User blog comment:Meighan/Best Practices & You./@comment-3466295-20110709105756/@comment-3388044-20110710141030

Randomtime, you’re right that some procedures at WP are too cumbersome for our smaller wikis and that we would need more streamlined approaches. However, I was thinking more along the lines of behavioural guidelines.

Also, as I said in another discussion elsewhere at Central (apologies to those against self-plagiarizing): I definitely do not mean Wikipedia’s content policies. I realize that such stringent Wikipedia policies as those relating to neutral point of view, verifiablity, reliable sources, notability, etc., would have to be decided Wikia wiki by Wikia wiki, based on consensus.

Moreover, I realize that some of Wikipedia’s other policies might also NOT have universal application at Wikia, requiring a wiki-by-wiki approach. Examples of the sort of thing that Wikipedia is not, but that Wikia’s wikis often are:
 * social networking (cf., WP’s not MySpace/Facebook policy)
 * place for opinions (cf., WP’s not a soapbox policy)
 * promotional (cf., WP’s not for advertising policy (Please! Wikia is a corporate wikifarm: business concerns need to be able to create wikis that subtly promote their goods and services … and be charged for the opportunity Smiley.png. After all, how do those of us running free, non-commercial wikis here think the bills get paid?!))
 * lax regarding notability (cf., WP’s not a vanity press policy)
 * etc.

The point is, these were not on my list because they cannot possibly have universal applicability to the Wikia environment. And, if these types of policies have any applicability, then it would be on a wiki-by-wiki basis.

My interest is in conduct or behaviour guidelines, the sort that make a community … well … a community!

Thanks!