MediaWiki talk:Policies
I have mixed feelings on this page. It has some new content, but seems sort of redundant with other stuff that's already in the Help namespace, such as the notes on Help:Contents. I feel like it could just be merged (to some balance we can decide later) with the pre-existing help pages. I realize that "Policies" is a sort of standard page for wikis to have, but, that doesn't mean we have to do it the same way. --Steve-o 02:12, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
- True. Mostly I wanted a place to put coherent statements of certain key issues (humor, copyright, etc) that we end up having to explain frequently.
- I agree about the redundancy, but the help page is already redundant with the style guide (and certain elements of the community portal.) Since it wasn't clear where this should go, and the redundant pages clearly need a major housecleaning anyway, I stuck this on a Wiki-standard Policies page knowing the all 3 (4?) pages are probably going to end up unified rearranged and reorganized at some point. For now I'm content to let it be messy. -Derik 02:26, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
Prime's 30+ modes citation
Would it be considered poor form to insert a footnote with links to the various OP pages on the wiki, or at least the OP disambiguation page?--Apcog 23:31, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
Profanity
Is there any way to have "fuck" and "cunt" not immediately visible? Like, you have to click-and-highlight the text to read it? It just seems a little fucking odd to say we don't use those words on non-talk pages then boom, there they are plain as day. It makes us look like cunts. --M Sipher 03:18, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
- I think it'd definitely be possible, assuming I haven't made some grievous overestimation of how much control we have over the javascript in pages; I'd be willing to look into it if enough people actually think it's a good idea. --Suki Brits 05:36, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
- I'd just be happy if they were invalid choices for usernames.--RosicrucianTalk 05:51, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
- I think it's worth looking at. The idea that kids might stumble upon the wiki - not at all unlikely, I think - and think it's a cool place to browse around, only to stumble upon something like, well, the above... it bothers me. --Sntint 06:20, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
