Forum:CT:Updating the Vandalism policy

Hello, SWF. It's been a while since I've done this, so bear with me.

So I've been looking at a lot of old policy pages during the past few weeks, and I think a few of them are due for an update. For example, I realized that, at the moment, we have no vandalism "policy", per se; what we do have, is three pages (found here, here, and here) that are, in some ways, redundant. What's more, one of them is a page from yesteryear that was whipped up by Wikia staff and never "fanon-ified", and as a result, now has one or two deadlinks to Wikipedia.

Considering vandalism has been&mdash;and will be as long as we have administrators&mdash;a nuisance at worst, I understand the "epic meh" in regards to this issue. Nonetheless, I think from an administrator's and new user's standpoints, it would make sense to find all this information in one place, codified by the community. I may be alone in this regard, though, so I want to hear what y'all have to say. Therefore, I'd like to present three options, or more if someone comes up with alternatives.


 * Update our information on vandalism into a single policy/tutorial page, as found here, or an example like it.
 * Add any pertinent information to the Blocking and Edit policies, then delete/redirect the pages.
 * Keep things as they are.

Note that if the second option gains favor, we'll have to discuss whether to delete or redirect the pages, what information needs to go into what policies, and the like.

Much thanks go out to C3PO the Dragon Slayer and StarNeptune for creating the initial versions of these pages, which have been adapted and tweaked to fit them all on a single page.

Voting will last for one week, until February 5, 00:00 EST, or until the archiver's discretion.  JM  76  Comm 21:13, January 29, 2012 (UTC)

Merge articles into a "Vandalism" page (1)

 * 1) As the proposer. --  JM  76  Comm 21:13, January 29, 2012 (UTC)

Comments

 * If one or two users who use the Wikia skin regularly can skim through the "Reverting vandalism" section in the proposed policy and ensure that I gave the best explanation, that would be much appreciated.  JM  76  Comm 21:13, January 29, 2012 (UTC)