Forum:CT:Slight modification to the deletion policy

I’d like to propose a slight modification to the deletion policy. Specifically, I’m referring to these two sentences:


 * 1) Although articles with canon material are certainly allowed, articles that are completely canon and lack any fanon are not allowed and will be deleted.
 * 2) Completely canon articles will be immediately deleted.

Even though I wrote the current version of the policy, I never took into consideration the fact that we, as a community, could help a user add fanon to their fully canon article. At the very least, if that doesn’t happen, we should at least give the user time.

To that end, with some help from Goodwood and I'm the Chosen One, I created the template Allcanon this evening. This template is for an article that appears to be all canon. It says that a user must add fanon to an article or else it’ll be deleted. It also suggests that they find help in the Writing Center, and it suggests that other users can give suggestions for fanon information on the talk page.

So here is what I propose. I want to change the two sentences above to these:


 * 1) New sentence: Although articles with canon material are certainly allowed, articles that lack any fanon are not allowed.
 * 2) New sentence: Completely canon articles will be deleted after being tagged with Allcanon for one week.

This gives authors ample time to improve their articles if they end up being tagged. It also emphasizes the helpful community oriented nature that we’ve been aiming for recently. Note that this does not apply to direct copies from Wookieepedia or any other wiki. We don’t have to worry about users getting upset over that, because it’s not like they spent any time working on it. =P

Voting for this will last for at least one week, until 12/12/2009, unless more or less time is required. All matters of the voting policy apply. Please be civil. - Brandon Rhea  (talk) 05:42, December 5, 2009 (UTC)

Support (+1)

 * 1) As the proposer. - Brandon Rhea Alliance Starbird.svg (talk) 05:42, December 5, 2009 (UTC)