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This is a listing of all the policy's on this ''Battlestar Wiki Media'' and what a policy can enforce. Please note that many projects can be considered '''policies''' because of their unique ability to set formal recomendations, in a project form, and not in policy form, which is not updated as often. (i.e. [[Battlestar Wiki Media:Standards and Conventions]] is a project, but is enforcable.)

== What is a Policy? ==

=== Project-Policy ===

'''Project-Policy''' pages on ''Battlestar Wiki Media'' take the form of something that tons of people work on. However, sometimes certain projects can also be policies. This can get confusing. Those projects, though marked with the {{tl|Project}} tag, could still fall under this page's rules and guidelines. It all depends on the project's goal when trying to determine if it is a legitimate project-policy page. Even though anyone can create a project, the mere creation of a policy page does not make it an official policy. It still has to go through the policy procedures to become an official policy. A current listing of project-policy pages that are also official policies are listed below.

=== Policy ===

A '''policy''' on ''Battlestar Wiki Media'' is a document that was created to set procedures or to make an "official" act based on what is needed for this Wiki. Some of the policies might be the same (i.e. [[Battlestar Wiki Media:Candidates for deletion]] vs [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion|Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion]]) but still have some slight changes in the wording and procedures for operating. The reason for this is because ''Battlestar Wiki Media'' has a relatively small number of users in comparison to [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia|Wikipedia's]] user base of 100,000+.

== Steps to getting a policy consensus ==

If you create a policy and you are looking for consensus, make sure that you follow these steps before proceding. Note: When you are creating a policy, make sure you have the {{tl|inuse}} template active on the top of the page, so people know you are working on your policy. Project-Policy and Policy pages should only exist on the <tt>'''Battlestar Wiki Media'''</tt> namespace.

# Place the {{tl|Proposed Policy}} tag on the top of the page.
# After saving, go to the talk page and press the "edit" button.
# Insert the {{tls|PPV}} template, and press save.
#* Go back and edit the places where you need to fill in the reason
# Edit the talk page, giving a reason why you believe the proposed policy should be an offical policy.

Voting lasts for two weeks. Support from '''80%+''' of voters is required after the two weeks to become offical policy. Major changes should not happen during the voting time. Anytime their are significent changes top the proposed policy based on the debate in the talk page, the voting shall restart.

=== Without consensus ===

Only the site admin, [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]], can make a policy official/active without consensus. All other policy recomendations must pass through consensus.

== Active Policies ==
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* [[Battlestar Wiki Media:Copyright problems|Copyright problems]] -
* [[Battlestar Wiki Media:Derivative Works|Derivative Works]] -
* [[Battlestar Wiki Media:Image tagging policy|Image tagging policy]] - How do I tag an image I uploaded?
* [[Battlestar Wiki Media:Vandalism|Vandalism]] - How we handle "[[:en:Toaster|Toaster]]s".

=== Project-Policies ===
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Standards and Conventions|Standards and Conventions]] - Rules on formating pages on the Wiki.

== Proposed Policies ==
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* [[Battlestar Wiki Media:Banning policy|Banning policy]] - What are the rules on banning people from the Wiki.
* [[Battlestar Wiki Media:Candidates for deletion|Candidates for deletion]] - How pages are deleted from this Wiki.
* [[Battlestar Wiki Media:Image use policy|Image use policy]] - What type of images are allowed on this Wiki.
* [[Battlestar Wiki Media:Privacy policy|Privacy policy]] - How Battlestar Wiki Media collects the traffic that comes through the site.
* [[Battlestar Wiki Media:Protected page|Protected page]] - How a page on the Wiki becomes "Protected".
* [[Battlestar Wiki Media:Undeletion policy|Undeletion policy]] - If a page was deleted, this policy explains on how the undeletion procedures work.

== Propsed Policies for Removal ==
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== See Also ==

*[[:Category:Battlestar Wiki Media policies]]
*[[:Category:Battlestar Wiki Media proposed policies]]
*[[:Category:Battlestar Wiki Media proposed policies for removal]]

Battlestar Wiki Media:Policy - Revision history

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