WildStarWiki:Guild page policy

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This page is an official policy on WildStar Wiki.

This policy has acceptance among editors and staff and is considered a standard that all users should follow.

Feel free to propose changes to this policy. Big changes require consensus on discussion page, and to be Adopted or Decreed to be enforced.

See WildStarWiki:Policies for an overview of policies for WildStar Wiki.

See Category:Policies for WildStar Wiki proposed and adopted policy articles.

Shortcut: WildStarWiki:Guild page policy

The goal of a wiki is to be an informative collaborative work, and not to allow self promotion or free advertisement. This policy outlines what is allowed, not allowed, and required for player guild pages.

Posting a page including info about a guild in an objective manner is fine, but we have had too many wikisquatters starting guild pages on a site meant to be mostly informative. This could even be classified as stealing our bandwidth which is generally illegal!

When writing a guild article, please consider the boilerplate as a good starting point.

Creation

Basic overview of new player guild page creation is as follows:

Use boiler plate on {{Guild infobox}} to create a new page.
Page name must follow proper naming rules detailed below, [[Guild:Guild Name (Realm Region)]]
Guild infobox should be filled out as necessary, as per below.
Create other page sections and elements as desired, following general wiki standards.

Note

Page content generally is responsibility of the guild, wiki community, or players.
Wiki will help patrol for vandalism and general conformity, per normal, and as time permits.

Requirements

All guild pages will be required to comply with the following these specifications.

Naming

All names for all guild pages must use the following format: [[Guild:No Chuas Allowed (Nexus EU)]]

Names must be created under the Guild: namespace.
Names must contain the complete name of the guild: No Chuas Allowed
Names must be followed by the guild's server and EU or US in parentheses: (Nexus EU).
There is no space between 'Guild:' and name, but is a space between name and parentheses.
Page names must be accurate for in-game data, or may be marked as candidate for deletion.

Pages and Sub-pages

Guild sub-pages may be used with wiki guild pages: [[Guild:No Chuas Allowed (Nexus EU)/History]]

Sub-pages can be created on the guild's page, similar to sub-pages for user pages.
The guild page policy also applies to both guild page and its sub-pages, similar to user pages.
Redirects in the main namespace to guild pages are not allowed.

The boilerplate usage text from the {{Guild infobox}} at the time of creation.
The faction the guild plays.
The 'info box' and 'external links' sections must be retained.
There must be at least three (3) sentences in English containing useful information about the guild, which can be the purpose of the guild or other text, contact information, schedule, recruiting state, rules, and style of play. After these sentences, if guild is based on language other than English, the main article may be in other languages if the intended audiences are non-English.

Categorization

Conforming guild pages will be categorized automatically by using {{Guild infobox}} instructions, however guild pages should be categorized as follows:

[[Category:PvE guilds]], [[Category:PvP guilds]], [[Category:RP guilds]], [[Category:Raid guilds]] – Choose the one which most closely matches your play-style. This can be chosen by adding categories to |target= as shown on {{Guild infobox}} If your guild cannot be classified as mainly PvE, PvP, RP, and/or Raid, just leave the 'target' parameter blank, and the category [[Category:Other guilds]] will be used.
[[Category:Alliance guilds]] or [[Category:Horde guilds]]

Updates

Because guilds in WildStar can come and go frequently, even with the same same, its important that WildStar Wiki have policies for removal to keep the extensive guild lists uncluttered and useful.

Pages must generally be maintained as needed with proper basic information.
Guild pages should be updated at least once per year, with current information.
Requests to be marked as stable or of historical significance can be made, for extra consideration before any removal.
WildStarWiki:Guild list can be checked for last edited guild pages.

Allowed

The information here is allowed, and encouraged even, in order to create informative guild pages. It is encourages that wiki section headers be used as appropriate to make pages easy to navigate.

Summary of your guild
A brief summary of guild guidelines
Short stories or history of your guild
List of players to contact for more information
Link to your guild website and/or forums (available in infobox).
List of the progress your guild has made
Lists of guild events: Guild meeting schedules, PvP, Raid, and other Instance schedules, etc...
Guild statuses, such as recruiting or not, and who you are recruiting, and activities.

This is of course not a complete list. Publishing of other information is fine, so long as it follows wiki policy, follows in general context of the page, and useful or interesting to others... as the wiki is about it's visitors. :)

Not allowed

Posting the following types of information will result in your guild page being edited or deleted:

Biased information - The content on a Wiki is meant to be informative, this includes guild pages. Guild pages, like all other, should be written from a neutral point of view and must follow the Neutral Point of View Policy.
A complete list of guild members
Forums, message boards, or other forms of inter-guild communications
In general terms: don't put any material on the page that requires it to be updated frequently, or is only meant for members of the guild.
Redirects to non-guild pages are not allowed in the Guild namespace.

Disbanded guilds

Articles about disbanded or non-existent guilds qualify for speedy deletion. Guilds are considered to be disbanded if there are fewer than ten players in it on the official Armory or if it does not appear under the name indicated by the WildStar Wiki article on the Armory. If your guild has disbanded but you want to archive the article, please move it to the main author's User: namespace, or the server's namespace, and remove {{Guild}} and any guild-specific category.

Pages for renamed guilds or guilds which have undergone a server transfer should be moved to the new correct name.

Guild stubs

Stubs for guilds can be created in preparation of expanding the article with more information. If you create a stub, use the {{Stub}} tag at the top of your article. Guild pages marked as stubs which have not been edited to comply with the policy for 30 days will be deleted. Your guild page is a stub if it does not contain the required information.

Enforcing the policy

A page not containing the required information should be marked {{Stub/Guild}}.
A guild page stub should be marked {{Speedydelete}} after 30 days if it has not been fixed.
A page containing disallowed content can be edited to comply, or you can mark it with {{Violation/Guild}}, which places it in Category:Pages with possible policy violations for someone else to fix.
Edits adding incorrect information or not allowed information should be reverted. However, edit wars on guild pages, as with any other page, are not desired; those who persist in such behavior on guild pages will be considered vandals and the page should be restored to the edit before the edit war.
Any pages or images linked to solely from a deleted guild page will also be deleted.
No notification to the creator/maintainer of the guild page is required on behalf of the admin at the time of deletion of the page beyond the presence of {{Stub}} on the guild page for 30 days.

Note: A deleted guild page can be restored (or permitted to be recreated) at an admin's discretion. However, this will not give you an extra 30 days to comply with policy. Deleted guild pages recreated as stubs are subject to immediate deletion.

Summary

Please remember that WildStar Wiki is a place where users go to obtain information about World of Warcraft, not get spammed with useless information. Guilds are certainly a large part of World of Warcraft and can be represented here, but they must follow the proper criteria and not participate in spewing useless biased information or Wikisquatting. Your target audience is not yourself or your guild-mates, it is people interested in WildStar. Your guild page should reflect this!