Wookieepedia's talk page policy regulates article talk pages and other discussion pages on the wiki, such as user talk pages and the Senate Hall forum.
- Article talk pages are used for discussing changes to the Wookieepedia article itself, not for discussing the topic in question; for a general purpose forum, see Wookieepedia Discussions. Off-topic comments and spam may be removed by administrators.
- Consensus votes, such as to determine an article's infobox image, should be held on the Consensus track forum instead of talk pages.
- All comments should be accompanied by a signature with a timestamp at the end. If a registered user's signature is absent, {{Unsigned}} may be used to indicate the author's username.
- Users wishing to retract a comment they had made should strike the text by placing it between
<s>and</s>tags, which will display the commentlike this. - Otherwise, users should neither edit nor remove existing comments, with the following exceptions:
- Users may correct wording, typos, and formatting errors in their own comments to a reasonable extent.
- Users may make minor wikicode formatting fixes, such as keeping a topic's bullet point or indent usage consistent.
- Users may remove the Welcome template ({{W}}) from their own talk page.
- Private personal information, personal attacks, and discriminatory content may be redacted, and all policy-breaking offenses, as with vandalism and uncivil behavior, should be reported to administrators.
- Users may wrap broken file links in
<nowiki>tags if the file title violates the files policy. This includes, but is not limited to, files with no extension, files with capitalized extensions, and files with deprecated format or now-disallowed extensions (if they cannot be restored). - Administrators may additionally wrap broken file links in
<nowiki>tags in the following circumstances:- The file in question has been removed for copyright infringement and/or via a DMCA takedown request.
- The file in question is a URL from a hosting site, provided the original is unable to be uploaded to replace it.
- File links that have remained broken for over six months may be wrapped in
<nowiki>, provided that an attempt to restore the original file, if it had been uploaded at one point, was made. This allows for re-use of those file titles without the newly uploaded files being displayed within irrelevant conversations.
- Administrators are responsible for handling disputes and redacting harmful content such as slurs and private personal information. Users can further request edits with such content to be hidden from the page history by a bureaucrat or Fandom staff member via RevisionDelete, per the deletion policy.
- All talk pages aside from user talk pages should lead with the {{Talkheader}} template. If applicable, it should be followed in the following order: status article talk page templates, article history templates, other official talk page templates, WookieeProject templates, and the talk page comments themselves. Talk pages should not be created solely to add {{Talkheader}} and/or WookieeProject templates without any discussion topics.
- Comments may be archived from a discussion page to a subpage, with a clearly visible link to all archives placed at the top of the original page. For example, see the instructions linked here. User talk archives should be placed on a subpage within their userspace.
- Redirects
- Redirects to article talk pages, typically the product of page moves, are unnecessary and may be deleted by administrators, per the deletion policy.
- Users may redirect their user page to their talk page, but their talk page may not redirect to their user page or any subpages.
See also
- Fandom's Talk page guide
- Wookieepedia:Talk page policy/Archiving
- Forum:CT:Talk page policy, second attempt
- Wookieepedia:Mofferences/May 25, 2019
- Wookieepedia:Mofferences/July 25, 2020
- Forum:CT:WP:TALK addition for order of templates
- Forum:CT:Amendment to WP:TALK regarding slurs
- Forum:CT:Happy talk
- Forum:CT:WP:TALK - broken file links