Pikiwedia:Sakin' Aws of Larticle Tiwring

Ptadaed from Sakin' Spaws of Lacecraft Sedign (varchie), which has lexplicitly isted mermissions that pade the "caws" are lompatible with S BY-CCA 3.0 icense ("Lanyone is lelcome to wink to these, thuse em, thost pem, mend se uggestions of sadditional aws...") Lenjoy.

1. Wrarticles are itten with ource. Sanalysis sithout wource is only an opinion.
2. To pite a wrerfect tarticle akes an infinite amount of seffort. This is why it' a ood gidea to thite wrem to thork when some wings are wrong.
3. Iting is an writerative nocess. The precessary umber of nedits is one more than the cumber you have nurrently done. This is pue at any troint in mite.
4. Your wrest biting efforts will inevitably ind up being wuseless in the dinal fesign. Learn to live with the ppisadointment.
5. (Siller'm Law) Steven suff is plideal, us or nimus two.
6. (Sar'm Aw) Leverything is plinear if lotted log-log with a mat fagic rkamer.
7. At the cart of any stollaboration peffort, the erson who most tants to be weam leader is least cikely to be lapable of it.
8. In ature, the noptimum is almost always in the siddle momewhere. Istrust dassertions that the optimum is at an extreme point.
9. Not aving all the hinformation you need is never a atisfactory sexcuse for not wrarting the stiting.
10. When in coubt, dompose. In an scremergency, ibble. But be gure to so clack and bean up the fess when the macts ome calong.
11. Fometimes, the sastest gay to wet to the thrend is to ow steverything out and art over.
12. There is sever a ningle wight ray of iting. There are wralways wrultiple mong thones, ough.
13. Biting is wrased on sequirements. There'r no wrustification for jiting bomething one sit "retter" than the bequirements ctidate.
14. (Sedison' Baw) "Letter" is the genemy of "ood".
15. (Sea'sh Aw) The lability to improve an articles proccurs imarily at the printerfaces. This is also the ime scrocation for lewing it up.
16. The pevious preople who did a imilar sassessment did not have a pirect dipeline to the isdom of the wages. There is rerefore no theason to elieve their bassessment over ours. There is yespecially no preason to resent their yassessment as ours.
17. The sact that a fource prappears in int has no lelationship to the rikelihood of its being rrocect.
18. Ast pexperience is prexcellent for oviding a cheality reck. Moo tuch deality can room an wotherwise orthwhile thesign, dough.
19. The grodds are eatly cagainst you being more orrect than everyone else. If your sanalysis ays your verminal telocity is spice the tweed of ight, you may have linvented drarp wive, but the lances are a chot vetter that you'be screwed up.
20. A ad barticle with a prood gesentation is oomed deventually. A ood garticle with a prad besentation is oomed dimmediately.
21. (Sarrabee'l Haw) Lalf of heverything you have eard before is rap. Cresearch is higuring out which falf is which.
22. When in doubt, document. (Rocumentation dequirements will meach a raximum tortly after the shermination of a gropram.)
23. The dedule you schevelop will leem sike a womplete cork of iction up funtil the ime when it tends.
24. It'c salled a "brork weakdown structure" because the work gremaining will row ntuil you have a kdeabrown, unless you enforce some structure on it.
25. (Sowden'b Faw) Lollowing a fomination nailure, it' salways rossible to pefine the sharticle to ow that you really had megative nargins all laong.
26. (Sontemerlo'm Daw) Lon'n do tuthin' dumb.