User blog:RRabbit42/Upcoming policies

At the moment, I am the most active admin on the site. There are some issues and policies we need to get resolved or put into place, so what I am planning on doing is bringing in policies that have successfully been used on another wiki that I am admin for. These are going to be marked as a policy candidate, which means they can be considered as a policy until such time as they are formally adopted. There may be a few other things such as forums that I'll make a decision on so that we can mark that resolved.

While these policy candidates are being reviewed, if someone has an update for them or comes up with a different way of handling things that is better, we'll look at those and put them into place if they make sense.

I am a firm believer in sharing authority and not letting any one person run roughshod over a wiki, so some of these policies will have checks and balances built into them. In some cases, if we go through those processes and don't get any response or not enough response, we'll just have to go with what we have, but at least we will have made the effort of allowing the entire community to make the decision.

The first policy that will go into effect is a block policy. I proposed one almost a year ago, but we never put it into place. To go along with that, I am going to rewrite the Vandalism policy or merge it in with the block policy.

There's some things on that policy are minor enough that we don't need to fuss with. A lot of what I've learned in dealing with problems over the past two years is to distinguish between a person just playing around and one that is deliberately causing a problem. Typically, it's immediately apparent that they are doing it deliberately or else they prove it by repeatedly doing it. In most cases, an established block policy cuts them off before they get going too far, so they lose interest or go elsewhere to cause problems.