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- Verifiability
- No original research
- Neutral point of view
- What Wikipedia is not
- Biographies of living persons
- Copyright (Copyright violations)
- Image use
- Article titles
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- Notability
- Autobiographies
- Citing sources
- Reliable sources
- Do not include copies of lengthy primary sources
- Plagiarism
- Do not create hoaxes
- Fringe theories
- Patent nonsense
- External links
- Writing articles with large language models
- Removal of AI-generated content
- LLM-assisted translation
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| Conduct | | P |
- Civility
- Consensus
- Harassment
- Vandalism
- Ignore all rules
- No personal attacks
- Ownership of content
- Edit warring
- Dispute resolution
- Sockpuppetry
- No legal threats
- Child protection
- Paid-contribution disclosure
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| G |
- 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
- Courtesy vanishing
- Responding to threats of harm
- Talk page guidelines
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| Deletion | | P |
- Deletion policy
- Proposed deletion
- Speedy deletion
- Attack page
- Oversight
- Revision deletion
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| Enforcement | | P |
- Administrators
- Banning
- Blocking
- Page protection
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| Editing | | P | |
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| G |
- Article size
- Be bold
- Disambiguation
- Hatnotes
- Broad-concept article
- Understandability
| | Style |
- Manual of Style
- Accessibility
- Dates and numbers
- Images
- Layout
- Lead section
- Linking
- Lists
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| Classification |
- Categories, lists, and navigation templates
- Categorization
- Template namespace
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| Project content | | G |
- Project namespace
- User pages
- Deceased Wikipedians
- User boxes
- Shortcuts
- Subpages
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| WMF (?) | |
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- List of all policies and guidelines
- P: List of policies
- G: List of guidelines
- Summaries of values and principles
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Manual of Style |
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| | Content |
- Accessibility
- Biography
- Disambiguation pages
- Organizing by subject area
- Hidden text
- Infoboxes
- Linking
- Self-references
- Words to watch
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| Formatting |
- Abbreviations
- Capitalization
- Dates and numbers
- Pronunciation
- Spelling
- Superscripts and subscripts
- Text formatting
- Titles of works
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| Images |
- Captions
- Image placement
- Icons
- Images
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| Layout |
- Layout
- Lead section
- Tables
- Trivia sections
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| Lists |
- Lists
- Lists of works
- Road junctions
- Stand-alone lists
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| By topic area | | Arts |
- Anime and manga
- Comics
- Film
- Lyrics and poetry
- Novels
- Television
- Video games
- Visual arts
- Writing about fiction
- See also: WikiProject style advice
| Music |
- Music
- Music samples
- Record charts
- Stringed instruments
- See also: WikiProject style advice
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| History |
- Blazons
- Military history
- See also: WikiProject style advice
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| Legal and cultural |
- Legal
- Trademarks
- See also: WikiProject style advice
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| Regional |
- Specific naming conventions
- Canada
- China (and Chinese)
- France (and French)
- Hawaii
- India
- Indonesia
- Ireland
- Japan
- Kurdistan
- Korea
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Poland
- Singapore
- See also: WikiProject style advice
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| Religion and education |
- Islam
- Latter Day Saints
- See also: WikiProject style advice
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| Science and technology |
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- Chemistry
- Computer science
- Taxonomy
- See also: WikiProject style advice
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| Sports |
- Cue sports
- See also: WikiProject style advice
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| Related guidelines |
- Article size
- Article titles
- Categories, lists, and navigation templates
- Categorization
- Hatnotes
- Subpages
- Understandability
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Building, editing, and deletion |
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| | Neutrality |
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- Academic bias
- Activist
- Advocacy
- Avoid thread mode
- Be neutral in form
- Blind men and an elephant
- Cherrypicking
- Civil POV pushing
- Coatrack
- Controversial articles
- Creating controversial content
- Criticisms of society may be consistent with NPOV and reliability
- Criticism
- Describing points of view
- Don't "teach the controversy"
- Endorsements
- Inaccuracy
- Let the reader decide
- Myth vs fiction
- NPOV dispute
- Neutral and proportionate point of view
- Not Wikipedia's fault
- POV and OR from editors, sources, and fields
- Partisans
- Partisanship
- Presentism
- Pro and con lists
- Systemic bias
- Tendentious editing
- There are no shortcuts to neutrality
- Wikipedia:Truth
- We are absolutely here to right great wrongs
- We shouldn't be able to figure out your opinions
- What false balance is not
- What is fringe?
