Forum:Overhauling the Policies: It Needs to Happen

There are many misconceptions about the policies on this wiki that are used to the advantage of the staff. I, myself, use these misconceptions, trusting that I'm one of the few that knows that what I'm saying when I cite our policies is nothing but false. And it works. But it'd work even better if our policies actually covered what we say they cover. So herein I'm going to go over the common misconceptions about policies that we use when telling off users so that we can work on actually putting them into the policies and make ourselves just a little more truthful.

If I miss anything, feel free to point it out.

The Image Use Policy
The image use policy does not state that a user can only have one image file on the wiki. It states that a user can have one personal image on their user page. That does not cover their talk page. It also does not say that a user cannot use someone else's image or a PCA image on their user page as a personal image.

In fact, all it says on PCA's images is that they have to have a uniform naming convention.

(while I'm on the topic of PCA's images, none of them are protected by any copyright except creative commons, not even the blanks. sorry to have to point that out.)

An aspect of this policy that is there and is ignored is the personal image naming conventions.


 * "Images uploaded for the purpose of being on a user’s page should use a uniform naming convention: “UserName.ImageName.extension”. This is to avoid confusion on whether it will be used in the main namespace. "

So, yeah, there's that.

Also, I realize that not uploading copyrighted images is a given, but I believe that mentioning it in this policy would be helpful.

The Essay Policy
This policy says nothing on blogs and never has. Only essays, such as this one. There is no policy on blogs. There really ought to be.

The Chatroom Policy
This policy states that the chat is PG, which is a very ambiguous statement. PG means something different everywhere. There needs to be specifics on what is and is not acceptable in the chatroom, especially concerning the use of rude language and obscenities, and what counts as abuse of others. It could also expand on what constitutes a spoiler in the chatroom.

These are the biggest problems I've found thus far. If anyone wished to add anything, go right ahead. 05:49, February 24, 2012 (UTC)