WikiGuide:Policies and guidelines

WikiGuide's policies and guidelines are only used to describe best practices, clarify principles, resolve conflicts, and otherwise further our goal of creating a free-content teaching guide. There is no need to read any of our policy or guideline pages to start editing. The content policies nutshell are a popular summary of the most pertinent principles.

Although WikiGuide generally have less policies restrictions compare to Wikipedia, they are standards that all users should normally follow, and guidelines are generally meant to be best practices for following those standards in specific contexts. Policies and guidelines should always be applied using appropriate reasons, and if these policies restricted you to do some constructive actions (using common sense), you may ignore these rules.

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 WikiGuide. It does not cover other editions of WikiGuide.

Derivation
Wikipedia is hosted by MediaWiki, which is part of the Wikimedia Foundation. All the edits are meant to release by the Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. Nevertheless, normally WikiGuide is a project run by its community. Its policies and guidelines are intended to reflect the consensus of the community that is, even the founder opposes he still cannot overturn decisions of the community.

Role
Policies have wide acceptance among editors and describe standards all users should normally follow.

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 WikiGuide:List of policies and guidelines and Category:WikiGuide guidelines. 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.