6. CometSmudge (talk) 23:00, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
7. Lewisr (talk) 04:07, 22 September 2025 (UTC)
8. ThePedantry (talk) 05:52, 22 September 2025 (UTC)
9. Yasen Nestorov (talk) 14:21, 22 September 2025 (UTC)
10. Booply (talk) 19:43, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Oppose

Part III

• Reorganise {{Policies}} navbox like so (taking into account the above changes and making it more navigable)
• Move Wookieepedia:Notability of fan projects to Wookieepedia:Notability policy/Fan projects (consistency)

Support

1. OOM 224 10:22, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
2. Bonzane10 11:59, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
3. Mor9347 ^(Talk) 13:17, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
4. Tommy-Macaroni (he/they) 14:33, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
5. —spookywilloww^talk 17:57, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
6. CometSmudge (talk) 23:00, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
7. Lewisr (talk) 04:07, 22 September 2025 (UTC)
8. ThePedantry (talk) 05:52, 22 September 2025 (UTC)
9. Yasen Nestorov (talk) 14:21, 22 September 2025 (UTC)
10. Booply (talk) 19:43, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Oppose

Discuss

• As brought up earlier, we should also consider the page titling consistency and policy summary issues, probably on a case-by-case basis given there's some conflicting opinions on them, and they'll need further work. OOM 224 10:22, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
• And this concludes my policy revamp series that started nearly three years ago XD what a ride OOM 224 10:25, 21 September 2025 (UTC)