[Vim-l] New guidelines (policies) for editing tips

[John Beckett]

Sebastian Menge wrote:
> it's a bit dangerous to over formalize the contributions

OK - I hope I haven't done that. While encouraging people to 'be bold' and
so on, I think that some contributors might like a bit of guidance (which
they can ignore).

Do we (the regulars here) want to keep all the comments as a historical
record? Do we want to delete them all? Or move them to the talk pages? Or
delete some of them? Do we keep the author names and dates? Or delete them?

I've tried to put my opinions in a brief yet informative way, so others can
make up their minds on what to do. My aim is provide information that
editors may find helpful, while encouraging them to not waste time (such as
trying to polish every tip and comment until is is worth keeping).

Ipkiss has done a lot of editing recently, and I'm hoping he will offer an
opinion on the guidelines. He has already suggested in 'Forum:Template for
duplicates' that the guidelines should have a section on useful templates,
particularly the Script template. I'm aiming to attend to that soon.

John