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This is a page for the generation and discussion of ideas to improve Wikipedia or solve specific problems. Please contribute to one of the brainstorming sections below, or start your own using the template provided. Once enough people here believe they have a good proposal, either propose a change to an existing policy, on that policy's talk page, or propose a new policy and publicize your proposal widely.
- Guidelines
- PLEASE ADD NEW TOPICS AT THE TOP OF THE LIST, JUST BELOW THE TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- "A description of the problem" should be the product of consensus i.e. anyone can edit, and unsigned; in the other sections please sign your contribution.
- The purpose of any discussion of structural or persistent problems at Wikipedia ought to be the development of policies or processes to address the problem, or improvements to existing policies and processes. Nevertheless, this is not a policy proposal page. If participants in a discussion feel that they have reached the point where they can make specific proposals, they should either go to an existing policy, or create a new policy proposal page.
- If any editor feels that there is a structural or persistent problem that is not listed on this page, he or she should add the area using the basic template.
- In brainstorming possible solutions to a problem, allow a certain amount of time for the generation of ideas before moving on to the critical evaluation of ideas. Withholding criticism until there is a good number of ideas (at least 5–10 separate proposals) encourages contribution and helps the creative process.[1]
- If after a reasonable amount of time it is clear that an insufficient number of editors care about a particular area of concern, and there is insuficient discussion to serve as a basis for practical proposals, editors should archive the discussion using this {{hat|This topic has been archived due to insufficient concern}} {{hab}} method.
- Wikipedia is the encyclopedia where any editor may edit any page at any time – this page included.