CZ Talk:Leaving the project

User's workgroup categories

Perhaps the workgroup categories on the userpage of a departed author/editor should be made invisible with the <!--... tag. Currently users who have left CZ are still listed as authors, editors, etc. John Stephenson 11:51, 30 August 2007 (CDT)

I think it's a good idea.

I have two unrelated questions. Where this 'policy' should be linked from? Now it's an orphan not connected to CZ:Project Home. How do we proceed to make it official policy/guideline adopted by CZ? Surely, the fact that someone put it on the wiki and no one protested since hardly anyone heard about it does not make it a policy. Aleksander Stos 14:12, 30 August 2007 (CDT)

Right, and to be honest I'm not sure. And another issue: what to do about the user pages of people who've been blocked. Those without contributions have had their pages deleted in some but not all cases; but examples such as User:James Bexley show it's not obvious that this person was blocked, or why; readers need to be wiki-aware and want to find the block log to discover this. Really, accounts such as this should have their categories invisibled (is that a word?), their user page protected, and a their bio replaced with a briefer version with a link to the block like this.

I agree with invisibling  ;-) categories. Maybe you could put something to this effect in the text? For blocked users, I don't feel the need to announce the fact on the user pages. IMHO, blanking CZ Authors category would do, e.g. it would give a hint "it's useless to discuss with this user" -- and the role of the category might be explained in this policy. Blocked user might wish, however, to say his last word. Being blocked, he can't edit, so I imagine he'd be negotiating this by mail with constables.

I guess that policies are discussed and adopted by Editorial Council. When we get through arising issues and the text stabilizes, we may let know a member of the Council.

I've gone through the block list, and found only five accounts which've been blocked (obviously excluding the ones who never set up a user page with categories, of course). I don't see any reason not to invisible the categories as discussed, so I'm going to do it now. John Stephenson 04:21, 28 September 2007 (CDT)

Death

There's also the issue of what to do if we receive notice that someone's died... John Stephenson 07:22, 31 August 2007 (CDT)

Well, I'm not sure... In this sad and hopefully rare case we might put a simple note saying so. It might depend on circumstances. An euphemistic statement e.g. "no more active in the project" might sometimes be more appropriate. Not sure whether we need this explicitly in the policy.Aleksander Stos 09:37, 31 August 2007 (CDT)