SW1ki talk:Policies

Discussion Started 08/21/06 01:26
Hawke, if there are rules and policies about image sizes, content, format, etc that people need to be following in the wiki, they should really be posted somewhere easily accessable. I have looked and not been able to find them. I cannot run the MUSH arbitrarily making up rules and then harassing people when they do not read my mind and follow them. If there could be some actual policies laid out, I bet people would be a lot less upset when you arbitrarily edit their page and just declare that they were outside the rules. I talked with Danik about formatting rules and he said that he did not care how a page was formatted. I know a lot of people who refuse to use the wiki because their pages were constantly edited. I know one of mine was edited to include incorrect information, by you. Thanks. - Minkar 01:26 21 August 2006 (UTC)

I AGREE. This wiki is a great resource, and while I can understand (fully) the desire to have it look and work properly, there's a real problem with editting the CONTENT of someone's page. Sure, categorizing it, or tweaking a template so it's right, or fixing some spelling and link errors? That's no problem, nobody should mind that. Even adjusting an image size shouldn't be a huge deal. But I've heard of you, Hawke, deleting people's content. That is NOT cool. Post a message on their discussion page or @mail them about it in game, but people are going to not use this awesome resource if that kind of crap continues. -- The opinionated Luke
 * On this note, I'd like to make a personal request of... well, everyone, really. If you edit a page that you know others work on, PLEASE LEAVE MEANINGFUL EDIT COMMENTS. You don't have to do this on your own character pages(but I think you should anyway), talk pages, etc. But please, if a page is liable to be or currently being worked on by other people than yourself, COMMENT YOUR EDITS. Yes, we have difference pages. People have asked me why I haven't fiddled the NRMC pages I said I was going to be fiddling yet. The answer is that people keep rearranging things without commenting, and I have to waste time figuring out what's changed to make sure the integrity of the page is still intact. Yes, we have diff pages. But sometimes, shifting a section around or other minor changes of that sort result in the ENTIRE page showing up as being altered. Fact of the matter is, a lot of people, myself included, do not have time to review an entire page every few days. So. Comment, comment, comment. this should be standard operating procedure on a wiki anyway, and it takes maybe ten seconds per edit to save your fellow contributors as much as an hour of grief. Wrista 13:56, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Sweet, merciful heavens, YES. Please.  And better yet would be a warning that something needs changing.  I no longer edit or put up anything because I have no guarantee it will be left as is or simply removed.  I'm just not invested enough to play the duelling versions game. Aya 21:25, 21 August 2006 (UTC)