Peak Oil -- And What Do We Do Now?

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*This page has now been active for 5 months and has now been published on this site as the WiserEarth  editorial policy page - it currently links from terms of use and community guidelines. Thank you to all who contributed. Please don't hesitate to continue to add/edit/give suggestions for improvements (camilla)* 

 

The WiserEarth Editorial Policy is in development. But WiserEarth needs your editorial knowledge and help.

 

Please edit this WikiPage as you see fit or suggest a new criteria in the comment section of this page (you can also read the first editorial policy discussion)

So far there has been a suggestion to review Indymedia's Editorial Policy, which would for now, serve as an appropriate Editorial Policy for WiserEarth as well.

The following policy is adopted from http://montreal.indymedia.org/twiki/bin/view/Ontario/WebEditorialPolicy with modifications and additions to comply with WiserEarth Principles and WiserEarth Community Guidelines.

 

Comments & Content Editorial Policy

We (WiserEarth Editors) will remove comments or content that:

 

• have been requested to be hidden by the poster
• have been posted by someone who is found to be impersonating someone else
• have been posted by someone who claims a false affiliation with an organization
• are duplicates
• are commercial in nature e.g. spamming
• have no content other than advertising a business or another web site
• in the opinion of the editors, directly or indirectly (via web link) incite hatred against an oppressed group of people
• in the opinion of the editors, is impolite and uncivil in nature.
• in the opinion of the editors, directly or indirectly (via web link) constitute an explicit or implied physical threat against any individual or group of people
• in the opinion of the editors, show disrespect toward any individual and organization regarding race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, and religious beliefs.
• in the opinion of the editors, contains unsubstantiated and very damaging information about an individual or group (such as false event info)
• are garbage (e.g. pictures submitted as text)
• are comments that are unrelated to the article being commented on.
• are organizing specific illegal acts (i.e. saying to meet at a certain place and time to go do something illegal.)
• are infringing copyright, i.e. contains materials that is beyond the limits of the "fair use" principle.

For some comments/postings or content which are repetitive (promotional) in nature, the poster may not receive a message upon removal due to the current limitation on space in the View all Comments page.  It's in the best interests of the WiserEarth community to minimize the number of comments in that page because it is useful to find discussions and questions throughout the site.

So far there have been no posts on WiserEarth of malicious nature.  However, when the time comes, the comment will be reviewed by WiserEarth editors and administrators who will take appropriate action.

 

In addition, see Terms of Use

Areas of Focus Portals Editorial Policy

At present, only users with WiserEarth Editor or WiserEarth Administrator privilege can edit the portal pages for Areas of Focus (AoF). We are discussing ways to better manage portal pages in the discussion on roles, privilege and responsibilies of editors and administrators. We also have formed a working group to steward these portal pages at http://www.wiserearth.org/group/aof. So, throw in your ideas on how we can best manage AoF portals in these discussions.

General Content Editorial Policy

Articles, resources, orgs, jobs, events, etc., which are not in compliance with the WiserEarth Content Standards will be removed or hidden.  Unless the material is clearly spam, the poster will be sent a message and an explanation will be provided to explain its removal.

Complaints and Suggestions About the Editorial Process and Policy

Complaints about the removal process of comments or contents should be left in the Suggestions forum.  An editor will respond as soon as possible.

Suggestions to improve this editorial policy are highly expected in the editorial policy discussion forum (you need to join the Editors group first).