Wikiversity:Policy review

The vast majority of Wikiversity policies were either approved after discussions in the summer of 2006 or with little or no discussion shortly afterward, and certainly before there had been much time to see what sort of content was going to be developed on the project. As part of the growth and development of Wikiversity, these policies should be re-examined to see if they fit into what Wikiversity has evolved into over the past 2 years.

Reviewing policies
See talk page.

Talk pages active
(Below is a dynamic page list: please make sure policy discussion is added to any active policy talk pages to allow categories and tracking. Purge this page if the list appears not to be up to date.)

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Original policies approved in August, 2006
http://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiversity:Policies&oldid=8799


 * What is Wikiversity? (11 votes for)
 * Be bold (14 votes for, though some specify "as a guideline")
 * Assume Good Faith (10 votes for)
 * Civility (9 votes for)

Policies made official since 2006

 * Verifiability (a total of 3 votes cast, with little discussion)
 * Reliable sources
 * Custodianship
 * Bots

Rejected policies

 * Naming conventions (7 votes against, 3 votes for, 3 votes neutral)
 * Scholarly ethics
 * Ignore all rules
 * Cite sources

From 2006, but didn't pass the original quorums

 * What Wikiversity is not (2 votes for, 5 votes against, 1 vote neutral)
 * However, another vote at the policy talk page has 5 votes for, 5 against, and 1 neutral.
 * Neutral point of view (4 votes for, 1 neutral)
 * Talk page has 2 votes for, 3 against, 1 neutral in second vote; 5 votes for, 2 votes against, 1 vote neutral in first vote.
 * Scholarly ethics (2 votes against, 1 neutral)
 * Talk page has 1 vote for, 6 against, 1 neutral.
 * Productive Forking and Tailoring is Encouraged (2 votes for)
 * Talk page has 3 votes for, 1 against.
 * Ignore all rules (1 vote for, 4 against)
 * Talk page has 2 votes for, 8 votes against.
 * Administrator Creation and Behavorial Criteria Guidelines and Policy (no votes)
 * Talk page has 1 vote against.
 * User Names (3 votes for, 1 against, 1 neutral)
 * Talk page has 7 votes for, 2 against, 1 neutral.
 * Blocking Policy (1 vote for)
 * Talk page has 3 votes for, 3 votes against.
 * Cite sources (1 vote against)
 * Talk page has 1 vote for, 4 votes against, 1 neutral.
 * Verifiability (1 vote for)
 * Talk page has 2 votes for, 1 vote against.
 * Reliable sources (3 votes for)
 * Talk page has 4 votes for, 2 votes against.
 * Naming conventions (1 vote for, 1 vote neutral)
 * Talk page has 3 votes for, 7 votes against, 3 votes neutral.

From 2008

 * Appropriate Venues
 * Dealing with Medical Advice
 * Deletion policy
 * Draft policy on religious content
 * Make no assumptions
 * Mentorship
 * Privacy policy
 * Respect people
 * Rollback (made "official" without any discussion, listed as proposed again)
 * Wikiversity:What Wikiversity is not (currently being voted on)
 * Stubs

Other proposals
(see Category:Proposed policies)


 * Academic freedom
 * Bureaucratship
 * CheckUser policy
 * Consensus
 * Copyrights
 * Course protection policy
 * Course titles and numbers
 * Disclosures
 * Fair use
 * Forking proposal
 * Manual of Style
 * Network naming conventions
 * No shrines for vandals
 * Please do not bite the newcomers
 * Polls
 * Real world schools
 * Sonic user interface
 * Subpages
 * Username
 * External links and External links/draft 0.1
 * Talkpage Guideline

Policies at the root of recent disputes

 * Naming policies: both WV:NC and WV:MOS have been enforced by some users, but have never been approved.
 * Deletion policies: deletion has become a topic of entrenched debate since at least August, 2008
 * Civility policy: civility and related issues have been a major issue over the past few months
 * Rollback policy: several users have been accused of violating this policy, though there was never any discussion about making it official