Animal Crossing Wiki:Proposals

The Animal Crossing Wiki Proposals page is where you can write a proposal for an idea you have regarding the wiki. Proposals are voted on by the community to see if the idea is worthy of being created.

How to vote
To vote, a user must:
 * 1) Be an active member of the Animal Crossing Wiki for at least one week at the time the voting begins.
 * 2) Have 10 or more mainspace edits at the time the voting begins.


 * Use a ' support ' vote to vote FOR the proposal. Use an ' oppose ' vote to vote AGAINST the proposal.
 * A candidate is not permitted to vote for their own proposal.
 * A vote will run for 2 weeks (14 days). After 2 weeks, the votes will be counted. A proposal must have at least 2/3 (66.6%) of the votes as a ' support ' vote in order for it to pass.
 * An applicant can and should direct users to this page during their proposal. However, excessive spamming of the link to this page will count against you and, in extreme cases, may result in the proposal being closed prematurely.
 * If no judgment is reached after 2 weeks, the proposal is moved to the archives. You may try again after 4 weeks.

A Proposal to Ease the Restriction of Vulgar Language
It has come to my attention that the rules regarding swearing on the wiki have gotten stricter ever since I've joined. More specifically, swearing has become banned from personal userpages, talk pages, and blogs. This is completely unacceptable. Now before I begin, I'd like to say that I do agree with the wikis' decision to have certain words be censored is a rather excellent and agreeable one, as those words are quite offensive. But the thing is, the other curses banned from the wiki do not fall into that category.

My first main reason here is that the words being banned are used commonly throughout the internet. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Skype, etc. are all such examples. If the argument here is that young children shouldn't be exposed to such vulgarity, then this is completely wrong. Yes, you must be a certain age to register accounts on these websites, including Wikia. But what is stopping them from browsing pages on said sites without owning an account? The reality is many kids have easy access to swearing at any given time; banning such material from here will not stop this from happening. It should be the parent's (or parents') job to know what their children are doing, not ours.

In addition to this, I have seen users with swearing on their pages, including User:Furentes and User:Dragonfree97. If we are not even going to enforce this rule on every member here, what is the point? This is unfair to those whose pages were censored shortly after swearing was added to them.

Fellow users, we must understand that we are only making our own lives more difficult. Banning the use of such words on our userpages and talk pages is not accomplishing anything other than banning those words. Only a select few words should be banned, and we already have that list (Animal Crossing Wiki:Chat Rules). We have never received complaints from anyone about swearing. It would also render this template useless. There is just no reason to keep this outdated rule around.

Thank you for your time S t a t i c THE sbnᴉɹɹǝl | Talk 20:11, November 29, 2015 (UTC)

Rules are made to serve a purpose, and if that purpose is moot there is no point in keeping the rule. The internet is no longer a young family friendly place. Besides, most of the kids are vandals and a lot of them like to swear a lot. 20:17, November 29, 2015 (UTC)

Agree with Shade.  ∼  Ðarkz  ~ ( Talk ) https://i.imgur.com/8hIznjd.gif 22:26, November 29, 2015 (UTC)

This is a kids wiki for kids. Some kids are still innocent and all they want to do is know a bit more about AC. They may look at other peoples user pages just to know the community a bit more, and then the innocent kid spots vulgar language and hideous paragraphs filled with offensive and disgusting things. It could really hurt the kid. The internet is filled with vulgar things but do we have to continue that trend?


 * I do agree we should enforce the rule more. There is no exception if you are being racist, overly sexual, or using offensive words without a warning that you should be allowed to do so. Censoring is a way to block such things so that other people won't get hurt or offended by such things.


 * A reason why people are not putting in complaints is because they don't want to be left out as childish or weak. They want to look strong, feel "mature", but in reality they prefer not to talk about it.


 * If we do enforce the rule I would gladly help censor offensive words! ~Emilysara (Questions?) 22:34, November 29, 2015 (UTC)

Our rules are hardly strict, and if you're upset over them now, they can be made so much worse. Also, I find it quite humorous that you're trying to change literally the oldest (and most needed) rule. It's practically a rule of thumb at this point. нσα ( тαℓк ) 00:20, November 30, 2015 (UTC)