User:Pentium5dot1/Essays/Comparison of Wikipedia and Uncyclopedia policies
NOTE: This essay is entirely original research, except where specific sources are cited. Also, except where otherwise stated, the word "policies" refers to policies and guidelines.
General observations[edit | edit source]
While Wikipedia's rules are guided by the principle of assuming good faith, Uncyclopedia policies and guidelines instead center around the principle of denying recognition to malicious editors. (TODO: Is the listing of sanctions at UN:OFFICE contrary to that? Or is it reasonable given its similar purpose to the "General sanctions" portion of Wikipedia's arbitration process?) This is problematic because Uncyclopedia administrators tend to hold poor-quality contributions tantamount to vandalism, irrespective of any reasonable assumption of faith.
Also, Uncyclopedia is often misused by Wikipedia vandals as a safe haven[citation needed]
Licensing[edit | edit source]
FIXME
Article improvement and maintenance processes[edit | edit source]
FIXME
Organized improvement efforts[edit | edit source]
FIXME
Maintenance templates[edit | edit source]
FIXME
Inclusion and deletion policies[edit | edit source]
On any wiki(?), the availability heuristic influences the selection of pages for deletion. Explain how this is detrimental to Uncyc - people should be primarily making use of special pages (Special:Newpages, Special:Shortpages, Special:Lonelypages, Special:Deadendpages, Special:Random) to find deletable articles. What actually happens is that popular but substandard articles get nominated for deletion instead of being fixed, while the true noobcruft is largely ignored.
Notability and stubs[edit | edit source]
Uncyclopedia is generally less tolerant than Wikipedia of stub articles.
Speedy deletion[edit | edit source]
TODO: Explain the difference between Wikipedia's speedy-deletion templates and Uncyclopedia's QVFD system
Here is a list of Wikipedia's speedy deletion criteria and how they apply to Uncyclopedia:
General[edit | edit source]
- G1: Patent nonsense
Valid on Uncyclopedia; interpreted very broadly - G2: Pages used only for test edits
Valid on Uncyclopedia; interpreted very broadly - G3: Pure vandalism, including redirect vandalism
Valid on Uncyclopedia; interpreted very broadly - G4: Repost of deleted material
Valid on Uncyclopedia; interpreted broadly - G5: Contributions by banned user in violation of ban
Data are deficient since ban evasion does not occur as often on Uncyclopedia as on Wikipedia (except in cases of cross-wiki serial vandals). See also #Blocking and banning - G6: Housekeeping (history merges, etc)
Valid on Uncyclopedia - G7: Sole author of a non-userspace page requests its deletion
Valid on Uncyclopedia if the creator blanks the page. Otherwise, a full deletion discussion is advised - G8: Pages dependent upon a nonexistent page, such as talk pages without corresponding articles and redirects to nonexistent pages (supersedes R1 and C3)
Valid on Uncyclopedia, but not always dealt with promptly - G9: Office actions
Uncyclopedia has no formal analogue of this process, but administrators may accept deletion requests by email or IRC - G10: Pages that serve only to disparage (attack) their subject
Valid on Uncyclopedia; interpreted broadly[1] - G11: Blatant advertising
Valid on Uncyclopedia - G12: Blatant copyright infringement
Valid on Uncyclopedia
Articles[edit | edit source]
- A1: Very short page providing little or no context
Valid on Uncyclopedia; interpreted very broadly - A2: Foreign-language articles that exist on another language version of the wiki
Possibly valid on Uncyclopedia; may not be dealt with promptly - A3: No content other than external links, categories, and "see also" sections
Valid on Uncyclopedia - A5: Transwikied articles
Valid on Uncyclopedia; note that Illogicopedia is the only true transwiki target likely to be available. Actually, the usual procedure for transwikiing to Illogicopedia is "VFD debate, userfy, then transwiki" - A7: Article does not assert notability of subject
Valid on Uncyclopedia; interpreted broadly[1] - A9: Article about a musical recording which does not assert importance, where the artist lacks an article
Valid on Uncyclopedia - A10: Newly created article duplicates information found in an existing article without adding anything useful, and the title of the new article is not plausible for a redirect
Valid on Uncyclopedia; interpreted broadly
Redirects[edit | edit source]
- R2: Redirects to userspace from article space
Not necessarily valid for speedy deletion on Uncyclopedia; governed mainly by the vanity policy[2] - R3: Redirects from implausible typos or misnomers
Valid on Uncyclopedia; interpreted broadly
Files[edit | edit source]
Unlike Wikipedia, Uncyclopedia does not have formal criteria governing the use of non-free content and will usually delete images only in the event of a specific copyright complaint. Unlike the Wikimedia Commons, the "Uncyclomedia Commons" is not located on a separate domain name from the English Uncyclopedia.
Hence, the following WP:CSDs for images are presumed invalid on Uncyclopedia: F3, F4, F6, F7, and F8. All others are potentially valid on Uncyclopedia (see wikipedia:WP:CSD#Files for a full explanation of the criteria).
Categories[edit | edit source]
- C1: Empty categories
Valid on Uncyclopedia - C2: Speedy renaming to correct minor mistakes
Uncertain
User pages[edit | edit source]
- U1: Owner requests deletion
Valid on Uncyclopedia - U2: Nonexistent user
Valid on Uncyclopedia except where in-jokes or special titles are involved[3] - U3: Galleries of non-free images
Unlikely to be valid on Uncyclopedia; see above
Templates[edit | edit source]
- T2: Blatant misrepresentations of established policy
Valid on Uncyclopedia if sufficiently egregious, but a full deletion debate is preferred - T3: Deprecated and redundant templates
Valid on Uncyclopedia; note that unlike on Wikipedia, there is no 7-day grace period
Portals[edit | edit source]
TODO: Uncyclopedia has only recently implemented a portal system (carefully examine the Main Page). It is not actually a separate namespace.
Deletion debates[edit | edit source]
FIXME
Other deletion processes[edit | edit source]
FIXME
Discipline and vandalism prevention[edit | edit source]
FIXME
Page protection[edit | edit source]
FIXME
Blocking and banning[edit | edit source]
Uncyclopedia does not formally distinguish between blocking and banning, instead using the word "ban" to refer to any (punitive) block.
Uncyclopedia users are expected to use IRC as their primary(??) method of appealing blocks, whereas on Wikipedia on-wiki methods are to be tried first.
Userspace[edit | edit source]
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User pages[edit | edit source]
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User subpages[edit | edit source]
FIXME
User talk pages[edit | edit source]
FIXME
Summary table[edit | edit source]
FIXME
Notes[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Uncyclopedians frequently refer to attack pages as "slandanity" (from slander + vanity). See also Uncyclopedia:Vanity Policies.
- ↑ Such redirects are usually acceptable as in-jokes. Examples include Suprise sex.
- ↑ Examples of such in-jokes include User:127.0.0.1 and User:Steve Ballmer. See also Flammable (talk) (listusers).