Wikipedia:Coherence (historical)
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Wikipedia Coherence groups a series of guidelines that are neither
- Central policies, as in category:wikipedia official policy and Wikipedia:Five pillars
neither
- Wikipedia style guidelines, as in category:wikipedia style guidelines and wikipedia:Manual of Style
neither
- Wikipedia how-to guidelines, as in category:wikipedia how-to and wikipedia:how-to
neither
- Wikipedia naming conventions guidelines, as in category:wikipedia naming conventions and wikipedia:naming conventions
neither
- Wikipedia deletion guidelines, as in category:wikipedia deletion and wikipedia:deletion
So what is this idea about "Coherency" guidelines, are they in any way important?
- The "coherence" guidelines are not important
- in that you don't need to know anything about them to contribute to wikipedia
- The "coherence" guidelines are extremely important
- in that they give the basic philosophies behind many of the central policies, and help the composition of other wikipedia guidelines stay coherent
Examples of "coherence" guidelines[edit]
- wikipedia:importance - how "importance" is defined is, yeah, important; even the central NPOV policy depends on how "importance" is defined, see NPOV tutorial#Space and balance. Nonetheless the importance guideline is, of course, less important than the NPOV policy itself (which usually can be applied with a merely intuitive understanding of "importance")
- wikipedia:easy navigation - This guideline has few practical recommendations when you're writing wikipedia articles, its main objective is to sort out inconsistencies sometimes creeping into guidelines covering similar topics.