Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-24325144-20150106201659/@comment-1251315-20150111004034

So I haven't been able to spare time to fully dissect the wiki's style guidelines, but that is on my To-Do list and I'm working through it on my sandbox wiki at the moment before posting here.

I'm going to start by examing two current policies: the featured article policy and the chat policy.

Featured articles policy
At this current time, when an article is classed as being a "featured article", it is sysop locked and left alone as a result.

This is very undesirable and discourages editors from contributing. The main reason is that the articles could use many improvements and it's actually against the wikia policies to lock an article indefinitely to sysops only for any reason. There's a few exceptions to that (legal reasons, templates etc). Pages should be open and editable by any users: however, because our FA's are high topic targets, vandalism is a problem so indefinite semi-protection would probably be more advisable here.

I believe many are already agreed to this change, so this is just simply rehashing that issue. I do want to make note that there is no policy page anywhere that actually states this policy, so I have no clue how it came about whatsoever.

chat policy
For many users, you might wonder why I'm bringing this up. However, there's a good reason: the chat is mostly dead and very rarely gets a large amount of activity. We have very little issues with spam, disruptive behaviour or things like that, and we also have no issues with most of the stricter things that are mentioned in policy, due to the chat being so quiet, close to being dead.

Our chat policy is good for when the chat is active, but 95% of the time, it is dead. The times when it's fairly active, the users are respectable and flame wars don't erupt from them. Therefore, I think the chat policy should be scaled back considerably to the basic things and only introduce the old policies as and when they're needed. Everything relating to chat moderators could be cut back, as we only have a few chat mods and chat bans are very few and far between as well.