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= Wikipedia's policies and guidelines = 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.

Policies:
Have wide acceptance among editors and describe standards all users should normally follow. Three principles Wikipedia's Five Pillars, ignore all the rules, Core content policies. They are often closely related to the five pillars of Wikipedia.

Wikipedia Five Pillars

 * Wikipedia is an encyclopedia.
 * Wikipedia is written from a neutral point of view.
 * Wikipedia is free content that anyone can use, edit, and distribute.
 * Wikipedia's editors should treat each other with respect and civility.
 * Wikipedia has no firm rules.

Content policies
Even if we'll name and link Wikipedia content policies, these can be summarized as, being clear, being as concise as possible, maintaining scope and avoiding redundancy, avoiding over-linking, and do not contradict each other.

Involving articles titles, have to be neutral, precise, and descriptive. When writing biographies of living people, the article's tone should be cautious and dispassionate avoiding understatement and overstatement, information has to come from reliable sources and when presuming favor privacy.

In the case the article requires images, they should be own work production, freely licensed, taken from the public domain, or in case they are fair or non-free usage editor should explain how it is going to be used. For more information, visit Wikipedia: Image use policy.

Wikipedia, also follows an encyclopedia format, and because of it publishing personal research is not acceptable, information uploaded must be verifiable.

Conduct policies
Because Wikipedia is a huge cluster of people there must be some rules we must follow such as civility which means that they'll be different points of view, Wikipedia editors must be collaborative and for doing so some points must be followed. Explain yourself, Be careful with user warning templates, try not to be too intense, take a real-life check, be professional, and avoid condescension. When talking about the conduct policies, the consensus appears, not as a unanimous agreement, but as involving all editor's legitimate concerns. On the other hand, sometimes editing warring can appear, that is when two beliefs about a topic start editing the content of a page overwriting each other. This is not only poisonous to the Wikipedia environment, but also will end up in all the participants being blocked. The editions of Wikipedia must try to improve the content in various manners such as improving grammar, correcting inaccuracies, requesting citations, or repairing dead links.

Between editors, there can also be the owners of article debates, these will be resolved by dialogue. Sock-puppetry is also illegal and happens when an editor creates secondary accounts to defame other editors or increase his trust.

Finally, the last conduct policy refers to vandalism, which is considered any action against the project of the website involving the removal of encyclopedic content or changing this material beyond recognition.

Guideline:
These are sets of best practices supported by consensus.


 * 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 article namespace (unless otherwise specified in the guideline), and offer advice on identifying and including encyclopedic information in articles.
 * Deletion guidelines explain the criteria and procedures for deleting unwanted pages.
 * Editing guidelines usually provide non-content advice about categorization, navigation, or other how-to-edit advice.
 * Naming conventions detail the correct ways to name articles on particular topics.
 * Notability guidelines outline a subject's criteria to merit a Wikipedia article.


 * Style guidelines contain extensive advice on writing style, formatting, grammar, and more.