Policies and guidelines document good practice on the Final Fantasy Wiki as established by consensus. The degree of enforcement should be handled on a case-by-case basis, as not all conventions described here work in every situation. Rather, these pages exist to help keep contributors up to speed on all previously made community decisions, ensuring consistency and cohesiveness across the site. Policies also exist to help guide dispute resolution and administrative action to maintain a constructive, collaborative environment on the site.
Generally, policies govern the inclusion or exclusion of content on the site, whereas guidelines govern the presentation of such content. Policies are usually intentionally broad, presenting an ideal to aim for and the steps to get there. Guidelines are generally less strict than policies in enforcement, but more specific in purview.
Content policies[]
Content policies concern the content within the mainspace (articles) of the wiki.
- Project:Verifiability — Content should be verifiable against reliable sources, preferably using citations and references to support contentious or extraordinary claims.
- Project:Notability — Topics must be important, unique, or independently viable to have dedicated articles. Information within articles should be relevant to the average user.
- Project:Scope — The Final Fantasy Wiki does not devote coverage to everything conceivably related to the Final Fantasy series. Included topics must help meet the wiki's goals.
Procedural policies[]
Procedural policies concern how users behave on and interact with the wiki.
- Project:Consensus — Decisions are made, and disputes are resolved, according to an organic process by which well reasoned arguments are prioritized, rather than majority rule.
- Project:Moderation — Policies concerning administrative use of sysop and content moderator access levels (namely deletion, reverting, blocking, and page protection).
- Project:Conduct — Among other etiquette, don't be a dick, and there are some restrictions on user pages.
Guidelines[]
Guidelines concern the usage and presentation of different types of content.
- Project:Manual of Style — Governs the style standards within articles. Its primary goal is to maintain stylistic consistency across articles.
- Project:File use — Concerns the uploading, organization, and use of files on the wiki. Sections "Before uploading a file" and "Uploading a file" are considered content policies rather than guidelines.
- Project:Walkthroughs — Concerns the creation, naming, and authorship of walkthroughs. Sections "Editing someone else's walkthrough" and "Time limits" are considered content policies rather than guidelines.
- Category:Template documentation — All templates have individualized guidelines concerning their use, and should be treated as reflections of (and written according to) consensus.
Outdated policies and guidelines[]
The following policies and guidelines have not been updated for the current state and practices of the Final Fantasy Wiki, but they largely still apply. They may already be covered by other pages above.
- Project:Upcoming Games Policy — Content related to announced but as yet unreleased topics must be official, sourced, and follow all other policies and guidelines.
- Project:Spoiler Policy — The Final Fantasy Wiki is a comprehensive resource and will contain spoilers, but aims to allow readers to avoid them.
- Project:Translations Pages — Describes pages listing translations for releases that are in scope. Sections "Covered translations" and "Covered content" are considered content policies rather than guidelines.
- Project:Disambiguation Pages — Concerns the purpose and structure of disambiguation pages on the wiki.
- Project:Etymology — Concerns the creation, content, and usage of etymology pages on the wiki. Section "Creation" is considered a content policy rather than guideline.
- Project:Userpages — Describes the use of each user's personal userspace.
- Project:Sporking Wikipedia articles — Covers the process of migrating content from Wikipedia when needed.