UDWiki:Administration/Policy Discussion/Withdrawn Policies

Newer polices at the top.

• Signature Policy Revamp

A proposed new version of signature policy.

• Promotion of Zerging should be considered vandalism

An amendment to vandalism policy to include promotion of zerging.

• Truly Inactive Sysops Update

A proposed timeframe change from four months to 91 days.

• Text Rape

A policy allowing sysops to permaban posters of grossly offensive material on sight.

• 3rd Crat

A policy to instate a 3rd bureaucrat on the wiki.

• Off-Site Requests for Admin Actions (2)

A policy attempting to clarify when an off-site request is valid and when not.

• Off-Site Requests for Admin Actions

A policy attempting to clarify when an off-site request is valid and when not.

• Cede All Authority to a Box of Adorable Puppies

A policy to transfer control of the wiki to a box of puppies.

• Allow SysOps to Ignore Spambots

A policy to allow SysOps to ignore SpamBots until a wiki modification is enacted to lessen the onslaught.

• Unbiased Group Listings

Attempts to make group listings unbiased.

• Prevent Harrasment

A policy meant to prevent harassment.

• Better Protection for User talk: Kevan

A policy meant to provide better protection to Kevan's talk page from spam, harassment and off-topic comments.

• Special:Lonelypages

A policy aiming to prohibit usage of "orphan" templates to clear Special:lonelypages.

• Signature Compatibility

A policy aiming to make all signatures compatible across all the major browsers.

• Restrict multiple deletion attemps of same page

Attempts to restrict the amount of times a user can attempt to send an article to A/D that has already been on A/D and kept, within a certain time period.

• No More Historical Groups

A policy to prohibit new Historical Groups.

• UDWiki:Administration/Policy Discussion/Required Warnings

A policy that requires user notification in cases where their A/VD data is altered due to an escalation or de-escalation.

• VB FFO Commenting

  A policy to change the way commenting and discussion is done on the A/VB page.

• Group Page Policy

  Proposing a limit on vulgar content to bring Group Pages closer towards the rest of the wiki.

• Explicit vandalism listing‎

  A policy to create a comprehensive list of all types of vandalism.

• Prohibit Sysop Fraud

  A policy to alter sysop maintenance of Vandal Data.

• Another Inactive 'ops Policy

A policy to change the inactivity thingies.

• VS Case Requirements

A policy to create mandatory guidelines when creating A/VB cases.

• VB FFO Commenting

A policy to change the way commenting and discussion is done on the A/VB page.

• Community Sysop Demotion‎

A policy for sysop reevaluation.

• Sig policy update

A policy to update and clarify the wiki's sig policy.

• Civil Conduct Policy

A policy to determine a conduct policy for all users.

• Misconduct Review

Adding a review to the current Misconduct system.

• Recruitment

An attempt to change and finalize the current rules of the Recruitment page.

• Autoconfirmed Group

About adding an autoconfirmed group to the wiki.

• Voting

A policy which attempts to change A/PD voting from something that is isn't to something that it already is.

• Amnesty

This policy attempts to offer an amnesty for all users banned before the vandal escalation was changed.

• Misconduct Reformat

Attempts to rework Misconduct.

• UDWiki:Administration/Policy_Discussion/SysOps_ARE_Moderators

This policy attempts to remove red tape and make sysops moderators.

• Misconduct Changes

This policy attempts to fix perceived issues with misconduct, by adding different levels of misconduct.

• Soft Warnings

This policy attempts to fill the uncertainty left for the lack of written regulation over soft warnings.

• Forbidding Soft Warnings

This policy forbids the use of soft warnings by the administrational team as a dangerous way to force the wishes of the administrational team over the community.

• NPOV 2

A second attempt to create a workable neutral point of view policy for the wiki.

• Protection Policy Change

A change on Protection Policy.

• Sysop Promotion Guidelines Overhaul 0.2

Refresh of the Sysop promotion guidelines.

• Arbitration reform

Reform the arbitration process.

• Stop Making Stupid Policies

A policy to ban policies like itself.

• UDWiki:Administration/Policy Discussion/Vote Striking (2)

Policy on vote striking V.2

• UDWiki:Administration/Policy Discussion/Sysop Promotion Guidelines Overhaul 0.2

Policy to change sysop promotions guidelines.

• Tolerance

Intolerance to be considered vandalism.

• Vote Striking (2)

Vote striking policy

• Commenting on A/VB

A test of the infamous red notice box.

• Bureaucrat Election Tweak

Proposal to set limits on the amount of time a bureaucrat may hold their seat.

• Un Ban Funny User (forgot his name)

Proposal to unban funny user whose name I have forgotten.

• Rapid Revivication Initiative

Mistakenly added to A/PD.

• Single Sysop Ban Period

Proposed to prevent a single sysop to ban users for long periods of time.

