The following policies have been developed over time; mostly as consensus works between WoWWiki administrators and users. A few are decreed by administrators.
Violating a WoWWiki policy will at the very least lead to a page being edited to conform to policy. It may however also lead to the page being deleted, or, for the worst offenses, it may lead to the poster being declared a vandal and banned.
WoWWiki Policies
For quicker referencing, the policies also have shorthand links, e.g. "WW:DNP". They are denoted in the below list.
- Policy status and phases
- The policy governing policies – how to create new ones, how to change existing ones, and how to recall bad ones.
- WW:NAME · The article naming policy
- 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
- How to approach different sorts of content. Separated into several sub policies: guild pages (WW:GUILD), lore (WW:LORE), do-not-post (WW:DNP), 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:CAT · The category policy
- How to categorize pages, and how to name and categorize new categories.
- WW:VOTE · The voting policy
- Votes completed according to this policy are considered enforceable on WoWWiki.Y
- WW:DEL · The deletion policy
- How to nominate pages for deletion, and when they are eligible for actual termination.
- WW:STUB · The stub policy
- How to tag pages as stubs, and when pages should be tagged as stubs.
- 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:VIO · The policy violation policy
- How to handle violations of any of the above policies.
- WW:3RR · The three revert rule
- To avoid edit wars, WoWWiki contributors are not allowed to revert someone else's changes too often.
Short Policies
Preference for internal links
External links shoudl be deprecated in favor of internal links. This would mean that we should have articles on many subjects. On each of these pages, we might want a relevant external link to a database site, but an internal link is preferable up until that point.
See also: WoWWiki guidelines