Wikipedia:Historical archive/Policy

Policy proposals and discussions

Approval mechanism - a proposal from September 2001 for a system of quality assurance and marking for Wikipedia articles, which was discussed for the next four years
Naming conventions (slogans) - a short-lived de facto convention on how to deal with the titles of articles about slogans, which existed from June 2003 to November 2005
Naming policy poll - Poll which took place in May 2004, on how policy should address place names which differ between their official form and common form among speakers of English
Notability - most if not all of the Wikipedia-wide guideline/policy proposals, and development-influential essays, relating to notability in some way or another, with their active development lifespans, and notes
PolicyPolicy – an early discussion on policy enforcement
RefactoringPolicy – an early discussion on how and where discussion of articles should be conducted
Rules to consider – the earliest discussions of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, including the first edits to that page
Summary of the debate about the neutral point of view – mostly preserved for its page history
To delete or not to delete – debate on deletion (May–July 2001)
What's in, what's out - venue for discussing what Wikipedia should or shouldn't include (April 2004–December 2005)