GuildWiki talk:Censorship

Did you write this whole thing in the last five minutes? 19:38, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Took me more than five minutes, but yes. I did it all in one go. It was much easier than the archive policy. &mdash;♥ Jedi ♥ Rogue ♥ 19:42, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Censorship-Excluding female ele armor of course?-- 19:45, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

proposed re-write of email section
"An email address is considered a form of personal information, and as such, unless posted by the email's owner, will be removed on sight. It is recommended that rather than post your email address, enable email in your preferences. " --Shadowcrest  23:44, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Like that better. I post my email so people can contact me with gchat and msn. &mdash;♥ Jedi ♥ Rogue ♥ 23:46, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Posting a public email address has ramifications that people can't judge if they're not knowledgeable in this area, and even if you have a reason to post yours and understand what you're getting into, people who imitate you possibly don't. I posted some public email adresses on the web and usenet years ago. Today, I get thousands of spam emails daily, even though I never gave any indication of reading any of those (I don't reply, and Pegasus doesn't pull any internet content when displaying them - if I display them). Posting your email address in public effectively burns it.
 * People can contact you via wikimail, and you need only reply and send them your contact info. Or you can use irc. I cannot imagine any reason for posting an email publicly when you can be reached by wikimail that outweighs the drawbacks. --mendel 01:07, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

How about..
IMHO, I'm missing information about talk-archives (same rules as talk or not ? Wat if someone wants to end a discussion by inmediatly moving it to archive ?) and the (mis-)use of HTML/wiki commands to hide other user comments (not rewording or deleting, just hiding). As 'newbie' on this matter myself, still can't understand completely what the general policy is for these things.-- -- ( talk ) 09:13, 17 June 2008 (UTC)


 * You can't end a discussion by moving it to an archive because you can't move the people, and they can still link to and quote from the archive. It makes a very clear statement that the archivist wishes to not continue the discussion, and that may end it, but then only because the other participants respect that.
 * It might be worth thinking about when content becomes exempt from censure - say, after a week? If it's been up a week and no-one has objected, you need an extremely good reason to censor (possibly M-rated content or clear cases of libel). If we had such a rule, it would cover most archives except those archived very recently. --mendel 10:53, 17 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Isn't the original point of "archiving" something to "save it for later reference"? I think that needs to be made more clear here, that archiving isn't just a quick way to get rid of a discussion you don't feel like continuing.  As a corollary, once discussions are archived, they should not be edited (except for necessary redlink fixing, etc.).  Something that is archived isn't necessarily dead, however, as mendel pointed out - other users can still link to, quote from, or even un-archive discussions that they feel have not reached a satisfactory conclusion.
 * Hiding comments should be disallowed entirely, in my opinion. I can't see any reason that a comment would fall in-between "visible" and "removed completely".  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 15:26, 17 June 2008 (UTC)