Forums: Village pump → What should the forums be for?
It seems that different people have different ideas of what these forums should be used for. Since I have an inclusionist philosophy, I think that if the topic is WoWWiki or Warcraft related, as long as it isn't directly violating our other policies, it should be okay. Others don't like certain types of topics for reasons, I personally can't understand, but maybe it can be explained to me. I may post a poll here, if I can think of a good set of choices. --
Fandyllic (talk · contr) 5:05 PM PST 27 Oct 2009
- This continues from Forum:New Feral Druid form? (Ideas...). Forum:Forums too forumy was a discussion about if the WoWWiki forums should work like other forums. I do not think any forums have been unjustly deleted before.--SWM2448 22:04, October 27, 2009 (UTC)
- From my reading of Forum:Forums too forumy, no specific exclusions were laid out. Kirkburn just made some general statements of intent that got into WoWWiki:What WoWWiki is not (although I'm re-thinking my stance about not reverting some of the changes). Unfortunately WoWWiki:What WoWWiki is not appears to speak for the community, when it is really mostly the viewpoint of a particular user and just that most of us don't disagree with most of what is said.
- From looking at the deletion logs not many forum posts have been deleted, but a couple appear to be deleted for strange or inexplicable reasons. Since there is no forum policy, I suspect WW:DNP would get trotted out as the excuse, but that policy has been stretched by alot of admins. -- Fandyllic (talk · contr) 11:37 PM PST 27 Oct 2009
- When I wrote What WoWWiki is not, I tried to take statements from policies, guidelines, and statements made around the wiki. I did not just write down my viewpoint. What parts of it do you disagree with? Also, what were the strange or inexplicable reasons the forums got deleted for?--SWM2448 00:09, October 28, 2009 (UTC)
- I don't believe there is anything in any policy or guideline that would suggest forums "are also not for general lore discussion". Is there?
- As for inexplicable or strange deletions, I'll give a short list:
- Forum:New Feral Druid form? - I suppose you could try to discuss this under Talk:Druid or Talk:Feral, but I'm not sure you can truly justify it's deletion by any policy.
- Forum:Is there any way for a non-dk to get into acherus? - Deleted because answer was given on asker's talk page, but I could see other folks wondering what the answer to this question would be, so the forums seem an appropriate place.
- Forum:Wow quests - This was a general question about what quests people may have done in Northrend when Wrath came out. Again something that seems fine for the forums, if perhaps needing a rename.
- Forum:Druid Tank - Deleted for supposedly being WW:DNP "Not a suggestion forum for new ideas" even though there is no such policy statement.
- Forum:Where to post questions about macros? - Reason was "Housekeeping", but really seemed like, "I'm annoyed by this question and I don't like it in the forums."
- -- Fandyllic (talk · contr) 3:24 AM PST 28 Oct 2009