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STANDARDS COUNCIL OF HALOPEDIA

Purpose
The Standards Council of Halopedia exists to streamline Halopedia's continuing drive to improve it's quality and become an Encyclopedia on everything Halo. To achieve this goal, the SCoH has two objectives.
 * 1) To establish standards and standardized formats for both articles in general and specific types of articles. These standards are then to be codified in Halopedia's Help and Policy sections so that new users are able to learn and understand the expectations of this community
 * 2) To promote bringing pages throughout Halopedia into compliance with established standards and expectations ranging from existing policies to those accepted by the Standards Council.

While these two objectives are closely related, they are also distinct and require considerably different skills. To ensure people are given a chance to work and be rewarded in the area that suits them the most, the SCoH has been split into two groups that each are responsible for one of the objectives: the Legislative and Executive branches who's responsibilities respectively correspond to the above objectives.

As Halopedia is for all to edit and contribute, its standards should be built by the cooperation of all. As per our Usergroup policy, each usergroup is to allow all members of Halopedia to join. This usergroup is not to restrict discussion of the standards from any Halopedian but to give a place where the focus is to develop the standards.

Leaders
(Senators go here)

Member List
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

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

Executive Branch

Purpose
The Executive Branch exists to promote the implementation of the existing standards by rebuilding pages to conform with the stated standard. The Executive branch will launch improvement drives and will be responsible for acknowledging pages that have successfully achieved particular levels of quality with sole exception to Featured Article.

Promotions in the Executive Branch will be given solely for one's work at achieving the Executive Branch's goals.