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The difference between policies, guidelines, and essays on Wikipedia is obscure. There is no bright line between what the community chooses to call a "policy" or a "guideline" or an "essay" or an "information page". This explanatory essay itself is a supplemental page, which is an even more ambiguous group. [1]
Whether a policy or guideline is an accurate description of best practice is determined through consensus. On discussion pages and in edit summaries, shortcuts are often used to refer to policies and guidelines; for example, (no original research), (neutral point of view) and (biographies of living persons). Similar shortcuts are also used for ...
Participants in debates should ask themselves who their audience is: and specifically, if the person to whom a policy, guideline, or essay is cited can realistically be expected to be familiar with it. If not, the discussion takes on the unwelcoming demeanour of insiders lecturing outsiders on the Way Things are Done.
Policy is a deliberate system of guidelines to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes. A policy is a statement of intent and is implemented as a procedure or protocol. Policies are generally adopted by a governance body within an organization. Policies can assist in both subjective and objective decision making.
Currently, the existing icons on policy, guideline and essay page "ombox"es (green check mark for policies, blue check mark for guidelines) are not sufficient to discern. Omboxes and also nutshell boxes of policy/guideline/essay pages can be filled in fully with different colors to increase the discernabilities. Logos 15:41, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
The difference between policies, guidelines, and some essays on Wikipedia may be obscure. Essays vary in popularity and how much they are followed and referred to. Editors should defer to official policies or guidelines when essays, information pages or template documentation pages are inconsistent with established community standards and ...
Formal policies and guidelines have a notice at the top of their pages, and the prefix "Wikipedia:" or "WP:" before their page name. While there is a policy or guideline for almost every issue imaginable, no one is expected to know all of them! Luckily, there are a handful upon which all others are based.
Proposing a guideline or policy. Add the {} template to the top of your page. Leave a message on its talk page that explains whether you are proposing this as a guideline or as a policy and why you think it should be adopted as a guideline (instead of an essay) or a policy (instead of an essay or a guideline).