Introduction
Welcome to this Wiki page. You probably got the advice from another editor to read this page, or a specific part of this page. This advice is given to increase the quality of your edits. The edits for which you were referenced might have been deleted or adjusted in the mean time. This might be inconvenient, because you miss a specific example. However, realize that the main goal of this advice is to improve your editing skills, while keeping the map up to date. If there is no specific subject that led to the referral of this Wiki page, just globally read the information. Once you need it, come back to the specific section of the subject. We advise you not to try to understand this whole Wiki page with all the details in one go, for it might be overwhelming.
Every editor has made mistakes and also everyone, now and then, still does. That's the way most people learn. And most of the times they are not even mistakes. The editing guidelines have developed over several years. So, something that was according to the regulations a year ago, might today be ready for improvement.
This Wiki page is not supposed to be a full manual of how to edit the Waze Map. It is an overview of subjects that are often confusing for starting editors, because they did not know the guidelines yet and their own logic tells them differently. This is not surprising because many of the guidelines have changed over the years and if you don't know the history, you don't always see the logic. All (starting) editors had this issue. And because guidelines are still changing and will keep changing, this will also happen to more experienced editors. In addition, the technical working of Waze changes often.