I've taken the top of the Wikipedia tree of policies and guidelines, and I'm going to edit it down to make it the top for an organised set of policies and guidelines for Wiktionary:--Richardb 07:24, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Policies in Wiktionary are not easy to find. There are lots of dicussions, but little in the way of "agreed" policies. Wikipedia finds it necessary and useful, and I believe it will help to have greater organisation and structure to the way Wiktionary works.
Like everything else, these policies and Guidelines will be developed by the editors, and subject to constant change, but they may settle down to a useful set with a bit of consistent work. Anyway, I'm willing to give it a try.--Richardb 07:24, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
The top down structure has two starting points:-
The Beer Parlour is often over-full, unmanageable. Previously I have been suggesting that a lot of the deeper discussion should be taken out of Beer Parlour and moved in to Committee Rooms / Policy Development pages.
This time I've got a bit tougher. I've moved several chunks of discussion out of Beer Parlour into various Policy Development pages, and put an index to these at the top of the Beer Parlour.
I make no apologies for being an activist for dragging people toward proper policy development, instead of endless unresolved discussion. I was partly prompted by <Jun-Dai> exporessing some frustration with the lack of policies.
I'm sorry if I trod on the toes of people who are active contributors. But, please believe me that my intentions are the best. We all have our own particular ways of contributing. Developing the Policy process, and Policies, is my particular thing at the moment, whenever I can spare the time to come on to Wiktionary.--Richardb 06:07, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
<Jun-Dai> made a contribution on 20-May-2005. This was outside the existing discussion structure, and has been (temporarily) moved to page Wiktionary:Proposal for Policies and Guidelines/Jun-Dai pending integration with this page.
I've added a new tag which I hope removes some controversy, mainly it seems with EC.
I was tagging some pages as Policy Think Tank pages, becuase they basically defined policies, though they were not designed for that purpose. EC reverted some of these.
I can accept that putting the POLICY BANNER in them may have confused users who were just looking for How To pages. So I've introdcued (in progress) a new tag {{Policy-PI|Xxxxx}} to indicate pages which have Policy Implications, but which are not primarily Policy PAges, and where the banner would be confusing or annoying.
See the article for explanation.
I hope this is a workable compomise, or better still, a welcomed improvement.--Richardb 23:40, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
16-May-2006 Richardb
I gave notice in Februrary that I would upgrade this to Semi-Official policy. Enough time has passed, so here goes. Also changing name to "Policies and Guidelines - Policy". I will leave the redirect in place, and , over time, cahnge all the references.
I removed Wiktionary:Wiktionary etiquette and Wiktionary:Writers rules of engagement from the main page as they are not helpful, if someone creates these pages please readd them to the main page - TheDaveRoss 06:46, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
In late January 2007, CM did some destructive work to try to impose his own idea of how Policy should work in Wiktionary. Not only did he apparently do it unilaterlally, he also did not dso most of the necessary work. He didn't even bother to put his ideas to discussion on this page, or make the necessary changes in the Project Page.
I fully intend to roll-back most of CM's destructive effort. If CM does not understand how Policy is developed, (and he shows no signs what-so-ever of so doing), then he should keep out of the area that defines how Policy is developed.
If CM objects to this characterisation of his approach, perhaps he'd like to point to some examples of where he has contributed to the actual development of some of the policies. and perhaps he'd like to look a teh complexity of policies that have been found necessary in Wikipedia.
But mostly CM should stick to the techo stuff and the rowdy atmosphere of the Beeer Parlour, where he can shout all he likes. Just don't come jackbooting over the work by more thoughtful people who are prepared to discuss and develop ideas by consensus, not just try to shout the loudest.--Richardb 11:54, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
I'v e posted a discussion about this in Beer PArlour WT:BP
Where are the guidelines about how to use templates? Which templates for which purpose? Requests for new templates? (Same for Categories?) I would also like to know the rules about acronyms? -- IrishDragon 03:34, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
This is only page I searched (including links right on top) but it seems like the place that should mention whether or not words need references or we are supposed to take it on faith that the person is right and change it if we think something else is better, whether or not we look up references first. Just confusing to wikipedia editors used to WP:V. Thanks! :-) Carolmooredc 16:59, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
A question: are the definitions in Wiktionary intended to be descriptive (showing how words are used, for better or worse), or proscriptive (to guide users in using words better)? 97.113.65.54 21:56, 9 June 2009 (UTC) (WP:J.Johnson)
This page needs a big review, but I'm probably going to get blocked if I edit it! --Volants 14:12, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
I have changed the status of this document from official policy to policy draft. By doing so, I have reverted this change by Richardb of 11:59, 16 May 2006, and this change by Connel MacKenzie of 08:41, 28 January 2007. The document contains redlinks and contradicts current common practice. For instance, the document says 'Formal "Voting" on a policy is discouraged, but may be used to better judge how sentiment is leaning at a particular point in time' while at the same time it said on top of the document 'This is a Wiktionary policy, guideline or common practices page. It should not be modified without a VOTE.'.--Dan Polansky 07:34, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
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This page is outdated and completely contradicts common practice regarding policies. -- Prince Kassad 13:11, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
Kept for lack of consensus and discussion. --Chicken is fun (talk) 15:57, 1 October 2013 (UTC)