Tolkien Gateway:Policy
From Tolkien Gateway
General guidelines
- Contribute what you know or are willing to learn about
- Be bold in updating pages
- Make omissions explicit
- Provide an edit summary
Behavior guidelines
- Sign your posts on talk pages
- Avoid profanity
- No personal attacks (and move personal debates to email)
- No legal threats
- Be accountable
- No offensive usernames
- Don't bite the newcomers
- Don't create articles about yourself
- Use your user pages appropriately
Content guidelines
- Explain jargon
- State the obvious
- Cite sources: point the reader to authoritative references (and list them properly)
- Verifiability: ensure information cited is verifiable if needed (this does not mean it is "official", rather it refers to others' ability to confirm it exists and is as stated)
- Avoid statements that will date quickly
- Stay on topic
- Make articles useful for readers (and consider the audience in writing)
- Check your facts
- Avoid weasel terms (disputed)
- Avoid self-references
- Avoid POV phrases
- Avoid lengthy, separate summaries of movies and books
Style guidelines
- Manual of style
- Don't include copies of primary sources
- Follow highlighting conventions
- Consider the context when making links
- Use subheadings sparingly
- Use short sentences and lists
- Avoid one-sentence paragraphs
- Do not use subpages