Bharatpedia:List of policies and guidelines
This page includes a listing of policies and guidelines for English Bharatpedia. Policy and guideline pages describe Bharatpedia's principles and best-agreed practices. Policies are standards that all users should normally follow, while guidelines are meant to be best practices for following those standards in specific contexts. |
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The following is a comprehensive list of policies and guidelines. For descriptive directories see Bharatpedia:List of policies, Bharatpedia:List of guidelines and Bharatpedia:Manual of Style/Contents.
Terminology[edit]
Bharatpedia's rules and best practices are specified in these documents:
Policy[edit]
A policy documents a rule or standard with wide acceptance among Bharatpedia editors that all users should normally follow.
Guideline[edit]
A guideline is a set of best practices that are supported by the consensus of Bharatpedia editors. Editors should attempt to follow guidelines, though they are best treated with common sense. Occasional exceptions may apply. Naming conventions are considered guidelines.
Information page[edit]
An information page describes a process on Bharatpedia and reflects community consensus.
The basics[edit]
The Five Pillars[edit]
The Five Pillars are the five fundamental principles of Bharatpedia:
List[edit]
Large-print links are broad, fundamental policies and guidelines that apply throughout Bharatpedia.
Normal-print links are policies and guidelines that are general in scope but may apply to more specific situations.
Small-print links are policies and guidelines that are specific to a subject area or process on Bharatpedia.
Deletion policies[edit] |
Attack Page – Oversight – Proposed Deletion of Biographies of Living People – Revision Deletion |
Deletion guidelines[edit] |
Project content guidelines[edit] |
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Template guidelines[edit] |
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Reference Desk guidelines[edit] |
See also[edit]
- Community standards and advice – a quick directory of community norms and related guidance essays.
- Advice pages – about advice pages written by WikiProjects.
- Tutorial
- Introduction to policies and guidelines – a quick introduction to the major policies and guidelines for very new users.
- Related essays
- Simplified rule-set – some basic aspect of Bharatpedia norms and practices.
- Eight rules for editing – if you start out by following these simple rules, the rest should come naturally.
- Ten rules for editing – Bharatpedia can be daunting, but here we provide tips to make editing smoother.
- Trifecta – ultra-fast overview of foundational principles related to policies and guidelines.
- The rules are principles – policies and guidelines exist as rough approximations of their underlying principles.