Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20150331195647

Hello

This is another possible policy review, although the policy doesn't exist.

After the outcome of this consensus discussion, I realised that there was no actual policy on talkpage use. The most we have is that you shouldn't remove messages unless they violate the TOU, but this is incredibly hard to find on the wiki and therefore, we don't have any guidelines regarding how a talkpage should be used.

If we wanted to have a talkpage policy, it should not be complicated and be unnecessarily restrictive: it should just restate obvious common sense things that you shouldn't do on a talkpage (both article and user).

So let's discuss having a possible talkpage policy. I want to make it absolutely clear that such a policy would only be guidelines and just state basic things, nothing complex.

For an example of a talkpage policy we could adopt here on the wiki, I'll reference the Narutopedia, who have a very simple talkpage policy that nearly everyone abides by: w:c:naruto:Talkpage policy.

The policy on talkpages could incorporate a note regarding the consensus on archiving talkpages, but without any talkpage policy right now, people are free to basically write anything they want (excluding TOU violations)

Discuss below, cheers! :) 