Wikipedia:Coherence

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Wikipedia Coherence groups a series of guidelines that are neither

• Central policies, as in category:wikipedia official policy and Wikipedia:Five pillars

neither

• Wikipedia style guidelines, as in category:wikipedia style guidelines and wikipedia:Manual of Style

neither

• Wikipedia how-to guidelines, as in category:wikipedia how-to and wikipedia:how-to

neither

• Wikipedia naming conventions guidelines, as in category:wikipedia naming conventions and wikipedia:naming conventions

neither

• Wikipedia deletion guidelines, as in category:wikipedia deletion and wikipedia:deletion

So what is this idea about "Coherency" guidelines, are they in any way important?

The "coherence" guidelines are not important 

in that you don't need to know anything about them to contribute to wikipedia

The "coherence" guidelines are extremely important 

in that they give the basic philosophies behind many of the central policies, and help the composition of other wikipedia guidelines stay coherent

[edit] Examples of "coherence" guidelines

• wikipedia:importance - how "importance" is defined is, yeah, important; even the central NPOV policy depends on how "importance" is defined, see NPOV tutorial#Space and balance. Nonetheless the importance guideline is, of course, less important than the NPOV policy itself (which usually can be applied with a merely intuitive understanding of "importance")
• wikipedia:easy navigation - This guideline has few practical recommendations when you're writing wikipedia articles, its main objective is to sort out inconsistencies sometimes creeping into guidelines covering similar topics.