Wikipedia:WikiProject OWS/guidelines
Project OWS follows all Wikipedia policies and guidelines. Please remember the five pillars of the Wikipedia community. Always remain civil and never edit war.
Wikipedia is an open and freely edited encyclopedia. Many of its editors have expertise in many different areas. For this reason many editors are close to subjects they edit. This is to be expected. Any editor may edit, even articles that are about themselves; they simply must not do anything unduly self-serving or that removes correctly attributed and well written information. Many editors will be supporters of the "Occupy Movement" and even some may be very close to events or the subject. The project itself is not partisan and welcomes both supporters and critics as well as those with any passing interest in the overall subject.
When editing an "OWS" related article:
- Remember to be as impartial as possible even if you support the movement or dislike it very much.
- All related articles should have the project banner on the talk page with a rating (when applicable). All articles without a rating are NA. You may choose to list an article with the project but feel it is not appropriate for a class or importance rating. When this occurs, rate as NA for both. If it is a project talk page this will be auto generated for class, but not importance. You may rate a project talk page no higher than mid importance.
Manual of style
In order to maintain consistency within all "Occupy" articles, this project's manual of style establishes basic guidance as a resource for new and experienced editors to follow when applicable.
Project Infobox for articles
Fill in all the information available using the document at the template page to understand the parameters needed and how they are copy pasted into the article and what each pertains to.
- Articles named with the "Occupy" adage with a location or specific protest or demonstration are defined as "conflict articles" for this project and use the "Occupy" infobox designed for this.
This infobox (while specific for OWS) is designed to represent two sides of a conflict. Another infobox for "Occupy subject" will be created and can be used for all articles that directly relate to OWS but are not a protest with two sides. Generally speaking, the one side is the OWS occupation and the other side is whatever authority is being questioned directly or the ones that respond. Only directly responding parties are listed such as City of, Mayor, Police department, Chief etc.. The Occupation side is listed as their specific named organizations, such as Occupy "Fill in the blank" and their General Assemblies, but specific locations may differ or be listed with their advertised name, which may contain an url address or dot.com or dot.org or similar added.