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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.
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 ...
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 ...
The stability of major policies and guidelines is important to editors involved in the Wikipedia:Featured articles process and other areas of editing. Edit warring is particularly deprecated in this area. Bold editors of policy and guidelines pages are strongly encouraged to follow WP:1RR or WP:0RR standards.
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 ...
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