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{{nutshell|Chalo Chatu's policies and guidelines are pages that serve to document the good practices that are accepted in the Chalo Chatu community. This policy describes how CU policies and guidelines should normally be developed and maintained.}}
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Chalo Chatu's policies and guidelines are developed by the community to describe best practices, clarify principles, resolve conflicts, and otherwise further our goal of creating a free, reliable encyclopedia. There is no need to read any policy or guideline pages to start editing. 
Chalo Chatu's policy and guideline pages describe its principles and agreed-upon best practices. Policies are standards that all users should normally follow, and guidelines are generally meant to be best practices for following those standards in specific contexts. Policies and guidelines should always be applied using reason and
common sense.
This policy page specifies the community standards related to the organization, life cycle, maintenance of, and adherence to policies, guidelines, and related pages.
==Derivation==
[[Chalo Chatu]] is operated by the not-for-profit [[Chalo Chatu Foundation]], which reserves certain legal rights. See also [[Chalo Chatu:Jason Mulikita Wales|Role of Jason Mulikita]]. Nevertheless, normally Chalo Chatu is a self-governing project run by its community. Its policies and guidelines are intended to reflect the consensus of the community.
==Role==
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'''Policies''' have wide acceptance among editors and describe standards that all users should normally follow. All policy pages are in [[Chalo Chatu:List of policies and guidelines]] and [[:Category:Chalo Chatu policies]]. For summaries of key policies, see also [[Chalo Chatu:List of policies|List of policies]].

==Enforcement==

Enforcement on Chalo Chatu is similar to other social interactions. If an editor violates the community standards described in policies and guidelines, other editors can persuade the person to adhere to
acceptable norms of conduct, over time resorting to more forceful means, such as
administrator and steward actions. In the case of gross violations of community norms, they are likely to resort to more forceful means fairly rapidly. Going against the principles set out on these pages, particularly policy pages, is unlikely to prove acceptable, although it may be possible to convince fellow editors that an exception ought to be made . This means that individual editors (including you) enforce and apply policies and guidelines.

==Naming==
The page names of policies and guidelines usually do not include the words "policy" or "guideline", unless required to distinguish the page from another.


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