User talk:Kylu/rfa

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Contents 1 Okay, so this page is backwards. That's good reason to not nom me, right? 1.1 Foundation Issues 1.2 Policy trifecta 1.2.1 See also 2 Hmmmm...

[edit] Okay, so this page is backwards. That's good reason to not nom me, right?

OMG, Kim!

[edit] Foundation Issues

The Wikimedia projects as a community have certain foundation issues that are essentially beyond debate. People who strongly disagree with them sometimes end up leaving the project:

1. NPOV as the guiding editorial principle
2. Ability of anyone to edit articles without registering
3. The "wiki process" as the final authority on content
4. Copyleft licensing of content; in practice, GFDL (working on changes via GFDL 2.0)
5. Jimbo Wales as ultimate authority on any matter (this is changing; see Arbitration Committee, Board)

Several other projects are notable in their use of different principles. For example, h2g2 and some other collaborative projects have editorial boards that review content. Fred Bauder's fork Wikinfo project uses a sympathetic point of view rather than NPOV.

The presence of these foundation issues is, on the one hand, one of the strengths of the existing community, and on the other, one of the factors that has led to charges of cabalism.

[edit] Policy trifecta

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia created by a community using a wiki. Those three basic characteristics suggest three basic guiding principles for editors, of which all others are corollaries:

• as an encyclopedia: Neutral point of view - our basic editorial policy
  • Corollaries: Conventions on verifiability, citation, original research, style, deletion, etc.

• as a community: Don't be a dick - our basic social policy
  • Corollaries: Be civil, Keep your cool, assume good faith, avoid personal attacks.
  • Strongly implied are the one revert rule and consensus as opposed to voting

• as a wiki: Ignore all rules - the suggested personal policy
  • Corollaries: Be bold, avoid instruction creep

Under WP:IAR, this is not proposed policy, but you are welcome to demonstrate that you subscribe to it by adding {{User:Seth_Ilys/Trifecta}} to your userpage.

[edit] See also

• Wikipedia:Five pillars (5-point simplified policy)
• Wikipedia:Simplified Ruleset
• User:Jimbo Wales/Statement of principles

[edit] Hmmmm...

What's the point of this now? Posterity? Grandmasterka 05:39, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Actually, it might be a good start for a "Admin Policy in a Nutshell" page... things to be intimately familiar with. ~Kylu (u|t) 07:59, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

I think we have a page like that somewhere. I never really needed it. :) ++Lar: t/c 11:51, 5 August 2006 (UTC)