PESWiki:List of policies
From PESWiki
- See PESWiki:Policies and guidelines for a general overview of what policies are about, how they are made, and why we have them. You can also access all policies, without descriptions, at Category:PESWiki policy.
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| PESWiki policies |
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| Article standards |
| Point of view Verifiable information Original research Citing evidence What PESWiki is not Biographies |
| Working with others |
| Civility and etiquette No personal attacks Resolving disputes |
The PESWiki policies are our plan of action to guide decisions and our actions. The policies include the identification of our programs and priorities, those which we have choosen on the basis of the impact they have. PESWiki policies in short can be understood as management and administrative mechanisms arranged to reach the explicit goal of free energy. Every current PESWiki policy falls into one of the following categories:
- Content and Style: which topics are welcomed on PESWiki and give quality and naming standards.
- Behavioral: standards for behavior on PESWiki to make it a pleasant experience for everyone.
- Enforcement and Deletion: what action authorised users can take to enforce other policies and the fraught area of deleting articles that are considered undesirable.
- Legal and copyright: law-based rules about what material may be used here, and remedies for misuse.
The regulatory policies limit discretion of individual editors. Editors who disregard these policies may be dealt with in accordance with our policies, or may be threatened with sanctions. The PESWiki policies are dynamic; they are not just static lists of goals or laws. The policy are blueprints.
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Policies
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Content and Style
- Original research
- Articles may contain theories, data, statements, concepts, arguments, or ideas; or any interpretation, analysis, or synthesis of published data, statements, concepts, arguments, or ideas that would amount to a "novel narrative or historical interpretation."
- Verifiability
- We cannot check the accuracy of claims, but we can see that the content gathered is observable, empirical, measurable evidence, subject to the principles of reasoning. Articles should therefore cite evidence whenever possible. Any unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
- Point of view
- Articles, including reader-facing templates, categories and portals, should be written from a factual Point of View.
- FAQ for point of view
- This gives an objection-rebuttal style explanation of POV.
- Naming conventions
- Generally, article naming should give priority to what the majority of English speakers worldwide would most easily recognize, with a reasonable minimum of ambiguity, while at the same time making linking to those articles easy and second nature.
- Biographies
- Articles about people, which require a degree of sensitivity, must adhere strictly to PESWiki's content policies. Be very firm about quality references, particularly about details of personal lives. Unsourced or poorly sourced negative material about people should be removed immediately from both the article and the talk page.
- What PESWiki is not
- Every day PESWiki articles are edited, and every day people search and read PESWiki articles. PESWiki is first and foremost an online resource for free energy. Please avoid the temptation to use PESWiki for other purposes.
- PESWiki is not a dictionary
- An article should begin with a good definition or a clear description of the topic. Articles that are just one dictionary entries do not belong at PESWiki.
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Behavioral
- Bots
- Programs that update pages automatically in a useful and harmless way may be welcome, if their owners seek approval first and go to great lengths to stop them from running amok or being a drain on resources.
- Civility
- Being rude, insensitive or petty makes people upset and stops PESWiki from working well. Try to discourage others from being uncivil, and be careful to avoid offending people unintentionally. Mediation is available if needed.
- Editing policy
- Improve pages wherever you can, and don't worry about leaving them imperfect. Avoid deleting information wherever possible.
- Ignore all rules
- Every policy, guideline or any other rule may be ignored if it hinders improving PESWiki.
- No legal threats
- Use dispute resolution rather than legal threats, for everyone's sake. We respond quickly to complaints of defamation or copyright infringement. If you do take legal action, please refrain from editing until it is resolved.
- No personal attacks
- Do not make personal attacks anywhere in PESWiki. Comment on content, not on the contributor. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Nobody likes abuse.
- Ownership of articles
- You agreed to allow others to modify your work. So let them.
- Sock puppetry
- Do not use multiple accounts to create the illusion of greater support for an issue, to mislead others, or to circumvent a block; nor ask your friends to create accounts to support you or anyone.
- Username
- Choose a neutral username that you'll be happy with. You can usually change your name if you need to by asking, but you can't delete it.
- Vandalism
- Vandalism is any addition, deletion, or change to content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the resource. It is, and needs to be, removed from the resource.
- What PESWiki is not
- PESWiki would not exist without the online community that has come together to build it. However, PESWiki is first and foremost an online resource. Please avoid the temptation to use PESWiki for other purposes.
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Enforcement and Deletion
- Banning policy
- Extremely disruptive users may be banned from PESWiki. Please respect these bans, don't bait banned users and don't help them out. Bans can be appealed, depending on the nature of the ban.
- Blocking policy
- Disruptive users can be blocked from editing for short or long amounts of time.
- Consensus can change
- All decisions, including poll results, can be reversed later as PESWiki develops.
- Protection policy
- Pages can be protected against vandals or during fierce content disputes. Protected pages can, but in general shouldn't, be edited by administrators.
- Resolving disputes
- The first step to resolving any dispute is to talk to those who disagree with you. If that fails, there are more structured forms of discussion available.
- Deletion policy
- Deleting articles requires an administrator and generally follows a process. Most potentially controversial articles require a more indepth process and a waiting period.
- Proposed deletion
- For uncontroversial deletions, an article can be proposed for deletion. If no one contests the proposal within a waiting peroid, the article may be deleted.
- Criteria for speedy deletion
- Articles, images, categories etc. may be "speedily deleted" if they clearly fall within certain categories, which generally boil down to pages lacking content, or disruptive pages. Anything potentially controversial should go through the deletion process instead.
- Category deletion policy
- Deleting categories follows roughly the same process as articles, except that it's on a different page. Categories that don't conform to naming conventions can be "speedily renamed".
- Undeletion policy
- Deleted articles can be undeleted. If this is controversial, this is discussed at Deletion review.
- Office actions
- The PES office reserves the right to speedily delete an article temporarily in cases of exceptional controversy.
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Legal and copyright
- Copyrights
- Material which infringes other copyrights must not be added. The legalities of copyright and "fair use" are quite complex.
- Copyright violations
- PESWiki has no tolerance for copyright violations in our resource, and we actively strive to find and remove any that we find.
- Fair use criteria
- The cases in which you can declare an image "fair use".
- Image use policy
- Generally avoid uploading nonfree images; fully describe images' sources and copyright details on their description pages, and try and make images as useful and reusable as possible.
- Libel
- It is PESWiki policy to delete libellous revisions from the page history. If you believe you have been defamed, please contact us.
- Reusing PESWiki content
- PESWiki material may be freely used under the GFDL, which means you must credit authors, relicense the material under GFDL and allow free access to it.
- Text of the GNU Free Documentation License
- This is the license under which all contributions to PESWiki are released. Any re-use of the work must also be released under GFDL.
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See also
| PESWiki's principles | ||||
| Cornerstones | Simplified Ruleset | List of policies | PES issues | Statement of principles |
| Overview of our foundation | Synopsis of our conventions | Full list of official policies | Pure Energy Systems issues | Historic beginnings |
