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WIKIPEDIA: POLICIES AND GUIDELINES
Wikipedia's policies and guidelines are designed to describe the best ways to publish, clarify principles, resolve conflicts, and further its goal of creating a free and trustworthy encyclopedia. While there are no hard rules.

POLICIES
The principles of wikipedia, are the Five pillars (Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, is written from a neutral point of view, editors should treat each other with respect and civility, Wikipedia has no firm rules  and is  free content that anyone can use edit and distribute.),  Ignore all rules (if a rule  don't let you improve in this  page, ignore it) and Core content policies (neutral point of view, verifiability and no original research).

Content policies:
The Wikipedia article titles are large headings and the basis for the article's pages name, so it has to follow this characteristics: recognizability, naturalness, precision, concision, consistency. If you want to write biographies of living people, must be written conservatively and with regard for the person's privacy. This material requires a high sensitivity and must adhere strictly to all the laws, in wikipedia must be followed three core content policies: neutrality, verifiability and no original research.

Related with the image use, it is important to make sure that you own the laws of the image, it is freely licensed, public domain and fair use or non-free. Images must be uploaded as SVG, PNG or GIF format, and  the videos with a Ogg/Theora or WebM format.

Wikipedia is like a free encyclopedia, the amount of this page is almost unlimited. Although it doesn't have very strict rules, you can not publish whatever you want, for example, you can't use it like a newspaper and neither publish your personal opinion.

Conduct policies:
Civility is an important part of the code conduct of Wikipedia, this describes the rules the user are expected to follow and describes how problems should be dealt. Editors are expected to be cooperative and  avoiding incivility. When you want to delete your old account to open a new one, it is called a clean start. There are two most common reasons for making this are, recognizing past mistakes and avoiding harassment.

When making decisions on wikipedia, this are made by consensus. Decision making and reaching consensus involve an effort to incorporate all editors worries, respecting the policies and guidelines.

Many disputes can be resolved without external input, through gradual editing, discussion and attempts to understand the legitimate objections of others.

When editors disagree about the content of a page and repeatedly override each other's contributions, this is called edit warring. This, is not constructive, creates enmity among editors, consensus and causes confusion for readers.

Another policy to keep in mind when publishing on wikipedia is the editing one. Even the best articles should not be considered complete, as each new editor may offer new ideas on how to augment and improve the content of the article at any time. instead of deleting content from an article, consider rewording, adding another point of view, correcting errors in the text or formatting.

What Wikipedia wants to be, is a safe and secure site where respect is important, which is why harassment, that is an offensive behavior that is repeated to specific people intentionally, is something that Wikipedia is against, as it wants to create a community where people can talk without the need to scare, discourage editing or be annoying. Also, do not make personal attacks. Comment on the content, not the editor. Personal attacks harm the community and can hurt the person.

Posting legal threats is not allowed. If there is a problem with a editor, you should try to resolve it using Wikipedia's dispute resolution procedures. if the problem is directly with Wikipedia, the Wikipedia Foundation will be the one to help.

All pages on Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, so even if an editor has written an article, that does not mean that he owns it; any other editor can modify what he has put in.

Another policy to take into account, is the Username policy, which names are accepted and which are not. A name can only be used by one person, as these cannot be repeated.

Finally, in wikipedia, vandalism is forbidden, with this idea they mean that it is forbidden to edit deliberately to obstruct or defeat the purpose of wikipedia, which is to create a free encyclopedia.