Voting regulation policy

This page contains Nukapedia's voting regulation policy. It describes outlines the process and requirements for creating and participating in forums relating to votes, as well as standards for eligibility.

Policies set general rules for the wiki's administration and its content. Any registered editor is free to edit this page to improve its readability as long as the essence of the article remains unchanged. If you would like to suggest content changes or propose a new policy or guideline, please use the wiki discussion forum. See the policies and guidelines page for an overview of this wiki's policies and guidelines.

Eligibility

• Users must have a registered account.
• Users must have made at least one edit or discussions post prior to the start of the vote.

Quorum

• Ten (10) votes are required to meet quorum on all forum votes.
• A simple majority is sufficient to pass.

Procedure

Policies/guidelines

Any editor is free to edit policies and guidelines to correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, formatting and to update links, as long as these changes do not: materially affect the content, context or meaning; or adversely affect the readability, presentation, page structure or categorization. Changes to the actual context, meaning, page structure or categorization should only be done with community consensus through the following method:

• The primary procedure for proposing new or amending existing policies and guidelines is to create a topic in the "wiki discussion" forum.
  • This discussion forum name should be in the standard form of Proposal:<name of proposed policy, guideline or admendment>.
  • This discussion shall be advertised via notifications on the wiki, in discord and on the discussions forums. These notifications shall be made as soon as possible and shall require the appropriate rights holders to facilitate as needed.
  • This discussion shall run for a duration of at least one week from the time of the notifications being made.
  • This discussion shall finalize the exact wording of any proposed policy, guideline or amendment, including which policies or guidelines, in whole or part, that it may replace.
  • The wording of any proposal must be concise: being comprehensive and thorough while being straight to the point or brief.
• After discussion is complete and a draft proposal is prepared contingent on the above, a topic should be created in the "wiki proposal votes" forum.
  • This proposal vote forum name should be in the standard form of Vote:<name of proposed policy, guideline or amendment>.
  • This vote shall be advertised via notifications on the wiki, in discord and on the discussions forums. These notifications shall be made as soon as possible and shall require the appropriate rights holders to facilitate as needed.
  • This vote shall run for a duration of at least one week from the time of the notifications being made.
  • This vote shall include the exact wording of any proposed policy, guideline or amendment, including which policies or guidelines, in whole or part, that it may replace.
  • Once polling on a proposal vote has begun, there shall be no further changes to the proposed wording. If changes to a proposal are required, the current vote forum topic shall be closed without resolution and a new forum topic created to incorporate said changes.
  • Current voting regulations shall apply.
• After a proposal vote has ended, the results will be ratified on the forum page.
  • A new policy or guideline page should be created, if required, using the exact wording of the final ratified vote.
  • Any changes to existing policy or guideline pages should be made, using the exact wording of the final ratified vote.

Policy and guideline structure and organization

• All policies, guidelines or amendments, when newly edited into a policy or guideline page should reference the appropriate forums through use of links, inline references or special template that details the discussion forum, the proposal vote forum, the dates of such and any other pertinent details.
• All policy or guideline pages must display the {{Policyintro}} and {{Navbox wiki policies and guidelines}} templates, as well as {{Shortcut}} templates for each appropriate section.
• All policy and guideline pages must be linked directly from the main policy and guidelines page and all upper-level policy and guideline pages must be linked in {{Navbox wiki policies and guidelines}}.
• All policy and guideline pages must be added to the appropriate section of the policy and guidelines sitemap and each distinct policy topic should be listed in the "by topic" section of the page.
• All ratified policy and guideline changes must have their pertinent information entered on the policies and guidelines forum archive in the table in descending chronological order and in the {{Forumoverview}} template for their respective main policy or guideline, which should be transposed onto the bottom of the appropriate policy or guideline page and forum topics.
• Any policy or guideline, in whole or in part, that is displayed anywhere on the wiki other than its parent policy and guideline page should have its content transcluded to preserve its original form.
• Any policy or guideline that is displayed elsewhere than the wiki should have it's content updated at any time the parent policy or guideline is updated, e.g. the discord guidelines or the discussions forum guidelines.

Administration Consensus Addendum

The administrators may veto a policy; this should only be done sparingly and for valid reasons. Aside from the normal procedure, the administrators may "decree" policies or guidelines. This should only be done only with consensus among administrators and in cases where community consensus cannot be reached but a policy or guideline is needed. Of course, changes to decreed policies and guidelines can be suggested by anyone through the procedure detailed above.

User rights

If you meet the requirements above and believe these additional rights will help you contribute more effectively, then you have to start a thread in Forum:User rights requests entitled [rights] Request – [your username] (eg.Administrator Request - AlbertCole).

The thread should contain a brief summary of why you need these rights (eg. technical moderator to access parts of the site not available to regular users, such as JS), accompanied by any major contributions or notable edits on the wiki, particularly related to the subject matter.

Once the thread is posted, the community will discuss and vote on the request. Voting will remain open for at least a week (more in case of complex requests), and users are encouraged to include a rationale of why they believe the rights should be granted. Rationales may be required in certain cases. Once the voting period is over, the final decision is made by the bureaucrat, based on the votes and discussion.