Topic on Talk:Colony Building Guide

1.- The following pages will be reverted to their state prior Gottoni’s major changes:

• Colony building guide.
• Extreme desert guide.

2.- All users that had previously made edits during the “Gottoni Mayhem” period between these dates, shall re-add their contributions as normal and they won’t be considered revert warring. Gottoni is not allowed to make changes during this period and must wait for the Restoration to reach a complete status. No third parties are allowed to make changes, this period is exclusive to those who made contributions in that time only. Any intervention by Gottoni will be punishable with a ban.

3.- Once all editors are satisfied with the re-addition of previous content, they shall explicitly notify under this topic that their parts had been included in the article successfully.

4.- The Restoration phase is deemed complete, and I will personally be notifying Gottoni in his user talk page that he is now allowed to “Propose major changes”, in the talk pages by linking to a draft or sandbox. But NOT perform any changes in the intended articles yet.

5.- The Community will review Gottoni proposals and decide whether or not to include such content.

6.- Once “Consensus” had been reached, Gottoni will be allowed to perform such changes.

Until both you and Gottoni work out your differences, the root cause of the problem will remain, and any other measure would either be a stopgap measure at their best, or fan the flames at their worst.

I have decided to keep the page as of the 'restored' version currently (most of the edits have been from either me or Gottoni), but I doubt that this is the best course of action and that it would be of any good. Note that the official Extreme Desert Guide seems to be a version without Gottoni's edits so there may not be the need to 'restore' the page.

The Restoration phase is in essence an exercise to practice Policy based procedures. Any attempt to jump to the latest versions while exceeding 500kbytes (when the numbers are displayed in bold) like this (https://rimworldwiki.com/index.php?title=Colony_Building_Guide&oldid=62305) will be seen as a breach of the Restoration phase and punishable with a ban.

Due to the conflicts as of late, it will be expected from editors to participate more actively on talk pages:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_policy#Be_helpful:_explain

“-Notes on the talk page are more visible, make misunderstandings less likely and encourage discussion rather than edit warring.-“

Basically a civil behavior among contributors is presented when numerous edits take place in talk pages and one final single edit in the main article page, rather the opposite. Do remember that because you added an explanation on a talk page, that does NOT directly guarantee consensus and you should wait for others to voice their opinion before rushing a major change.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_angry_mastodons#Avoid_angry_mastodons
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus#In_talk_pages
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Talk_page_guidelines
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Civility#Avoiding_incivility

Avoid attempting to resolve disagreements through the edit summary:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus?wprov=sfti1

“-Edit summaries are useful, but do not try to discuss disputes across multiple edit summaries; that is generally viewed as edit warring and may incur sanctions.-“

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Edit_summary#What_to_avoid_in_edit_summaries

Avoid malicious summaries like this: (https://rimworldwiki.com/index.php?title=Colony_Building_Guide&oldid=62214)

Remember that you are NOT forced to participate in the wiki and if discussing with others enrage you, you can just leave. The Restoration phase is your “chance” to regain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith#About_good_faith). Finally, if you don’t want to proceed progressively step by step, best to just desist and avoid account banning.

The Restoration phase is over, you can now proceed to edit the article like normal. Avoid previous mistakes.