Help:Policy Guidelines

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Complex Operations Wiki serves the complex operations community involved in the training, planning, designing and executing Counterinsurgency (COIN), Stability, Security, Transition, and Reconstruction (SSTR) and irregular warfare operations. In contrast to existing document centric information portals, Complex Operations Wiki collaboration centers around chunked knowledge, which is semantic knowledge centered on facts and relationships about a common vocabulary.

• Content: the topics Complex Operations Wiki solicits
• Style: the format standards for providing content into Complex Operations Wiki
• Behavioral: standards for behavior on Complex Operations Wiki
• Deletion: Policies dealing with page deletion
• Enforcement: actions editors can take to enforce other policies
• Legal and copyright: law-based rules about what material may be used here, and remedies for misuse

Content

No original research

Just like Wikipedia, Complex Operations Wiki does not publish original research . To demonstrate that you are not presenting original research, you must cite reliable sources that are directly related to the topic of the article, and that directly support the chunked knowledge presented.

Doctrine Knowledge

Complex Operations Wiki solicits chunked knowledge from U.S. Army, Marine Corps, Joint Operations, NATO Field Manuals (e.g. FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency, FM 03-07 Stability Operations and Support Operations), NGO Handbooks (e.g. The Sphere Handbook, INEE Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies, Chronic Crises and Early Reconstruction).

Reference Knowledge

Complex Operations Wiki solicits chunked reference knowledge encyclopedic sources (e.g. The World Factbook, Wikipedia), social science papers published in peer reviewed journals, authoritative aggregators of reference knowledge (STAR-TIDES, CCOportal,

Quantitative Knowledge

Complex Operations Wiki solicits chunked quantitative knowledge from social science databases (e.g. Uppsala Civil Conflict, START Global Terrorism, Minorities at Risk (MAR), World Development Indicators databases), social science papers analyzing quantitative data, social science risk analysis reports interpreting event databases,

Current Knowledge

Complex Operations Wiki solicits chunked current knowledge from authoritative news sources (e.g. ReliefWeb)

Community Knowledge

Complex Operations Wiki will soon support questions and answers powered by the Complex Operations community.

Style

Naming conventions

The naming conventions should follow the supported domain vocabulary in order to make extraction of knowledge easier. If a concept name is not defined, it should be proposed to add it to the vocabulary.

Naming categories

The names of categories should be selected from the doctrine knowledge, and it should be extended with category names from reference knowledge. For instance FM 3-24 defines the requirements of successful COIN operations. The first requirement is the establishment of host nation government legitimacy. The concept of legitimacy is defined by its well defined meaning in the social science literature. Since changing category names loses edit history, it should be done with care. When no appropriate category form exists, create a category with a name similar to the main article about the same topic.

Neutral point of view

Everything that our readers can see, including templates, categories and portals, should be written from a Neutral Point of View.