Wiki Etiquette

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Most of the following text was copied from http://www.sl4.org/wiki/WikiEtiquette , by Peer Infinity.


We'll probably work out our Wiki etiquette as we go along. But I do have at least one suggestion to start with: sign your name to personal or controversial opinions! Please! In fact, please sign your name to everything, if at all possible. I know this might be hard to remember. But especially remember this for personal or controversial opinions. If you wish to remain anonymous, do NOT sign yourself as Anonymous. Pick a pseudonym and stick with it! If you leave unlabeled opinions, they may be deleted, since no one cared about them enough to sign. Anonymous posts lacking a definite unique pseudonym should be considered harmful. -- Peer Infinity

Don't intersperse general questions about Wiki usage on pages you edit. Post them at Wiki Questions. -- Peer Infinity

Add descriptions to links if it can't be determined by context, e.g., in a directory listing; this saves time by not making a user follow a link to find out what it's for. -- Peer Infinity

Any user of this Wiki is allowed to make obvious corrections to any other user's spelling and grammar. -- Peer Infinity

Any user is allowed to make existing words on any page into Wiki links, by using the [ [ ] ] marks, to create a link to a page that already exists or is expected to exist eventually, as long as this link is in context. For example, changing "Anthropic Principle" to "Anthropic Principle", changing "CFAI" to "CFAI", or changing "#sl4" to "#sl4". If the word or phrase is used several times on a page, only the first occurrence should be made into a link. -- Peer Infinity

Any user may categorize any page by listing the names of the appropriate Category at the bottom of the page. See this page for an example. -- Peer Infinity

If there is a disagreement about which categories a page fits in, or about anything else related to a Wiki page, the disagreement can be discussed in the page's "discussion" page. The disputed categories should be removed from that list until the disagreement is resolved. --Peer Infinity

Any user may add a new category to the list of Categories. --Peer Infinity


Any user may move a page that they believe should be a Personal Wiki Page (rather than an Official Wiki Page) to a subpage of the author's User Page, and replace the original page with a link to the new page. Also, the user who moved the page should indicate their name and the date the page was moved at the bottom of the new page, after a divider ("----"). For example, "This page was moved from Universal Morality by Peer Infinity on May 21, 2005"

If the original author agrees that the page should be a Personal Wiki Page, then they should add a link to the page in their User Page

If the author does not agree that the page should be a Personal Wiki Page, then they can set up a poll to see what the other users think. For example: "The following users believe this page should be an Official Wiki Page: Marc Geddes; The following users believe this page should be a Personal Wiki Page: Peer Infinity" If more people think that the page should be an Official Wiki Page, then the page should be moved back to its original location, but the list of people who think the page should be a Personal Wiki Page should be left at the end of the page.

--Peer Infinity

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