Forum:Proposal: Remove COD:AFP

The Armed Forces Policy has not been referred to for months, and I don't actually recall a time when anyone has been warned or blocked under COD:AFP. For those who don't know, AFP was written in response to a few users who ambiguously claimed to be in the military when they were actually not, and required users to specify if they were referring to a fictional character on their userpage if he was supposedly part of the armed forces.

I posted a comment on the policy's talk page, but with little response. In my opinion, the policy has no place on the wiki. It is no business of ours to prevent users from making such claims, and certainly not within any productive guidelines that users be blocked for doing so. There is no distinction between a user claiming to be a member of an armed force and any other profession. We clearly don't care if a user pretends to be a history teacher, weapon expert or COD fanatic.

Of all the policies we have, COD:AFP is the least relevant and has absolutely nothing to do with editing. Seriously, "Armed Forces Policy" sticks out as a nonsensical policy that does not address any issue or help the wiki in any way. --Scottie theNerd 11:24, August 10, 2010 (UTC)