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''Going to lunch...if anyone wants to "take over" by annotating these pages, organizing them into categories, and grouping them a la the "Content Policy" format below, I would be greatly appreciative! --[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] 13:14, 22 December 2007 (CST)''
''Going to lunch...if anyone wants to "take over" by annotating these pages, organizing them into categories, and grouping them a la the "Content Policy" format below, I would be greatly appreciative! --[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] 13:14, 22 December 2007 (CST)''
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Revision as of 14:07, 3 January 2008

Citizendium Organization
CZ:Home | Workgroups | Personnel | Governance | Proposals | Recruitment | Contact | Donate | FAQ | Sitemap
How to Edit
Getting Started Organization Technical Help
Policies Content Policy
Welcome Page


Going to lunch...if anyone wants to "take over" by annotating these pages, organizing them into categories, and grouping them a la the "Content Policy" format below, I would be greatly appreciative! --Larry Sanger 13:14, 22 December 2007 (CST)

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Archived Pages
Blog Outreach
Cold Storage
Community Overview
Community Pages
Contact
Donate
Executive Committee
Friends of Citizendium
Fundamentals
International
Mailing List Outreach
New Workgroup Requests
Notes on launching workgroups
Organization
Personnel
Press
Privacy policy
Professional Organization Outreach
Recruitment Letter
Statistics
Topic Partners
We aren't Wikipedia
Workgroups

http://www.youtube.com/citizendium


Thanks to our first year contributors and supporters
Editor-in-Chief thanks dozens of participants and partners in a mailing list posting.
Community Overview
How we work together: the roles of authors, editors, workgroups, various governance bodies, etc.



Content Policy

This is the root page for all Citizendium content policy pages. "Content policy" concerns accuracy, good scholarship, formatting, and other matters.
If you would like our "top policy picks," or the most important policy documents, see:
  1. Approval Standards
  2. Article Mechanics
  3. Neutrality Policy
  4. Subpages
  5. Naming Conventions
  6. How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles
 

General article policy and instructions
Approval Standards
The basic qualities of a good encyclopedia article.
Article Mechanics
A guide to encyclopedia article style and mechanics.
What Citizendium articles are not
A few items that one should not confuse Citizendium encyclopedia articles with.
Sage advice on writing CZ articles
Just a few words of wisdom.


Fundamental principles
Neutrality Policy
Where agreement is lacking, represent all sides sympathetically.
Maintainability
If we can maintain a whole set of articles like that, have at it.
Family-Friendly Policy
Respect the usual publishing standards for Junior.


Media policy
Images
How to upload and give credit for images.
Media Assets Workgroup
A proposed workgroup would help manage our media resources.
Fair Use Policy
Guidance for fair use issues.


Topic Informants and Self-Promotion
Policy on Topic Informants
What we do when someone with a vested interest in a topic wants to get involved.
Topic Informant Workgroup
Interviewers and writers volunteering to work with topic informants.
Policy on Self-Promotion
Thou shalt not promote thyself.

Subpages
Subpages
We're not just an encyclopedia. See what else.
Default subpages
Related Articles and Definitions | Bibliography | External Links
Subpages that should be included in (almost) all articles.
Optional subpages
Catalogs, timelines, galleries, tutorials--all different sorts of reference information.


Special issues
Stubs
Even "stubs," very short articles, can be high quality.
How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles
If you must upload that Wikipedia article, here's how.
Topic Choice
First step is to pick a topic; a few rules about that.
Naming Conventions
How to name articles.
Citation style
How to cite articles and books.
Disambiguation
"Disambiguation pages" let people choose which sense of a term they're interested in.


Legal
Disclaimer
Essentially, unapproved articles shouldn't be relied upon.
Copyrights
CZ is free, but see this page for details about our licensing scheme.
GNU Free Documentation License
One of our licenses (used for articles that began life on Wikipedia).
Reusing Media Hosted at Citizendium
How you may reuse media we host.
Permissions
Contributors, it's important to document use permissions you receive.