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Conduct (?) | |
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Enforcement (?) | |
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Editing (?) | | | Style | - Manual of Style
- Accessibility
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- Lead section
- Linking
- Lists
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Classification | - Categories, lists, and navigation templates
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Project content (?) | | - Project namespace
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WMF (?) | |
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- Lists of attempts in creating fundamental principles
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- Overview
- Directory
- Tips
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| Content | - Accessibility
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Formatting | - Abbreviations
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Images | - Captions
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Layout | - Layout
- Lead section
- Tables
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Lists | - Embedded lists
- Lists
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Arts | - Anime and manga
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Music | - Music
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Unregistered (IP) users | - Why create an account?
- Create an account
- Request an account
- IPs are human too
- IP addresses are not people
- IP hopper
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Registered users | - New account
- Logging in
- Username policy
- Unified login or SUL
- Alternate account
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Account security | - Password strength requirements
- User account security
- Personal security practices
- Two-factor authentication
- Committed identity
- On privacy, confidentiality and discretion
- Compromised accounts
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Blocks, bans, sanctions, global actions | - Blocking policy
- FAQ
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- Tools
- Autoblock
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- Essay
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- Standard offer
- Global actions
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Related to accounts | - Sockpuppetry
- Single-purpose account
- Sleeper account
- Vandalism-only account
- Wikibreak
- Retiring
- Clean start
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User groups and global user groups | - Requests for permissions
- Admin instructions
- Admin guide
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- (Auto) confirmed
- Autopatrolled
- AutoWikiBrowser
- Bot
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Committees and related | - Arbitration Committee
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- Functionaries
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WikiProjects and collaborations | - Directory
- Culture and the arts
- Geographical
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- Wiki assistance and tasks
- Patrols
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Awards and feedback | - Reward board
- Contests
- A nice cup of tea and a sit down
- Charitableness
- WikiLove
- Compliment before criticism
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- Thanks!
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Maintenance tasks | - Task Center
- Backlog
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- Dusty articles
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Content dispute resolution | - Editor assistance
- Requests for comment
- Third opinion
- Dispute resolution noticeboard
- Biographies of living persons
- Conflict of interest
- External links
- Fringe theories
- Neutral point of view
- No original research
- Reliable sources
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Other noticeboards and assistance | - Regional notice boards
- Requests for help
- Asking questions
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- Help desk
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- Mergers
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- Long-term abuse
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Deletion discussions | |
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Elections and votings | |
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Directories and indexes and summaries | - Departments
- Edit summary legend
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- Essays
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- Help
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Philosophy | - Articles must be written
- All Five Pillars are the same height
- Avoid vague introductions
- Be a reliable source
- Civil POV pushing
- Cohesion
- Concede lost arguments
- Dissent is not disloyalty
- Don't lie
- Editing Wikipedia is like visiting a foreign country
- Editors will sometimes be wrong
- Eight simple rules for editing our encyclopedia
- Explanationism
- External criticism of Wikipedia
- Here to build an encyclopedia
- Most ideas are bad
- Need
- Neutrality of sources
- Not editing because of Wikipedia restriction
- The one question
- Oversimplification
- Paradoxes
- Paraphrasing
- POV and OR from editors, sources, and fields
- Process is important
- Product, process, policy
- Purpose
- Reasonability rule
- Systemic bias
- There is no seniority
- Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia
- Tendentious editing
- The role of policies in collaborative anarchy
- The rules are principles
- Trifecta
- Wiki in brief
- Wiki is an encyclopedia
- Wiki is a community
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Construction | - 100K featured articles
- Acronym overkill
- Advanced source searching
- Adding images improves the encyclopedia
- Advanced article editing
- Advanced table formatting
- Advanced template coding
- Advanced text formatting
- Alternatives to the "Expand" template
- Amnesia test
- A navbox on every page
- An unfinished house is a real problem
