Wikipedia:Concordia

All Candidates Interested In Becoming Chairman, Chief Executive or a Councillor must add their nomination to Wikipedia:Community Justice/Elections before April 23rd.

"Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated"

— Abraham Lincoln

Iustitia pro omnibus

About Us

We are a community-driven project; however, we have no official position within Wikipedia. Our group strives to encourage fair treatment for all Wikipedia users and to improve civility in the community. If you have something to add to this page, then add it. If you have a goal that is relevant to the group, or way we could accomplish a relevant goal, then please tell us.

Our Goal

Our goal, put very simply, is to encourage the community to be more civil so Wikipedians may state their opinions in an appropriate manner. We hope to promote civility within the community to make Wikipedia a nicer place to work.

The Understanding of Rights & Responsibility as a Wikipedian

Every individual in our community has the right to express their own opinion, and we all should be allowed to do so in an appropriate manner. Editors should not discriminate against other editors for their beliefs or how they express them, so long as they have behaved suitably. If you have an issue with any user because of their actions, express your concerns to them in private (not in a public discussion, for instance) and do not hold their actions against them, but instead be civil and assume good faith. This helps make Wikipedia more easy to work in an helps prevent disputes forming.

Respect for the Five Pillars of the Wikipedia

These pillars form much of the basis of Wikipedia, and are central to it. They should be respected by all editors, no matter how long or much they have edited here. People should ensure their edits are within these base rules in order to retain structure within the community.

People Keeping Cool Heads

One pillar mentions keeping a cool head in a hot situation. This is easily broken, especially in high-profile straw polls. How about a nice cup of tea?

People should remain civil, if not friendly, to each other at all times and try to find common ground between one another through negotiation, as they would do in real life situations.

People should always follow Wikipedia's rules of civility, and they should be properly enforced.

Warning tags

You can use {{civil1}} and {{civil2}} to display these (respectively):

Template:Civil1

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Template:Civil2

You can place these on user talk pages when you think appropriate.

Tasks

Currently, we need to get this program running. A list of tasks are below, feel free to edit.

Not Started Tasks

1. Change the current templates for controversial topics to remind people to maintain civility.
2. Begin to spread word on the Five Pillars, even reminding experienced users when we think they may have forgotten, and get more people to treat each other with respect. The manner we will do this will be decided nearer the time.

Ongoing Tasks

1. Advertise CJ.
2. Elect council for a 6-month term.

Completed Tasks

1. Set up the temporary council.
2. Expand this page and create templates for our members to use.

Members

Anybody is welcome to become a member, whether they have been a member for a minute or year, made 10 edits or 10,000. Add your name to the table below by adding {{user|YourUsername}} below (changing YourUsername to your username). You are welcome to add us to your signature, or add our userbox: {{User CJ}}, also please add your userpage to Category:User Wikipedia/Community Justice (to do [[Category:User Wikipedia/Community Justice]]).

