Minecraft Wiki talk:Wiki rules

MCW:Wiki rules/Revision 1
Should that page get updated to the lastest rules, basically like the editcopy of the main page? Also, wouldn't it be more consistant to call the page "/editcopy" rather than "revision 1"? – KnightMiner  · (t) 20:22, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Possible rule addition
I think there should be a language/swearing policy so users do not swear or use rude language. Thanks, TeamClawPath (talk) 16:45, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Possible text: . In case it is not clear, I am in favour of this proposal. Related fact: "No profanity" is a rule on the Russian wiki. --GreenStone (judge me) 16:52, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
 * . By the way, I think GreenStone is about point 5 of the General rules sections of that wiki’s set of rules. Norrius et. al. made a more structured, grouped and wider set of rules. — Agent NickTheRed37 (talk) 17:12, 8 September 2015 (UTC)


 * I think this is already covered by rule 3. Perhaps the language could be tweaked to be more explicit, but this doesn't need to be a separate rule. -- Orthotopetalk 17:53, 8 September 2015 (UTC)


 * I think rule 3 is fine as it is. One person's profanity is another person's emphatic adjective and as long as the language isn't used to insult/harass/etc., it's fine. It's important that people be able to communicate in the way they are accustomed to doing -- saying that some forms of speech are inappropriate is equivalent to saying members of some cultures are not wanted here (and which words are appropriate can differ by location). Profanity is also subjective and evolving. For example, is "sucks" profanity? Most people of my generation use it as just a generic descriptive of badness, but previous generations and those from more modest cultures (e.g., American midwest) can be offended by it. How about SNAFU or FUBAR? Both evoke profanity, but not explicity, yet could offend older people while being completely unknown to younger. The word "bloody" has virtually no stigma to an American but can offend British speakers. Are we going to have a list somewhere of what words count as profanity and what debatable words do not? The path of censorship is a morass of questions. &mdash;munin &middot; Grid_Book_and_Quill.png Grid_Stone_Pickaxe.png &middot; 18:44, 8 September 2015 (UTC)


 * While I am personally against profanity, I would have to agree with Munin on this. It is impossible to define a list of all the disallowed profanity, especially since words may or may not be profanity based on the person. And with profanity already not being within the writing style on articles, the only pages really affected would be the rare talk page or edit summary.
 * On that topic, I would avoid adding rules added just for the sake of having them. There has not been any problem with profanity recently (in fact, I have rarely seen any), so such a rule would basically be saying "don't do this thing you are not doing". Instead if you don't like profanity, simply avoid using it, and if you see a user using profanity, you can kindly say something on their talk page like "while it is not against the rules, it would be nice if you did not use profanity in your talk page messages". – KnightMiner  · (t) 04:28, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Vote for support withdrawn. However, I propose the following change to rule 2:  This provides links to relevant Wikipedia policies so that those who read the rules and want to learn more can simply click the links to do that. The proposed rule also sounds more official (which an official document (which the rules page is) should probably be). Also, the addition of disruptive editing makes a situation possible where a user is officially warned for using profanity when they were previously unofficially told to try to tone it down. --GreenStone (judge me) 10:04, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree to that. I have seen users blocked before for disruptive editing, so it makes sense to directly state it in the rules. (though "absolute no-no" was such fun wording :P) – KnightMiner  · (t) 14:19, 9 September 2015 (UTC)