Forum:Policy - Role Play Characters

A new user joined a day or so ago, and created a few pages about some characters he/she role plays as. Since they weren't articles about "real" characters, I put an AfD tag on them. But then, I got to thinking. Kitsu had once said a while back, that we should consider whether or not to have pages on rp characters. And, this is a Wiki not just about Warriors, but about the phenomena surrounding it. But, if we are going to allow pages like that, then there need to be guidelines put in place.


 * First, we'd need an outline. We'd need different sections to fill in, such as Name, Clan (or affiliation), Rank (i.e. kit, apprentice, warrior, senior warrior, deputy, leader, medicine cat, elder, prey-hunter, cave-guard, healer, or none for rouges), Appearance, Personality, Family (if any), History (what happened to this cat in the past), and a list of sites on which he or she role plays. We could make a template for this, such as this one, and that would probably make things a little more simple.


 * Second, would we need a page like FS Application be needed? I'd say it would, if only to list the instructions for how to create a proper RP character article, and to have links to the (if needed) above mentioned template.


 * Each section would, of course, have to be a certain length. If this wasn't established, we'd be waist deep in articles consisting of a sentence per section, which would be horrible. The number of sentences per section would have to be enough to make a proper article, yet not too much, so we don't scare potential article-creators away.


 * The article should probably be created by the "owner/rp'er" of the charrie. This helps with consistency, so we can keep facts straight.


 * Should we vote on them being accepted?


 * If we do decide to vote, should we appoint "acceptors", people who can vote in the acceptions, so that we don't have hundreds of users coming just to vote so their friend can be accepted? If so, obviously, the Sysops/Bureaucrats are automatically in, Hobbes should be in, Gorse should, as well...And, that's about all I can think of that should be up for the "acceptor rank".

This is the first Policy I've written, so it's a "little" rough, and could definitely use some touch-ups, which I'm sure Kitsu and Gorse can help me with, right? If anyone reading this spots anything that they think should be added, please, feel free to mention it. Eulalia459678 ( Salaman dastron ) 21:30, 20 March 2008 (UTC)