Forum:CT:User page policy proposal

Over a year ago, I started working on a proposal for a user page policy for the wiki. One of my goals in this was to cut down on the number of policies we have by simplifying a few of them and putting them into one place, namely the now-defunct user box policy, the video policy, and the archival policy. This makes things easier for users, as it's not a long drawn out policy and, as mentioned before, it's in one place.

The passage of this proposal would do a few things:


 * 1) The user page policy would be adopted.
 * 2) The archival policy would be deleted, with a blurb added to the Manual of Style about article talk pages and all other forms of talk pages.
 * 3) The video policy would be deleted, with a blurb added to the Manual of Style about videos in articles.

As a note, this would also do away with sourcing videos, because sourcing videos makes no sense to begin with. Users don't upload videos to the wiki, they embed them. That means that you can click on an embedded YouTube video and it'll take you right to the video on YouTube, making the source, author, license, etc. completely unnecessary. It's essentially a glorified link to the YouTube video.

That's about all I need to say. The policy is very simple and straight forward. Voting will last until Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 11:59pm, unless more or less time is required. All relevant matters of the voting policy apply, and please remember to be civil. - Brandon Rhea  (talk) 00:30, July 14, 2011 (UTC)

Support (1)

 * 1) Brandon Rhea Alliance Starbird.svg (talk) 00:30, July 14, 2011 (UTC)