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WIKIPEDIA: 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. 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 page specifies the community standards related to the organization, life cycle, maintenance of, and adherence to policies, guidelines, and related pages of the English Wikipedia.

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

ROLE
- 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 Category:Wikipedia policies. For summaries of key policies, see also List of policies.

- 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.

- Essays -> are the opinion or advice of an editor or group of editors for which widespread consensus has not been established. They do not speak for the entire 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.

ADHERENCE
Use common sense in interpreting and applying policies and guidelines; rules have occasional 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.

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

CONTENT
Policy and guideline pages should:


 * Be clear - Be plain, direct, unambiguous, 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.
 * Be as concise as possible, but no more concise - Direct, concise writing may be clearer than rambling examples.
 * Emphasize the spirit of the rule - If the spirit of the rule is clear, say no more.
 * Maintain scope and avoid redundancy - As many readers will just look at the beginning, content should be within the scope of its policy.
 * 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.

NO PART OF ENCYCLOPEDIA
Wikipedia has many policies and guidelines about encyclopedic content. Consequently, they do not generally need to conform to the same content standards or style conventions as articles

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


 * 1) 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.
 * 2) 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 a reasonable 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.
 * 3) 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.
 * 4) CONFLICS 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.

NAMING

The page names of policies and guidelines usually do not include the words "policy" or "guideline", unless required to distinguish the page from another.