Wikipedia:Policypedia

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It has been suggested that this page or section be merged into List of policies and guidelines. (Discuss)

This Wikipedia page is currently inactive and is kept primarily for historical interest. If you want to revive discussion regarding the subject, you should ask for broader input, for instance at the village pump.

(As usual for this kind of project, yes, once we have sufficient stuff down, it will certainly be policy, since that's what it's describing)

[edit] Description

At this moment in time, the wikipedia policies as written, as executed by admins, as executed by users and as executed by medcom, medcab and arbcom variously are not the same!

Currently there are occasionally conflicts which arise from these discrepancies. Even the page on writing policy on wikipedia contradicts the dictum "policy pages must be descriptive".

Is that a problem? Nah, no problem, only if we leave it that way!

We have an entire crew of encyclopedia writers and a core of dispute resolution staff who are accustomed to describing things they see on the internet.

So in the coming weeks, let's write a sub-wikipedia about wikipedia policy.

These articles follow the same rules as normal wikipedia articles:

WP:NPOV : no condemnation or praise for some particular way of doing things, just describe it!
WP:NOR: No original research: the policy MUST be observably followed "in the wild" , provide diffs with arbcom policy or admin actions or user actions. Existing policy pages are assumed broken for this excercise. (We can later compare what we have with the policy pages that existed previously to determine how correct that assumption was)
WP:BOLD : Pitch in and help! :-)
And others too! please fill in here if I missed something important, BE BOLD!
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For discussion and notes, see the talk page.

[edit] Index

For now, let's create policypedia pages as subpages of this one. They can be moved later. Note that since policypedia is REALLY still starting out, early policypedia pages may well look like infodumps, like at the start of wikipedia

Here's a set of possible links. Feel free to change, add, remove, reorder, etc.. . , as appropriate. also, change page status if you start writing