SmashWiki:Policy

This article functions as an umbrella for all other policies, as well as to describe how to change policy and propose new policy.

Current well-established policies

See also: Category:Policies

Editing policies

• Assume good faith
• Copyrights
• Creating new articles
• Edit warring
• Image copyrights
• Images
• Moving policy
• New game procedure
• No personal attacks
• Notability
• Quietly deal with vandals
• Redirects
• Sign your comments
• SmashWiki is not official
• Stub policy
• Userpage policy
• Talk page policy
• Trivia policy
• Vandalism policy
• What SmashWiki is not

Administration

• Rollback policy
  • SmashWiki:Requests for rollback
• Administration policy
  • SmashWiki:Requests for adminship
  • SmashWiki:Requests for bureaucratship
• Blocking policy
• Deletion policy
• Protection policy
• Username policy

Guidelines

These pages detail how users should strive to act while contributing.
See also: Category:Guidelines

• Citation
• Guideline
• Manual of Style
• Neutral tone guide
• Smasher article guidelines
• Stub pages
• You are valuable

Current proposals

See also: Category:Proposals and Category:Failed policies

How to change policy

Every user is welcome to disagree with policy and attempt to change it. To change a policy:

1. Go to the talkpage of the policy you wish to change. Add a new section to the talkpage listing why you disagree with the policy, how it would benefit SmashWiki if it were to be changed, and if possible leave the revised version of all parts of the policy you wish to change.

It is probable that other users will wish to revise your proposed revision. If so, other users should list their problems with the proposed revision, why their revision would be better at benefitting the wiki, and their version of the proposed revision.

If a consensus is reached that the policy should be changed, the accepted final revision will replace the old parts of the policies. However, if consensus is not reached, the new policy revision can not replace the old. While a vote may be used to indicate general opinion, a vote is not binding, nor is it indicative of consensus unless unanimous.

Proposing a new policy

Proposing a new SmashWiki policy is a three-step process:

1. Create a new article in the SmashWiki namespace, with the proposed text of the new policy. Make sure not to add the proposed policy to the Category:Policies category. Add {{Proposed}} to the top of the article if you are proposing a new policy; if you are proposing a significant update to a currently vetted policy, use {{Proposed update}} instead.
2. Add the new article to the list of currently proposed policies above.
3. On the proposed policy's talkpage, describe why the new policy is needed and why/how it would benefit the wiki.

If a consensus is reached that the policy should be accepted, it can be added to Category:Policies. Unless a consensus is reached, however, the policy will not be considered official. While a vote may be used to indicate general opinion, a vote is not binding, nor is it indicative of consensus unless unanimous.