Template:ApprovedPolicies

Newer Policies on top please.

• Abolish Ghost Town Policy

A policy to eliminate the policy that established Ghost Towns as a status.

• Reduce Minimum Edits For Bureaucrat Promotion

A policy to reduce the minimum edits necessary to be eligible for Bureaucrat Promotion.

• Reevaluation for Bureaucrats

A policy to clarify the adjust the requirement of crat seat voting to match the reevaluations rate requirement for sysops.

• Permaban Appeal

A draft for creating a system to appeal permabanned users under certain circumstances.

• Update Promotion Procedure(2)

An alteration to the guidelines for sysop promotion requests.

• No minimum vote on APD

New policies now no longer require a minimum number of votes.

• Update the Wiki Software (2)

Another formal request for Kevan to update the wiki software.

• Historical Voting Time Limit

Requires that groups be inactive for 4 months before being considered for Historical Groups.

• Better Vandal Data

Three proposed policies aimed at improving the handling of Vandal Data. Note: Only the first two policies are Passed.

• Prohibit Sysop Misconduct Self-Punishment

A policy to prevent sysops from self-punishing for misconduct.

• Sysop Reevaluations

This policy requires Sysops to undergo a mandatory re-evaluation bid every 8 months.

• Ban Blinking Text

A policy to ban blinking text from signatures.

• Semi-protection

A policy that would add an autoconfirmed group, allowing semi-protection of pages.

• Reduce Vandal Escalations

Reduce vandal escalations by removing 1-year and making escalation-perma subject to a sysop vote.

• Truly Inactive Sysops

A proposal to demote sysops that are inactive users.

• Escalation Strike Revision

A policy to rework the way Vandal Escalations are struck.

• Eliminate Criterion 12

A policy that simply erases speedy delete criterion 12 from existence.

• Historical Events

This policy allows for historical events to be honored in the same way as historical groups.

• Automatic Bureaucrat Cycling

A regular re-election process for the position of Bureaucrat.

• New Speedy Delete Criterion

An update of the speedy deletion Criterion 1 as well as the introduction of a Criterion 13.

• Sysops are not Moderators

In short, this policy wants to make the wiki more factual in relation to its offical documents.

• Alter Speedydelete Treatment of Group Pages

A policy to ensure group pages aren't deleted without sufficient warning to avoid the loss of useful pages.

• Move the Moderation pages into the Project namespace

A move to be conformist, and avoid an unpleasant side effect of the current situation.

• Prohibiting Content Outside of the Normal Page Area

A policy to prohibit potentially misleading or damaging content.

• Update the Wiki Software

A policy to formally request that Kevan update the MediaWiki software that runs the wiki.

• Criterion 6 Reworking

Tired of seeing a page recreated dozens of times when it's been deleted once already? Me too.

• Historical Groups

A policy regarding entry to Historical Groups and Speedy Deletion of old group pages.

• New Suburb Tag (edit, new vote)

A policy to improve and update the suburb tag system by the inclusion of new and objective "color" of a suburb as to form a more accurate map; now edited to match actual purpose of the policy.

• Proxy Use

A policy that would ban the use of open proxies on the wiki

• Signature Policy

Revised policy to prevent malicious signatures.

• Guidelines Rehashed

A complete replacement of the moderation guidelines.