User:Ricken/SandboxPG/List of policies
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This page includes a summary of official policies on AntWiki which are set out in detail elsewhere. Policies have wide acceptance among editors and are considered standards that all editors should follow. When editing this page, please ensure that your revision is consistent with the underlying policies. When in doubt, discuss it on the talk page.
Where a discrepancy exists, the policy page itself overrides. Changing this page does not change policy. Likewise, adding a page to this summary does not elevate it to policy status. Policies are promoted through consensus. See AmtWiki:Policies and guidelines for more.
Content
- Generally avoid uploading non-free images; fully describe images' sources and copyright details on their description pages, and try to make images as useful and reusable as possible.
- AmtWiki is an online encyclopedia and historical record. Please avoid the temptation to use AmtWiki for other purposes.
Conduct
- Consensus among equals is our only tool for resolving content disputes, and our main tool for resolving all other disputes.
- Improve pages wherever you can, and don't worry about leaving them imperfect. It is advisable to explain major changes.
- Do not stop other editors from enjoying AmtWiki by making threats, nitpicking good-faith edits to different articles, repeated annoying and unwanted contacts, repeated personal attacks or posting personal information.
- Do not discriminate against current or prospective users on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristics.
- Do not make personal attacks anywhere in AmtWiki. Comment on the content, not on the contributor. Personal attacks damage the community and deter editors.
- Although you retain some rights under AmtWiki's copyright provisions, pages that you create and edit belong to the community. Others can and often do mercilessly edit "your" material.
- Do not use multiple accounts to create the illusion of greater support for an issue, to mislead others, or to circumvent a block. Do not ask your friends to create accounts to support you or anyone.
- Vandalism is any addition, deletion, or change to content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia. It is inappropriate behavior for an online encyclopedia.
Deletion
- Articles, images, categories etc. may be "speedily deleted" if they clearly fall within certain categories, which generally boil down to pages lacking content, or disruptive pages. Anything potentially controversial should go through the deletion process instead.
- Deleting articles requires an administrator and generally follows a consensus-forming process. Most potentially controversial deletions require a three-step process and a waiting period of a week.
- Page revisions can be deleted for legal reasons.
- As a shortcut around the Articles for Deletion ("AfD") process, for uncontroversial deletions an article can be proposed for deletion, but only once. If no one contests the proposed deletion within seven days, an administrator may delete the article.
Enforcement
- Administrators
- Administrators, like all editors, are not perfect beings. However, in general, they are expected to act as role models within the community, and a good general standard of civility, fairness, and general conduct both to editors and in content matters, is expected. When acting as administrators, they are also expected to be fair, exercise good judgment, and give explanations and be communicative as necessary.
- Blocking policy
- Disruptive editors can be blocked from editing for short or long periods of time.
- Page protection policy
- Pages can be protected against vandals or during fierce content disputes. Protected pages can, but in general should not, be edited by administrators. In addition, pages undergoing frequent vandalism can be semi-protected to block edits by very new or unregistered editors.
Legal
Child protection
- Editors who advocate or attempt to pursue or facilitate inappropriate adult-child relationships, or who identify themselves as paedophiles, are to be blocked indefinitely.
Copyright violations
- Relates to material copied from sources that are either not public domain, or are not compatibly licensed without the permission of the copyright holder. Wikipedia has no tolerance for copyright violations in our encyclopedia, and we actively strive to find and remove any violations.
Copyrights
- Relates to the copyrighted Wikipedia text being licensed to the public under one or several liberal licenses.
Libel
- It is Wikipedia policy to delete libelous revisions from the page history. If you believe you have been defamed, please contact us. It is the responsibility of all contributors to ensure that material posted on Wikipedia is not defamatory.
No legal threats
- Use dispute resolution rather than making legal threats, for everyone's sake, as we respond quickly to complaints of defamation or copyright infringement. If you make legal threats, or take legal action over a Wikipedia dispute, you may be blocked from editing, so that the matter is not exacerbated through other channels. If you do take legal action, please refrain from editing until it is resolved.
Non discrimination
- Do not discriminate against current or prospective users on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristics.
Non-free content criteria
- The Exemption Doctrine Policy for the English Wikipedia. The cases in which you can declare usage of a non-free image, audio clip, or video clip as "fair use" are quite narrow. You must specify the exact use, and only use the image or clip in that one context. Only use non-free content as a last resort.
Reusing Wikipedia content
- Relates to the basis of using Wikipedia content in your own publications. Most of Wikipedia's material may be freely used under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL licences. Which means you must credit the authors, re-license the material under CC-BY-SA or GFDL, and allow free access to it.
Terms of use
- The terms of use are established by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Procedural
Bot policy
- Programs that update pages automatically in a useful and harmless way may be welcome, as long as their owners seek approval first and are careful to keep them from running amok or being a drain on resources.
Bureaucrats
- Bureaucrats are Wikipedia users with the technical ability to add the administrator, bureaucrat, or bot user group to an account; or remove the administrator or bot user group from an account.
Policies and guidelines
- Understanding and changing policies and guidelines
Requests of adminship
- Rules for how the admin team decides Requests for adminship.