- Articles have a half-life
- Autosizing images
- Avoid mission statements
- Bare URLs
- Be neutral in form
- Beef up that first revision
- Blind men and an elephant
- BOLD, revert, discuss cycle
- Build content to endure
- Cherrypicking
- Chesterton's fence
- Children's lit, adult new readers, & large-print books
- Citation overkill
- Citation underkill
- Common-style fallacy
- Concept cloud
- Creating controversial content
- Criticisms of society may be consistent with NPOV and reliability
- Deprecated sources
- Dictionaries as sources
- Don't demolish the house while it's still being built
- Don't get hung up on minor details
- Don't hope the house will build itself
- Don't panic
- Don't revert due solely to "no consensus"
- Don't teach the controversy
- Editing on mobile devices
- Editors are not mindreaders
- Encourage the newcomers
- Endorsements (commercial)
- Featured articles may have problems
- Fruit of the poisonous tree
- Give an article a chance
- Identifying and using independent sources
- History sources
- Law sources
- Primary sources
- Science sources
- Style guides
- Tertiary sources
- Ignore STRONGNAT for date formats
- Inaccuracies in Wikipedia namespace
- Inaccuracy
- Introduction to structurism
- Link rot
- Mine a source
- Merge Test
- Minors and persons judged incompetent
- "Murder of" articles
- Not every story/event/disaster needs a biography
- Not everything needs a navbox
- Not everything needs a WikiProject
- Nothing is in stone
- Organizing disambiguation pages by subject area
- Permastub
- Potential, not just current state
- Printability
- Pruning article revisions
- Publicists
- Put a little effort into it
- Restoring part of a reverted edit
- Robotic editing
- Sham consensus
- Specialized-style fallacy
- Stub Makers
- Run an edit-a-thon
- Temporary versions of articles
- Tertiary-source fallacy
- There is a deadline
- There is no deadline
- The deadline is now
- Understanding Wikipedia's content standards
- Walled garden
- What an article should not include
- Wiki is a work in progress
- Wiki is not a reliable source
- Wiki is not being written in an organized fashion
- The world will not end tomorrow
- Write the article first
- Writing better articles
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Writing | - Avoid thread mode
- Gender-neutral language
- Proseline
- Use feminine pronouns
- Write the article first
- Writing about women
- Writing better articles
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Deletion | - Adjectives in your recommendations
- AfD is not a war zone
- Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
- Arguments to avoid in deletion reviews
- Arguments to avoid in image deletion discussions
- Arguments to make in deletion discussions
- Avoid repeated arguments
- Before commenting in a deletion discussion
- But there must be sources!
- Confusing arguments mean nothing
- Content removal
- Counting and sorting are not original research
- Delete the junk
- Does deletion help?
- Don't confuse stub status with non-notability
- Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument
- Follow the leader
- How to save an article proposed for deletion
- I just don't like it
- Identifying blatant advertising
- Identifying test edits
- Immunity
- Keep it concise
- Liar liar pants on fire
- Nothing
- Nothing is clear
- Overzealous deletion
- Relisting can be abusive
- Relist bias
- The Heymann Standard
- Unopposed AFD discussion
- Wiki is not Whack-A-Mole
- Why was the page I created deleted?
- What to do if your article gets tagged for speedy deletion
- When in doubt, hide it in the woodwork
- No Encyclopedic Use
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- Advanced source searching
- All high schools can be notable
- Alternative outlets
- Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
- Articles with a single source
- Avoid template creep
- Bare notability
- Big events make key participants notable
- Bombardment
- Businesses with a single location
- But it's true!
- Citation overkill
- Common sourcing mistakes
- Clones
- Coatrack
- Discriminate vs indiscriminate information
- Every snowflake is unique
- Existence ≠ Notability
- Existence does not prove notability
- Extracting the meaning of significant coverage
- Fart
- Google searches and numbers
- High Schools
- Inclusion is not an indicator of notability
- Independent sources
- Inherent notability
- Insignificant
- Masking the lack of notability
- Make stubs
- News coverage does not decrease notability
- No amount of editing can overcome a lack of notability
- No big loss
- No one cares about your garage band
- No one really cares
- Notability/Historical/Arguments
- Notability cannot be purchased
- Notability comparison test
- Notability is not a level playing field
- Notability is not a matter of opinion
- Notability is not relevance or reliability
- Notability means impact
- Notability points
- Notability sub-pages
- Notabilitymandering
- Not every single thing Donald Trump does deserves an article
- Obscurity ≠ Lack of notability
- Offline sources
- One hundred words
- One sentence does not an article make
- Other stuff exists
- Overreliance upon Google
- Perennial websites
- Pokémon test
- Read the source
- Run-of-the-mill
- Significant coverage not required
- Solutions are mixtures and nothing else
- Subjective importance
- Third-party sources
- Trivial mentions
- Video links
- Vanispamcruftisement
- What is and is not routine coverage
- What notability is not
- What to include
- Wiki is not here to tell the world about your noble cause
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- Anti-Wikipedian
- Asshole John rule
- Assume bad faith
- Assume faith
- Assume good wraith
- Assume stupidity
- Assume that everyone's assuming good faith, assuming that you are assuming good faith
- Avoid using preview button
- Avoid using wikilinks
- Bad Jokes and Other Non Deleted Nonsense
- BOLD, revert, revert, revert
- Boston Tea Party
- Barnstaritis
- Don't stuff beans up your nose
- Don't-give-a-fuckism
- Edits Per Day
- Editsummarisis
- Emerson
- Go ahead, vandalize
- How many Wikipedians does it take to change a lightbulb?
