User:Jayron32/Unwritten rules of ITN

WP:IAR applies to all of these as well, for any of these rules you are likely to find exceptions, but this represents normal practice.


 * 1) In criminal proceedings, we only post convictions.  We don't post steps in the process before (investigation, arrest, opening of trials) or after (sentencing).
 * 2) Thresholds for significance are based on local context.  Events that are common in a particular part of the world get rapidly opposed whereas the same event in another part of the world wouldn't get opposed so quickly.  This particularly applies to mass murder in the U.S.
 * 3) While ITNR is not supposed to be exclusionary (that is, not being on that list should not preclude some blurb from being posted) in practice, the existence of a class of events in ITNR prevents any events of that class not on ITNR from being posted.  For example, because ITNR lists certain sporting events, ONLY those sporting events will EVER be posted.  Nominations for any sporting event not on the ITNR list get quickly opposed.  This is true for other ITN categories other than sporting events as well.
 * 4) National elections (or the equivalent in sui generis situations like Hong Kong which don't fit easily into the "national/local" divide) will be posted while local elections will not.  This is irrespective of population or of legitimacy of the elections.
 * 5) Prose is all that counts.  Tables/charts/graphics/etc. are basically ignored when assessing article quality for posting suitability, though if present charts and the like should still meet the basic referencing requirements.  An article on an event such as an election or sporting event that is all prose and no charts will be posted easily; the opposite (all charts/no prose) are never posted.