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Policies and guidelines may be established through new proposals, promotion of essays or guidelines, and reorganization of existing policies and guidelines through splitting and merging. Essays and information pages may be established by writing them and adding {}, {{Information page}}, {{Wikipedia how-to}}, or a similar template to the page.
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 ...
Template documentation. Templates are a very powerful feature of MediaWiki, but can be confusing to new users and even experienced users can have difficulty making sense of the more complex ones. Templates should therefore be accompanied by documentation to improve usability. Template documentation should explain what a template does and how 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 ...
A template is a Wikipedia page created to be included in other pages. It usually contains repetitive material that may need to show up on multiple articles or pages, often with customizable input. Templates sometimes use MediaWiki parser functions, nicknamed " magic words ", a simple scripting language . Template pages are found in the template ...
This is a documentation subpage for Template:Wikipedia policies and guidelines. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page. This template is used on approximately 3,600 pages and changes may be widely noticed.
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 ...
To change this template's initial visibility, the |state= parameter may be used: {{Wikipedia policies and guidelines|state=collapsed}} will show the template collapsed, i.e. hidden apart from its title bar. {{Wikipedia policies and guidelines|state=expanded}} will show the template expanded, i.e. fully visible.