Template:Draft proposal
 | The following is a draft working towards a proposal for adoption as an AARoads Wiki policy, guideline, or process. The proposal must not be taken to represent consensus, but is still in development and under discussion, and has not yet reached the approval stage. Thus references or links to this page should not describe it as policy, guideline, nor yet even as a proposal. |
Template documentationUsage
{{Proposal|AA:SHORTCUT}}
or
{{Draft proposal|AA:SHORTCUT}}
The only parameter is optional. If supplied, it displays as a link to the appropriate shortcut page for the proposal. (Note that this is not automatic; MediaWiki cannot determine the shortcut from the page itself. You need to discover or create the shortcut yourself.)
Adds pages to Category:Proposals or Category:Draft proposals if {{Draft proposal}} is used. Categorization of drafts can be suppressed with the |categories=no parameter.
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Purpose
The community roughly follows a set of official policies and guidelines (collectively often referred to simply as "policy"). Pages reflecting policy are written by editors in the "AARoads:" namespace. Other editors review these proposals and edit to improve them and move toward approval. Over time, many things may happen to a proposal – it may be changed substantially, be moved to a new location, become adopted as a policy or guideline, be rejected by the community, be recast as simply an essay, or fail to sufficiently develop into a viable proposal.
When a proposal is being advanced it is usual to tag the page with {{Proposed}}. Although a proposal is generally written in advisory tone, it is not policy until adopted by the community through the consensus-building process, and should not yet be tagged with {{Policy}} or {{Guideline}}.
If a proposal is still in the early formative stages and it is desired to gather creative suggestions from others on what purpose and direction such a proposal should have, one may wish to temporarily use the {{Brainstorming}} header template, and later use {{Draft proposal}} when these matters are clearer. Once proponents of a proposal are satisfied with the form it has taken and it is desired to move forward to the more intense debate that precedes policy acceptance by the community, {{Draft proposal}} should be replaced with {{Proposed}}. This change in status should be advertised so that interested parties have a fair chance to participate before anyone designates the proposal as rejected or adopted as policy. If there is a lack of discussion from the community, the proposal may be tagged with {{Dormant}}. The usual places to advertise a proposal are the talk pages of relevant other policies and guidelines or at The Interchange. A centralized discussion point (usually at the talk page of the proposal) is desirable.
Usage
{{Proposal
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}}The parameters are as follows:
1: First parameter, specifies a shortcut.2: Same as 1 (for multiple shortcuts)3: Same as 1 (for multiple shortcuts)4: Same as 1 (for multiple shortcuts)5: Same as 1 (for multiple shortcuts)type: The dealio of what kind of thing it's being proposed for. The default is "policy, guideline, or process".discussion: Link to specific discussion. Default is to link to the page's talk page (e.g. if your proposal is at AARoads:Meowing guidelines, it will link to AARoads talk:Meowing guidelines), but it can be set up to link elsewhere, like Module talk:Meowing#Proposal with|discussion=Module talk:Meowing#Proposal– don't include any[[w:...|...]]markup.section: Section link when using the default discussion page location (e.g. if your proposal is at AARoads:Meowing guidelines, add|section=Proposalto link to AARoads talk:Meowing guidelines#Proposal)category: Replace Category:Draft proposals with something else, like Category:Draft proposals about meowing.categories: I don't know what this does.nocat: If you include anything here, it excludes the page from being default categorized in Category:Draft proposals.
See also
- Category:Draft proposals
- Category:Proposals
- Template:Disputedtag(edit talk links history)
- Template:Proposed(edit talk links history)
- Template:Essay(edit talk links history)
- Template:Failed(edit talk links history)
- Template:Dormant(edit talk links history)
- Template:Guideline(edit talk links history)
- Template:Historical(edit talk links history)
- Template:Policy(edit talk links history)
- Template:Promote(edit talk links history)
- Template:Supplement(edit talk links history)
- Template:Superseded(edit talk links history)
- {{brainstorming}}