Wowpedia:Policies

Wowpedia:Policies
Policy status and phases
Category Copyright Deletion – Speedy deletion Disallowed content – NDA Editing – Disruptive editing External links Fan fiction Images		Item articles Lore Naming Neutrality Personal articles Player character pages Projects Stubs Three revert rule User naming Vandalism Voting
See also: guidelines, administrators

Policy is a term referring to the processes and rules observed involving the creation, editing, and management of articles on WoWWiki as well as treatment of other users. This is to be distinguished from a guideline which suggests etiquette and practice to make management and presentation of WoWWiki more consistent and streamlined.

Violating a WoWWiki policy will at the very least lead to a page being edited to conform to policy. Edits or new pages that are created that do not conform to a specific policy are subject to change by another user (assuming that change conforms with policy) without expectation of appeal to an admin, as is all content within the site. However, it may also lead to the page being deleted or — for the worst offenses — it may lead to the poster being declared a vandal and become banned or blocked. Treatment of users who engage in destruction of content, harassment, or misuse of content (spam) is also governed by policy.

The following policies have been developed over time; mostly as consensus works between WoWWiki administrators and users. A few are decreed by administrators.

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WoWWiki policies

For quicker referencing, the policies also have shorthand links, e.g. "WW:DNP". They are denoted in the list below.

Policy status and phases

The policy governing policies – how to create new ones, how to change existing ones, and how to recall bad ones.

Article policies

WW:NAME · The article naming policy

Sub-policies: Personal article naming and player character article naming

How to name articles so that people more easily can guess what to type to get to a particular type of page.

WW:WRITE · The writing policy

Sub-policies: Fan fiction articles, guild articles, item articles, lore articles

How to approach different sorts of content. Separated into several sub policies: guild pages (WW:GUILD), lore (WW:LORE), items (WW:ITEMS), and fanfic (WW:FANFIC).

WW:EDIT · The editing policy

How to make changes to existing pages – what you actually dare doing without asking everyone first and what you really should ask about first.

WW:NPOV · The neutral-point-of-view policy

Articles on WoWWiki should approach their subject objectively.

WW:DNP · The do-not-post policy

Sub-policy: Non-disclosure agreement enforcement

Specific items and topics we do not allow on WoWWiki.

WW:CAT · The category policy

How to categorize pages, and how to name and categorize new categories.

WW:STUB · The stub policy

How to tag pages as stubs and when pages should be tagged as stubs.

WW:DEL · The deletion policy

Sub-policy: Speedy deletion

How to nominate pages for deletion and when they are eligible for actual termination.

WW:EL · The external links policy

What sort of external links are allowed and where to put them.

Community management policies

WW:VOTE · The voting policy

Votes completed according to this policy are considered enforceable on WoWWiki.

WW:VANDAL · The vandalism policy

What WoWWiki considers vandalism and what we do to vandals. (Not what we would like to do to vandals, though.)

WW:3RR · The three revert rule

To avoid edit wars, WoWWiki contributors are not allowed to revert someone else's changes too often.

WW:UN · The user naming policy

Types of user names which are disallowed on WoWWiki.

See also

• WoWWiki:Guidelines for a listing of all WoWWiki guidelines or information on an individual guideline.
• WoWWiki talk:Policies to suggest new policies or discuss existing ones. You may also do so on the specific policy's talk page.

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