Red:Policies and Guidelines

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No medical advice - a policy with legal considerations

Legal:No medical advice

Reduced Lens does not give medical advice, and no article should be written in a way that can be construed as medical advice. We see myopia as a refractive state, but real eye conditions should always be checked out by a licensed medical practicioner. Talking about how myopia affects the risk factors for eye diseases is okay - claiming methods promoted here are in any way a cure for eye disease (which it isn't) will be reverted on sight, regardless of the namespace and how public the writing is intended to be.

Ignoring policy policies

Ignore all rules

If you see a way that can be done better through ignoring a rule, go for it. Policies are written for a reason, so this is not a blank check to start doing whatever you want. However, first and foremost the message is that you can contribute without knowing all the rules at first.

Consensus

Change on the wiki is driven through community-driven consensus.

Article policies

Be respectful

No blatant hate toward the optometry industry, optometrists, and individuals.

No ownership

Nobody 'owns' articles. Just because you're the main contributor to an article, you are not immune to consensus about how the article should be developed from there.

Our point of view

The wiki is written from our point of view.

Articles about things that generally don't work, like Ayurveda and Bates method, are welcome. These articles should have an objective analysis of what works about them and what doesn't.

Optometry degrees optional

Readers shouldn't be reading the 'How to Start' article, and halfway through the article they are bombarded with a ridiculously complicated cross-referenced analysis of axial elongation diagrams and statistics with P-values. Technical content is welcome, but technical content should be segmented in their own area for readers who are up for it.

Citations to clinical studies, on the other hand, are encouraged. These look similar to how they look on Wikipedia.

Drafts are for chumps

Just push out the content, someone else will hopefully fix it

Meta

Not a web host

We're not a free web host, don't use us to host loads of irrelevant material

Behavioural guidelines

Be bold

Make the edits you think will improve the wiki. Don't tell someone to edit an article, edit the article. Some edits that you make may be slightly controversial, but go for it!

Assume good faith

Editors should assume good faith while editing the wiki. The most editors are here to improve the project, not harm it.

Here to build a vision improvement encyclopedia

People who contribute are here to build a vision improvement encyclopedia.