How many of the 'pedias out there have some formal labelling of guidelines, saying "this is a guideline of the prtovleskian wikipedia" etc.?
Swedish Wikipedia didn't until this summer. There were some pages with "rules" of various kinds floating around in the Wikipedia namespace. Some people liked to say "this and that is a policy of Swedish wikipedia" but there was no way to define which these policies were. Now we are trying to define guidelines and policy all at once, so to speak. It seems obvious that policies should go through some kind of more formal procedure - but what about guidelines?
How do you do it on the other wikipedias? Do people just think to themselves "this is a good page, we need it, people should have this in mind" and then label it "guideline" to see if someone reverts? Are there formal procedures? Input from as many 'pedias as possible would be appreciated.
/Habj