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WIKIPEDIA: 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. Although Wikipedia generally does not employ hard-and-fast rules, Wikipedia's policy and guideline pages describe its principles and agreed-upon best practices. This policy specifies the community standards for the organization, life cycle, maintenance of, and adherence to policies, guidelines, and related pages of the English Wikipedia.''

ROLE

 * 1) ... Essays: are the advice of an editor or a group of that  for which widespread consensus had not been established. They don´t speak for all the community and may be created and written without approval. Essays the author does not want others to edit, or that contradict widespread consensus, belong in the user namespace.
 * 2) ....Guidelines: are sets of best practices supported by consensus. Editors should attempt to follow guidelines, though they are best treated with common sense, and occasional exceptions may apply. Guideline pages can be found in Wikipedia:List of policies and guidelines and Category:Wikipedia policies. For summaries of key guidelines, see also List of guidelines.
 * 3) ....Policies: have wide acceptance among editors and describe standards all users should normally follow. All policy pages are in Wikipedia:List of policies and guidelines and
 * 4) ....Category: wikipedia policies for summaries of key policies, see also List of policies.

DERIVATION
Wikipedia is operated by the not-for-profit Wikimedia Foundation,nevertheless, normally Wikipedia is a self-governing project run by its community,which reserves certain legal right, see the Wikipedia Foundation's Policies page for a list of its policies. See also Role of Jimmy Wales.

ADHERENCE
You need to think a lot of interpreting and applying policies and guidelines, the rules can have an exception, that said, those who violate the spirit of a rule may be reprimanded or sanctioned even if they do not technically break the rule.

On discussion pages and in edit summaries, shortcuts are often used to refer to policies and guidelines. Thus a shortcut does not necessarily imply the page linked to has policy or guideline status or has been widely accepted by the community.

LIFE CYCLED
Policy and guideline pages are seldom established without precedent, always require strong community support.


 * 1) DEMOTION: In certain cases, a policy or guideline may be superseded, in which case the old page is marked and retained for historical interest. A talk page discussion is typically started, the plantilla: Under Discussion template is added to the top of the project page, and community input is solicited. After an amount of time for comments, an independent editor should close the discussion and evaluate the discussion and determine whether a consensus has formed to change the status.
 * 2) CONENT CHANGES AND SUBTANTIVE CHANGES: As explained below, you may update best practices by editing boldly or by working toward widespread consensus for your change through discussion.
 * 3) CONFLICTS BETWEEN ADVINE PAGES: If policy and/or guideline pages directly conflict, one or more pages need to be revised to resolve the conflict so all the conflicting pages accurately reflect the community's actual practices and best advice. More commonly, advice pages do not directly conflict, but provide multiple options.
 * 4) PROPOSALS AND GOOD PRACTICANTE FOR IT: The first step is to write the best initial proposal you can. Amendments to a proposal can be discussed on its talk page. Include the Plantilla: Rfc along with a brief, time-stamped explanation of the proposal. To avoid later complaints about insufficient notice, it may be helpful to provide a complete list of the groups or pages you used to advertise the proposal on the talk page.

CONTENT
Policy and guideline pages needs to:


 * Emphasize the spirit of the rule - If the spirit of the rule is clear, that´s the final
 * Avoid overlinking - However, such links should only aply represent the community's current position and correct all the pages to reflect the community's view. This discussion should be on one talk page.
 * Concise as possible-but no a lot of that - Direct, concise writing may be clearer than rambling examples.
 * Clearly - Be plain, direct and specific. Even in guidelines, help pages, and other non-policy pages, do not be afraid to tell editors directly they must or should do something.
 * Maintain scope and avoid redundancy: Many readers will just look at the beginning, content should be within the scope of its policy.

NO PART OF ENCYCLOPEDIA
Wikipedia has many policies and guidelines about encyclopedic content, consequently, they don´t generally need to conform to the same content standards as articles

The page names of policies and guidelines usually don´t include the words "policy" or "guideline", unless required to distinguish the page

ENFORCEMENT
Seeing the principles set out on these pages, exactly policy pages, although it may be possible to convince some editors an exception ought to be made, is unlikely to prove acceptable. This means individual editors enforce and apply policies and guidelines.