Endmyopia:Policies and Guidelines

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Here at EndMyopia Wiki, we have plenty of policies for you to immerse yourself in. You're excited, right!?

No medical advice - a policy with legal considerations

Legal:No medical advice

EndMyopia Wiki does not give medical advice, and no article should be written in a way that can be construed as medical advice. We see myopia as a refractive state, but real eye conditions should always be checked out by a licensed medical practicioner. Talking about how myopia affects the risk factors for eye diseases is okay - claiming EndMyopia is in any way a cure for eye disease (which it isn't) will be reverted on sight, regardless of the namespace and how public the writing is intended to be.

Ignoring policy policies

Ignore all rules

If you see a way that can be done better through ignoring a rule, go for it. Policies are written for a reason, so this is not a blank check to start doing whatever you want. However, first and foremost the message is that you can contribute without knowing all the rules at first. Don't be surprised if your edits get reverted if you violate some of the more important rules.

Write the rules yourself

Please do not be afraid to edit policy articles to clarify how policies should work for the rest of the site. You can also create your own policies. The edits that are kept and the edits that are dropped will depend on community consensus. Feel free to add funny images to policy articles as well.

Article policies

No optometry bashing

We might all be somewhat annoyed at how the optometry industry has treated our delicate eyeballs. With that said, there should not be frothy hate pieces about the optometry industry found in mainspace articles. This stuff is alienating to new readers, and genuine optometrists who might be willing to consider what we talk about here will totally be put off.

No unicorn farming

Articles about things that generally don't work, like Ayurveda and Bates method, are welcome. These articles should have an objective analysis of what works about them and what doesn't. However, it's easy to see advocates of these methods maliciously trying to edit articles to promote how they think things should be. This is the EndMyopia Wiki, so at the end of the day content promoting other vision improvement methods are much better placed on their own sphere. The wiki is not obligated to have articles promoting other vision improvement methods on it.

Mandatory fun

Articles should be written in a naturally light and upbeat tone with somewhat funny jokes. Humour should be genuinely funny and not just stupid.

Optometry degrees optional

Readers shouldn't be reading the 'How to Start' article, and halfway through the article they are bombarded with a ridiculously complicated cross-referenced analysis of axial elongation diagrams and statistics with P-values. No. Technical content is more than welcome on EndMyopia Wiki, but articles designed for normal people should be kept that way - and technical content should be segmented in their own area for readers who are up for it.
Citations to clinical studies, on the other hand, are encouraged all over the wiki. These look similar to how they look on Wikipedia.

Drafts are for chumps

Please don't use the 'Draft:' namespace wherever possible. Push articles out into the mainspace, get more eyeballs on the content so everyone can contribute and people can enjoy what you've already written. Everyone wins!

Subjects of articles

No bates teachers

No articles about specific Bates method teachers, please. There are too many, and their methods are all relatively the same. We'll also get loads of angry messages, and they'll palm us to death! :(

Content not creator

For people promoting things aside from the Bates method, comment on the method and not the creator. Give a fair and objective analysis of what's good and bad about a given method, no ad hominem attacks.

Behavioural guidelines

Here to build a vision improvement encyclopedia

People who contribute are here to build a vision improvement encyclopedia. Emphasis on vision improvement, not eye exercises. Don't vandalise the wiki if you have a different opinion about vision improvement, contribute what you can and just remember we're horribly biased ;)

Copyright policy

In a nutshell, you are fine to use copyrighted material on the wiki, as long as common sense is applied.

Freely upload internet memes. Upload content that is considered fair use for educational purposes.

Please DO NOT copy and paste entire copyrighted websites and articles. See Copyrights for more information.

Admin policies

Adminship is handed out like free candy here in the majority of cases. People with vague trust generally get admin tools, this is to prevent any silly bureaucracy from setting in, to encourage editors, and to have fastest access to respond to issues that need the tools.

Admins do not automatically win in content disputes, and adminship does not imply authority. It's just a set of tools.

Administrators have the technical ability to perform the following actions:

For more information:

User access groups

See User access groups for information on permissions.