Outward Wiki:Article Management Templates

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This is an overview of all templates that can be used in Article management. Outward Wiki has two more sources of templates:

Templates are extremely helpful in keeping content consistent and exactly the same on all pages where the content is being used. For more information about Templates, go to Help:Template.

Here you can find the messages boxes templates which are displayed on top of certain pages.

Policy related templates

Policy Proposal

Zhwp Question Mark.svg This is a policy proposal and requires a vote to be ratified or rejected by the policy process.
  • You may vote and discuss on this policy's Discussion page.
  • Please do not take action (i.e. remove this banner) until voting has met the Policy voting policy requirements.

Policy Proposal Discussion

Discussion icon.png This policy is under proposal.
  • A consensus must be reached by voting before any action is taken.
  • Please read the policy voting policy before voting.
The Discussion stage
In this stage you can ask questions for clearification and discuss matters to make the proposal better before sending it vote.
To discuss and ask your question
Click [Edit] in the upper-right hand corner of the comments section.
The process
All questions have to be answered within the seven (7) calendar days period.
If the proposal needs to be adjusted, make a section adjustment stating what is going to be adjusted and how.
If there are adjustments, at the end of the 7 days period, add a section Final proposal before the proposal gets send to the voting process.
  • If after 7 days there are more questions and more discussion is needed:
    1. Wait another 7 days until all questions are answered before finalizing the proposal. Maximum clarification and discussion time is 14 consecutive days.
  • After finalizing the proposal:
    1. Replace {{Policy discussion}} with {{Vote/Vote}} on the article.

Policy Vote in progress

  • {{Vote/Vote}} displays a banner stating a vote is in progress.
Zhwp Question Mark.svg A vote is in progress!
  • A consensus must be reached by voting before any action is taken.
  • If one side outnumbers the other by five votes for five (5) days, that side is declared the winner.
To vote
Click [Edit] in the upper-right hand corner of the votes section, and add your vote in one the following methods (note that not all votes will have Yes/No options):
  • {{vote|Yes|~~~~|optional comment}}
or
  • {{vote|No|~~~~|optional comment}}
Then click Save page and you are done!
Replace |~~~~| with |sig=~~~~|| if you have a complicated signature!
To discuss the vote
Click [Edit] in the upper-right hand corner of the comments section.
The voting process
See Outward Wiki:Voting policy for full details.
Make the following changes based on the outcome:
  • If you are adding the winning vote, or notice that one side is in fact winning:
    1. Change {{Vote/Vote}} on this talk page to {{Vote/Closing}}
  • If Yes has won, and 5 days have passed
    1. Change {{Vote/Closing}} on this talk page to {{Accepted}}
    2. Add {{Ratified}} on this talk page
  • If No has won, and 5 days have passed
    1. Change {{Vote/Closing}} on this talk page to {{Declined}}
    2. Do not remove the votes!
  • If necessary, you may archive votes to Outward Wiki:Article Management Templates/Archivevote.


Accepted

  • {{accepted}} displays a banner stating the policy proposal has been accepted.
Success.svg This proposal was accepted by a winning Yes vote according to Outward Wiki Voting policy.
  • Please leave the voting record for historical reasons.

Policy Ratified

  • {{Ratified}} displays a banner stating the policy proposal has been Ratified.
Application-certificate-green.svg This policy has been ratified.
  • Implementation details should be discussed on this policy's Discussion page before being adopted.
  • Once the implementation has met the policy status requirements please replace {{Ratified}} with {{adopted}}.

Policy Adopted

  • {{adopted}} displays a banner stating the policy proposal has been adopted.
Application-certificate-green.svg This policy has been adopted.
  • This policy is currently being implemented following the details on the policy's Discussion page.
  • Once the implementation is complete, please remove {{Adopted}}. Alternatively, you may use {{Policy/Recalltalk}} to recall the policy.

Declined

  • {{declined}} displays a banner stating the policy proposal has been declined.
Commons emblem hand.svg This proposal was declined by a winning No vote according to Outward Wiki Voting policy.
  • Please leave the voting record for historical reasons.
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