Mission statement: Difference between revisions
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A plumber who repeatedly ghosts work, disappears & sets up a new company when people go looking for a refund is not worthy of report here. The story of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50ByeqNgYjQ&list=PLkVbIsAWN2lucdpXqcM4qW6ev60OSXdw4&index=16 Eugene the contractor] belongs on a personal blog, Yelp, and Google. Reports on his behavior should be made to local, city, state, and federal authorities where they apply. A contractor who sets up a new company any time someone looks for a refund after being ripped off may be an anti-consumer scammer, and it may well be that knowing about him would prevent future people from getting scammed. However, ''this is simply too small and local to warrant inclusion in a wiki whose purpose is'' ''specifically to inform consumers about the modern landscape of consumer protection issues''. | A plumber who repeatedly ghosts work, disappears & sets up a new company when people go looking for a refund is not worthy of report here. The story of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50ByeqNgYjQ&list=PLkVbIsAWN2lucdpXqcM4qW6ev60OSXdw4&index=16 Eugene the contractor] belongs on a personal blog, Yelp, and Google. Reports on his behavior should be made to local, city, state, and federal authorities where they apply. A contractor who sets up a new company any time someone looks for a refund after being ripped off may be an anti-consumer scammer, and it may well be that knowing about him would prevent future people from getting scammed. However, ''this is simply too small and local to warrant inclusion in a wiki whose purpose is'' ''specifically to inform consumers about the modern landscape of consumer protection issues''. | ||
== Editorial guidelines ==<p class="mwt-heading">Detailed below are the two main 'tones' which are acceptable within the wiki, as well as examples of the article types in which they should be used.</p> | |||
== Editorial guidelines == | |||
<p class="mwt-heading">Detailed below are the two main 'tones' which are acceptable within the wiki, as well as examples of the article types in which they should be used.</p> | |||
=== Factual, non-accusatory, and legally safe<br>=== | === Factual, non-accusatory, and legally safe<br>=== | ||
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===== Is it acceptable to, in an article detailing the faults with a particular product, direct users towards alternative products which do not share these issues? ===== | ===== Is it acceptable to, in an article detailing the faults with a particular product, direct users towards alternative products which do not share these issues? ===== | ||
This wiki is not a place for product recommendations, and cannot be turned into a place for sneaky guerilla advertising, or the promotion of contributors' pet projects. | This wiki is not a place for product recommendations, and cannot be turned into a place for sneaky guerilla advertising, or the promotion of contributors' pet projects. | ||
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Given that the overall mission involves the need to inform people about the practices of companies, individuals, and industries in general, as well as provide detailed information about specific events, I propose the following page ‘classes’, which are loosely grouped into a three-tier informational hierarchy. Our goal here is to create something sensible and navigable, which will lead to link-based navigation through the site being a pleasant experience, and people being easily able to google for the information they want to find. | Given that the overall mission involves the need to inform people about the practices of companies, individuals, and industries in general, as well as provide detailed information about specific events, I propose the following page ‘classes’, which are loosely grouped into a three-tier informational hierarchy. Our goal here is to create something sensible and navigable, which will lead to link-based navigation through the site being a pleasant experience, and people being easily able to google for the information they want to find. | ||
=== Tier 1: Themes and Sources === | === Tier 1: Themes and Sources === | ||
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Articles about specific individuals will be held to higher standards than the average article. '''For an individual to have an article on this wiki, it must be shown that they are directly relevant to a large number of consumer-protection related issues, and have, or had, major decision-making capability over these issues. '''Non-compliant 'person' articles will be moderated heavily, and deleted on sight. | Articles about specific individuals will be held to higher standards than the average article. '''For an individual to have an article on this wiki, it must be shown that they are directly relevant to a large number of consumer-protection related issues, and have, or had, major decision-making capability over these issues. '''Non-compliant 'person' articles will be moderated heavily, and deleted on sight. | ||
=== Tier 3: Incident pages and (potentially) Product pages === | === Tier 3: Incident pages and (potentially) Product pages === | ||
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They should be written with the 'Factual, non-accusatory, and legally safe' tone. | They should be written with the 'Factual, non-accusatory, and legally safe' tone. | ||
==== Product page ==== | ==== Product page ==== | ||