- How to put up a straight pole by pushing it at an angle
- Is that even an essay?
- Newcomers are delicious, so go ahead and bite them
- Legal vandalism
- LTTAUTMAOK
- No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man
- Oops Defense
- Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you
- Please bite the newbies
- R-e-s-p-e-c-t
- Reducing consensus to an algorithm
- Requests for medication
- Requirements for adminship
- Rouge admin
- Rouge editor
- Sarcasm is really helpful
- Sausages for tasting
- The Night After Wikimas
- The first rule of Wikipedia
- The Five Pillars of Untruth
- Things that should not be surprising
- The WikiBible
- Watchlistitis
- Why not create an account?
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About essays | - Essay guide
- Value of essays
- Difference between policies, guidelines and essays
- Don't cite essays as if they were policy
- Avoid writing redundant essays
- Finding an essay
- Quote your own essay
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- Visit the Teahouse or the Help desk for an interactive Q & A forum.
- FAQs (?)
- Reference desks (?)
- Noticeboards (?)
- Cheatsheet (?)
- Directories (?)
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Help for readers (?) | - FAQ
- Books
- Copyright
- Glossary
- Mobile access
- Navigation
- Other languages
- Searching
- Students
- Viewing media
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Contributing to Wikipedia (?) | - Advice for young editors
- Avoiding common mistakes
- Etiquette
- Simplified Manual of Style
- Simplified rule-set
- Style-tips
- Tip of the day
- Your first article (article wizard)
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Getting started (?) | |
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Dos and don'ts (?) | - Accessibility
- Biographies
- Biographies (living)
- Categorization
- Consensus
- Discussions
- Disambiguation
- Images
- Leads
- Links
- Lists
- References
- Tables
- Titles (of articles)
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How-to pages and information pages (?) | - Appealing blocks
- Article deletion
- Categories
- Citations/references
- Referencing for beginners
- Citation Style 1
- Cite errors
- References and page numbers
- Convert
- Diff
- Editing
- Find sources
- Files
- Footnotes
- Image deletion
- Infoboxes
- Linking (link color)
- Logging in
- Merging
- Page name
- Redirect
- Passwords
- Reverting
- Talk pages (archiving
- simple archiving)
- User contributions
- WP search protocol
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Coding (?) | - Wiki markup
- Barcharts
- Calculations
- Characters
- Columns
- Hidden text
- HTML
- Lists
- Magic words
- Music symbols
- Sections
- Sounds
- Tables
- Templates
- Transclusion
- URL
- Visual files
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Directories (?) | - Abbreviations
- Contents (Encyclopedia proper)
- Departments
- Editor's index
- Essays
- FAQs
- Glossary
- Guidelines
- Manual of Style
- Policies
- Tasks
- Tips
- Tools
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Policies and guidelines | |
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General advice | - Citation needed
- Find sources
- Combining sources
- Offline sources
- Referencing styles
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Citing sources | |
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Inline citations | |
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Help for beginners | - Reference-tags
- Citations quick reference
- Introduction to referencing
- Referencing with citation templates
- Referencing without using templates
- Referencing dos and don'ts
- Citing Wikipedia
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Advanced help | - Cite link labels
- Citation tools
- Cite errors
- Cite messages
- Converting between references formats
- Reference display customization
- References and page numbers
- Guidance on source reviewing at FAC
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Template documentation | - {{Edit refs}}
- {{Refref}}
- {{Refref2}}
- {{Refstart}}
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Tools | |
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Deprecated | - Parenthetical referencing
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Wiki templates |
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Main namespace | - General
- Cleanup
- Verifiability and sources
- Disputes
- Hatnotes
- Infoboxes
- Links
- Lists
- Main page
- Section
- Sources of articles
- Standard boxes
- Stub types
- Translation
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Other namespaces | - Compact TOC
- Category
- File
- Talk
- Template
- User
- User talk
- Wiki
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All namespaces | - Deletion (Speedy)
- Formatting
- Maintenance
- Merging
- Moving
- Navigation
- Redirect pages
- Splitting
- Wiki sister projects
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Navboxes with templates | |
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Inline images | |
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Related topics | |
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Search | |
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- Category
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Wiki contents |
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Types | - Overviews
- Outlines
- Lists
- Portals
- Glossaries
- Categories
- Indices
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Featured, good | |
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Topics | - Current events
- Reference
- Culture
- Geography
- Health
- History
- Math
- Nature
- People
- Philosophy
- Religion
- Society
- Technology
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Places, people, and times | - Academic disciplines
- Anniversaries
- Countries and territories
- Timelines
- decades, centuries, and millennia
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Indexes | - A–Z index
- Categories
- Dewey Decimal classes
- Library of Congress Classification
- Roget's Thesaurus
- Spoken articles
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