Healthy diet

has developed a body of policies and guidelines to further our goal of creating a free encyclopedia. Our policies are considered standards that should be followed, whereas our guidelines are more advisory in nature, and our processes are routine methods to serve the above policies and guidelines. While neither label confers an inherent importance over the other two, if process, guideline or policy pages appear to conflict, then policies should be generally, but not always, followed before guidelines, and guidelines before processes.

Policies and guidelines describe standards that have community consensus and apply to all editors. Indeed consensus is itself a core policy and philosophy. Wikipedia strives to create a welcoming environment for those who take a neutral point of view, are civil to and assume good faith in others, seek consensus in discussions, and work towards the goal of creating an increasingly better-written and more comprehensive encyclopedia.

Policies need to be approached with common sense; adhere to the spirit rather than the letter of the rules, and be prepared to ignore the rules on the rare occasions when they conflict with the goal of improving the encyclopedia.

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