What is Fan History? • What are Fan History's goals? • What are Fan History's rules?

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Contents 1 Rule flexibility 2 Rule modification 3 Rules modified and people 4 Banning period and rules

[edit] Rule flexibility

The rules are a bit flexible. If a good argument can be made for changing them or making them more concrete, things can be changed. Please use this page to discuss that. --Laura 13:27, 16 December 2007 (CST)

[edit] Rule modification

Worth modifying the rules to include that unless other wise clearly presented in a fannish context (including whois information for fandom related domains, convention contact information or information that a person/company/site clearly puts out there as a form of contact with the wider population) that phone numbers and home addresses should not be included on pages about people? That such information will be removed (and my removed, I mean delete the article and then recreate it based on the pre information inclusion version) and the submitter will be banned? --Laura 22:05, 1 May 2008 (EDT)

I agree with that. SLWatson 22:06, 1 May 2008 (EDT)

Good good. Will leave open until tomorrow and then modify the rules. --Laura 22:15, 1 May 2008 (EDT)

Agreed. There's no need to include such information and the potential for abuse/privacy violations is too great.--Sidewinder 22:52, 1 May 2008 (EDT)

I, personally, never planned to include it except where relevant. (So the rule would probably need to be case by case.) In general though, um. No. And given some of the deletion requests, it feels important to say that on the rules just to reassure people that Fan History isn't going to allow that or encourage that on a wide scale. --Laura 22:59, 1 May 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Rules modified and people

I modified the people rule regarding personal information and added Help:People which clarifies some of this. Any additional feedback? --Laura 12:58, 2 May 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Banning period and rules

If some one blanks an article that should be deleted (IE, say an article like Sara/Sidle is created as a ship and that page really shouldn't be there), no banning for that offense. If some one does that, do comment on their user talk page and let them know that they should comment on the article's talk page so that the administrators know about so the article can be properly deleted.

I'd also like to sort of more formally work on creating the rules regarding banning. My first thought is that for real vandalism, where whole sections of the article are blanked or where jibberish is put in to replace article content, that a two week ban be done.

For everything else at the moment, outside of content being removed, I'd like the to basically have editors and administrators comment on user talk pages and article talk pages, explain the philosophy of the wiki, explain the rules, offer formatting advice, and then kindly ask them to work towards being in compliant with that. When necessary, revert the edits or find a neutral third party to help fix those edits. If the behavior persists, then institute say a two week ban. --Laura 08:58, 23 June 2008 (CDT)