Bleach Wiki:Policy & Standards Committee

The Bleach Wiki Policy & Standards Committee is a group of users responsible for assisting with the creation of and quality checking chapter summaries for Bleach manga volumes and episodes for Bleach anime arcs. The committee also has the responsibility of maintaining the quality standards of Bleach Wiki articles by helping other users adhere to the policies of the wiki.

Committee Members

 * Taicho: Tinni ( talk ) - Presiding Officer of the Committee. Project leader of the Volume Summary Project.
 * Fukutaicho: Minato ( talk ) - Project Leader of the Anime Summary Project
 * 3rd Seat: Mohrpheus ( talk ) - Project leader of the Referencing Project
 * 4th Seat: Nwang2011 ( talk ) - Project leader of the Fight Project, Contributor to the Referencing Project.
 * 5th Seat: SerialSniper14 ( talk ) - Affiliated with the Anime Summary Project, Contributor to the Referencing Project
 * 6th Seat: TomServo101 ( talk ) - Contributor to the Anime Summary Project

Committee members are also supported by the admin in the regards to their duties whether it be Bleach Official Policy or taking part in the creation of summaries. Members of the committee can display the committee box on their page by using command.

It is generally advisable that people other than committee members not post on this page unless it is to ask questions about policy, point out mistakes, etc. having to do with the volumes, episodes, or user edits. The "Comments and Discussion" section below is where these issues should be posted.

Member Responsibilities

 * Regularly assist in the committee projects and to regularly check the Committee discussion page
 * Quality check the work of committee members and non-members who participate in committee projects
 * Quality check the recent edits to articles, especially articles identified as high risk
 * Quality check articles in general
 * Assist members with edits and other issues
 * Roll-back vandalism

Membership Qualifications
The criteria for selecting others require that the interested party have be weekly active user of the wiki with a sizable number of edits, but more importantly, their edits are of good quality and useful. Good spelling and grammar is a must, and they should be able to get on reasonably well with others as having rollback rights should not be abused due to overzealousness. While anyone can be nominated to be considered for open positions, it is the admin who will discuss whether the person should be given the position.

Membership Suggestion
If you wish to become a member of the committee then it is suggested that you complete at least some summaries of either the manga or anime and aid in the referencing project. This would boost your edit count, a requirement for membership, and demonstrate that you are interested in contributing something substantial to the wiki.

Membership nominations
Please feel free to nominate either yourself or a fellow wiki user you believe should be given committee membership and roll-back rights in this section.


 * Asked to undertake initiation
 * User:Gold3263301

Policy Procedures

 * The committee members are bound to the support of the official policy. Thus, they maintain articles by ensuring that users make good faith edits otherwise they are entitled to undo or revert those edits.
 * Committee members warn members if they are violating wiki policy.
 * For users that engage in blatant vandalism or repeated offense of policies, the committee members can bring those users to the attention to the admin, in the event the admin are not aware of the issue.

High-Risk Articles
The following are articles which are frequently edited to alter one aspect of it that segments of Bleach wiki users disagree with but cannot put forward a convincing enough reason to change permanently. A clear reason must be given before adding articles to this list and a clear reason must also exist for why some edits to the article should always be reverted.


 * Espada: This page is frequently editing to alter the status of Tia Harribel (deceased to unconfirmed) and Grimmjow (unconfirmed to deceased). Wiki position is that Mashiro saying Harribel is dead is more proof that she is most likely deceased when we have nothing to counter Mashiro's words but the hopes of fans that Harribel is not dead. Wiki position on Grimmjow is that he was last seen breathing and until we know for certain he is no longer breathing, he is to remain unconfirmed. Due to some passing comments that Kubo may or may not have made in recent interviews, now Ulquiorra Cifer is another character who is being brought back to life by the fans. Whether Kubo played coy regarding the status of Ulquiorra is unimportant, Kubo drew him turning into ash in the manga and as such, until he draw him back alive, Ulquiorra Cifer remains deceased.


 * List of Arrancar: In addition to Tia Harribel and Grimmjow, the list of Arrancar suffer continous edits to the statuses of many other arrancar from unconfirmed to deceased and from deceased to unconfirmed in the case of Harribel's Fraccion. The full reason for why most of them should remain the way they are has been given many times and are collected in Deceased vs unconfirmed. Ulquiorra Cifer is another character to watch for right now.


