Forum:POV and verifiability policies

I will make this as brief as I can. I would like to draft up a more in-depth explanation of TSW:NPOV and emphasize the importance of that policy for TSW. Right now it reads as a guideline, which is to say that NPOV is a mere suggestion and not a bedrock principle of the wiki. I believe that we should be clear to edit that policy with a great amount of leeway (so long as we keep within the meaning of the policy) since it is an already-established principle and practice on the wiki.

Additionally, I think we are long, long overdue for a discussion regarding the venerability of facts and observations on the wiki. It's important to appreciate, first off, that any sort of citation/reference expectations that a wiki like Wikipedia would have simply wouldn't work here. Nevertheless, I believe it is important that all facts stated on TSW articles be able to be verified, even if verifying them would involve a player loading a game, digging through game code, or looking at things through the use of a mod or 3rd party program like SimPE. A policy regarding venerability and references would clarify how editors should cite their sources when making factual claims in articles, as well as what to do when information can't be verified or when the factuality of a particular piece of information is in doubt.

I am aware that this sort of topic is by its very definition somewhat "dry," but I hope that we can get a good discussion going here, even if just focused on the principles of NPOV and verifiability. My ultimate goal is to get some policies drafted that will either clarify TSW's current standards on the matter, or else establish the new standard going forward. In order to do this, however, we would need community consensus, which necessarily involves community participation. --  LostInRiverview talk · blog  ·  contribs 05:59, February 15, 2018 (UTC)