🤝 Community

Community Guidelines

Last updated: January 2024

Gaali Atlas India relies on contributions from people across India who understand regional language nuances better than any single editorial team could. These guidelines keep the archive accurate, respectful of its educational mission, and free of abuse.

What We're Building

This is a documentation project, not a platform for directing abuse at real people. Every submission should treat language as an object of study — something to be recorded accurately, with context, the way a dictionary records a word regardless of how that word might be used.

✅ Do

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Submit terms you have genuine knowledge of.

Regional dialects and slang change quickly — first-hand familiarity produces far more accurate entries than guesswork.

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Include regional and cultural context.

Notes on where a term is used, how it's evolved, or how its meaning shifts by tone make entries genuinely useful.

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Flag inaccuracies you encounter.

Use the correction form on any entry page — even small fixes (a misspelled variant, an incorrect region) help.

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Describe severity honestly.

Rate how strong a term is typically perceived to be — not how strong you personally think it should be.

🚫 Don't

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Submit content targeting real, named individuals.

This archive documents language, not people. Submissions that name specific private individuals will be rejected.

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Submit spam or promotional content.

Submissions are reviewed by humans; spam wastes review time and will get your future submissions deprioritized.

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Fabricate etymology or history.

If you're unsure of a term's origin, say so or leave the field blank rather than inventing a plausible-sounding backstory.

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Use the comment system to harass other contributors.

Comments should add linguistic context — not start arguments with other commenters.

Moderation Process

All submissions enter a pending queue and are reviewed by our editorial team before publishing. We check for accuracy, duplicate entries, and compliance with these guidelines. Review typically takes 1–3 days. Rejected submissions are not automatically deleted — they remain in our internal records for reference, but do not appear publicly.

Enforcement

Repeated violations of these guidelines (spam, harassment, fabricated content) may result in submissions from a given source being deprioritized or ignored. Since the Platform does not require accounts, enforcement is primarily content-based rather than user-based.

Questions?

If you're unsure whether a submission fits these guidelines, submit it anyway and let our reviewers make the call — or reach out via the submission form with a question first.