Forum:Policy

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Alright, Insurgence here, making this new page. There's a couple policy things that I want to suggest and possibly change, but the one that immediately floats to the top of my mind is the amount of policy pages we have. Frankly, it's ridiculous. Most new editors hardly read the policy pages at all, and even if they do, we can't expect them to read ten different pages! I propose that we merge pages into one (or two) big articles. That way, even if the editors don't read it, when they do something stupid we can simply redirect them to that page, instead of citing a couple dozen policy quotes on 5 separate pages. I want to hear other people's (especially other admin's) opinions on how this could be done quickly and effectively. We could let each policy get it's own little section or clause on the big page, we could have similar policies grouped together under one heading. Anyway, I'm eager to hear the input of this community. Insurgence: Like the Phoenix I rise again! 23:07, June 16, 2011 (UTC)
 * I like your merging idea, man. Some of our policy pages definitely can and should be merged upon others. Although clumping everything in just one or two pages would be perhaps too long and uneasy to read; I'm confident we can easily short the total number to five or six. On a semi-related note, I'd like to take this opportunity to show you a couple of new policies which, IMO, will help new users a lot: ASW:What Makes ASW Unique? and ASW:Naming Conventions. Keep in mind that these too can be merged with others if you wish. I have also came up with Template:Policy Navigation in order to help new users (and ourselves!) keep up with all policy pages. Once we proceed with the merging, the template too will obviously become shorter :- D BlueFrackle 00:20, June 19, 2011 (UTC)
 * The template is awesome. My OCD is being fulfilled :P. And yeah, with the merging, I'm just trying to figure out a little bit of a rough outline right now. (How can we do this, will this be applicable to merge with this) and so on and so on. I like the new policies you've created there. Their good. One question I do have about the Naming conventions though. I'm not sure if your're aware of the little incident with editor Werebereus? The scrabble broke out because he thought the name "egg" was more canon in akin to Xenomorph eggs. Even though the consesnus between HL and I was the name Ovomorph. Ovomorph was an official name, but less used than egg. Because in the movies, the characters called them eggs and not ovomorphs. Your naming policy seems to insist that the most common name is the correct one? Just wondering if that would be the new correct thing to do. Insurgence: Like the Phoenix I rise again! 18:35, June 19, 2011 (UTC)
 * Glad you enjoyed! I wasn't aware of this ovomorph incident, but if I understant it right, I've covered cases like this in the naming conventions, item 1, when I give the Xenomorph as an exception. It's most common name is "alien" but we're not going to call it that. I believe there are cases in which common sense can beat the rules. As you might be aware, Tyrannosaurus rex should not be called that according to paleontology rules, because the guy who first discovered a T. rex fossil named it "Manospondylus". Instead of changing the T. rex's awesome and popular name with a lame one, they decided to make an exception, and so should us! ;- ) BlueFrackle 21:11, June 19, 2011 (UTC)
 * Great. Just checking. Cause if it was the other way around then I'd kind of look like an ass. -_- Insurgence: Like the Phoenix I rise again! 15:41, June 20, 2011 (UTC)
 * Great. Just checking. Cause if it was the other way around then I'd kind of look like an ass. -_- Insurgence: Like the Phoenix I rise again! 15:41, June 20, 2011 (UTC)

Okay, I've added your awesome template to the articles listed on it. Pretty soon we should start suggesting articles that can be merged with each other. Once we have which articles we want to merge and we have it all planned out, we can get the approval of the other high members of the ASPF and implement it. Insurgence: Like the Phoenix I rise again! 23:22, June 20, 2011 (UTC)