User:TeleComNasSprVen/Community Review

Purpose: The purpose of initiating a Community Review is to seek greater community input and third-opinion feedback to resolve any particularly controversial topics when all other methods of discussion and/or dispute resolution have been exhausted.

Types of Community Reviews: There are three main types of Community Reviews that can be opened for any number of different purposes specific to its scope, but they all must adhere to a set of rules that define how they can be initiated.


 * Content Community Reviews: Content Community Reviews can be initiated between any users who have conflicting views on particular Wikiversity resources, topics, schools, or other content disputes and wish to share their opinions about them to the rest of the Wikiversity community. As a prerequisite to opening such a Community Review, users involved must post ‘’at least’’ two different links, preferably permanent revisions, to two past discussions, whether on the content talk page or the talk page(s) of the involved users, about the topic of the Community Review that have remained unresolved.


 * User Community Reviews: User Community Reviews, or those reviews initiated against a certain user, are more serious than content ones. These reviews are usually opened after long discussions about alleged user harassment, abuse of custodian powers, or other forms of user misconduct. In addition to the prerequisites requiring two unresolved discussions against the custodian above, the user who opens this type of review must also post ‘’at least’’ five diffs and explain how those diffs are examples of user misbehavior.


 * Policy Community Reviews: Policy Community Reviews, or those reviews initiated specifically for the purpose of making (a) significant change(s) to current Wikiversity policies or practices, such as the Community Review opened to change Community Reviews, may be opened at any time, without prior discussions or prerequisites, provided that the user has assumed in good faith that the change he or she proposes is significant to Wikiversity or is something affecting the wiki sitewide.

Process: Upon opening a particular Community Review, please create a Wikiversity:Community Review/ subpage (click on the link to see a list of archived Community Reviews) with a descriptive subpage title after the slash in order to tell the rest of the Wikiversity community what it is about.

At the very top of the Community Review, please add a summary of the dispute in question as well as the diffs showing unsuccessful attempts to resolve it. During the review, please remember to keep a cool head and concentrate only on the specific dispute or actions of the involved users, rather than attacking the character of the other users.

When the compiled report is finished, please transclude the discussion onto the Community Review main page.

Only users that have made at least fifty contributions to the Wikiversity project, or have at least five hundred contributions to a different Wikimedia wiki as well as retain an SUL account can participate in a Community Review. This is only meant as a precaution against sockpuppetry, meatpuppetry, campaigning or votestacking. When participating in a Community Review, Wikiversity users may only propose one set of resolutions per user, with the heading “View by Username”. They may vote in any set of proposed resolutions, including their own, but they can only vote once per resolution. Discussions about how the Community Review is structured, the topic of the Community Review, responses to the summary, or modifications to the proposed resolutions should be relegated to the talk page of the Community Review in question. The summary and any set of resolutions proposed must be as concise and succinct as possible, and should avoid attacking the characters of the involved users at all costs.

Community Reviews that have successfully reached a conclusion or have remained stale for after two months will be closed by a Wikiversity bureaucrat or custodian and ultimately archived when he or she removes the transclusion from the Community Review main page, and any resolutions agreed upon will be implemented immediately. If there has been no consensus for any of the resolutions proposed, then none of them will be implemented and the review will be archived nonetheless. In addition, the talk page or user page to which the review was first initiated against must include a link to the Community Review to document it.

Reopening the same Community Review is discouraged, unless it is about the same or similar incident. If it is about a separate dispute but about the same page, then please initiate a different Community Review with an incident number following it (that is, the incremented number of incidents that have occurred on the same page up to the present one placed after the subpage title). In the case of a User Community Review, however, a different review can be initiated if the user in question performs a different contentious action than is what is described in the previous review (e.g. a custodian makes a mistake deleting pages in one CR and does not understand the blocking policy in another CR).