UDWiki:Administration/Policy Discussion/Civility policy
Author notes (READ FIRST)
This policy is about civility, and how it will be discouraged to be uncivil. That said, the policy, as you can read, does NOT vandalize incivility, nor give super powers to Sysops or any kind of users to police the wiki, nor to change uncivil comments without the author's consent, nor prohibites to do anything that is currently allowed by current policy. The major change the policy presents is a set of guidelines and good vs bad editing practices on wich base a ruling made on A/A, that is the only place where the subjectivity of the term "incivility" can be handled in a ordered manner, and a buff to the A/A page itself, in order to handle the most common ways to evade and/or deride an Arbitration case in order to prevent it taking shape. Also, take note before comenting that the policy itself and the necessity of such a resource was discussed before, here (a discussion started by Kevan) and here (while being developed at my Sandbox).
Policy text
As the policy was quite substantial, I divided it onto two pages:
- The policy text itself is at a subpage of this page here.
- The policy would also change the UDWiki:Administration/Arbitration page text to fit this one.
It should be noted that, in order to (as Karlsbad put it) "create a new era of civility on this wiki, instead of encouraging new yet submerged uncivil behavior", if this policy is passed Arbitrators will be required to ignore any evidence or cases over uncivil actions that occurred previous to this policy being accepted.
Voting section
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