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Overview | |
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Project-wide principles | - Consensus
- Dispute resolution
- Editing policy
- Ignore all rules
- What Wikipedia is not
- Wiki is not a dictionary
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Core content policies | - Neutral point of view
- No original research
- Verifiability
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Other content policies | - Article titles
- Autobiography
- Biographies of living persons
- Image use
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Content guidelines | - Citing sources
- Do not create hoaxes
- Do not include copies of primary sources
- External links
- Fringe theories
- Identifying reliable sources
- Notability
- Patent nonsense
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Behavioural policies | |
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Behavioural guidelines | - Assume good faith
- Conflict of interest
- Disruptive editing
- Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point
- Etiquette
- Gaming the system
- Please do not bite the newcomers
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Editing guidelines | |
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Style conventions | |
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Classification guidelines | |
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Deletion policies | - Attack page
- Criteria for speedy deletion
- Deletion policy
- Oversight
- Proposed deletion
- Proposed deletion (BLP)
- Proposed deletion (books)
- Revision deletion
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Wiki Foundation | |
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- Book
- Category: Policies / Guidelines
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| Content | |
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Formatting | - Abbreviations
- Capitalization
- Dates and numbers
- Pronunciation
- Proper names
- Spelling
- Text formatting
- Titles
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Images | - Captions
- Galleries
- Icons
- Images
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Layout | - Layout
- Lead section
- Tables
- Trivia sections
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Lists | - Embedded lists
- Lists
- Lists of works
- Road junctions
- Stand-alone lists
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Legal | |
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Arts | - Anime & Manga
- Comics
- Film
- Lyrics and Poetry
- Novels
- Television
- Visual arts
- Writing about fiction
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Music | - Music
- Music samples
- Record charts
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Regional | - Canada
- China
- France
- Hawaii
- India
- Ireland
- Japan
- Korea
- Malaysia
- Philippines
- Poland
- Singapore
- Trinidad and Tobago
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Religion | |
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Science | - Chemistry
- Computer commands
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- Taxonomy
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Sports | |
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Related | |
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- Book
- Category
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Unregistered (IP) users | |
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Registered users | - New account
- Logging in
- Username policy
- Changing username
- Usernames for administrator attention
- 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
- How to not get outed
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Blocks, bans, sanctions, global actions | - Blocking policy
- FAQ
- Admin's guide
- Tools
- Autoblock
- Appealing a block
- Guide to appealing blocks
- UTRS Unblock Ticket Request System
- Blocking IP addresses
- Banning policy
- Sanctions
- Personal sanctions
- General sanctions
- Contentious topics and Log
- Essay
- Long-term abuse
- 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
- Account creator
- (Auto) confirmed
- Autopatrolled
- AutoWikiBrowser
- Bot
- Edit filter helper
- Event coordinator
- Extended confirmed
- File mover
- IP block exempt
- Mass message sender
- New page reviewer
- Page mover
- Pending changes reviewer
- Rollback
- Template editor
- Global rights policy
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Advanced user groups | |
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Committees and related | - Arbitration Committee
- Bot approvals group
- Functionaries
- Clerks
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Governance | - Administration
- Formal organization
- Editorial oversight and control
- Quality control
- Wiki Foundation
- Board
- Founder's seat
- Meta-Wiki
- Proposals
- WikiProjects
- Elections
- Policies and guidelines
- Petitions
- Noticeboards
- Consensus
- Dispute resolution
- Reforms
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Wiki essays |
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Essays on building, editing, and deleting content |
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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
- Competence is required
- Concede lost arguments
- Dissent is not disloyalty
- Don't lie
- Don't search for objections
- 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
- Levels of competence
- 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
- Wiki is not RationalWiki
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Article construction | |
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Writing article content | - Avoid thread mode
- Copyediting reception sections
- Coup
- Gender-neutral language
- Proseline
- Use our own words
- We shouldn't be able to figure out your opinions
- Write the article first
- Writing about women
- Writing better articles
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Removing or deleting content | - 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
- Deletion is not cleanup
- Does deletion help?
