Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4146635-20140105023254

Hey everyone! As the admins and I have mentioned many times, and most recently in our New Years blog, many big changes will be occurring here on the wiki. We currently are discussing changes to the wiki navigation and now I am happy to announce our next big change to the wiki. For a while now, the admins and I have discussed changing the wiki guidelines and making them much more thorough so we can make the wiki a better place. So now the new policies are here! But they are not final. They are currently only temporary and we will be using them to run the wiki. It has been taking the admins a while to complete the policies and we all agreed that this wiki needed a stronger basis of rules than what we had as soon as possible. So we put together our best policies we had done along with other resources to complete a temporary pool of policies that will be used on the wiki. Very soon, the admins will review the policies and have them finalized as soon as we can. As always, the policies are still split into different topics, but now each topic has it's own page, a very thorough page. Please refer to the new policy navigation to see each set of policies.

These set of policies will be the new policies used on the wiki. Continue below to see the description and status of each policy.

And that is it for the policies. These new policies are expected to be followed. We are no longer using the old wiki guidelines. The wiki community will be notified whenever a policy is updated or finalized. We also will be asking for user feedback on the new policies as soon as we get rolling.
 * General policies - These policies are the general, regular rules that apply everywhere on the wiki. These policies were written by the admins last year. These policies are probably the closest ones to finalization. They will be reviewed and finalized soon.
 * Article policy - This policy contains the rules that refer to editing articles. Whenever editing an article, please keep in mind this policy. These policies were also written by the admins last year and will be reviewed soon.
 * Discussion policy - This policy contains the rules that refer to discussing on the wiki which includes commenting, talking on threads, etc. These policies were actually borrowed from the Liv and Maddie Wiki. These policies will be used temporarily until the admins are able to release re-written/tweaked policies.
 * Layout guide - The layout guide contains all of the official layouts for pages of the most common categories on the wiki including characters, episodes, etc. These official layouts must be used on all of the pages in those categories. The layout guide is still being developed and in fact, a much more thorough guide is being planned, to be release in the future.
 * Chat policy - This policy contains the rules that refer to chatting in the wiki chat. Once again, these policies were borrowed from the Liv and Maddie Wiki and will be used temporarily until the admins are able to release re-written/tweaked policies.
 * Image policy - This policy contains the rules that refer to uploading images on the wiki and how images on the wiki should be formatted. These policies were also borrowed from the Liv and Maddie Wiki and will be used temporarily until the admins are able to release re-written/tweaked policies.
 * Blocking/warning policy - The blocking/warning policy is the policy that gives the blocking and warning procedure for when wiki rules are violated. These policies were actually pulled straight from our original guidelines and were just tweaked a little. These policies are very likely to change.

In the near future, you can also expect a blog post policy, policies for users with rights, policies for referencing, and a verifability policy. I hope to have these changes released very soon and I can't wait to start using these policies! I hope you all like them! Thank you for reading! 