• Create Tribunal

Proposal to elect a Tribunal to determine how to follow wiki rules when necessary.

• Parody Pages

Proposal to protect the use of group sub pages for humor and parody and exempt from NPOV tags the eliminate the effect of the parody.

• Ignore all rules

If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Urban Dead, ignore it.

• Suggestion Rule Changes

Suggestion rule changes should be discussed like policy discussions

• No autobans allowed

A policy that forbids Sysops to ban themselves just for the hell of it.

• UDWiki:Administration/Policy Discussion/Copyrights Update 1

A policy to update the copyright policy made made unneeded with the creation of UDWiki:Copyright Project

• Sysops can delete certain pages on sight

Just like the name says.

• UDWiki:Administration/Policy Discussion/Policy to Revamp Historical Events

This is a policy designed to address the several flaws in the existing Historical Event system.

• Arbitration changes

A policy to address some holes present on the current Arbitration process rules.

• Civility policy

A policy about civility, and how it will be discouraged to be uncivil mostly through a buff on A/A.

• Scheduled protections and deletions changes

A policy that changes the way to vote for scheduled protections and deletions alike.

• Sysops and Criterion 3

A policy that allows Sysops to jump over some unneeded bureaucracy.

• Performance Review for Sysops

This policy attempts to create some accountability to the community for sysops once they are elected.

• Criterion 14

This policy is created to deal with all those unused images.

• Vexatious Litigators?

The fine line between trying to help and just being a nuisance?

• New Vandal Report System

i wish we had this sooner.

• Historical Groups - Amendment

An amendment to the current Historical Groups policy.

• UDWiki:Moderation/Policy_Discussion/Human_Groups_Policy

Clarification of a groups PKer status and formation of Human Group/PKer Group criteria

• Language

Sets restrictions on cursing, obscenity, racial slurs

• Moderators And Sysops

Specifies mediation duties, creates two kinds of wiki officers

• Idle Demotions

Demotes idle members of the moderation staff.

• Adopt Wikipedia's Sockpuppeteering Policy

Let Wikipedia do the hard yards once again; adopt their policy on sockpuppets.

• Problem User Bans

A policy to deal with problem users.

• Criterion 13 - Speedy Deletion of Copyrighted Images

A policy to deal with images that violate Project:Copyrights in a timely fashion that doesn't spam the deletion page.

• Arbitration Reform

Arbitration is for solving edit conflicts, not personal conflicts.

• User Signatures

A policy to further restrict what users can do with their signatures

• Vandal Banning to Misconduct for Mods

A policy to place cases against mods on the appropriate page.

• Automatic fault for capital I

To get of confusion between l and I.

• Demotion Referendum

A policy to allow users to demote members of the moderation staff by consensus.

• Defunct group page

A page that would list deleted non-historical groups.

• Policy to Not Make Policies That Specifically Relate to Other Policies That Are Currently Under Voting or Being Discussed on the Policy Discussion Page

Stop making stupid policies.

• Group namespace

A policy to create a new namespace for official UD groups.

• Power Abuse

A policy to establish intent to abuse Moderator power as a severe offense.

• Suburb Pages

A Policy that would mean all suburb pages remain neutral

• Suggestion Policy Change

A policy to modify the current limitations of the suggestion policy.

• Talk Page Spamming

A policy that establishes talk page spam as vandalism.

• Bureaucrat Promotions

A policy that changes the promotions system for Moderators requesting Bureaucrat status to the same system used by Users requesting Sysop status.

• Changes to Speedy Deletion Criterion 12

A policy that would change the procedure by which an unused groups page may be speedily deleted.

• Group Stubs

A policy to help new groups make useful, informative group pages and create a category to sort useful ones from unused ones.

• New Suburb Tag

Same concept as New Suburb Tag (edit, new vote) but with disabling flaw.

• Hate Speech

A policy to prohibit hate speech on the wiki.

• Voting Eligibility

A policy to ensure that voting is done only by legitimate wiki contributers.

• Suggestion Categories

A policy to better organise the suggestions page into 3 sub pages.

• Historical Groups (Revised)

A new policy to clean the wiki from unused group pages and protecting the imporant ones into the category Historical Groups.

Note: Duplicate of approved policy "Historical Groups". Reason for duplication was problem with vote counting on the original policy proposal.

• Split suggestions up

A policy to change the way suggestions are set up.

• Namespaces Pages as Templates Exploit

How and where can the namespace pages as templates exploit be used.

• Default Voting Rules

An attempt to find default values for voting process outside the policy discussion page.

• No Images on Signatures

A policy discussion to remove and forbid any images from being used on signatures.

• Comment Alterations

A simple set of rules to avoid confusing or misleading conversations due to comments being altered after they were written and replied to.

• Expansion to non-vandalism definition

Permitting users to revert their own edits / delete portions of what they have just added without being erroneously accused for vandalism.