Chalo Chatu:Policies and guidelines

This page in a 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.

Policies and guidelines (list)
Principles
Five pillars Ignore all rules Core content policies
Content policies
Article titles Biographies of living persons Image use Neutral point of view No original research Verifiability What Chalo Chatu is not
Conduct policies
Civility Clean start Consensus Dispute resolution Edit warring Editing policy Harassment No legal threats No personal attacks Non-discrimination policy Ownership of content Username policy Vandalism
Other policy categories
Deletion Enforcement Friendly space policy Legal Procedural
Directories
List of policies List of guidelines Manual of Style contents

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 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.

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.