Wiki 24:Consensus and precedent

All policies on Wiki 24 are established by consensus. Consensus regarding a particular topic may be determined by different but equally important means. The first means is precedent: the editing behavior in question has become standard practice and has never been specifically challenged (silence implies consensus). The second means is discussion: concerned editors in the community debate a difference of opinion and clearly decide upon one solution to close the debate and enforce consistency among all the pertinent edits.

Edits requiring discussion
Consensus by means of discussion is not only used in the formulation of policies. Below are those kinds of edits that are not permissible without formal discussion.

Character status
It is not unusual for the status of a character to be a topic of dispute among users. Before changing a character's status, it is requested that you propose the change first on that character's Talk page. Then, if there are no responses or after a civil discussion results in consensus, the status can be changed. This process can be repeated as necessary.

In addition, it is the current established policy of this wiki to use only "Alive", "Deceased" and "Unknown" as statuses. Status options such as "Presumed deceased", "Alive (comatose)", "Deceased (shot)", and other variations are not valid.

If a character is not explicitly seen or mentioned to be dead, but events imply that the character will soon be killed, his or her status is listed as "Unknown" on account of the uncertainty and ambiguity. The article body itself is the place where the status can be further described and explained, but not the status field.

In accordance with the Spoiler policy, status changes can only be recorded from episodes that have aired or comics and novels that have been published. Information from unaired episodes and unpublished novels or comics, such as advertisements and promotional trailers, are spoilers and are not permissible.

Episode guide main image
Each complete episode guide and main character article contains a “main image” in the infobox. For episode guides, it is a screenshot of a memorable and important moment from the episode. For main character articles, it is the promotional photo or screenshot of the character which is deemed to best represent that character as he or she was last seen in the most recent season.

The first image that is inserted as the main image may remain in place if unchallenged. In many episode guide cases, the main image area remains empty until the community sorts through a handful of possibilities and agrees upon a specific one (this takes place shortly after the episode airs). Either of these methods results in an image that has been accepted by the community. Switching this image afterward is considered a major change: anyone who wishes to change the inbox image of any episode guide or main character article is required to propose the switch in an explanation on the talk page of the desired article. Main image changes that have been made without the necessary discussion proposal may be summarily reverted.