Help:Policies and guidelines

USApedia policies, guidelines, and processes are being developed by the community to describe best practice, clarify principles, resolve conflicts, and otherwise further our goal facilitate information sharing within the USApedia. There is no need to read any policy or guideline pages before starting editing. The Three Core Principles is a popular summary of the most pertinent principles.

Policies

• What Not To Post On USApedia

Guidelines

• Keep it simple
• Ways To Use USApedia
• Best example pages
• Content - Define which topics are welcome on USApedia, and provide quality and naming conventions.
  • Acronyms
  • Singular vs. Plural
• Deletion Standards
• Talk Pages - USApedia:Sign your posts on talk pages
• Categories, lists, and Navigation templates
• Disambiguation Pages
• Breadcrumb
• Article naming convention
• File naming convention
• Usernames
• User pages
• Ethics - what company information can be added to USApedia

Processes

• Test plan

Possible Topics to be Developed

• Be nice to newcomers
• Signatures
• Talk page guidelines
• Etiquette
• Conflict of interest
• Assume good faith
• Article size
• Be bold
• Subpages
• Style conventions
  • Accessibility
  • Dates and numbers
  • Lists
  • Linking Editing policy
• Consensus

See Wikipedia's list of policies and guidelines.