 * Numeros: Is another page that has many conflicting edits between Deceased and Unconfirmed. The characters to watch for are Tesla and Harribel's Fraccion.


 * Ichigo's Relationships: This is a particularly... delicate article. Officially, the only person who is confirmed to have romantic feelings for Ichigo is Orihime. Ichigo himself may well have romantic feelings for Kenpachi for all we know. However, keeping fandom speculation regarding who Ichigo loves is just part of the problem of this article. There are subtle ways for people to pollute the article with speculation and change the tone to fit their own perceptions. This is why, every new edit to this page must be monitored closely. The page is also in need of an overhaul but that is a major undertaking on it's own. So for now, let's just try and keep the article free of speculation.


 * Kaname Tōsen: This page has become very controversial lately. It has been the subject of disputes about whether or not he is a Vizard (we class him as a Shinigami-Hollow Hybrid, not a Vizard) and where to place his Resurrección section. Reasons are explained on the article's talk page. This article has been placed under protection several times since he was revealed as a hybrid, but when it is not locked, it must be watched carefully.


 * Zanpakutō: This page, which used to cause a lot of controversy with its listings/classifications of Zanpakutō, has just been unprotected. It has undergone a substantial update, and some of the issues that were a source of disagreement have been resolved, but there are still things that may be messed around with. Things to watch out for are users inappropriately moving Zanpakutō from one category to another, as well as tampering/making mistakes with the code for the tables. If there are problems with it, it is likely to end up being put back under protection.

Committee Projects
Volume Summary Project: This project aims to complete all the missing summaries from the manga volumes. (Primary contact: Tinni ( talk ))

Anime Summary Project: This project aims to complete all the missing summaries from the anime episodes. (Primary contact: SerialSniper14 ( talk ))

Referencing Project: This project aims to improve or add references to wiki articles. (Primary contact: Mohrpheus ( talk ))

Fight Summary Project: This project to aims to complete fight summaries. (Primary contact: Nwang2011 ( talk ))

Future Projects/Suggested Projects
Please use this section to suggest future projects. Thank you.


 * Stubs project - aims to reduce the number of articles marked as stubs by completing it.


 * Bleach Chronology project - aims to update the Timeline article and include a proper chronology of Bleach events since the start of the manga story to give a correct perception of time. The Bleach manga story started in April and in manga, it is currently October of the same year. This is however not captured very well. Especially, people seem to have a hard time wrapping their head around the fact that Orihime has been in Las Noches for about two days before Ichigo barged in and that Fake Karakura town has been happening for a couple of hours tops. So a timeline that puts the passage of in-manga time into perspective would be helpful but not a trivial matter. Thus the project. forum post on this matter. See also my blog post on the matter.


 * Anime/Manga Differences Article project - see the forum post regarding this matter for details.

Comments and Discussion
I just want to say thanks to everyone who has volunteered for the committee. Interest in it seems to have picked up and the initiation mentioned above is under way. I'll raise the new nominations with the other admins for consideration. Given the time of year, I don't know when we can expect a decision, as some (or all) of us may not have the time available that it takes to review contribution histories etc right now, but we will get them decided upon as quickly as possible. -- Yyp  (Talk)  22:12, December 23, 2009 (UTC)

Hello folks, seasons greetings to all and specially those wiki editors seeking membership to the committee. I wish you all good luck with the nomination process and would like to remind you that as a member you will have to contribute regularly to one of the three projects currently running. Therefore, I would like to encourage you all to get involved and for those of you already involved, thank you for choosing to help us. Tinni  (Talk)  02:55, December 24, 2009 (UTC)

Hey everyone, i'm back. I see some things involving WIkia in general have changed. I've been gone for far too long and decided it was time to comeback, new computer or not. Thank u Serial for watching my project for me. I will check up on that page and see whats going on. Please let me kno if anything else has changed on the site and if we have any new policies or new guidelines for existing policies. Also if the templates r fixed and if we have new ones, tell me. I'm sure I'll figure it out anyway, but any new news would be good. Minato (Talk)  23:12, March 23, 2010 (UTC)