Wookieepedia:Mofferences/May 17, 2015

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This page is an archive of a community-wide discussion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made in the Senate Hall or new Consensus Track pages rather than here so that this page is preserved as a historic record. -- Darth Culator (Talk) 05:45, May 17, 2015 (UTC)

Log

Minutes

  1. Voting eligibility policy. Wookieepedia:Single-issue voters renamed to Wookieepedia:Voting eligibility policy to reflect revision of purpose over time. New navigation shortcut to be located at WP:VOTE and listed in {{Title-shortcut}}, with the old (deprecated) redirect remaining available at WP:SIV and an abbreviation redirect also available at WP:VEP.
  2. Public relations. Wookieepedia Public Relations team officially commissioned by community, see meeting log for further details on membership and terms.
  3. Wikia Helpers. Official policy defined for Wikia Helpers on Wookieepedia: Wikia Helpers are not to use their Wikia-wide sysop powers on Wookieepedia unless they are also locally-elected Administrators/Bureaucrats, which none currently are. Violation will be treated per the blocking policy. Helpers, like Staff, cannot be blocked from Wookieepedia, but they will be sanctioned as "effectively blocked"; i.e., any actions they take will be rolled back, they may be blocked from IRC, etc.
    1. The Mofference was quickly and briefly reopened after closing while we still had enough attendees for a quorum (over 10) to add an addendum to this: As Wikia Helpers have access to information only Wookieepedia Administrators and Bureaucrats can normally see (deleted pages/revisions, edit filter logs, etc.), any release of private information by Wikia Helpers will also be treated punitively by Wookieepedia Administration and also immediately reported to Wikia Staff.
  4. Image quality requirement. The image quality requirement from rule #16 of the FAN and GAN process (An article must... include a reasonable number of images of sufficient quality to illustrate the article, if said images are available.) is to be applied to the CAN process.
  5. Special events. Wookieepedia Administrators and Wikia Staff will be granted the ability to create content (blogs, video, etc.) for special events without requiring a CT for every instance. To clarify, this is specifically for Administrators and Staff, blogs are not to be enabled for users, and user attempts to upload videos are still punishable by death.
  6. Talk page policy. Talk page policy amendments:
    1. Add item: "All Talk pages containing messages should have a {{Talkheader}}. Please do not create a Talk page solely to add {{Talkheader}}."
    2. Add under existing item 4: "Removal of the content of the Welcome template ({{W}}} without archival is permissible with the assumption that the user has read and understood the information contained therein."
  7. Barn-burners. Due to the nature of such events to flood the nomination queues with low-quality items, the type of events commonly known as "barn-burners," in which users are enlisted to produce status articles germane to a particular topic en masse, are hereby prohibited from being run as officially-sanctioned events. They shall not be advertised in the Senate Hall, sitenotice/community corner, et cetera. Users are still encouraged to pursue their own personal nomination projects, WookieeProjects may run their own status article quality drives (with the hope that they eschew the quantity-over quality principle of the "barn-burner"), and so on, but no further sitewide "barn-burners" may occur.
  8. WP:NOT (a dictionary). An additional "notability"-type policy has been implemented at WP:NOT identifying Wookieepedia as "not a dictionary" and enabling speedy deletion of articles that are mere real-world dictionary definitions. Existing qualifying articles will be identified and trash compacted, and new articles will be speedy-deleted, but speedy deletion may always be contested with {{Holdon}}. A specific example sentence was removed from the proposal, but as the rule is worded it will function just as well for the intended purpose as if it remained in there anyway. Shortcut WP:NOTDICTIONARY will be installed, WP:DICT was also suggested.
  9. Episode VII spoilers. A new unique spoiler template specifically for spoilers from Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens was proposed, approved, and shall be created at {{VIIspoiler}}.
  10. Atlas star systems. Star systems that were only ever named in The Essential Atlas or the online companion and not explicitly named elsewhere, and are therefore named only for a well-known celestial object with its own given name, must be tagged with the {{Conjecture}} tag.