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This page in a nutshell: Wikipedia's rules are principles, not civil code or exacting law. Our policies reflect certain principles; understanding these principles is more important than understanding the rules
The fundamental principles of Wikipedia may be summarized in five "pillars": Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. Wikipedia combines many features of general and specialized encyclopedias, almanacs, and gazetteers.
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What are Wikipedia's policies & guidelines?
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Proposals for new guidelines and policies require discussion and a high level of consensus from the entire community for promotion to guideline or policy status. Adding the {{policy}} template to a page without the required consensus does not mean the page is policy, even if the page summarizes or copies policy. Most commonly, a new policy or guide...
An accepted policy or guideline may become obsolete because of changes in editorial practice or community standards, may become redundant because of improvements to other pages, or may represent unwarranted instruction creep. In such situations editors may propose that a policy be demoted to a guideline, or that a policy or guideline be demoted to ...
Policies and guidelines can be edited like any other Wikipedia page. It is notstrictly necessary to discuss changes or to obtain written documentation of a consensus in advance. However, because policies and guidelines are sensitive and complex, users should take care over any edits, to be sure they are faithfully reflecting the community's view an...
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. As a temporary measure during that resolution process, if a guideline appears to conflict with a policy, editors may assume the policy take...
Wikipedia:Pledges: Specific principles individual Wikipedians pledge to uphold; Wikipedia:Product, process, policy: The three Ps; Wikipedia:Here to build an encyclopedia: Behaviors that build, or destroy, the project. Wikipedia:Eight simple rules for editing our encyclopedia; Wikipedia:Ten simple rules for editing Wikipedia
The rule of law includes principles such as legality, implying a transparent, accountable, democratic and pluralistic process for enacting laws; legal certainty; prohibiting the arbitrary exercise of executive power; effective judicial protection by independent and impartial courts, effective judicial review including respect for fundamental ...
A principle is a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of beliefs or behavior or a chain of reasoning. [2] . That is a guide for behavior or evaluation. In law, it is a rule that has to be or usually is to be followed.
