CNM wikipage

A CNM wikipage (hereinafter, the Wikipage) is any wikipage of CNM Wiki. All of the Wikipages are supported by Friends Of CNM. Every Wikipage is fully accessible for every visitor of the World Wide Web.

Contributors

Main wikipage: CNM knowledge contributor

Originator

Main wikipage: CNM knowledge originator

A CNM knowledge originator is a person who discovers various resources, analyzes their information, and posts written words, graphics, and links on the Wikipages.

Editor

Main wikipage: CNM knowledge editor

A CNM knowledge editor is a person who edits written words, graphics, and links that CNM knowledge originators post on the Wikipages.

Administrator

Main wikipage: CNM knowledge administrator

A CNM knowledge administrator is a person who assigns permissions to CNM knowledge originators and CNM knowledge editors.

Categories

Main wikipage: CNM wikicategory

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Links

Main wikipage: CNM wikilink

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Types

After identifying a document's purpose, determine the appropriate document type.

An easily recognizable document type and format increase a document's overall coherence and the audience's ability to use it efficiently. Consequently, most technical documents conform to fairly standard document types that present information in standard formats.

Official

Main wikipage: CNM official document

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Draft

Main wikipage: CNM draft document

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Report

Main wikipage: CNM report document

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Original

Main wikipage: CNM original document

Disambiguation

Main wikipage: CNM disambiguation document

Its policies and guidelines are developed by someone who loves and cares about legal stuff. These drafted policies are for every contributor here that intended to work on wiki sites.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Policies and guidelines

What to do

• Expertise: You don’t have to be well known to be a contributor, but you must know a lot about the subject you’re writing about.
• Evidence: It’s not enough to know your subject deeply — you have to prove it to the reader. Referring to supporting research is one good way to do this; describing relevant examples is another.
• Originality: New idea in management are rare and precious.
• Usefulness: Stay on top of new developments in management thinking, also to change the way they and their organizations actually do things.
• Writing that’s persuasive and a pleasure to read: CNM readers are smart and skeptical and busy. If you don’t capture their interest right away, they will move on to something else.

Principles

• Be clear. Avoid esoteric or quasi-legal terms and dumbed-down language. Be plain, direct, unambiguous, and specific. Avoid platitudes and generalities. Do not be afraid to tell editors directly that they must or should do something.
• Be as concise as possible—but no more concise. Verbosity is not a reliable defense against misinterpretation. Omit needless words. Direct, concise writing may be more clear than rambling examples. Footnotes and links to other pages may be used for further clarification.
• Emphasize the spirit of the rule. Expect editors to use common sense. If the spirit of the rule is clear, say no more.
• Maintain scope and avoid redundancy. Clearly identify the purpose and scope early in the page, as many readers will just look at the beginning. Content should be within the scope of its policy. When the scope of one advice page overlaps with the scope of another, minimize redundancy. When one policy refers to another policy, it should do so briefly, clearly and explicitly.
• Avoid overlinking. Links to policies, guidelines, essays, and articles should be used only when clarification or context is needed. Links to other advice pages may inadvertently or intentionally defer authority to them. Make it clear when links defer, and when they do not.
• Not contradict each other. The community's view cannot simultaneously be "A" and "not A". When apparent discrepancies arise between pages, editors at all the affected pages should discuss how they can most accurately represent the community's current position, and correct all of the pages to reflect the community's view. This discussion should be on one talk page, with invitations to that page at the talk pages of the various affected pages; otherwise the corrections may still contradict each other.

Related lectures

• CNM Wiki Essentials.