- Wikipedia:Civility
- In WP:CIVIL#Engaging in incivility, some material was rearranged and reworded. Added "It is sometimes difficult to make a hard-and-fast judgement of what is uncivil and what is not. Such a judgement may need to take into account such matters as (i) the intensity of the language/behavior; (ii) whether the behavior has occurred on a single occasion, or is occasional or regular; (iii) whether a request has already been made to stop the behavior, and whether that request is recent; (iv) whether the behavior has been provoked; and (v) the extent to which the behavior of others need to be treated at the same time." Removed "excessive sarcasm". Removed "for instance, calling someone a liar, or accusing him/her of slander or libel." Shortened "Using derogatory language towards other contributors or, in general, referring to groups such as social classes, nationalities, ethnic groups, religious groups, or others in a derogatory manner" to "derogatory references to groups such as social classes or nationalities". Also removed the following:
- Belittling contributors because of their language skills or word choice.
- Ridiculing comments from other editors, rather than making serious criticism of them.
- Feigned incomprehension, "playing dumb"
- Attempts to publicly volunteer other people's time and effort for work they have not agreed to perform.
- Use of condescending language towards other Users. (e.g. "You're just a newbie, you clearly don't understand how Wikipedia works, now try reading some policy pages before commenting again.") Wikipedia has no official rank structure and all Users should feel as though they are being treated as equals at all times.
- Wikipedia:Consensus
- In the nutshell, removed "Consensus is about how editors work with others. ... Policies and guidelines document communal consensus rather than creating it."
- In WP:CON#Process, removed: "That said, consensus is not simple agreement; a handful of editors agreeing on something does not constitute a consensus, except in the thinnest sense. Consensus is a broader process where specific points of article content are considered in terms of the article as a whole, and in terms of the article's place in the encyclopedia, in the hope that editors will negotiate a reasonable balance between competing views, as well as with the practical necessities of writing an encyclopedia and legal restrictions."
- Moved a paragraph from WP:CON#Exceptions to WP:CON#Level of consensus and shortened it to: "For instance, participants in a WikiProject cannot decide that some generally accepted policy does not apply to articles within its scope, unless they can convince the broader community that such action is right." Also in WP:CON#Exceptions, removed: "Wikimedia founding principles lays out the basic principles for all Wikimedia projects. These represent the consensus among all Wikimedia projects, and affect all of them. It is very hard to change them, because you need to convince such a large community. But they do change slowly over time."
- In WP:CON#Policies and guidelines, changed "Editors are therefore expected to discuss substantive changes on the talk page before making them." to "Editors are therefore typically expected to propose substantive changes on the talk page before making them. Don't do big things suddenly; the community is more likely to accept your edits if you do them slowly and make effort to keep the community involved."
- In WP:CON#Consensus as a result of the editing process, added: [Someone makes a change to a page] "(any page other than a talk page)," [then everyone who reads the page has an opportunity to leave it as it is, or change it. ... This is the simplest form of consensus, and it is used in everyday editing on the vast majority of Wikipedia's] "non-talk" [pages].
- Renamed WP:CON#Canvassing to WP:CON#Improper consensus-building, and changed it substantially from the August 31 version.
- Wikipedia:Editing policy
- In WP:EP#Adding information to Wikipedia, removed footnote with link to email by Jimmy Wales entitled "Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information". Added: "... because within Wikipedia no information is better than misleading or false information—Wikipedia's reputation as a trusted encyclopaedia depends on the information within articles being accurate."
- In WP:EP#Wikipedia is a work in progress: perfection is not required, removed: "It is wonderful when someone adds a comprehensive, well-researched, and well-written article to Wikipedia."
- In WP:EP#Try to fix problems: preserve information, changed "There is a tension between WP:PRESERVE and WP:BURDEN, and editors should consider whether the information is harmful." to "... particularly when it may be harmful. Unsourced negative material concerning living people should be removed immediately (as stated in Wikipedia's policy on burden of evidence)." Added: [merging it to another article] "with the original article turned into a redirect as described at performing a merge."
- In WP:EP#Be bold: edit, changed "In fact, some Wikipedians think you should not wait at all – simply change an article immediately if you see a problem, rather than waiting to discuss changes that you believe need to be made." to "If you see a problem that you can fix, do so." Some sentences were reworded or shortened with no significant changes.
- Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines
- In the introduction, changed "our goal of creating a free and neutral encyclopedia that anyone can edit." to "our goal of creating a free, reliable encyclopedia; indeed, the largest encyclopedia in history, both in terms of breadth and in terms of depth."
|