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Hi Folks,

We've had a lot of talk about referencing lately. There seems to be a lot of consensus that there should be an official referencing policy detailing When to reference, and how to reference.

But, there doesn't seem to be a lot of engagement in this... It is pretty dry stuff, and there's a whole lot of stuff to go through, I'm thinking this is probably turning people off getting involved.

I'd like to propose a different solution. In modern democratic societies, we don't vote for everyone and everything. Sometimes we vote for the guy who makes a decision, or vote for some people to get together and make a decision. This allows those with particular interest or skills in an area to get stuck into it and get it done.

My proposal is this. We appoint a committee to get the referencing policy done. Its long, its complicated, and the nuts and bolts are probably not of interest, its just a matter of getting something that can be consistently followed done.

I see this working like the committee that Skire recruits for the NOTY, except for the most part I see it as self-selecting (Aimed or skewed if necessary to those with practical experience in referencing - University students, former University students, those who have created other documents or reports or worked on wikis with higher referencing standards). I and Ever, and around a handful of others at all levels would work together to provide one simple, comprehensive yet accessible/understandable policy, and that would be adopted on completion.

The rules of the committee would be the same for the wiki at large - Consensus is priority, and if not possible it falls to a majority. The committee would exist only to create this single policy, and dissolves on its completion - it can't act in any other area, and no single user (regardless of titles or special rights) can railroad things though.

After completion, I see the implementation being like when the rule on User Page Images was removed by admin consensus/fiat - the change is posted and if there are no objections gets adopted after a week. If there is objection, then it can either go to a vote as normal, or if its clearly overwelming, it gets dropped.

Are there any thoughts or comments on this? Agent c (talk) 03:28, February 24, 2014 (UTC)


I am in full support of this. I could make use of someone to condense the wording, a wiki-code expert to implement all the necessary templates (or perhaps create them), and immediate feedback.

The more volunteers with that expertise, the better. --The Ever Ruler (talk) 03:36, February 24, 2014 (UTC)

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