Difference between revisions of "Particle Wiki:Guidelines for contributors"

Revision as of 09:05, 4 May 2016

Pretty much the same guidelines as on Wikipedia apply to Particle Wiki.

However, there are some differences and clarifications specific to our particular community. These are listed here.

1. No collaboration-internal information. You are encouraged to add (also) collaboration-specific information, but it has to be public before you do so. If in doubt, talk to your collaboration's management. If you find internal information, please remove it immediately and/or if possible inform the author and the Minimum Bias administrators.
2. The level of presentation should be suitable for a novice particle physics researcher. Or easier, especially for very basic concepts. You can think of the target audience as a starting PhD student with little or no particle physics knowledge.
3. Some original research is ok. Wikipedia has guidelines prohibiting you from adding your own research findings to it. Since we as a community are working on the frontier of knowledge, we can stretch this point a little: you may add new findings, including your own, as long as they are not very controversial. Please respect the mainly encyclopedic nature of Minimum Bias when doing this, and remember that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
4. We have jargon and acronym lookup. One added use of Minimum Bias is looking up jargon and acronyms. Even obscure aliases and acronyms may be added as redirect pages to the main articles.