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The first proposed policy hierarchy

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(from 21 Aug 2012)

1.0 Guiding Principles

  • Goals and non-goals
  • The traveller comes first
  • Consensus
  • Plunge forward

2.0 Core Content Policies

  • Be fair
  • Don't tout
  • Tone

(note - I separated these seven policies out because I think they're the most important big-picture policies we have)

3.0 Community Policies

3.1 Unwanted Edits

  • How to handle unwanted edits
  • Edit war

3.2 Links

  • External links
  • Internal links
  • Inter-language links
  • Links to Wikipedia
  • Links to Open Directory

3.3 Specific Community Policies

  • Sex tourism policy
  • Illegal activities policy
  • Deletion policy
  • Protected page policy
  • Image policy
  • Privacy rights (possible VFD - seems to be people in photos, which is already covered in Image policy)
  • Main Page guidelines
  • Sock puppets
  • Using talk pages

3.4 Roles within the Community

  • Hierarchy
  • Administrators
  • Experts

3.5 Cooperating with other Websites

  • all of the various "cooperating with..." pages

3.6 Infrastructure and Software

  • Technical infrastructure policy
  • Script policy
  • Using Mediawiki templates

4.0 Organization of the Wiki

4.1 Hierarchy of Articles

  • Geographical hierarchy
  • Other ways to see travel

4.2 Creating Articles

  • What is an article?
  • Naming conventions
  • Bodies of water
  • Disambiguation pages

4.3 Structuring Articles

  • Article templates
  • Article templates/Sections
  • Section headers (possibly redundant, or revised and included in MoS)
  • Avoid long lists (the 7+2 rule, which doesn't seem to have it's own policy page... or maybe I'm missing it)
  • Information boxes
  • Listings
  • One-liner listings

4.4 Specific Content Policies

  • Rental listings
  • Tour operators
  • Information for gay and lesbian travellers
  • Routebox navigation

4.5 Article Status

  • Article status
  • Star nominations

5.0 Legal Information

5.1 Terms of Use

  • Cookies
  • Privacy policy
  • Terms of use

5.2 Licencing and Redistribution

  • Copyleft
  • CC-by-sa
  • Copyright details
  • Non-compliant redistribution
  • Dual licencing
  • Full text of CC-BY-SA 3.0
  • Full text of GFDL 1.2

6.0 Manual of Style

6.1 Content

  • Avoid HTML
  • Avoid negative reviews
  • Don't overlink
  • Neutrality of the medium
  • No advice from Captain Obvious
  • Geocoding

6.2 Language

  • Abbreviations
  • Use of pronouns (combine existing 1st and 2nd person policies into one)
  • Foreign words
  • Romanization
  • Spelling
  • Trademarks

6.3 Numbers and Dates

  • Currency
  • Time & date formats
  • Measurements
  • When to use dates

6.4 Formatting

  • Creating emphasis (combine existing bold and italic policies)
  • Phone numbers

Let me know what you think. Cheers -Shaund 05:08, 21 August 2012 (UTC)Reply