Forum:Vote: Article TP policy amendment

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Referendum

The following proposed amendment concerns a clause in the current user conduct policy at FW:UC, specifically the following:

“Do not misuse talk pages: Talk pages are for the discussion of their respective articles and not for general chatter. Use the forum for the latter.”

With the proposed amendment, the same clause will be revised to read as (with the addition in bold):

“Do not misuse talk pages: Talk pages are for the discussion of their respective articles and not for general chatter. Use the forum for the latter. Posts that do not pertain to discussion of an article itself may be deleted regardless of their time of posting.”

Namely, this would make the policy retroactive, allowing deletion of posts that were made before the addition of the policy (which was added by User:Porter21 at around September 2009).

Relevant discussion on this topic can be found here.

Vote

Poll finished on 10:34 pm October 11, 2013 (UTC).

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• As per my arguments on the discussion page. --Skire (talk) 22:34, October 4, 2013 (UTC)
• Absolutely. Our policy should affect all TP posts. 69.l25 (talk) 22:47, October 4, 2013 (UTC)
• Off topic content should have no place on talk pages regardless of creation date. --TwoBearsHigh-Fiving 23:01, October 4, 2013 (UTC)
• Basically what Ryan said. Paladin117^{>>iff bored;} 23:28, October 4, 2013 (UTC)
• This will be needed for Fallout 4 when everyone and their families will be throwing themselves at our article talk-pages for information. ^{Some Assembly Required!} 23:31, October 4, 2013 (UTC)
• Agree with Leon. There will be a need to discuss the articles and not about strategy or somesuch things. Energy X 00:17, October 5, 2013 (UTC)
• As Energy said, the TP's are for discussing the articles and the format of their content, not strategy. We have forums for a reason. ---bleep196- (talk) 22:38, October 5, 2013 (UTC)

• - I don't have a good feeling about this. Somehow I think we should leave the old talkpages like they are and only look at talkpage content created when Fallout 4 arrives. If this passes and everyone starts to become delete-happy on old game talkpages, guess who's going to feel the need to doublecheck that. When I see deep red numbers it always stresses me, which I'd rather avoid and spend my time on other things. We can already work with the policy as it is, I don't feel the need to stress out deleting old talkpage content. Jspoel 23:22, October 5, 2013 (UTC)

Comments

Did we hear more on a page to take the comments on the subject of pages? Agent c (talk) 00:02, October 5, 2013 (UTC)

Besides using the forums, we could enable article comments under Special:WikiFeatures, but I would not support such a move. It seems that for now people will have to keep the general chatter on the forums or in user blogs. --Skire (talk) 00:04, October 5, 2013 (UTC)

I'll be talking more with Wikia about adding on additional article-page tabs after getting some clarification on another subject I've been talking with them about. I'll update when I can. ^{Some Assembly Required!} 00:07, October 5, 2013 (UTC)

I would really want an answer on this first before voting. Rather than legislating a feature that is clearly demanded out of existence, I'd like to find a way to provide it first. Agent c (talk) 19:10, October 5, 2013 (UTC)

Believe me, J, I can fully understand your concerns. Personally, I think cleaning up article TP content would be near the bottom of our priority list, and it won't be something I myself will invest too much time into. This amendment will simply give permission for users to do so, as a component of enforcing the article TP policy. It is not encouraging systematic deletion. --Skire (talk) 00:07, October 6, 2013 (UTC)