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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 |
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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 |
- About policies and guidelines
- How to contribute to Wikipedia guidance
- Policy writing is hard
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