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Saintapedia policies, guidelines, and processes are being developed by the community to describe best practice, clarify principles, resolve conflicts, and otherwise further our goal facilitate information sharing within the Department of Energy. There is no need to read any policy or guideline pages before starting editing. The Three Core Principles is a popular summary of the most pertinent principles.

Policies

What Not To Post On Saintapedia

Guidelines

Keep it simple
Ways To Use Saintapedia
Best example pages
Content: Define which topics are welcome on Saintapedia, and provide quality and naming conventions.
Acronyms
Singular vs. Plural
Deletion Standards
Talk Pages - Saintapedia:Sign your posts on talk pages
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Article naming convention
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Ethics - what company information can be added to Saintapedia

Processes

Data spill
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Possible Topics to be Developed
Be nice to newcomers
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Conflict of interest
Assume good faith
Article size
Be bold
Subpages
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See Wikipedia's list of policies and guidelines .