EuropeWiki:Policy

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EuropeWiki is a collaborative effort of the NationStates community. Its goal is to provide a historical reference and an otherwise valuable, encylcopedic resource to those from Europe. To work toward this goal, the wiki has certain policies and guidelines that help to keep the wiki a civil, organized, and useful resource. Note, however, that while some policies are relatively fixed, others are controversial and need to be evaluated based on the context of the situation.

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[edit] Key policies

It is by no means necessary or required to read and understand every policy before you contribute. By all means, start contributing as soon as possible! However, by following these policies, you will find a more productive experience here.

• Avoid bias. Articles should be written from a neutral point of view, meaning that you fairly cover all issues invovled and don't endorse a particular opinion.
• Don't infringe copyrights. NSwiki is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, and infringing copyright defeats the wiki's goal of open content. See Copyrights for more information.
• Respect other contributors. NSwikians come from all walks of life and all sides of NationStates. See Etiquette for more information directly related to the wiki and the Internet.
• EuropeWiki:Deletion policy

[edit] Policy enforcement

There is no central department responsible for the content on the wiki. You are a EuropeWiki editor. Policies aren't enforced in the strictest sense of the word. Instead, contributors to the site make edits to various pages to make them conform to our guidelines and policies. For controversial issues, we have an arbitration page. So, if you make a mistake -- don't worry that someone is going to kick in your door, or otherwise assault you online. Someone will simply stroll along and fix your mistake, and might even inform you of what you did that was wrong (nicely, of course, and so that you will know better next time).

[edit] Other guidelines

• Follow the style guide.
• Follow How to move a page guidelines.
• In general, do not link to disambiguation pages, or to redirect pages -- instead, link directly to the page of interest.
• In cases where there are multiple claimants for a page title, official NationStates names have priority. Regions generally have first claim, followed by Nations. See disambiguation policy for details.
• To save EuropeWiki server space, please do not copy-paste complete texts unless they are either in the context of a more in-depth article or are hidden behind a forum registration requirement. However, copy-pasting your nation description in preparation for a longer article on your nation is acceptable.
• Nation pages should be created using the exact nation name on NationStates, but should not include the nation's pretitle. Use only what comes after the "of". See EuropeWiki:Naming conventions for expansions and additions to this.
• Category names should be plural if the articles listed in that category are instances of it, and singular if the articles listed are about the category or related to it.
• Signatures (automatically added by appending ~~~~) should only be placed on talk and other 'discussion' pages.
• Mark edits as minor if they fix links, grammar, spelling, or categories -- unless content was changed.
• Fill out the edit summary box, briefly describing your change.