Googology Wiki:Policies and guidelines

This is a draft of the Googology Wiki policies and guidelines. It has not yet been vetted by the community.

This wiki is not a bureaucracy
The spirit of the rules should be followed, not the letter of the rules. Feel free to ignore the rules if it prevents you from improving the wiki. Avoid following process for the sake of process.

Try discussion first before resorting to voting
Voting makes some people happy and some people unhappy, while seeking a compromise makes all people equally a bit unhappy, and that's a better thing.

Admins should be a neutral third party
If an administrator is partaking in a dispute, the admin should avoid using admin tools to gain advantage in the dispute. Ask an uninvolved admin to perform the actions, if possible.

Inclusion policy
More notable numbers and functions such as googol and Graham's number can get their own articles, but less notable numbers and functions should be listed as one of the entries to a related list (such as a list of numbers defined using a certain notation, or in a certain naming system).

Neutral point of view
The articles on this wiki should follow a neutral point of view. When describing a dispute, articles should not take sides; instead, the arguments of each side should be described in a neutral manner.

Text licensing
Text on this wiki is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) license. This is different from the Miraheze default of CC BY-SA 4.0, and text under CC BY-SA 4.0 cannot be added to a body of CC BY-SA 3.0 text. Googology Wiki uses this license in case we want to merge back into the old Googology Wiki, which uses the CC BY-SA 3.0 license.

This policy does not apply to media files.

Media files
This wiki uses InstantCommons; this means files on Wikimedia Commons can be used directly on this wiki without having to locally upload it first.

Self-created files made for this wiki must be licensed under a free license such as CC BY-SA 3.0. The license chosen need not be compatible with the license of the wiki's text, so, for example, licensing your file under CC BY-SA 4.0 is also fine.

Non-free files originating outside of the wiki should be clearly marked as non-free in the file description, and a link back to the source should be provided.