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class="wb-otherproject-link wb-otherproject-wikipedia mw-list-item"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines" hreflang="en"><span>Wikipedia</span></a></li><li class="wb-otherproject-link wb-otherproject-wikiquote mw-list-item"><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Policies_and_guidelines" hreflang="en"><span>Wikiquote</span></a></li><li class="wb-otherproject-link wb-otherproject-wikisource mw-list-item"><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Policies_and_guidelines" hreflang="en"><span>Wikisource</span></a></li><li class="wb-otherproject-link wb-otherproject-wikiversity mw-list-item"><a href="https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Policies" hreflang="en"><span>Wikiversity</span></a></li><li class="wb-otherproject-link wb-otherproject-wikivoyage mw-list-item"><a href="https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Policies" hreflang="en"><span>Wikivoyage</span></a></li><li class="wb-otherproject-link wb-otherproject-wiktionary 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href="/wiki/Wikibooks:Protection_policy#semi" title="This project page is semi-protected."><img alt="This project page is semi-protected." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Padlock-silver.svg/22px-Padlock-silver.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="22" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Padlock-silver.svg/33px-Padlock-silver.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Padlock-silver.svg/44px-Padlock-silver.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></a></span></div></div> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikibooks, open books for an open world</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div style="position:relative; top: -3em;"><span id="WB:PAG"></span></div> <div class="shortcutbox noprint" style="float:right; clear:right; border:1px solid #aaaaaa; background: #ffffff; margin:0.3em 0.3em 0.3em 1em; padding:3px; text-align:center;"><small><a href="/wiki/Wikibooks:Shortcuts" title="Wikibooks:Shortcuts">Shortcut</a>: <br/> <a href="/wiki/Wikibooks:PAG" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikibooks:PAG">WB:PAG</a></small></div> <p>This serves as a guide to the <b>policies and guidelines</b> that are generally accepted and considered important — even essential — by the project's founders and community. These help us to work towards our goal: <i>Developing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gratis" class="extiw" title="w:gratis">free</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/open_content" class="extiw" title="w:open content">open content</a> textbooks, manuals, and other texts.</i> It is important to note that at least some of these policies are still evolving as Wikibooks grows and develops. </p><p>The use of "must", "should", "must not", "should not", and "may" on this page are used consistently with <a class="external mw-magiclink-rfc" rel="nofollow" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119">RFC 2119</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Definition_of_terms" data-mw-thread-id="h-Definition_of_terms"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Definition_of_terms"></span>Definition of terms<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Definition_of_terms"></span></h2></div> <dl><dt>Policy</dt> <dd>A policy is a set of rules that must be followed at all times.</dd></dl> <dl><dt>Guideline</dt> <dd>A guideline is a set of rules that should be followed and only ignored in particular circumstances.</dd></dl> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikibooks_draft_policies_and_guidelines" title="Category:Wikibooks draft policies and guidelines">Draft</a></dt> <dd>Referring to a policy or guideline, this means that it has been suggested by a user and is still undergoing discussion as to whether it should be made official or rejected. Proposed policies and guidelines may either become <b>official</b> or <b>rejected</b>, depending on the eventual outcome of the discussion.</dd></dl> <dl><dt>Must</dt> <dd>This word, or the terms <b>required</b> or <b>shall</b>, means that the definition is an absolute requirement of the policy or guideline.</dd></dl> <dl><dt>Should</dt> <dd>This word, or the adjective <b>recommended</b>, means that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular guideline, but the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a different course.</dd></dl> <dl><dt>Official</dt> <dd>Referring to a policy or guideline, this means that it is currently in effect, and enforced by other contributors. A policy is a set of rules that must be followed. A guideline is a set of rules that should be followed.</dd></dl> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikibooks_obsolete_policies_and_guidelines" title="Category:Wikibooks obsolete policies and guidelines">Obsolete</a></dt> <dd>Referring to a policy or guideline, this means that it has been superseded by a new guideline or policy. The new version should be used, and the old version is only kept for historical reasons.</dd></dl> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikibooks_rejected_policies_and_guidelines" title="Category:Wikibooks rejected policies and guidelines">Rejected</a></dt> <dd>Referring to a policy or guideline proposal, this means that it has been rejected by the community for a variety of different reasons. It, along with the proposal discussion, is kept to remind people of the reasons for the rejection and to prevent it from being reproposed for reasons rejected in previous discussion.</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Procedures" data-mw-thread-id="h-Procedures"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Procedures"></span>Procedures<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Procedures"></span></h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Formulating_policies_and_guidelines" data-mw-thread-id="h-Formulating_policies_and_guidelines-Procedures"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Formulating_policies_and_guidelines-Procedures"></span>Formulating policies and guidelines<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Formulating_policies_and_guidelines-Procedures"></span></h3></div> <p>All <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia" class="extiw" title="m:Wikimedia">Wikimedia</a> projects share a set of <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Founding_principles" class="extiw" title="m:Founding principles">core founding principles</a>. </p><p>Wikibooks policies and guidelines are formulated for the most part by