Template:Proposal
 | The following is a proposed BattleTechWiki policy, guideline, or process. The proposal may still be in development, under discussion, or in the process of gathering consensus for adoption. |
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Usage
{{Proposal}}
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{{Draft proposal}}
This 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.
Purpose
The BTW community roughly follows a set of official policies and guidelines (collectively often referred to simply as "policy"). Pages reflecting policy are written by ordinary editors in the "BattleIntelligence:" namespace. Other editors review these proposals and edit to improve them and move toward greater consensus. 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 a 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}}. Usual places to advertise a proposal are the talk pages of relevant other policies and guidelines and of topically connected wikiprojects, and/or our community discord.
Usage
{{Draft 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 (i.e. if your proposal is at BattleIntelligence:Meowing guidelines, it will link to BattleIntelligence talk:Meowing guidelines), but it can be set up to link elsewhere, like Module talk:Meowing.section: Section link. For example, if the discussion is at Module talk:Meowing#We need guidelines for when to meow in articles.category: Replace Category:Draft proposals with something else, like Category:Draft proposals on redirecting.categories: Categorization of drafts can be suppressed with the|categories=noparameternocat: If you include anything here, it excludes the page from being default categorized in Category:Draft proposals.