Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24252369-20140814014448

Wikia Policy #702 will take effect 00:00 (12:00 AM) on August 15th, 2014.

What the new policy does (with example):

This is a new policy which places higher demand on administrator activity on Wikia wikis, specifically regarding content that is not generally considered important to the subject of the wiki by its administrators. For example, if we were on the Healthy Recipes wiki and a member started a formum thread to get opinions on why salad dressing bottles comonly have white as the background color on their labels, this thread would be removed or required to edited to make the content more relevant to the wii subject.

How the new policy works:

You may ask: "But Moon Moon, can't admins already do this if they don't like a thread?" Well, according to observations recorded in Wikia Policy #702, this does not seem to be the case because these irrelevant threads are very rarely removed. Across 23 wikis (not named), a survey found that only 2.63% of threads that administrators claimed to be irrelevant or not important were removed. Policy #702 plans to improve this, simply by giving the administrators salad sandwiches. The free sandwhiches are intended to make the administrators more motivated to crack down on removing useless threads (such as this one), or "Why Are Sonic's Eyes Green?" as another example this wiki. This will also discourage childishness and encourage mature decision-making that is suitable for an information page and discussion website enviroment.

What we should discuss here to prepare for this change:

'''Do you think this wiki should allow useless threads? Was this thread useless? Does this policy make sense? Should it be declined?'''

''* Note- I was unable to locate the URL for the official documentation of Policy #702. If anyone has it, could you please place it in the replies or edit this post to contain it? Thank you.'' 