- Don't attack the nominator
- 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
- Drafts are not checked for notability or sanity
- 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
- Reducing consensus to an algorithm
- 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 BLP1E is not
- What is and is not routine coverage
- What notability is not
- What to include
- Wiki is not Crunchbase
- Wiki is not here to tell the world about your noble cause
- Wiki is not the place to post your résumé
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| Humorous essays |
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- Adminitis
- Akin's Laws of Article Writing
- Alternatives to edit warring
- ANI flu
- Anti-Wikipedian
- Anti-Wikipedianism
- Articlecountitis
- 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 Deleted Nonsense
- Barnstaritis
- Before they were notable
- BOLD, revert, revert, revert
- Boston Tea Party
- Butterfly effect
- CaPiTaLiZaTiOn MuCh?
- Complete bollocks
- Counting forks
- Counting juntas
- Crap
- Don't stuff beans up your nose
- Don't-give-a-fuckism
- Don't abbreviate "Wiki ਅਕਸਰ ਪੁੱਛੇ ਜਾਣ ਵਾਲੇ ਸਵਾਲ" as "Wiki"!
- Don't delete the main page
- Editcountitis
- Edits Per Day
- Editsummarisis
- Editing Under the Influence
- Embrace Stop Signs
- Emerson
- Five Fs of Wikipedia
- Seven Ages of Editor, by Will E. Spear-Shake
- Go ahead, vandalize
- How many Wikipedians does it take to change a lightbulb?
- How to get away with UPE
- How to put up a straight pole by pushing it at an angle
- How to vandalize correctly
- How to win a citation war
- Ignore all essays
- Ignore every single rule
- Is that even an essay?
- Mess with the templates
- My local pond
- Newcomers are delicious, so go ahead and bite them
- Legal vandalism
- List of jokes about Wikipedia
- LTTAUTMAOK
- No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man
- Nobody cares about your garage band
- No one really cares
- No sorcery threats
- Notability is not eternal
- Oops Defense
- Play the game
- Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you
- Please bite the newbies
- Please do not murder the newcomers
- Pledge of Tranquility
- R-e-s-p-e-c-t
- Requests for medication
- Requirements for adminship
- Rouge admin
- Rouge editor
- Sarcasm is really helpful
- Sausages for tasting
- The Night Before Wikimas
- The first rule of Wikipedia
- The Five Pillars of Untruth
- Things that should not be surprising
- The WikiBible
- Watchlistitis
- Wiki is an MMORPG
- WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG!
- What Wikipedia is not/Outtakes
- Why not create an account?
- Yes legal threats
- You don't have to be mad to work here, but
- You should not write meaningless lists
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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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Policies and guidelines | |
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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
- "Ignore all rules"
- "The rules are principles"
- 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
- Minor edit
- toolbar
- edit conflict
- 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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Wiki referencing |
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Policies and guidelines | - Verifiability
- No original research
- Biographies of living persons
- Reliable sources
- Citing sources
- Scientific citations
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General advice | - Citation needed
- Find sources
- Combining sources
- Offline sources
- Referencing styles
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Citing sources | - Citation Style 1
- Citation Style 2
- Citation Style Vancouver
- LSA
- Comics
- Citation templates
- Reflist template
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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 | |
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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
- External link templates
- Linking country articles
- 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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- Awards, decorations, and medals of Wikipedia
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Awarded by co-founder Jimmy Wales | - Order of the Day
- Wikimedian of the Year
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Awards by WikiProject | - WikiCup
- Editor of the Week
- W Award
- Four Award
- Triple Crown
- Million Award
- Impact • Precious
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Barnstars and other personal awards | - Barnstar awards
- Personal user awards
- Personal greetings and cheers
- Awards by country
- Ribbons
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Awards by number of edits | - Service awards
- Incremental service awards
- Administrative service awards
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See also | - WikiLove
- Thanks!
- Reward board
- Contests
- Merchandise giveaways
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- WikiProject Wikipedia Awards
- Kindness Campaign
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