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.

Further information on the Committee can be found on the Bleach Wiki:Committee Procedures.

Committee Members
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 associate projects and to regularly check the Committee discussion page
 * Quality check the work of committee members and non-members who participate in associate 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

Member Powers

 * Members have the authority to close topics that are old/resolved.
 * Move user questions or articles that are not in the correct place.
 * Help resolve issues with the site that don't require Admin intervention.
 * Monitor talk pages/Forums/Blogs.

Fukutaichio
 * Second in line to the Taichio
 * Communication Between the P&S Committee as a whole and other groups (Associates/Users/Admin)
 * Recruitment for the Committee or any of the various associate groups.
 * Making sure the Committee is aware of any changes on the site.

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.

I'd like to be nominated. I have a little over 1000 edits since July '09. I've written at least 15 anime summaries and at least 1 chapter summary (this was yesterday, oddly enough). I've also written about 4-5 fight summaries. It's true that I'm sometimes in a hurry to save the page and end up with embarrassing typos and grammar mistakes, and I understand that this has to be considered, but my heart is in the right place and I certainly won't abuse the rollback if granted one. Please give me some responsibility! WD  Talk to me  20:11, July 1, 2010 (UTC)

Committee Projects
All Committee Projects are developed and maintained through the Associate Groups

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


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

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 draws 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.


 * Isshin Kurosaki: This page has had some conflict with a lot of high traffic with user intent to list abilities that are not confirmed and speculation about his history.

Comments and Discussion
Hi folks! I am very happy to announce the completion of the Volume Summary Project! The last chapter summary has been written today and now the project has entered maintenance mode. By that I mean that the project will still be used to monitor and address concerns about the volume pages as a whole and there are still some outstanding issues. But the summaries are written. They will undoubtedly be improved, expanded and otherwise worked upon by other wiki editors but the point is, the volume pages are no longer big blank nothings! We did it! Yay!

So what's next? I have an idea swelling in my head but I am not going to get into the details of it yet. Mostly because I will be very busy in the coming week(s) and so need time to get the next project together, have the necessary discussions and the likes. I will get into the details of the project in due course. So watch this space! ^.^ Tinni   (Talk)  10:37, March 31, 2010 (UTC)

Ok folks, Mohrpheus and I have spokent and it has been agreed that the Referencing Project will be changed to the Article Improvement Project, which will focus on improving an article in general. This includes adding references, expanding plot sections, adding pictures etc. This also eliminates the need of a stubs project in the future as all articles marked as "stubs" can be routed through the Article Improvement Project. Mohrpheus and I will be jointly co-leading the project. Tinni  (Talk)  02:31, April 4, 2010 (UTC)

Hello I am happy to announce that officially the overhaul that the Ichigo Kurosaki article page has taken far longer then intended is finished and it is now open again. In light of that I would ask all committee members to keep a watchful eye on it. Thank you. Salubri (Talk)  04:17, May 31, 2010 (UTC)

There are new guidelines put forth for images on the site please refer the Bleach Wiki:Image Policy. Salubri (Talk)  04:12, July 7, 2010 (UTC)

I'm here to note that, according to the speculation policy, for "irreconcilable conflicts in opinion between two possible interpretations from an image in the manga...in-universe sections should make general statements that give no preference to the disputed options." For Isshin Kurosaki's "FU Attack" (the one where he flicks his finger, I'm not sure if there's an unofficial name for it around here), there is a Strength vs. Kido debate. Since choosing one of these sides is speculation, according to the policy, it logically follows that the Powers & Abilities section of the Isshin Kurosaki article is speculating, & therefore should be edited to something that categorizes the attack as neither strength nor Kido.Neo Bahamut (talk) 02:54, August 5, 2010 (UTC)