Wikiversity talk:Policy review

Reviewing policies
We've had a number of tensions lately about policies, and after looking through them there seem to be very few of them (seven!) that have actually been approved after discussion. We should really revisit all of the old proposals as well as the the approved policies... most of these are from the earliest days of Wikiversity when we hadn't actually seen what sort of content would be developed.

At least 6 policy proposals have been in contention lately, so perhaps it's best to start with those so that we can avoid further tensions between those on either side of the issues. The naming policies in particular are a slow-burning issue that's been going on in the background for years, and the deletion policy (and in particular how it should relate to "stubs") has been a subject of major contention for at least the past 4 months.

I suggest we go through these one by one, perhaps giving a quick up-or-down straw poll to see if the policies can be at least temporarily adopted as-is, and then move on to adding, amending, or subtracting sections from the policy. A lot of policies might also be good for merging together, though it might be easier to come to consensus on "small" policies, and then merge them into larger policies later (even 1-sentence "fragment policies" might be a good idea since we've seen lately how easily a policy discussion gets bogged down). Come to think of it, we might want to have a standard approach to amending policies, including using the sitenotice to announce a discussion at least a week before something is "officialized" so that we don't revisit the situation where we find policies moved to "enforced" long afterward and without there having been any public notification.--SB_Johnny talk 14:03, 8 December 2008 (UTC)