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I think guideline is a good word, and I’ve used it to describe/summarize the purpose of the “best practice” content I’ve written. But it’s not always a good top level category.

This will depend on the product and the space used to publish the content. I worked on content that was published to a developer portal, which also had an integrated community, and this community had published guidelines for participating.

In terms of content discoverability/SEO, guidelines is often overloaded.

I started to look at this content as a direct extension of the overall product. And when thinking about naming things, it often most effective to meet users where they are. The technically correct label on a button is often not the label that actually resonates with users. Same goes for content, IMO (within reason).

I think most of this is solved by a summary/abstract describing the content and what the user should take from it.



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