- Why Wikipedia cannot claim the Earth is not flat
- Wikipedia is not RationalWiki
- Yes, it is promotion
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| Notability |
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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
- Businesses with a single location
- But it's true!
- 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
- Google searches and numbers
- How the presumption of notability works
- High schools
- Historical/Policy/Notability/Arguments
- Inclusion is not an indicator of notability
- Independent sources
- Inherent notability
- Insignificant
- Just because BFDI has an article doesn't mean you can add fancruft about it
- Masking the lack of notability
- Make stubs
- Minimum coverage
- News coverage does not decrease notability
- No amount of editing can overcome a lack of notability
- No one cares about your garage band
- No one really cares
- Notability and tornadoes
- Notability cannot be purchased
- Notability comparison test
- Notability is not everything
- Notability is not a level playing field
- Notability is not a matter of opinion
- Notability is not relevance or reliability
- Notability means impact
- Notabilitymandering
- Not all Vocaloid songs deserve their own article
- Not every single thing Donald Trump does deserves an article
- No special considerations
- Obscurity ≠ Lack of notability
- Offline sources
- One sentence does not an article make
- Overreliance upon Google
- Perennial websites
- Popularity ≠ Notability
- Read the source
- Red flags of non-notability
- Reducing consensus to an algorithm
- Run-of-the-mill
- Solutions are mixtures and nothing else
- Significance is not a formula
- Source content comes first!
- Sources must be out-of-universe
- Subjective importance
- Slow news day
- Third-party sources
- Topics to avoid
- Trivial mentions
- Video links
- Vanispamcruftisement
- What BLP1E is not
- What is and is not routine coverage
- What notability is not
- What to include
- Why was BFDI not on Wikipedia?
- Wikipedia is not Crunchbase
- Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause
- Wikipedia is not the place to post your résumé
- Two prongs of merit
- Two sources are good enough
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| Humorous |
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- Adminitis
- Ain't no rules says a dog can't play basketball
- 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 the preview button
- Avoid using wikilinks
- Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense
- Barnstaritis
- Before they were notable
- Be the fun police
- BOLD, revert, revert, revert cycle
- Boston Tea Party
- Butterfly effect
- CaPiTaLiZaTiOn MuCh?
- Case against LLM-generated articles
- Complete bollocks
- Counting forks
- Counting juntas
- Crap
- Delete the main page
- Diffusing conflict
- Don't stuff beans up your nose
- Don't-give-a-fuckism
- Don't abbreviate "Wikipedia" as "Wiki"!
- Don't delete the main page
- Editcountitis
- Edits Per Day
- Editsummarisis
- Editing under the influence
- Embrace Stop Signs
- Emerson
- Fart
- 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
- If you have a pulse
- Ignore all essays
- Ignore all user warnings
- Ignore every single rule
- Is that even an essay?
- Keep beating the horse
- List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create
- 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
- No episcopal threats
- No one cares about your garage band
- No one really cares
- No, really
- No self attacks
- 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
- Project S.C.R.A.M.
- R-e-s-p-e-c-t
- Requests for medication
- Requirements for adminship
- Rouge admin
- Rouge editor
- Sarcasm is really helpful
- Sausages for tasting
- Spaling Muich?
- Template madness
- The first rule of Wikipedia
- The Five Pillars of Untruth
- The Night Before Wikimas
- The Truth
- Things that should not be surprising
- The WikiBible
- Watchlistitis
- We are deletionist!
- Why is BFDI on Wikipedia?
- Why you shouldn't write articles with ChatGPT, according to ChatGPT
- Wikipedia is an MMORPG
- WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG!
- Yes, falsely
- Yes legal threats
- Yes personal attacks
- You don't have to be mad to work here, but
- You should not write meaningless lists
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| About essays |
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- Avoid writing redundant essays
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Wikipedia 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
- Combining sources
- Offline sources
- Referencing styles
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| Citing sources |
- Citation Style 1
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- Bluebook
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| Help for beginners |
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| Awarded by co-founder Jimmy Wales | |
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| Awards by WikiProject |
WikiCup
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W Award
Four Award
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- Million Award
Impact
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Barnstar awards
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