Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-4139585-20150122025611

You may have noticed that the mid-month update thread that was supposed to be posted this past Sunday was not, but that was because we were waiting until the 21 day trial for the new profanity rules ended. I will address profanity in this thread, while the full update thread will be posted sometime in the next couple of days.

From the 21 day trial, it is clear that there needs to be two separate rule-sets addressing profanity on the wiki and on chat, respectively. Based on what was discussed in this thread, it only seems to be a fair compromise to adopt the following changes to our policy:


 * In the mainspace, only, profanity is allowed, as long as it is marked with Template:Profanity or similar templates.
 * In all other namespaces, meaning in comments, blogs, message walls, threads, etc., no profanity is allowed, not even alternatives that have been used in the past. The only current exception to this rule is for Fanon Con, and every submission containing profanity must be marked accordingly.
 * 1) There is still a list of words that you cannot say, even on the wiki, which can be found at MediaWiki:Spam Blacklist. It is still to be determined how we should compile a list of words that are not on the blacklist, but must be marked with a warning template.

Like the previous change, this is open for discussion, but keep in mind that ''' this is already a compromise between full profanity and no profanity. '''

--Paper 