Forum:Be Advised

ANNOUNCEMENT

Please be advised that the following conditions will take effect on Friday, July 30, 2010, at 0000 Hours, Eastern Standard Time. All users are expected to abide by and understand these rules, and are advised that there is no vote or referendum being held to confirm this issue. This is a decision by the Administration for the betterment of the community.

Following several nasty conflicts on this site, new rules are coming into place that will ensure our NCF/Namespace process is just, civil, and applied equally to all members of the community.

RULE ONE: The deadline for article namespacing after an unresolved NCF tag is now reduced to two (2) weeks, to compel the author to make changes sooner and to reduce the chances of a flame war.

RULE TWO: Any article that has been fixed post-namespacing can now be voted back onto mainspace by a community majority or by having the approval and permission of three or more Administrators.

RULE THREE: All comments on article pages, especially in cases of NCF arguments, should abide by the following:

1. Be useful. Do not merely say that the article sucks, explain why it does. Offer pointers for making it not suck.

2. Be constructive. Instead of "your spelling sucks, this is NCF trash, you are wrong," try "you should run this through a spell checker, you should consider these canon contradictions before proceeding, and you should fix this."

3. Be civil. This speaks for itself. Any comment with any sort of derogatory remark directed at the user's person or the rater's person will be looked upon as a civility infraction.

RULE FOUR: No NCF tag shall be removed, by an Administrator or otherwise, until the argument on the talk page is considered settled. The only exception to this rule is obvious cases of flaming or vandalism. If an argument is disproved, only an Administrator can remove the tag.

Thank you.

 SPARTAN- ' 091 ' [ ' Bureau ' ]    [ Talk ]

Bureaucrat, Halo Fanon Administration Team

June 29, 2010.