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thoughts on policy
===Irony===
It's pretty ironic that the content of this page includes the debate over the content of this page. Makes the whole thing seem kind of silly. --[[User:06mea|06mea]] 18:11, 16 March 2006 (EST)
===Questions/Observations for the Wiki Board===
# It would be helpful if you could reach some conclusions on the topic of what is and is appropriate for Willipedia in the near future. I am getting ''very'' different signals from different board members.
# Do you want to have controversial history here at all? I think you do, but you need to decide. I certainly don't want to spend more time on entries that will eventually be deleted.
# Perhaps you only want history on controversial topics which do not involve students. In that case, my recent entry on the KKK cookout would be fine, but QBE would not.
# Perhaps you only want student entries about students that have already graduated. In that case, we would need to wait another year before writing about QBE.
# Perhaps the policy should be to write about these incidents but not use actual names, just student X. That would be problematic for linking to things like Record articles which used the name or quoting people.
# I would suggest that Willipedia use the same standards as Wikipedia and the Record. If something is newsworthy, then the history is reported and names are used.
# We are all in favor of having these entries (if they are to be in Willipedia) being as complete and accurate and fair and well-written as possible. Some (fair) criticism has come my way on this account. Fine. Perhaps the board wants to vet these articles before they appear. Perhaps they should be handled differently than other articles. I do not think that this is helpful. I think that the same bottom up, start with whatever you have, everybody is free to add process that works for normal pages will also work fine for controversial topics. But, if the board feels different, some a different process could be used.
--[[User:Dkane|Dkane]] 09:32, 17 March 2006 (EST)
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