ESB:Proposals/Definition policy (revision 10)

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Proposal

The following definitions should be added to the list of definitions:

B. Definitions

1. Administrator - any user of the wiki with sysop privileges.
2. Article - a piece of writing included with others in a newspaper, magazine, or other publication. (revised May 11, 2015)
3. Assistant - any user of the wiki with the assistant right. (revised January 19, 2017)
4. Ban - a permanent removal of a user's ability to contribute to the wiki.
5. Block - a temporary suspension of a user's ability to contribute to the wiki.
6. Bureaucrat - any administrator of the wiki with bureaucratic privileges.
7. Chat - a form of communication between users of FANDOM, including, but not limited to: ESB Chat, Skype, and IRC. (revised January 19, 2017)
8. Chat ban - a temporary or infinite removal of the user right to access the chatroom. (revised January 19, 2017)
9. Chat flooding - posting many messages in a row.
10. Chat invasion - inviting a large group to chat, normally to troll and/or spam.
11. Chat moderator - a user that has the ability to kick and ban other users from the chat. (revised February 19, 2017)
12. Compilation - a thing, especially a book, record, or broadcast program, that is put together by assembling previously separate items. (revised May 11, 2015)
13. Consensus – when 70% or more of the participants of a discussion are in favor of the proposal after seven (7) days or more of discussion. (revised April 28, 2015)
14. Content dispute - any disagreement in regards to content on the wiki.
15. Demotion - a removal of a user from a user right, either through user rights review, resignation, or removal by a user of higher power. (revised May 20, 2017)
16. Discussion moderator - a user with the ability to manage threads and the forum and to moderate the chat. (revised February 19, 2017)
17. Doorspamming - coming in and out of chat repeatedly.
18. Drama - an exciting, emotional, or unexpected series of events or set of circumstances.
19. Edit war - a dispute in which two or more editors revert changes to an article between opposing revisions. (revised May 20, 2017)
20. Editing role - a role that has to do with the editing aspect of the wiki, including rollbacks, administrators, and assistants. (revised February 19, 2017)
21. Fanon - any SpongeBob SquarePants in-universe or merchandise-related content not officially released by Viacom via a press conference or the Nickelodeon TV channel, and information that can be derived from that.
22. Gallery - a collection of image/video files on an article. (revised January 19, 2017)
23. Impersonator - a user who pretends to be someone who they are not. (revised May 20, 2017)
24. List - a number of connected items or names written or printed consecutively, typically one below the other. (revised May 11, 2015)
25. Main namespace - informational content of the wiki.
26. Namespace - group of pages with similar purposes.
27. Necroposting - replying to a forum thread, message, or blog post that has not been replied to in at least three (3) months.
28. Page header - the top of the page, which features the name of the page. (revised May 20, 2017)
28. Page title - the title of the article that appears in the page header and the URL. (revised May 20, 2017)
29. Partial revert - reversing only part of a prior edit, while retaining other parts of it.
30. Profanity - obscene language.
31. Proposal - a typed plan or suggestion put forward for others to discuss and vote on.
32. Resign - the voluntary act of giving up a promoted position. (revised November 18, 2015)
33. Retire - the voluntary act of giving up a promoted position and ceasing activity on the wiki. (revised November 18, 2015)
34. Revert - reversing a prior edit, which typically results in the article being restored to a version that existed sometime previously.
35. Rollback - any user that has the user right to quickly remove several edits on a user that are continuous on a single article. (revised January 19, 2017)
36. Sandbox - a page for testing.
37. Social role - a role that has to do with the social aspect of the wiki, including chat moderators and discussion moderators. (revised February 19, 2017)
38. Sockmaster - a user who creates sockpuppets. (revised February 5, 2017)
39. Sockpuppet - an alternate account used for deceiving purposes or to evade admin scrutiny. (revised February 5, 2017)
40. Sockpuppetry - the act of making multiple accounts for deceiving purposes or to evade admin scrutiny. (revised February 5, 2017)
41. Spam - a form of purposeful advertising. (revised January 19, 2017)
42. SpongeBob SquarePants fansite - any website that contains SpongeBob SquarePants-related information.
43. Suspension - the temporary removal of a promoted user's privileges. (revised November 18, 2015)
44. Termination - the forced removal of a promoted user from a particular position. (revised November 18, 2015)
45. Transcript - an article composed of a written version of an episode, short, special, movie, ride, or video game cutscenes. (revised May 20, 2017)
46. Trolling - a deliberate, provocative, online posting that is intended to cause an angry response. (revised May 20, 2017)
47. User - any member of the wiki's community. (revised May 20, 2017)
48. Vandalism - any change in content that is intended to be negative.

This concerns stage will end on Friday, August 11, 2017 at 2:12 a.m., eastern time. Nicko756 ^{(M•C•E) Sign!} 06:12, August 4, 2017 (UTC)

Concerns

Resolved concern: confused

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i'm not as well versed in chat terms as users who are active in chat, but i usually hear entering and exiting chat repeatedly referred to as "doorspamming," and i usually hear "flooding" being used to refer to posting large messages or many messages in a row. ѕqυι∂∂ℓєωαя∂ ^{❮мεssαgε ωαℓℓ ● cσηтяιвυтισηs ● ε∂ιтcσυηт❯} ^{21:58, August 4, 2017 (UTC)}

Good point. I added "doorspamming" to the definitions list and changed the definition for "chat flooding." Nicko756 ^{(M•C•E) Sign!} 23:52, August 4, 2017 (UTC)

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