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WiKirby:Proposals

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Due to WiKirby's recent surge in community interaction, we have seen fit to implement a formal proposals page. Up to this point, proposal-handling has been informal, with larger ones handled via referendum, but this page serves to clear away any ambiguity and provide a set of procedures for suggesting changes to the wiki, whether that be the handling of certain content, or changes and additions to policy.

How to make a proposal

All proposals must be made using the template provided below, posted under the "Current Proposals" heading: 

==(insert proposal here) (insert date here)==
(insert details of proposal here and sign with ~~~~)
{{Support}}
{{Oppose}}
{{Neutral}}

===Discussion===

{{clear}}

Once a proposal is made, the voting period begins (see voting regulations below). Voting period for a proposal ends two weeks after it starts, at 11:59:59 P.M. UTC on the 14th day of voting. An administrator can veto a proposal at any time, although such action should always be justifiable and agreed upon by multiple admins. Administrators should not use this right to add more weight to their own opinions.

Restrictions

Users may propose many different changes or additions to the wiki. The following things, however, may not be voted on:

  1. Proposals which target specific users (such as bestowing or removing ranks or rights).
  2. Proposals which violate the law, as specified in the general content policy.
  3. Proposals which seek to overturn a recently (within the last 8 weeks (or 56 days)) approved proposal.
  4. Re-submitted proposals which were recently (within the last 8 weeks (or 56 days)) rejected.
Voting regulations
  1. Proposal adding and voting is open only to registered users who have made at least 100 edits to mainspace content and have been registered for at least two (2) weeks.
  2. Users who are currently blocked will not be allowed to vote, and any outstanding votes they have on proposals will be removed. Any proposal made by a user who is blocked during the consideration period will also be removed.
  3. All votes must be signed with signatures (type four tildes (~~~~.)) Unsigned votes are automatically negated, regardless of any points made.
  4. After two (2) weeks of voting, a proposal will be immediately enacted if a simple majority of more than 50% of votes are supportive.
  5. If a supported proposal is vetoed by the administrators, it is considered failed and should not be started again for at least 8 weeks (56 days).
  6. If a proposal fails to garner three (3) supporting votes, it will not be considered.
  7. The original proposal maker may not vote on proposals.
  8. All votes must be supported by a substantial reason from the voter. Simple and/or unproductive comments like "I agree" or "No that's stupid" will result in the vote being removed.
  9. The original proposer may cancel the proposal for any reason during the first three (3) days of its run, and it will not be considered failed. Admins may veto subsequent proposals if this is abused.
  10. Voting users may change their vote at any time before a proposal's deadline passes, but should update their timestamp if doing so.
  11. Discussion must remain civil at all times! Any uncivil discussion will result in the offending users' votes being negated, and possibly lead to strikes or a block.
  12. Excessive campaigning for any proposals will result in the campaigner(s) vote(s) being negated, or proposal being removed if applicable.
  13. Proposals about minor article manipulation (such as splits, merges, renames, or deletions) should not be created; these should be held as informal discussions or polls on the talk page of the article in question.
  14. A single user may not make more than one (1) proposal at a time.

Current Proposals

Combination of Personal Image and Personal Audio; Changes to Policy 080420

In my attempts to help reduce unused content, I have stumbled across Template:Personal Audio. Nobody at this time uses this template, and I don't necessarily see why we must distinguish between the two types of media in the WiKirby:Personal content policy. It feels unecessarily restrictive, and has not proven to be of any significant conflict in the past. Since no one is utilizing the two forms of personal content, and there is not much of a reason to distinguish the two, I suggest the following changes are made:

Current suggestions:

  • Combine personal audio and personal images template/category into personal media/personal file
  • Change policy to allow 5 total files (instead of 3 and 3)
  • Change policy page accordingly.

Trig Jegman - 17:23, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Support
  1. Makes sense, especially since personal audio is unused, so per proposal. ---PinkYoshiFan 17:32, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
  2. I also support this. There wouldn't be much reason to have a lot of personal audio files anyway, outside of very specific cases, so just making it "personal media" makes sense. StrawberryChan (talk) 19:52, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
  3. I agree with all other supporters in this matter, I have never seen any user with personal audio. It seems fair to merge these. MetaDragon (talk) 00:39, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
Oppose
Neutral

Discussion

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