Moegirlpedia:Topic management policy

This page, "Moegirlpedia:Topic management policy", is an active policy of English Moegirlpedia. The text of the policies has been deliberated and adopted by the community. All users have the responsibility to follow the policies outlined in this text. If you see a need to amend or change the policy, please start a discussion thread on the discussion board. If the policy does need to be amended/changed, please start a corresponding proposal.

In the process of editing a particular subject, that is, a "topic", the editors, after collaborating to reach a consensus, may develop a series of rules to guide the writing of pages under said topic, that is, the "topic editing guidelines".

The purpose of this page is to clarify the definition of a "topic" from a technical point of view, provide management for the "topic editing guidelines" series of pages, including matters of ecreation, editing, coordinating, etc.

Definition

• Within Moegirlpedia, a "topic" refers to a series of articles on the same subject with derived templates and categories.

Protection

• "Topic editing guideline" pages should all be listed on this page.

Categorization of topic editing guidelines

• "Editing guidelines" pages should all be written using the "Moegirlpedia:" namespace, categorized under Category:Moegirlpedia topic guidelines, and use the uniform title "×× topic editing guidelines".
• Editing guidelines documents must use the full title of the topic covered, no abbreviations, acronyms or aliases shall be used.

Creation, editing and omission of topic guidelines

Creation

• "Editing guidelines" pages are written in accordance with Moegirlpedia:Policies, Guidelines and Essays. Provisions for essays:
  • Moegirlpedia essays are supplements and clarifications written by the wiki's editors regarding the existing policies and guidelines in the wiki. Due to various reasons, it may have not yet met the conditions to become a wiki policy or guideline, and it should not conflict with existing policies or guidelines. If a user does not want the essay they wrote to be edited by others or contradict the majority consensus, it should be placed under a user page.

Editing

• The revision of the "Editorial guidelines" shall comply with the following procedures:
  • A new topic should be added to the discussion page of the corresponding guidelines to start the editing process

Omission

• Bureaucrats, or more than three administrators, have the right to omit pages in the category of "editorial guidelines" for reasons such as the page being outdated or going against the site-wide policy.
• The maintainers have the right to mark old pages and unmaintained "Editorial guidelines" on related topics as obsolete.

In principle

• When there is a conflict between the topic guidelines and the site-wide guidelines, the site-wide guidelines shall prevail.
• There can be only one "Editing guidelines"-type document for a specific topic.
  • Subpages are extensions of the main page and should be listed within the main page.
  • Pages in the category of "Editorial guidelines", as pages with mandatory force, must clearly define the range of pages for which they are valid by limiting navbox templates, categories, etc.
• The "Topic editing guidelines" allow the regulation and guidance of the following content:
  • A brief description of the page range covered by this topic.
  • A unified naming form for related articles.
  • The scope of inclusion of navbox templates.
  • Categorization logic: including page categories and category tree structure.
  • Unified page writing form: including the hierarchy of each paragraph title, the use of specific functional templates, etc.
• Unified page style: including sidebar basemap, color matching style, etc.
• The inclusion criteria of relevant items included in the topic, but should not exceed the scope of inclusion stipulated in the guidelines.
  • In particular, topic guideline documents shall not make mandatory provisions on the scope of inclusion.
• It is allowed to link the topic editorial guideline page corresponding to this topic in the page-top template, page-top navigation templates, and navbox templates.