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Guidelines for writing proofs in math papers

In the light of the recent "proof wars" in symplectic geometry (in which some groups contend that proofs given by some other groups are wrong, see here, here and here) I thought it would be good to have some basic guidelines (or best practices) for writing proofs in math papers as a community wiki on MO. This would be specially useful for the PhD students.

I don't just mean individual proofs but also the whole interconnected web of arguments in a paper. I think this is important as modern math papers tend to be long and highly complex and therefore difficult to referee.