Wiki rules and guidelines

This Wiki was created to gather resources on effectively helping people on personal problems, including oneself.

In order to achieve this goal it is important to keep some standards of quality and language and style. So, there are some conventions and editing rules.


 * 1) Content must be helpful somehow, this is the main criterion of what should be here or not.
 * 2) Be extra careful about information that can be misused, misunderstood or used in irresponsible or dangerous ways. Suicide methods are not allowed here because of that.
 * 3) Content should be clear, accessible and organized.
 * 4) We aim to help people from very different backgrounds and worldviews so value judgement should be kept to the minimum.
 * 5) Religious-based advice is allowed but religiousness should not be assumed in general.
 * 6) Specific belief systems and related advice can be commented descriptively but not in a prescriptive way.
 * 7) If you have important content but no time or knowledge on how to format it, post it anyhow, somebody can format it later for you.
 * 8) There is a lot of low quality self-help around, be criterious on your selection, try to find trustworthy sources (which is not the same as popular or mainstream).
 * 9) Differences from Wikipedia:
 * 10) Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, this is a help wiki.
 * 11) While Wikipedia is mostly about descriptive academic knowledge, this wiki is has a more practical and prescriptive focus. Therefore factual and academic knowledge should be concise and limited to the most relevant and helpful, while refering to other websites (such as Wikipedia) for further information.