1. Computerjoe (talk · contribs) (Founder)
2. Ian13 (talk · contribs) (interested, I agree with the aims, but unsure otherwise)
3. (interested to use previous experience as councillor)
4. Pureblade (talk · contribs) (I'm very interested in keeping Wikipedia civil and united.)
5. Celestianpower (talk · contribs) (Not sure how much time I'll be able to spend on this, if any at all)
6. the wub (talk · contribs) (Certainly interested, but I doubt I'll be able to spend much time on it.)
7. Nrcprm2026 (talk · contribs)
8. Eddieh (talk · contribs)
9. Xchrisblackx (talk · contribs)
10. The Giant Puffin (talk · contribs) (Definately interested in achieving the goal of the project)
11. Theonecalleda1 (talk · contribs) (Intrested, will try and help out :)
12. Danlina (talk · contribs) ( Death Eater Dan to the rescue)
13. Nmpenguin (talk · contribs)(interested, though I dont understand means of action)
14. SushiGeek (talk · contribs)
15. ShiningEyes (talk · contribs)
16. Wikizach (talk · contribs)
17. Chachu207 (talk · contribs) (Very interested, and will try to help when I can.)
18. Wisden17 (talk · contribs)
19. Big Adamsky (talk · contribs)
20. Osbus (talk · contribs) 22:00, 8 April 2006 (UTC) (Cool. why are we writing in small letters?.)
21. Nightstallion (talk · contribs) 18:10, 10 April 2006 (UTC) (Because it's in right now.)
22. olaboy- (talk · contribs) (Want to keep Wikipedia nice and safe.)
23. TBC (talk · contribs) (Interesting idea, hope it works)
24. Batmanand (talk · contribs) (Am interested to see what this means in practice; but sounds like a great idea in theory and am more than willing to help out)
25. Khashayar Karimi (talk · contribs) (I believe that civility is a fundamental part the Wikipedia community. )
26. TJDay (talk · contribs)
27. Covington (talk · contribs)
28. Randy Johnston (talk · contribs)
29. Banana04131 (talk · contribs)
30. SOPHIA (talk · contribs) (Civility and equality are so important for collaborative projects such as wikipedia)
31. BadHappyness (talk · contribs) (is in user cat and has userbox, just not on the list. Assume member. Computerjoe's talk 19:52, 17 April 2006 (UTC) ) I confirm that I am a member. --BadHappyness 23:20, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
32. General Eisenhower (talk · contribs) I joined to become more apart of the community.
33. Zappa.jake (talk · contribs)
34. Tutmosis (talk · contribs)I believe fair treatment and community feeling should be a bigger part of wikipedia.
35. DarthVader (talk · contribs)
36. Tijuana Brass (talk · contribs)
37. Ilyanep (talk · contribs) (Sounds like a cool idea...)
38. GorillazFanAdam (talk · contribs)
39. Misza13 (talk · contribs) (I like the idea. When will we have an IRC channel?)
40. nathanrdotcom (talk · contribs) (I really like this idea.)
41. Mhs5392 (talk · contribs)
42. Blnguyen (talk · contribs) (Interesting idea, hope it works)
43. Fetofs (talk · contribs) (As per the others, I want to grasp what exactly this is on practice, but sounds good.)
44. Ethnopunk (talk · contribs) (Let's stop the morons suppressing information

Governance

Currently, this Wikipedia Organisation is so small that we only have a temporary council. If you are interested in holding a long-term position on this council, an election will be underway shortly. Details can be found here.

The organisation is run by a seven-person strong council. Councillors then decide on major things. The current seats in the council are:

1. Chairman: Computerjoe (talk)
2. Chief Executive: Ian13 (talk)
3. Councillor: Pureblade (talk)
4. Councillor: Alf (talk)
5. Councillor: Xchrisblackx (talk)
6. Councillor: Eddie (talk)
7. Councillor: The Giant Puffin (talk)

Discussion

You can talk on our talk page or on IRC channel.

Templates

These templates can be used for a variety of purposes by members of the project.

Userpage

Code	Result	Usage
{{Community Justice member}}	Template:Community Justice member	Gives a brief overview of our mission
{{User Community Justice}}	Template:User Community Justice	Members' userbox
{{User Community Justice Council}}	Template:User Community Justice Council	Councillor userbox
{{User Community Justice Executive}}	Template:User Community Justice Executive}}	Chief Executive userbox
{{User Community Justice Chairman}}	Template:User Community Justice Chairman	Chairman's userbox
{{CJ small}}	Template:CJ small	A small advertisement of Community Justice
{{CJ small 2}}	Template:CJ small 2	Another small ad

Warnings

Code	Result	Usage
{{civil1}}	Template:Civil1	Asking users to remain civil and to not attack others
{{civil2}}	Template:Civil2	Reminding users not to make personal attacks
{{agf}}	Template:Agf	A reminder to users to always assume good faith
{{agf2}}	Please stop. If you continue to assume bad faith when dealing with other editors, you may be blocked from editing. Assume that they are here to improve rather than harm Wikipedia.	A more forceful warning to assume good faith

Talk pages

{{Calm talk}}

Reminding users to be civil and to not cause conflicts on frequently-disputed talk pages

Misc.

Code	Result	Usage
{{WelomeNewComer}}	Template:WelomeNewComer	Welcoming newcomers and asking them to follow the guildlines and be civil