User:AtionSong/Boldness Guide
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NOTE: This page was created by me as a resource and is not official wiki policy.
Be bold is something you hear a lot nowadays on wikis, but what does be bold mean? It means that you should be confident in your edits and not reserved. How confident? When do you stop being bold and start being reckless? To answer these questions, I've created a rough guide to levels of boldness. I rank each action on a scale on 1 - 10.
- 1 = You can do this
- 5 = Probably want to discuss this a little
- 10 = Get approval from a sysop first
The ranking system is not meant to judge how good ideas are, just how bold they are.
Actions
- Creating a new page - There is a page that doesn't exist that you think should. You've already checked to make sure a similar page doesn't exist and that the page wasn't already created and deleted. You will be adding new content to this page.
- Boldness: 1 - 2
- Comments: This is something that it is probably okay to be bold on, since to get rid of this edit all that needs to happen is a sysop pushing the delete button.
- Creating a new project page under the HRWiki namespace - This is different from creating a new page because project pages are most often new concepts being introduced or implenmented at the wiki.
- Boldness: 3-4
- Comments: While the reversal is the same at a normal article, you may want to bounce your idea around or at least mention it somewhere first before investing a lot of time into a project.
- Moving content from a page onto separate pages example - Taking information from what is probably a long page and moving it onto sub-pages.
- Boldness: Depends. If the article has a template saying that it's "in need of cleanup", the breakup probably couldn't hurt, so 2-3. If the article does not, then there is probably a reason that the page is like that 7-8.
- Comments: An example of a long page that does not need to be broken up is Stinkoman 20X6 Enemies and Items
This list is still in progress.
