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Manual of Style contents. v. t. e. Wikipedia's policies and guidelines are developed by the community to describe best practices, clarify principles, resolve conflicts, and otherwise further our goal of creating a free, reliable encyclopedia. There is no need to read any policy or guideline pages to start editing.
Contents. Help:Introduction to policies and guidelines/All. Wikipedia actually has few strict rules, but rather is founded on five fundamental principles. Wikipedia's policies and guidelines are developed by the community to clarify these principles and describe the best way to apply them, resolve conflicts, and otherwise further our goal of ...
Wikipedia's rules and best practices are specified in two types of documents: Policy. A policy documents a rule or standard with wide acceptance among Wikipedia editors that all users should normally follow. Guideline. A guideline is a set of best practices that are supported by the consensus of Wikipedia editors. Editors should attempt to ...
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Based on parent policies and guidelines: If your proposal relates to an existing policy or guideline, leave a note on the talk page of the related policy or guideline. For example, proposed style guidelines should be announced at Wikipedia:Manual of Style. Central notification: Announce your proposal at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy).
No description. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers block formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status No parameters specified New policies require approval If you're writing a new policy, or substantially revising one, please remember to give the community significant time to consider your proposal. See WP:PROPOSAL for the current best practice on ...
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List of guidelines. Because there are a large number of guideline pages (over 200), they are subcategorized (using the { { subcat guideline }} template) according to their purpose. Behavioral guidelines outline ways for editors to behave and interact with each other on talk pages and elsewhere at Wikipedia. Content guidelines apply only to the ...