Wookieepedia:Policy and consensus updates

From time to time, the Wookieepedia community will discuss and pass policy changes or come to consensus on certain issues. Such decisions will be noted here, as will proposed ideas from the Forum:Consensus track.

Consensus track

 * Revan... virtual Master of Darth Bane? - Decided that holocrons do not count as masters.

Mofference
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 * A new IRC policy was established.
 * Search icon guidelines were adopted.
 * The "Did you know" section on the Main Page is now for all trivia, not just new articles.
 * Three-revert rule was changed to a guideline, and will be handled on a more case-to-case basis.
 * The Single issue voters limit now applies to all votes.
 * We adopted a new trivia policy.
 * American English spelling, grammar and punctuation are now policy.
 * As opposed to a simple one-link-per-article, it is now acceptable (but not required) to link to a given page in an article's introduction, body, infobox, captions, and quotes attributions.
 * All image galleries will be deleted and replaced with categories.

Consensus track

 * Shortening the featured article time - Decided that after August 13, 2007, featured articles will appear on the Main Page for 3.5 days each, instead of the former full week.

Consensus track

 * Capitalizing "galaxy" - arguments against, and request for revote - Decided to stop capitalizing "galaxy."

Consensus track

 * Userbox Proposals - Any userbox proposals that receive downvotes can be deleted within the day, if the ratio is above 1 for/5 against.

Consensus track

 * Full implementation of scrollboxes - Unanimously decided to use scroll boxes for long appearance lists rather than separate pages.

Consensus track

 * QOTD vote counting and timeouts - New rules for Quote of the Day approved without objection.