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Policies & Guidelines
editGeneral
edit- Ignore all rules
- Policies and guidelines
- What Wikipedia is not
- Privacy policy (Wikimedia Foundation policy)
- Terms of Use (Wikimedia Foundation policy)
Article maintenance
editArticle naming
edit- Article titles
- Naming conventions (capitalization)
- Naming conventions (definite and indefinite articles at beginning of name)
- Naming conventions (geographic names)
- Naming conventions (long lists)
- Naming conventions (numbers and dates)
- Naming conventions (people)
- Naming conventions (plurals)
- Naming conventions (technical restrictions)
- Naming conventions (use English)
There are many additional naming convention guidelines that deal with specific topics. See Category:Wikipedia naming conventions.
Article style
edit- Manual of Style
- Manual of Style/Abbreviations
- Manual of Style/Accessibility
- Manual of Style/Article message boxes
- Manual of Style/Biographies
- Manual of Style/Capital letters
- Manual of Style/Captions
- Manual of Style/Dates and numbers
- Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages
- Manual of Style/Embedded lists
- Manual of Style/Icons
- Manual of Style/Infoboxes
- Manual of Style/Layout
- Manual of Style/Lead section
- Manual of Style/Linking
- Manual of Style/Lists
- Manual of Style/Lists of works
- Manual of Style/Pronunciation
- Manual of Style/Proper names
- Manual of Style/Self-references to avoid
- Manual of Style/Spelling
- Manual of Style/Tables
- Manual of Style/Text formatting
- Manual of Style/Titles
- Manual of Style/Trademarks
- Manual of Style/Trivia sections
- Manual of Style/Words to watch
There are many additional style guidelines that deal with specific topics. See Category:Style guidelines of WikiProjects, Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (arts), Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (legal), Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (regional), Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (religion), and Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (science).
Categories, lists, and tables
edit- Categories, lists, and navigation templates
- Categorization
- Overcategorization
- Manual of Style/Lists
- Manual of Style/Tables
There are additional guidelines that deal with lists or tables concerning specific topics, including record charts and road junction lists.
Content standards
edit- Neutral point of view
- No original research
- Verifiability
- Biographies of living persons
- Libel
- Wikipedia is not a dictionary
- Autobiography
- Citing sources
- Content forking
- Disputed statement
- Do not create hoaxes
- Do not include the full text of lengthy primary sources
- External links
- Fringe theories
- Identifying reliable sources
- Make technical articles understandable
- No disclaimers in articles
- Offensive material
- Patent nonsense
- Plagiarism
- Portal guidelines
- Spam
- Spoiler
- Summary style
- Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
- Wikipedia is not for things made up one day
There are additional content guidelines that deal with specific topics, including anarchism, medicine, science, and video games.
Copyright and licensing
edit- Copyrights
- Copyright violations
- Non-free content criteria
- Reusing Wikipedia content
- Copying within Wikipedia
- Non-free content
- Non-free use rationale guideline
- Non-U.S. copyrights
- Public domain
- Texts of licenses: CC-BY-SA 3.0 and GFDL
Deletion
edit- Deletion policy
- Attack page
- Criteria for speedy deletion
- Proposed deletion
- Proposed deletion of biographies of living people
- Proposed deletion (books)
- Revision deletion
- Deletion process
- The usual outcomes of deletion debates
- Deletion guidelines for administrators
Disambiguation
editEditing practices
editEditing guidelines
editEditor behavior
edit- Child protection
- Civility
- Consensus
- Edit warring (including the three-revert rule)
- Harassment
- No legal threats
- No personal attacks
- Ownership of articles
- Sock puppetry
- Vandalism
- Assume good faith
- Canvassing
- Conflict of interest
- Disruptive editing
- Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point
- Etiquette
- Gaming the system
- Linking to external harassment
- Polling is not a substitute for discussion
- Talk page guidelines
Handling disputes and disruption
edit- Arbitration policy
- Banning policy
- Blocking policy
- Dispute resolution
- GlobalBlocking
- IP block exemption
- Mediation policy
- Office actions
- Open proxies
- Protection policy
- Appealing a block
- High-risk templates
- Main Page featured article protection
Images and other media
editNotability
editProject activities
edit- In the news/Recurring items
- Reference desk guidelines
- Reviewing good articles
- Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment
- WikiProjects
Project roles
edit- Administrators
- Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight
- Bureaucrats
- CheckUser
- Global rights policy
- Oversight
- Volunteer response team
Redirects, shortcuts, and subpages
editTools and templates
editUser names and pages
editSee also
edit- List of policies – a comprehensive descriptive directory of policies
- List of guidelines – a comprehensive descriptive directory of guidelines.
- Manual of Style contents – a comprehensive descriptive directory of the pages which make up the Manual of Style.
- Community standards and advice – a quick directory of community norms and related guidance essays.
- Manual of Style contents – a comprehensive descriptive directory of the pages which make up the Manual of Style.
- Advice pages – about advice pages written by WikiProjects.
- Tutorials
- Introduction to policies and guidelines – a quick introduction to the major policies and guidelines for very new users.
- Keep in mind – a quick introduction on how to apply policies and guidelines as you go about editing.
- Related essays
- Simplified rule-set – some basic aspect of Wikipedia norms and practices.
- Eight rules for editing – if you start out by following these simple rules, the rest should come naturally.
- Ten rules for editing – Wikipedia can be daunting, but here we provide tips to make editing smoother.
- Trifecta – ultra fast overview of foundational principles related to policies and guidelines.
- The rules are principles – policies and guidelines exist as rough approximations of their underlying principles.