Forum:Policy overhaul

This forum is a huge jamboree on the the polices we have. I mainly want to cover 3 things. Making one more "stricter", making some more well known, and retiring some others.

To start with. The policy I want to make stricter is the blocking guideline in regards to obvious vandalism. If a user is vandalising a page maliciously, so replacing every 3rd word with "penis" or something, then I feel we should be able to hand out a block without the need for a warning. Frankly, if a user is here to vandalise like that, simply posting a warning saying "stop that or we might block you" is about as useful as chocolate oven mitts. Now before this is seen the wrong way, I only want this for flagrant vandalism, anything else still goes though the warning system.

Now for the second part is about making some polices a little more well known. Right now, we have it set up so on Special:Upload there's a warning about reading COD:FILE before you upload. Now I was thinking something like that could be helpful to have on blogs to tell people not to add News and Opinion categories to their blogs if they're not news team. As well possibly one on pages to remind people to leave edit summaries. These aren't major issues, and only happen rarely. In the case of someone addding a news category, it can normally be resolved by simply removing the category and leaving a friendly warning (which is hardly a warning). So I feel adding this would just be as a nicety for users, so it's something that can be brought to their attention if they try and do it.

Lastly for retiring. Now, when I was looking up our polices for any other ones we have, but don't have to enforce often I saw a lot of out polcies are either severely outdated, or so pathetically written they're hardly even polices. One example is Call of Duty Wiki:Perk rules, which frankly has no information about rules at all, it just states a layout, which frankly we'd end up doing with or without it. Another example is the Call of Duty Wiki:Level rules, while not really up for retirement, the page seems so old, it doesn't appear to account for newer polcies that render pars of the page redundant, such as the line stating "At the end of both types of level pages, add a "Trivia" section. Add only unusual things that happen in the level, such as a character getting stuck in the wall. Don't add things like how the level in inaccurate to something that happened in real-life, such as in the WWII Call of Duty games. these usually turn into history fans arguing over minute details most people don't care about. " which would violate COD:TRIVIA for the former, and COD:IRL already covers the latter.

Anyway, this is how I feel about these policies. I feel we could do with a bit of an overhaul to bring all our policies up to date, instead of just letting them sit there. 17:56, November 24, 2014 (UTC)