MaterialWiki:Guidelines

This page documents an official policy on the MaterialWiki project. It has wide acceptance among editors and is considered a standard that all users should follow. Please do not edit this page without first ensuring that your revision reflects consensus. When in doubt, discuss changes first on the talk page.

Guidelines

Guidlines are more advisory in nature than policies, and should be treated with common sense and the occasional exception. Amendments to a guideline should be discussed on its talk page, although it is generally acceptable to edit a guideline to improve it. Disputes over the wording of a guideline are resolved by considering and discussing objections and counter-proposals and coming to agreement, often using compromise language. Such a dispute does not "suspend" the guideline or "turn it into" something other than a guideline.

The guidelines for contributing to MaterialWiki are:

• Assume good faith - In allowing anyone to edit, we work from an assumption that most people are trying to help the project, not hurt it.
• Material research - Guidelines for contributing new materials.
• Suggest a material - Guidelines for suggesting new materials.
• Building research - Guidelines for contributing new buildings.
• Suggest a building - Guidelines for suggesting new buildings.

How are guidelines enforced?

You are a MaterialWiki editor. Since MaterialWiki has no editor-in-chief or top-down article approval mechanism, active participants make copyedits and corrections to the format and content problems they see. So the participants are both writers and editors.

Individual users thus enforce most policies and guidelines by editing pages, and discussing matters with each other.

Some features of the software which could potentially be misused, such as deleting pages and locking pages from editing, are restricted to administrators, who are experienced and trusted members of the community.