I am what you would call: an informed newbie. In the past few months I've read a vast amount of posts in numerous threads on this forum. The information is indeed all present, most topics are addressed over and over again. Many questions are answered by different people contradicting each other. To produce a "Straight shaving FAQ", that can offer clear answers that won't confuse a newbie will be a very difficult task.
What you guys need, IMHO, to accomplish that task is a "Straight Razor WIKI". A wiki, as most of you know, is a tool for creating content on the WEB, that's being created my multiple authors. Wikipedia is the best known example of course, but it is also possible to create wikis about niche activities like straight razor shaving.

But even with a good wiki, there will be so much conflicting information present, that beginners will need personal guidance. What we newbies in fact need is a tutor-apprentice relationship. We need guidance by someone with a consistent vision and methods that work well together and lead to succesful shaving with a straight razor. Shaving is a craft. It should be passed along by people, not learned out of books, or through internet articles. Not every tutor would pass along the same methods, but that's okay. There always comes a time that an apprentice becomes well versed enough to start figuring out his own individual way. That's when true craftsmanship starts.

I also think that it would be much more rewarding for the experts on this forum to play a tutoring role with a beginning shaver, than witnessing time and time again how your posts wash away in oblivion, as they age rapidly on this forum, and how the valid information that your answer posed to a particular question gets diluted by other equally valid answers in the same thread, made by other experts that have a different opinion on the matter. I have been reading large threads that left me more confused after I read them than before. I've also read numerous old posts that contained answers leading to only more questions. A wiki, nor FAQ, will solve that problem. Only interaction with a real person, a tutor, can fill that gap.

Just my opinion,
Bart.