Blizzard Wiki:Policies

With Fandom's Wiki Rules and Blocking Policy, all wikis must have clearly established policies and warn and block according to this. Criteria for wiki policies are as follows:


 * Rules for your wikis must be defined and easily found. These rules must not violate Fandom’s Terms of Use or be overly restrictive.
 * Blocks may only be issued for violations of your stated rules or Fandom’s Terms of Use.
 * Community members must be treated with respect. Abusing admin status to harass other community members will not be tolerated
 * Violations of this policy may be met with loss of local user rights and, in extreme cases, additional disciplinary action

For more detail, please read Blizzard_Wiki:Wiki Rules and Blocking Policy.

Why have policies?
No one likes to think they have to follow rules, but rules have their place in most organizations. Wiki communities are no different. Wikis often have policies that talk about what kinds of pages you can write, how you should act in messages to other users, or how and why an administrator can block you. In general, policies are very simple codes of conduct that make sure wikis run as smoothly as possible. What should policies be like, though?

They form a manual of style for pages so people know how to write. They make sure that vandalism, spam, and trolling are known to be unacceptable. They ensure that people are polite and respectful to one another. There are all sorts of policies that can be created, but it's important to remember a few things before you set about creating them.

A policy should accomplish something
Policies should be clear and concise overviews that guide the editing process and the interactions of the community. To do that effectively, policies need to be practical solutions to actual problems. That's something communities often make the mistake of forgetting when they create policies like "you cannot have more than 20 user-boxes on your user page," "you cannot have more than one video on your user page," and "you need a category on your article or the entire article will be deleted."

Do those sound like real problems, and do their solutions seem necessary? They were all made based on the preferences of the admins rather than the need to fix real problems. That brings us to another very important point.

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 * Wiki Rules and Blocking Policy
 * Common mistakes