Forum:Battle for the Net - Nukapedia Support?

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Hello fellow Nukapedians, some of you may know that the FCC ruled against the idea of Net Neutrality early this year. What's net neutrality? In a sense, net neutrality is the idea that data over the internet is accessed at the same speed no matter the content. A blogpost on Community Central is reaching out to other wikis to rally support for Fight For The Future, a petition that sets out to have the FCC reclassify ISPs as common carriers that provide a utility. I come to you to ask if we would like to have Nukapedia support this petition.

How would we support this?

Nukapedia would support this by placing a banner that would allow users to sign the petition right from said banner (See the bottom of Brandon Rhea's blogpost for an example). I'd like to propose that Nukapedia would keep this banner on out home page for the span of one week.

Another Course of Action: The FTFF banner is fairly large, to the point were it might detract from the ease of navigation on our home page. So, below is a simple image banner that links to the FTFF sign up main page where users and read up on the topic and sign the petition if they desire to. This way we can support FTFF in a manner that doesn't prohibit our users from navigating the home page.

Discussion

Place any thoughts and/or questions you have below. Thanks for your consideration and I'll see you all around. -- ^{Watch in awe!} 01:26, September 11, 2014 (UTC)

Just like the old PIPA/SOPA thing, I would oppose participating as a wiki in this. Our focus is on the content of the Fallout series and other relevant material, and adopting political positions as a whole wiki is not what we are here for. While our members will always have a diverse set of beliefs and views, the wiki as a whole must always remain neutral and focus on what the wiki exists for. --Skire (talk) 02:09, September 11, 2014 (UTC)

I have to agree with Danny - as an encyclopedia, it is not our place to force any sort of political/ideological views down anyone's throats. I have already opposed the removal of net neutrality personally with a letter, and Wikia Staff are already throwing in their support. It might be good to let everyone know the situation at hand, since this does affect Wikia and its wikis, but the PSA needs to be neutral, so that everyone can create their own opinions on the matter, and handle it personally instead of having our wiki make their decisions for them by default. ^{Some Assembly Required!} 02:14, September 11, 2014 (UTC)

I can't really argue with that. We're here to create a resource of all things Fallout and it's best if the site stays neutral as Danny stated. We could move forward with a neutral PSA of sorts, though that might border us being a news site. Which would bring us back to the same question, "this relates to Fallout how?" -- ^{Watch in awe!} 02:26, September 11, 2014 (UTC)

It would relate to the upkeep of our wiki and community. Net Neutrality does affect us, to a large degree, which means it is an important topic to cover, so that we may educate our editors and viewers. ^{Some Assembly Required!} 02:29, September 11, 2014 (UTC)

I can. It doesn't really matter what we're here for, we as a wiki have all the business in the world supporting the freedom of the internet. Staying 'neutral' in an issue with such vital importance to the future of the wiki itself, is a lazy cop-out. 02:30, September 11, 2014 (UTC)