Talk:Acceptable use policy

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I'm playing with AUPs at the moment. The one question which I can't answer is: how long (or short) should one be?

What a poor article about AUPs, or should we say "Acceptable Use Policy" documents. There is a very much wider range of issues about AUP documents: Who writes them? What are the range of topics contained in a AUP? How enforceable are AUP documents? Guidelines for businesses writing AUP documents. A range of AUP documents applying to general Internet users. and more. . . I will in the next few days attempt a rewrite of this document to make it into a much better and more representative of Wikipedia articles. The article also needs Wikification, and a much better list of categories. So expect more from me in the next few days. andyman 01:11, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I have started researching this topic and possibly need to widen the topic to include documents that essentially do the same thing as AUP documents. Google asks all it Gmail customers to accept a "Terms of Use" which sets out "acceptable use policies" amongst a general description of their service. andyman 01:20, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

There are some aspects I still am working on -- I need to support some statements with a link. Am doing that work now. andyman 02:33, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

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 * I just readded it without knowing at that time that it had been removed in the past. The article appears to single out specific companies and organizations too much; it appears to be pointing out what companies have strict AUPs and which ones have tolerant AUPs rather than explaining what an AUP is. I think the article needs to be rewritten to meet Wikipedia's standards, including our NPOV policy. GO-PCHS-NJROTC  (Messages) 03:09, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I dispute the neutrality of the section on enforceability, as it seems more in the nature of an instruction on how a provider may make its terms of service enforceable, rather than a description of the treatment of this subject in scholarly sources. Bwrs (talk) 08:08, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

AUP policy guide to uni virginia broken
Virginia Department of Education Handbook for writing AUP documents [last ref] is broken —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.154.136 (talk) 15:24, 10 December 2010 (UTC)


 * This has been addressed. DaveARose (talk) 07:33, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

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 * @InternetArchiveBot Ferdinand Icatlo (talk) 17:40, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Delete or keep an index to this subject?
This week there's discussion about whether to delete or keep the Index of Articles Relating to Terms of Service and Privacy Policies, which I created in early August. That index helps readers find: Wikipedians are welcome to improve the index, and/or discuss if it should be deleted or kept available. Numbersinstitute (talk) 16:40, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
 * this article
 * articles on different aspects of terms of service
 * articles which cover terms of service at specific companies