Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-807326-20150413104711

Hey guys and girls,

I thought I'd just take a moment to update you all on some new additions and updates we've had to some wiki policies. In the past week the admin team have been working hard to sort out a few redundancies in policies and even add to a better administration of the wiki, so we've worked through them and sorted it out, which I'll detail down below.

We've added three new policies: notability, sourcing and user page. You should all go give them a read, as they're all generally useful for editing in and around the wiki.

More importantly, we've made some changes and additions to existing policies, which I'll detail:
 * Images
 * As previously, we still want PNG files in the mainspace, but we've decided that really it's up to you how you style your user pages, so you can use whatever filetype you care for (except for GIFs, so if you wish to use them then use Community Central and substitute them in).
 * It seems a given, but we've made mention to file editing. If you're using a file in the mainspace, don't edit it with any editing programs, such as Photoshop, as we want to provide originality, not potential "fan" content.
 * Any images that you post in a comment on a blog post will have to be styled just like those within a blog post itself (ie. categorisation, naming etc.).


 * IRC
 * Administrators are given operator status (denoted with the @ symbol), rollbacks are given voice (denoted with the + symbol). Regular users don't have any special status.


 * Signatures
 * Please don't create templates personalised for you. If you want to use a "template" of sorts, create it in your user space instead (eg. User:MakeShift/sig) and put it in.


 * Spoilers
 * I would have thought it was a given, but I've been told it's been done before: wait for an episode to finish. Things can be dubious and even change drastically by the end of an episode, so don't add anything until an episode has finished airing.

Fairly simple stuff, make sure you all follow them and we'll get along sweet! 