Wikipedia:Coherence (historical)

Wikipedia Coherence groups a series of guidelines that are neither neither neither neither neither
 * Central policies, as in category:wikipedia official policy and Five pillars
 * Wikipedia style guidelines, as in category:wikipedia style guidelines and Manual of Style
 * Wikipedia how-to guidelines, as in category:wikipedia how-to and how-to
 * Wikipedia naming conventions guidelines, as in category:wikipedia naming conventions and naming conventions
 * Wikipedia deletion guidelines, as in category:wikipedia deletion and deletion

So what is this idea about "Coherency" guidelines, are they in any way important?


 * The "coherence" guidelines are not important : in that you don't need to know anything about them to contribute to wikipedia


 * The "coherence" guidelines are extremely important : in that they give the basic philosophies behind many of the central policies, and help the composition of other wikipedia guidelines stay coherent

Examples of "coherence" guidelines

 * importance - how "importance" is defined is, yeah, important; even the central NPOV policy depends on how "importance" is defined, see NPOV tutorial. Nonetheless the importance guideline is, of course, less important than the NPOV policy itself (which usually can be applied with a merely intuitive understanding of "importance")
 * easy navigation - This guideline has few practical recommendations when you're writing wikipedia articles, its main objective is to sort out inconsistencies sometimes creeping into guidelines covering similar topics.