Halopedia:Standards Council of Halopedia/Legislative Branch

Legislative Branch

Purpose
The Legislative Branch of the Standards Council of Halopedia is committed to the development and maintenance of Halopedia editing and quality standards. We shall provide clear leadership on what is and isn't expected and ensure that these expectations are made available to all users across Halopedia.

Standards
All Standards are to spend a minimum of a week under development and a similar length of time at vote. Users wishing to submit a new standard should put it on a new page and leave a link to it in the "Under development" section. No standard will go to vote without the original author's indication that he has finished his contribution to the standard. Standards require a majority vote, a minimum of 10 votes in support, and at least two admin votes in support. Recently passed standards (within the last week or so) will be listed under "Recently passed" before being put in the long-term archive

Promotions within the Legislative branch will be given for one's constructive contributions to the development and maintaining of standards. This ranges from legitimately determining areas that new standards could be applied to to assisting in the drafting and improving of standards that have been suggested.

A Standard must:
 * 1) Have a clear focus.
 * 2) Indicate the reasoning behind its purpose. Reasonings can range from “Using X in Y way makes it look unprofessional and thus lowers our quality” to “To standardize the general format for X”
 * 3) Be concise enough that the average user can use the standard and complete enough that the average user knows what is expected

Under development

 * 1) Article Quality Levels Standard
 * 2) Blog Categories Standard
 * 3) Biography Articles Format Standard
 * 4) Weapons format standards
 * 5) Neutral Point of View standard
 * 6) Stub Standards

At Vote

 * 1) Main Article Standard
 * 2) References Format Standard
 * 3) Categories Standard
 * 4) Battle Articles Format Standard
 * 5) Language Standard

Recently passed

 * 1) Quotes Standard

For less recent standards that were passed, see our list of passed standards.