Forum:CT:Abolishing the clan policy

What I’m proposing in this thread is the deletion of the clan policy. The reasons for this are simple. The policy is unquestionably a relic of a bygone era, one where a select group of users who basically controlled the wiki would often create knee jerk, reactionary policies in order to deal with something they didn’t like. Other policies like this include the categorization policy, the userbox policy, and the video policy, all of which have either been done away with or soon will be.

This specific policy was once necessary. Back in 2006, this wiki was the target of massive vandalism sprees, so much so that Sannse was always stepping in to help. Given that Neomessiah, the founder of this wiki, was no longer around, Sannse had to appoint an administrator to deal with it because most people on the wiki weren’t mature enough to handle it. Why? Because the community tended to create groups, such as the Anti-Vandal Army or whatever it was called, who fought the&mdash;I kid you not&mdash;Vandal Wars in order to deal with the vandalism. Which, of course, only made things worse, given that you don't feed the trolls.

So the clan policy was ultimately put in to place to prevent that sort of thing from happening. The problem is that it’s so defunct that we’ve blatantly ignored it, and even decided things that are contrary to it. The moment Project Cruentus was put together and the community was on board with that, it rendered the clan policy irrelevant. FanonProject completely flew in the face of it too, making paragraphs three and four entirely irrelevant&mdash;save for the last sentence of paragraph four, which was only added to save face.

Paragraph five was put in basically as criticism of the Halo Fanon wiki. We don’t need to be putting criticisms of other wikis into our policies, especially when criticism is a subjective opinion rather than an objective fact.

However, we don’t want to completely remove the forbidding of things like anti-vandal factions or political parties and what not, so I propose that the government section of Star Wars Fanon:What Star Wars Fanon is Not be amended to say:


 * There is no government, house, or council of any sort that runs Star Wars Fanon or decides what the policies of the wiki are going to be. The decision making process on this wiki rests with the community as a whole and is done through community consensus. To that end, groups such as political parties and anti-vandal blocs are forbidden on Star Wars Fanon. Additional groups not mentioned here may be proposed for deletion should the community feel that they are outside the scope of the wiki.

The clan policy page would then be redirected to Star Wars Fanon:What Star Wars Fanon is Not.

It’s not exactly all inclusive, but I linked to the deletion page in order to close that potential loophole, and I don’t want to inherently discourage people from working together.

Like I previously said, this policy is no longer needed. It’s overly long, outdated, irrelevant, and needlessly judgmental. It also allows for further policy consolidation. As Squishy Vic said when I suggested to him that I propose this, “The more we get rid of our Bachmed/Don Vic days the better.” He’s right on the money there.

This discussion will last until July 21, 2011. All relevant matters of the voting policy apply, and please be civil. - Brandon Rhea  (talk) 03:44, July 15, 2011 (UTC)

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 * 1) Brandon Rhea Alliance Starbird.svg (talk) 03:44, July 15, 2011 (UTC)