Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-4812386-20170821204726

Links: current policies and guidelines, draft proposal, diff, manual of style.

I made a number of improvements to the current policies and guidelines and published them at Project:Policies and guidelines/draft. The draft page has everything from the current policies and guidelines, and yet is 21% shorter and hopefully less confusing. I seek discussion of the changes and consensus from the community to make this the new text of the policies and guidelines.

So here are the changes:


 * The current policies are reorganized into conduct policies and content policies.
 * Some policies that were together are separated, specifically the verifiability and neutrality policies, and the account, user page and user right policies.
 * I added the style manual at Project:Manual of Style, which was created by MaintenanceRequired in 2016 but has not yet been made official.
 * Some guidelines in the page that are also in the manual of style are removed.
 * I reworded parts of the policies and guidelines that didn't read well or weren't clear, or added examples.
 * I modified the verifiability policy to specify when citations are required or not. You can see the new policy at Project:Policies and guidelines/draft.
 * I updated some things to Wikia's new branding as Fandom, fixed some links that were broken, and removed some mentions of talk pages or changed them to message walls, as article talk pages were replaced by article comments and user talk pages by message walls.

There is a link to the diff of all the changes at the top. The major change is the style guide at Project:Manual of Style, which replaces the content guidelines on Project:Policies and guidelines.

I ask editors and administrators for appraisal of the changes in this thread.

(To suggest changes to the policies and guidelines in general, please start another thread.) 