Forum:CT Archive/Editcount Percentage Policy Proposal

A growing number of users have begun to treat this wiki as a personal webspace, spending nearly all of their time here editing their userpage and communicating issues unrelated to Wookieepedia on talk pages. These users seem to be oblivious to our most expansive and definitive policy regarding the use of Wookieepedia, titled What Wookieepedia is not. The most common violations of this policy include using userpages for lengthy fanfictions and using talk pages as a personal message board for matters unrelated to this wiki.

Several policies have been proposed to try and prevent such issues from growing, to little avail. I feel that while the current policy is too weak, the recently proposed total ban on fanon may be too heavy-handed. Therefore, I have attempted to come up with a more refined system of weeding out those who care not for the goals of this wiki.

Current related policy
The current rule as stated in What Wookieepedia is not and the User page policy, which are both considered official policies for the wiki, states that your user page is not your primary contribution to this wiki, and the ratio given is over 500 user page edits to less than 100 useful main space/template/category edits.

Issues with the current policy

 * The first problem that arises is the number of edits (>600) required for the policy to apply. The amount of time invested before most users reach an editcount of 600 is considerable; many do not get there for months.


 * Another issue I see is the excessive ratio (5 to 1) of userpage edits required for a user to be considered in violation of policy. The frequency of such a ratio occurring is currently, and has been in the past, exceedingly rare.


 * A third problem I can see is that userpage edits are the only types of edits restricted. Certainly, those who spend nearly all of their time on Wookieepedia conversing on each others' talk pages should not escape sanctions which are currently reserved for users who excessively edit their own userpages.

Proposal
I have deliberated over which types of edits to restrict, and what numbers and ratios to employ, and I believe that I have reached a system that is neither too slow nor too fast in deciding when a user seems to have goals contrary to those of the wiki and the community as a whole. I would like to hereby make this proposal of policy:


 * After a user's total edits exceed 150, if more than 25% of the total edits are comprised of User and User Talk edits, the user should be warned. If their percentage of such edits has not fallen below 25% when their total reaches 200, further action should be taken at the enforcing administrator's discretion.
 * Should any user whose total edits number less than 150, but have a similar ratio as listed above, engage in any actions which are deemed disruptive to the wiki, administrators should feel entitled to issue warnings and take actions at their discretion.

Consensus vote
I'd like to request that any comments and/or discussion involving this CT be placed under the Discussion heading, so as not to confuse the voting process or interfere with the appearance of either side's votes.

I would like to note that I fully welcome any further refinements or additions to this proposal, and hope that any helpful new ideas will be listed in the Discussion.

Oh, and play nice.

Support

 * 1) Graestan  [[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] ( This party's over ) 03:27, 17 September 2007 (UTC)