User:Souljaman/Policy and Guidelines

Introduction

I made this subpage hoping that if anyone who was new came across this then they would use this as their reference when it comes to how to act here. I use this sometimes myself, too.

Policy and Guidelines

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Here are some useful articles on The Policy and Guidlines of Wikipedia

Wikipedia:Assume good faith

Wikipedia:Cheatsheet

Wikipedia:Civility

Wikipedia:Content disclaimer

Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion

Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point

Wikipedia:Don't template the regulars

Wikipedia:High-risk templates

Wikipedia:Reward board

Wikipedia:Starter toolset

Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not

Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is so great

Wikipedia:About

Wikipedia:Wikipedia is an encyclopedia

Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (outtakes)

Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines

Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Precedents

Wikipedia:Search engine test

Wikipedia:Ownership of articles

Wikipedia:What the GFDL is not

Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not Google

Wikipedia:Alternative outlets

Wikipedia key policies and guidelines

Five pillars
- Ignore all rules

Content

P	Verifiability No original research Neutral point of view What Wikipedia is not Biographies of living persons Copyright (Copyright violations) Image use Article titles
G	Notability Autobiography Citing sources Reliable sources Medicine Do not include copies of lengthy primary sources Plagiarism Don't create hoaxes Fringe theories Patent nonsense External links

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
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 Signatures

Deletion

P	Deletion policy Proposed deletion Biographies Criteria for speedy deletion Attack page Oversight Revision deletion

Enforcement

P	Administrators Banning Blocking Page protection

Editing

Editing policy

Article size Summary style Be bold Disambiguation Hatnotes Broad-concept article Understandability
Style	Manual of Style Contents Accessibility Dates and numbers Images Layout Lead section Linking Lists
Classification	Categories, lists, and navigation templates Categorization Template namespace

Project content

G	Project namespace WikiProjects User pages User boxes Shortcuts Subpages

WMF (?)

P	Universal Code of Conduct Terms of Use List of policies Friendly space policy Licensing and copyright Privacy policy

List of all policies and guidelines
- P: List of policies
- G: List of guidelines
Summaries of values and principles