Soyjak Wiki:Policy
This page serves as a guideline for jannies. First off, you do it for free. Second, as a janny, you're volunteering to serve the community. Don't be a powerjanny, don't go on a clitty leaking rampage like a Selfish Little Fuck.
As a janny, you WILL maintain good conduct.
Rules for Janny
- You WILL enforce the Rules
- You WILL follow the Rules
- You WILL enforce the Manual of Style
- You WILL NOT ban an innocent user
- You WILL NOT fight with or disrupt a higher ranking janny
Handing Out Blocks
Editors are expected to follow the Rules, and jannies are expected to enforce them. If you block a user that broke no rules, then the ban is unfair. If you do this, you might get warned or de-jannied. Therefore, keep your bans fair.
Only serial vandals, and violators of Rule 1 should be permabanned. Otherwise, try to hand out temporary bans.
Ban evasion
When any particularly tenacious serial ban evader is discovered, make sure to revert all of their edits and delete all of their pages/files. This aggressive management is necessary to stop ban evaders from thinking they can continue to edit the wiki one account at a time. If regular editors bring back the edits you've reverted, then leave them be at that point.
Editors will complain on your talkpage, but be resolute and carry this out anyways, or else you WILL have terrible people editing the wiki regularly.
Deleting a page
Deletion is the final resort for pages that cannot possibly be salvaged through any means. Before a page can even be considered for deletion, it must fall into one of the following criteria:
- Stagnant low-quality page: a low-quality page that has not received any meaningful edits for two weeks can be considered for deletion.
- Banned page: self-explanatory, banned pages must be deleted.
- Gimmick spam: Kuz (fish's perspective) is fine, but the moment similar pages begin to be created for all the other admins, then it becomes gimmick spam and those pages must be culled, preserving the original. This also preserves the humor in the original gimmick page by preventing it from becoming stale. A notable example of gimmick spam is spineless weasel word page spam.
- Hoax page: page that consists solely of misinformation, except when purposefully used for a gimmick, though this may also devolve into gimmick spam and need to be dealt with like above. An example of hoax pages that have devolved into gimmick spam is hypothetical admin pages.
- Highly irrelevant page: for IAS articles, this includes things like total variant:unknowns and extremely minor events. For NAS articles, this includes pages concerning a topic that is documented elsewhere in much higher detail, instead of valuable internet culture. An example of an irrelevant NAS article is a surface-level article on a random video game, while a good NAS article would be one on an obscure imageboard or forum.
Once a page has been found to fall into one of the above criteria, it must first be marked for deletion and discussed before any further actions are done.
Please check the Marked for deletion list from time to time. Then, you judge whether each page should be deleted or not. Before deletion, check the What Links Here, especially on templates. If you decide it shouldn't be deleted, then you may remove the Delete template.
Steps
Once a page is marked for deletion, discussed, and must be actioned, it must first go through a series of steps to attempt to salvage it before resorting to deletion.
- Improve: Certain pages can be improved to meet the wiki's standards. This might not be possible depending on the subject (e.g, an article on an unarchived raid from a month ago).
- Merge: If a page cannot be improved or stand on its own, but could belong as a section or listing on another page, it must be redirected there and have its content incorporated into the target page.
- Move: If a page cannot be improved or merged, it must be moved to Draft: without creating a redirect.
- Delete: If a page cannot be improved, merge, or moved, (e.g due to being a banned page), then, and only then, can the page be deleted.
Speedy deletion
Only certain kinds of pages may be deleted without going through the procedure above:
- Banned pages: self-explanatory.
- Direct non-soysphere related plagiarism: for example, a copy paste of a Wikipedia page.
- Rulebreaking pages: pages that fundamentally break the wiki's ruleset, such as hosting illegal content, being a spam page, or a blatant ad such as that for a crypto project, etc. (not applicable for splinter documentation).
- Documentation of splinters or websites that link to or host illegal content falls under this rule.
- Extremely low-effort, one-sentence gigastubs.
Protecting a Page
Pages can be protected for various reasons. This action has the least consequences to pages and users, therefore it's the least regulated.
Just don't excessively protect pages, and don't remove a protection, unless it's somehow not permissible. If the protection aligns with the Examples Subsection, it's most likely permissible.
Examples of Protection
Below are some examples of when pages are typically protected:
- Templates are always semi-protected, permanently.
- Pages that experience edit wars are full-protected for a limited period of time. Semi-protection might not work, because autoconfirmed users may be involved.
- Certain pages can be soft removed. Not deleted, but rather changed to a redirect. Soft removal involves fully protecting the article.
- Banned pages are protected from being created.
Conduct
As a janny, you should focus on conduct, and treat regular editors with respect and decency. Otherwise, you'll be a coaly powerjanny. Your primary focus is the health of the wiki. It is a good idea to avoid targeting editors because you don't like them, or because they don't like you. This kind of behavior cripples the wiki by discouraging new contributors, who are the foundation of the wiki. If you want to de-escalate the situation, explain your actions on their talk page.
In general, you should always try to give utmost leeway to editors as long as their edits are in good faith and follow the wiki guidelines, even if you disagree with them. Disagreements should be humbly posted on their talk page. Don't instigate edit wars, because both parties will be guilty.
Ranks
Not all jannies are equal. If you have a dispute with another janny, then remember their rank, and yours. The more rights a janny has, the more of a say they have in manners. The wiki administrator has the highest rank, but it is advisable that they try to at least listen to site admins and come to a compromise in case of any disputes.
Disagreements are okay, but ultimately, the higher ranking janny has the final say. Do NOT edit war with a mod if you're a helper. Otherwise, apply common sense.
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