Pocket Frogs Wiki:Policies

Policy is a term referring to the processes and rules observed involving the creation, editing, and management of articles on Pocket Frogs Wiki as well as treatment of other users. This is to be distinguished from a guideline which suggests etiquette and practice to make management and presentation of Pocket Frogs Wiki more consistent and streamlined.

Violating a Pocket Frogs Wiki policy will at the very least lead to a page being edited to conform to policy. Edits or new pages that are created that do not conform to a specific policy are subject to change by another user (assuming that change conforms with policy) without expectation of appeal to an admin, as is all content within the site. However, it may also lead to the page being deleted or — for the worst offenses — it may lead to the poster being declared a vandal and become banned or blocked. Treatment of users who engage in destruction of content, harassment, or misuse of content (spam) is also governed by policy.

The following policies have been developed over time; mostly as consensus works between Pocket Frogs Wiki administrators and users. A few are decreed by administrators.

Article policies
· The deletion policy
 * Sub-policy: Speedy deletion
 * How to nominate pages for deletion and when they are eligible for actual termination.

· The do-not-post policy
 * Specific items and topics we do not allow on Pocket Frogs Wiki.

· The external links policy
 * What sort of external links are allowed and where to put them.

· The stub policy
 * How to tag pages as stubs and when pages should be tagged as stubs.

Community management policies
· The user naming policy
 * Types of user names which are disallowed on Pocket Frogs Wiki.

· The vandalism policy
 * What Pocket Frogs Wiki considers vandalism and what we do to vandals. (Not what we would like to do to vandals, though.)