habit and consensus. This takes place in discussions on <a href="/wiki/Wikibooks:Talk_page" title="Wikibooks:Talk page">talk pages</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Wikibooks:RR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikibooks:RR">Reading Room</a> and the <a class="external text" href="https://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/textbook-l">Textbook-l</a> <a href="/wiki/Wikibooks:Mailing_lists" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikibooks:Mailing lists">email list</a>. Once a ground for consensus exists on a topic that Wikibooks would benefit to have as an official guideline or policy, a document is created and discussed in specifics. </p><p>To propose a new policy or guideline document, add a new entry to the <a href="#Proposals">Proposals</a> section below. The page should be in the Wikibooks namespace. Create the new page, add the {{<a href="/wiki/Template:Draft" title="Template:Draft">draft</a>}} template and write up the proposal. </p><p>So long as the policy is proposed, other users and members may change the text of the proposal to reflect the state of the discussion and compromises about the proposal. After proposed policy has been reviewed and discussed by other users and work on it is considered finished, it may be accepted by community consensus. For specifics about what consensus means, and how it is achieved, see the <a href="/wiki/Wikibooks:Decision_making" title="Wikibooks:Decision making">decision making guidelines</a> </p><p>Even a page which is already an official policy or guideline can be modified to keep it in line with consensus or to make it more coherent. Policies and guidelines are generally open to being edited by any established user, but controversial changes are likely to be reverted. Anyone who thinks there is a problem with an existing policy or guideline is welcome to discuss it. Still, except for non-normative edits, changes must be proposed on the guideline discussion page and accepted by the community per <a href="/wiki/Wikibooks:Decision_making" title="Wikibooks:Decision making">Wikibooks:Decision making</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Enforcing_policies" data-mw-thread-id="h-Enforcing_policies-Procedures"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Enforcing_policies-Procedures"></span>Enforcing policies<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Enforcing_policies-Procedures"></span></h3></div> <p><i>You</i> are a Wikibooks editor. Wikibooks lacks an editor-in-chief or a central, top-down mechanism whereby the day-to-day progress on this instructional resource is monitored and approved. Instead, active participants monitor <a href="/wiki/Special:RecentChanges" title="Special:RecentChanges">recent changes</a> and make copyedits and corrections to the content and format problems they see. <a href="/wiki/Wikibooks:Wikibookians" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikibooks:Wikibookians">The participants</a> are both writers <i>and</i> editors. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Policies" data-mw-thread-id="h-Policies"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Policies"></span>Policies<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Policies"></span></h2></div> <p>Official Wikibooks policies are identified with the {{<a href="/wiki/Template:Policy" title="Template:Policy">policy</a>}} template at the top of the page, which includes the page in <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikibooks_policies" title="Category:Wikibooks policies">Category:Wikibooks policies</a>. The current list of official policies follows: </p> <div style="column-count:3"> <div class="CategoryTreeTag" data-ct-options="{"mode":20,"hideprefix":20,"showcount":false,"namespaces":false,"notranslations":false}"><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreeBullet"><a class="CategoryTreeToggle" data-ct-title="Wikibooks_policies" data-ct-loaded="1" aria-expanded="true"></a> </span> <bdi dir="ltr"><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikibooks_policies" title="Category:Wikibooks policies">Wikibooks policies</a></bdi></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren"><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreeBullet"><a class="CategoryTreeToggle" data-ct-title="Administrative_policies" aria-expanded="false"></a> </span> <bdi dir="ltr"><a href="/wiki/Category:Administrative_policies" title="Category:Administrative policies">Administrative policies</a></bdi></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreeBullet"><a class="CategoryTreeToggle" data-ct-title="Behavioral_policies" aria-expanded="false"></a> </span> <bdi dir="ltr"><a href="/wiki/Category:Behavioral_policies" title="Category:Behavioral policies">Behavioral policies</a></bdi></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreeBullet"><a class="CategoryTreeToggle" data-ct-title="Content-related_policies" aria-expanded="false"></a> </span> <bdi dir="ltr"><a href="/wiki/Category:Content-related_policies" title="Category:Content-related policies">Content-related policies</a></bdi></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreeBullet"><a class="CategoryTreeToggle" data-ct-title="Wikijunior_Policy" aria-expanded="false"></a> </span> <bdi dir="ltr"><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikijunior_Policy" title="Category:Wikijunior Policy">Wikijunior Policy</a></bdi></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreePageBullet"></span> <bdi dir="ltr"><a href="/wiki/Wikibooks:Administrators" title="Wikibooks:Administrators">Wikibooks:Administrators</a></bdi></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreePageBullet"></span> <bdi dir="ltr"><a href="/wiki/Wikibooks:Annotated_texts" title="Wikibooks:Annotated texts">Wikibooks:Annotated texts</a></bdi></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreePageBullet"></span> <bdi dir="ltr"><a href="/wiki/Wikibooks:Be_civil" title="Wikibooks:Be civil">Wikibooks:Be civil</a></bdi></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreePageBullet"></span> <bdi dir="ltr"><a href="/wiki/Wikibooks:Bots" title="Wikibooks:Bots">Wikibooks:Bots</a></bdi></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreePageBullet"></span> <bdi dir="ltr"><a href="/wiki/Wikibooks:Copyrights" title="Wikibooks:Copyrights">Wikibooks:Copyrights</a></bdi></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreePageBullet"></span> <bdi dir="ltr"><a href="/wiki/Wikibooks:Deletion_policy" title="Wikibooks:Deletion policy">Wikibooks:Deletion policy</a></bdi></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" 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