Speedsolving.com Wiki:Policies and guidelines

Many elements of this article are derived from Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines.

Policies 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 reason and common sense.

Derivation

SpeedSolving.com Wiki is a self-governing project run by its community. Its policies and guidelines are intended to reflect the consensus of the community.

Adherence

Common sense should be used when interpreting and applying policies and guidelines. Those who violate the spirit of a rule may be reprimanded even if no rule has technically been broken.

Whether a policy or guideline is an accurate description of best practice is determined by the community through consensus.

Enforcement

Individual editors enforce and apply policies and guidelines.

In cases where it is clear that a user is acting against policy (or against a guideline in a way that conflicts with policy), especially if they are doing so intentionally and persistently, that user may be temporarily or indefinitely blocked from editing by an administrator.

Proposals

Proposals for new guidelines and policies should have prior dicussion and much consensus for promotion to guideline or policy.

Demotion

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 use of too much instruction that results in very long and complicated pages. In such situations, editors may propose that a policy be demoted to a guideline or that a policy or guideline be removed and archived.

Neutral Point of View

All content on SpeedSolving.com Wiki should be written from a neutral point of view. I.e. representing fairly, proportionately, and without editorial bias unless otherwise clearly mentioned. All significant views by the cubing community as well as other communities should be addressed in all articles where applicable.

Note that project pages are meant to be broad in scope and cannot hope to cover every minute aspect of any issues dealt with.

Manual of Style

See Speedsolving.com Wiki:Manual of Style.

Readability

Editors should write all content on SpeedSolving.com Wiki in a way which is easy to read, navigate, and comprehend.