Wikibooks:Policies and guidelines/Proposed reform

This page seeks to set out all current and currently proposed policies and reference them to proposals made for discussion purposes. Everything in here is open for discussion. The general principles to these reforms should be discussed on this central page. Comments specific to individual discussion drafts should be made on their own talk pages.

Policy list
Area	Name	Status	Current proposals	Diffs	Date updated	Notes
Licensing	GNU Free Documentation License	official	keep unchanged	n/a	18 May 2006	this needs to be whatever the Wikimedia Foundation says it is
Copyright	Wikibooks:Copyrights	official	keep existing text unchanged, but merge content from other policies into this - read the proposed new text Wikibooks:Copyrights/Proposed merger	[1]	18 May 2006	There is no real reason why most of our copyright policies can't be merged into one, which would make them easier to read
	Wikibooks:Designated agent	official	keep unchanged, but also transclude into Wikibooks:Copyright	n/a	18 May 2006	this needs to be whatever the Wikimedia Foundation says it is
	Wikibooks:Fair Use Policy	proposed	merge into Wikibooks:Copyright	n/a	18 May 2006
	Wikibooks:Image use policy	proposed	merge into Wikibooks:Copyright	n/a	18 May 2006
Content	Wikibooks:Forking policy	proposed	Merge concept into Wikibooks:What is Wikibooks/Unstable	n/a	27 Dec 2006
	Wikibooks:Naming policy	official	Propose to keep the current text	n/a	18 May 2006
	Wikibooks:Neutral point of view	official	keep unchanged, but refer to it in Wikibooks:What is Wikibooks/Unstable	n/a	27 Dec 2006
	Wikibooks:What is Wikibooks	official	Replace with new policy on Wikibooks:What is Wikibooks/Unstable	[2]	18 May 2006
	Wikibooks:Deletion policy	official	proposal to update staled	n/a	27 Dec 2006
	Wikibooks:Annotated texts	proposed	Proposal to adopt	n/a	27 Dec 2006
	Wikibooks:Editing disputes policy	proposed	revised proposal on Wikibooks:Editing policy/Proposal	n/a	18 May 2006
	Wikibooks:Editing policy	proposed	revised proposal on Wikibooks:Editing policy/Proposal	[3]	18 May 2006
	Wikibooks:Protected page	official	revised proposal on Wikibooks:Editing policy/Proposal	n/a	18 May 2006
	Wikibooks:Semi-protection policy	proposed	revised proposal on Wikibooks:Editing policy/Proposal	n/a	18 May 2006
	Wikibooks:Game manual guidelines	proposed	propose to remove	n/a	18 May 2006	Needs reform to fit with where Wikibooks about games should go, and to finish for once and all the game guide debate.
	Wikibooks:Manual of Style	official	Propose to remove to move to Help namespace	n/a	18 May 2006
Administrative	Wikibooks:General voting rules	official	Propose to continue development of this until it becomes policy	n/a	18 May 2006
Behaviour	Wikibooks:No personal attacks	official	keep unchanged	n/a	27 Dec 2006
	Wikibooks:Assume good faith	proposed	Reject this wording and go with an overarching Wikibooks:Be civil policy	n/a	27 Dec 2006
	Wikibooks:Profanity	official	keep unchanged	n/a	27 Dec 2006
	Wikibooks:Please do not bite the newcomers	guideline	keep unchanged	n/a	27 Dec 2006
	Wikibooks:Be civil	official	keep unchanged	n/a	27 Dec 2006
Disclaimers	Wikibooks:General disclaimer	in effect	Merge all disclaimers together into Wikibooks:Disclaimers/Proposed merger	n/a	18 May 2006	I don't know whether the Wikimedia Foundation requires these or not. If it does, then we should probably merge them into one and make them official policy (or give them some kind of official status). If not, perhaps we should remove them
	Wikibooks:Risk disclaimer	in effect	Merge all disclaimers together into Wikibooks:Disclaimers/Proposed merger	n/a	18 May 2006	As above
	Wikibooks:Medical disclaimer	in effect	Merge all disclaimers together into Wikibooks:Disclaimers/Proposed merger	n/a	18 May 2006	As above
	Wikibooks:Legal disclaimer	in effect	Merge all disclaimers together into Wikibooks:Disclaimers/Proposed merger	n/a	18 May 2006	As above
	Wikibooks:Content disclaimer	in effect	Merge all disclaimers together into Wikibooks:Disclaimers/Proposed merger	n/a	18 May 2006	As above

Other guidelines

For other guidelines see Wikibooks:Policies_and_guidelines#Guidelines. It is proposed to remove these (perhaps restoring them in the help namespace).

Resultant policies

Should the above proposals be accepted, we would be left with the following (and only the following) as policies:

• GNU Free Documentation License
• Wikibooks:Copyrights/Proposed merger
• Wikibooks:Designated agent (also transcluded into Wikibooks:Copyrights/Proposed merger)
• Wikibooks:What is Wikibooks/Unstable
• Wikibooks:Naming policy
• Wikibooks:Editing policy/Proposal
• Wikibooks:General voting rules
• Wikibooks:Be civil
• Wikibooks:Disclaimers/Proposed merger