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Some hints, policies, and processes are more important than others. If we had to pick the most important, what would they be?

Be bold, but behave professionally. Before making substantial deletions or substitutions to existing articles, give reasoning on the talk page.
We provide important Objectivity Guidance.
Link words and phrases (by surrounding the phrases with left and right double brackets: [[ ]]) where, and only where, the links are relevant to the point being made in a sentence, and where following a link will shed important light on the subject of the article.
Make sure the "Content is from Wikipedia?" box, just above "Save page", is checked if the material originated on Wikipedia.
Project discussion happens in the Forum; article discussion on the article's talk page.
No advertisement; no self-promotion.
No plagiarism, no copyright violation.

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+Some hints, policies, and processes are more important than others.  If we had to pick  the most important, what would they be?
+# [[CZ:Be Bold|Be bold]], but [[CZ:Professionalism|behave professionally]]. Before making substantial deletions or substitutions to existing articles, give reasoning on the talk page.
+# We provide important [[CZ:Objectivity Guidance|Objectivity Guidance]].
+# Link words and phrases (by surrounding the phrases with left and right double brackets: <nowiki>[[ ]]</nowiki>) where, and only where, the links are relevant to the point being made in a sentence, and where following a link will shed important light on the subject of the article.
+# Make sure the "Content is from Wikipedia?" box, just above "Save page", is checked if the material [[CZ:How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles|originated on Wikipedia]].
+# ''Project'' discussion happens in the [[Forum:Home|Forum]]; ''article'' discussion on the article's talk page.
+# [[CZ:Policy on Self-Promotion|No advertisement; no self-promotion]].
+# No plagiarism, no copyright violation.
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-Some hints, policies, and processes are more important than others.  If we had to pick a dozen of the most important, what would they be?
-# [[CZ:Be Bold|Be bold]]!
-# [[CZ:Professionalism|Behave professionally]].
-# [[CZ:Naming Conventions|Lower-case article titles]].
-# Place <code><nowiki>[[Category:CZ Live]]</nowiki></code> on new articles, but not articles that that you've copied from Wikipedia and have not yet worked on.  See [[:Category:CZ Live|the definition]].
-# Place appropriate workgroup category tags on all articles; for example, <code><nowiki>[[Category:Philosophy Workgroup]]</nowiki></code>.  Here is [[CZ:Workgroups|the list of workgroups]].
-# Put [[CZ:The Article Checklist|the Article Checklist]] on new article talk pages.  To help do this systematically, visit [[CZ:Unchecklisted Articles|Unchecklisted Articles]].
-# Check the "Content is from Wikipedia?" box, just above "Save page", if you are copying something from Wikipedia.
-# Wikipedians should know that [[CZ:we aren't Wikipedia|we aren't Wikipedia]].  We have many different policies.
-# Subscribe to [https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l Citizendium-L] (everyone), and [https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-editors Citizendium-Editors] (editors).  These are announcement lists.
-# ''Project'' discussion happens on the [http://forum.citizendium.org ''Citizendium'' Forums.]; ''article'' discussion on the article's talk page.
-# Know some key policy and organization pages: [http://www.citizendium.org/fundamentals.html The Statement of Fundamental Policies] | [[CZ:Project Home|Project Home]] | [[CZ:Workgroups|Workgroups]] | [[CZ:Policy Outline|Policy Outline]] | [[CZ:How to get started as an author|How to get started as an author]] | [[CZ:How to edit an article|How to edit an article]] | [[CZ:How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles|How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles]] | [[CZ:Mailing List Outreach|Mailing List Outreach]] | [[CZ:Article Mechanics|Article Mechanics]] | [[CZ:Neutrality Policy|Neutrality Policy]]
-# Monitor some important changing pages: [[Special:recentchanges|recent changes]] | [[CZ:Home]] | your own "user talk" page (see "my talk" at the top of the page)

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