Halopedia:Standards Council of Halopedia/Senate

This page is for the Senators to manage the SCoH. Only Senators are allowed to vote on proposals here, though comments from the Senate Gallery are appreciated.

Senate
Ok, so there's 4 stages that a proposal should go through
 * 1) Drafting
 * 2) Discussion
 * 3) Voting
 * 4) Passed/failed

Drafting, I think the (co)author(s) should decide (and make clear) whether the drafting is open (available to the public) or closed (public can comment, but the author doesn't want them to touch the actual text). Obviously, they can switch it from closed to open at a later point - or vica versa but I hope that doesn't happen. The proposal doesn't exit the drafting stage until the (co)author(s) decide to move it to discussion stage

Discussion is basically to ensure that the SCoH has a chance to suggest fixes or changes or raise concerns before the proposal goes to vote - especially if it was drafted beforehand and then posted. The Discussion stage lasts a minimum of a week and it will only proceed to vote if the (co)author(s) say it can. Drafting, at this stage, is closed.

For Voting, I think it's been noted that it should stay for at least a week, needs two admin approvals, a majority vote, and at least 10 votes cast to be passed (failure is getting to ten votes and one week without either the majority or the admin approval). If it takes too long to get to 10 votes, than the problem is inactivity or lack of interest so I don't think the drafter should be punished for such situations (and 10 votes shouldn't be too hard to achieve) and thus the vote remains open until that 10 vote minimum is met. Also, drafting at this stage is frozen - not even the (co)author(s) can touch it.

If it fails, well, yeah. However, we do need to get a link from the help pages to passed Standards - but we'll figure that out when we actually have passed standards.

Sound good? --forgottenlord 14:14, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Senate
As you've probably seen by now, there's an article quality levels proposed standard sitting around. Now, I've circulated the idea that the Executive Branch would be responsible for assigning quality levels - but for 5000 articles, having a nice orderly way of doing so seems.....impossible. I'm open to suggestions on that point.

Additionally, I'm wondering what the best way to designate these pages would be. Should it be an era tag (which would, technically, be a violation of usergroup policy) or some other method?

Thoughts? --forgottenlord 13:59, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Gallery
I'm trying to understand your idea about levels of quality, as I have a suggestion. Maybe there should be just Levels of Quality labeled simply, "Level 1, Level 2, etc" that could be used to determine the developing quality of a page. I suggest that multiple "stickers or stamps" are made that may state, "This page is a Level 3 Article," that are placed onto the top of the page. For those who have a heavy knowledge of programming, maybe the stamp could reside behind the text, and be slightly transparent (for reading ease).

-Comments? --  Lovemuffin  •••  Talk undefined  Edit Count undefined Contributions undefined 04:38, 25 September 2008 (UTC)


 * The problem with using "Level X" would be that it is less clear to users who aren't as aware of our quality levels. Seeing an article marked "Poor Quality" will tell them that we consider it an article that needs improvement.  Equally, seeing an article marked as "Good Quality" will tell them that we consider it to be relatively well written.  Seeing an article marked "Level 3 quality" means something only to those that know our quality levels. --forgottenlord 13:52, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, there is that, "Level X, _____ Quality" could bre placed, becuase that way new people could understand it better, then learn really, what each means.


 * Another matter I considered when it came to the stamp would be the duration. The Stamp needs to be a template where one can say at what date the article received the stamp. The Stamp will not give a quality grade of the article, but rather a "hall of fame," where receiving a stamp is similar to a miniature Featured Article. On the Levels note, possibly Stars, similar to the rating system? --  Lovemuffin  [[Image:Dancing_master_chief.gif|30px]] •••  Talk undefined  Edit Count undefined Contributions undefined 23:24, 25 September 2008 (UTC)


 * This discussion really should be on the drafting page for the standard itself. The only reason I brought stuff up here was because I'm concerned about logistics from the SCoH's perspective. --forgottenlord 00:47, 26 September 2008 (UTC)