Wikipedia talk:Historical archive/Policy/Notability
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Excellent resource
[edit]Hi SMcCandlish! Clovermoss pointed me here. You did excellent work collating this. It's very relevant to my interests as I have a low key side project to document the history of our policies. It's a shame Pixelface isn't around any more, because their timeline is as exactly the level of precision I want. I'll integrate their work at some point.
The "actionable" proposal you've been looking for is Wikipedia:Informative/Old - I can let you add it here, or do it myself if you're currently busy, whatever you prefer. May I make a suggestion? I'd like to propose moving this entire collection into the historical archive, say at Wikipedia:Historical archive/Policy/Notability. There are other preserved policy pages and creating a fonds for them would be a good thing. Cheers, — Scott • talk 11:10, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Scott: Feel free to edit it as needed. I don't much care if the page moves, as long as a redirect remains, but the suggested target doesn't seem appropriate (right now, anyway), since Wikipedia:Historical archive/Policy doesn't exist. We don't need a categorization layer for a single item. If your idea is to have multiple such old-policy materials put under /Policy/, then the thing to do would probably be to open a WP:RM discussion at the talk page of one of them (e.g. right here) and propose them all being moved at once. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 14:22, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
- Great. The pages I'm thinking of are already subpages in the archive (list) so rearranging them wouldn't require an RM. I'll get onto this in a bit. — Scott • talk 14:57, 13 July 2024 (UTC)