Tolkien Gateway:Policy

General guidelines

• Contribute what you know or are willing to learn about
• Be bold in updating pages
• Make omissions explicit
• Build the web
• Using Bots
• Provide an edit summary
• For other useful tips, see avoiding common mistakes.

Behavior guidelines

• Sign your posts on talk pages
• Avoid profanity
• No personal attacks (and move personal debates to email)
• No legal threats
• Be accountable
• No offensive usernames
• Don't bite the newcomers
• Don't create articles about yourself
• Three revert rule (Revert wars are considered harmful)
• Use your user pages appropriately
• General Talk page guidelines

Content guidelines

• Guide to writing better articles
• Explain jargon
• Deal appropriately with patent nonsense
• State the obvious
• Cite sources: point the reader to authoritative references (and list them properly)
• Verifiability: ensure information cited is verifiable if needed (this does not mean it is "official", rather it refers to others' ability to confirm it exists and is as stated)
• Avoid statements that will date quickly
• Stay on topic
• Warn readers about spoilers
• Make articles useful for readers (and consider the audience in writing)
• Check your facts
• Guidelines for using Talk pages
• Avoid peacock terms
• Avoid weasel terms (disputed)
• Avoid self-references
• Avoid POV phrases
• Algorithms on Wikipedia
• Avoid lengthy, separate summaries of movies and books

Style guidelines

• Manual of style
• Don't include copies of primary sources
• Follow highlighting conventions
• Consider the context when making links
• Use subheadings sparingly
• Use short sentences and lists
• Don't use line breaks
• Avoid one-sentence paragraphs
• Do not use subpages