Policies and Guidelines
editFive pillars
There are 5 fundamental principles of Wikipedia called “five pillars”.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia:
Also is not a soapbox, an advertising platform, nor a web directory, etc. Is not a dictionary, a newspaper, etc. Wikipedia has a lot of characteristics of general and specialized encyclopedias, almanacs, and gazetteers.
Wikipedia is written from a neutral point of view: Articles are written in an impartial tone,all of them must be on a verifiable accuracy, citing reliable, authoritative sources, especially if it is of a living person.
Wikipedia is free content that anyone can use, edit and distribute:
Because all publishers freely publish their work to the public, no publisher owns an article and any contribution is free to edit and distribute. Follow copyright laws and never plagiarize from any source.
Wikipedia´s editors should treat each other with respect and civility:
Respect your fellow Wikipedians, even if you disagree. Follow Wikipedia etiquette and don't make personal attacks. Seek consensus, avoid edit wars, and never interrupt Wikipedia to make a point. Be kind and accept the kindness of others. Be open and friendly with new people.
Wikipedia has no firm rules:
It has policies and guidelines,but their content and interpretation can evolve over time. Principles and spirit are more important than literal wording, and sometimes exceptions are necessary to improve Wikipedia. Be brave when upgrading items, but don't be reckless.
And don't worry about errors:
(most of them) all previous versions of the page are saved, so errors can be easily fixed.
Ignore rules
“Ignore all the rules” proof and related topics.
Core content policies:
Is governed by 3 principal core
Neutral point of view:
All articles, and other encyclopedic content must be objective.
Verifiability:
In wikipedia means that people reading and editing the encyclopedia can check that information comes from a reliable source.
No original research:
All material on Wikipedia must be attributable to a reputable published source. Articles may not contain any new analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to promote a position that is not clearly advanced by the sources.
Content Policies:
editArticle titles:
The best title for a Wikipedia article is understandable for English speakers, easy to search, short, precise and different from other titles.
Biographies of living persons:
Articles based on living persons, that need a degree of sensitivity, must go acord with Wikipedia's content policies. Is important to attach high quality references, this takes importances when we are talking about personal lives. No plagiarizing.
Image use policy:
Try not to use non-free images, if you use them write the images sources and the copyright details in the description pages. Try to search images as useful and general as you can find.
Neutral point of view:
What your readers see, articles, templates, categories and portals, have to be written subjective and without prejudices.
No original research:
Articles shouldn't contain non published theories, data, statements, concepts, arguments, or ideas (or any interpretation, analysis or ideas), would amount to a «novel narrative or historical interpretation», as Jimbo Wales (Wikipedia's co-funder) says.
Verifiably:
Articles may cite sources when it's possible. We can't check the precision of cited sources, we can check if they have been published by a verified account and if independent sources have supported them or made a review. Any unverified content might be changed or removed.
What Wikipedia is not:
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia. Don't use it (try not to) for other purposes.
Wikipedia is not a dictionary:
Wikipedia is not a dictionary or a guide.
Conduct Policies:
editCivility:
Bad behavior, intentional or not, can be destructive form our work. Resolve conflicts forums are available when a reasoned discussion breaks down.
Clean start:
Any user that is not allowed to an editing section should abandon their account and start fresh under a new one, if their new account is not used in an improper manner.
Consensus:
Between equals is the only tool for solving content problems, and our tool for other problems.
Dispute resolution:
The first step to resolve a problem is to talk to the people involved in the “fight”, there are many types of structured forms to discuss and resolve the problems.
Edit warning:
If someone changes something from your work, talk with the person and try to resolve it, or maybe a dispute solution. Don’t start a fight, competing because of views and versions of a work. Change any part of any page more than three times (in less that 24h), wikipedia can block on your account.
Editing policy:
Improve your work whenever you can, and don’t worry about leaving them with problems. But it’s advisable to explain and correct major problems.
Harassment:
Don’t stop other editors' work, you can distract them by making warnings (bad sense), or being very specific and editing someone's work. Respect them and don’t be annoying or don’t threaten them with posting personal information.
No personal attacks:
Don’t make personal attacks on any page of Wikipedia (or on another platform). If you’re going to say something about someone's work, comment about the work, not about the person. Personal attacks damage the wikipedia 's community.
Ownership of content:
You retain some rights under Wikipedia’s copyright, pages you create and edit belong to the community. Other users can and often comment for you to edit “your” work.
Sockpuppetry:
Don't be like a bot, don't make lots of accounts just to pretend you are a supporter of an issue, just to mislead others, or (sometimes) block other users. And obviously don’t ask your friends to create accounts for you or others.
Username policie:
Choose a “normal” name that you like and makes you happy. You can change your username if you need, but you can’t delete it.
Vandalism:
It can be an addition, deletion, or even a change in content that can compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia. In other words, the inappropriate behavior for an online encyclopedia.
Deletion
Attack page:
Article, page, category, image that exists just to despise it’s subject is what they call an “attack page”. These pages are most of the times deleted by any administrator at any time of the day.
Deletion policy:
Delete articles requires an administrator and (most of the times) follows a consensus-forming process. Most controversial deletions need the three-step process and have to wait a minimum a week.
Oversight:
Some works could be hidden from users and administrators because of certain data.
Proposed deletion:
As a summary of Articles for Deletion (AfD) process, for uncontroversial deletions an article may be deleted, but only one time. If anyone answers the proposed deletion in seven days, an administrator can delete the whole article.
Proposed deletion of biographies of living people
Uncensored biographies (of living persons) can be deleted by special process. If someone doesn’t answer the request in seven days, an administrator can delete the whole article. To answer the deletion, a reliable source holds up at least one statement in the article.
Revision deletion
A function you can use as an administrator to eliminate bad posts and long entries.
Enforcement
Administrators
They are not perfect beings. But, in general, they act like the wikipedia model with the community, and a civility, justice, and general conduct both to editors and in content problems. Acting like an administrator, they are also expected to be fair, good judgment, and give explanations and be communicative as necessary.
Banning policy
Some disrespectful editors can be banned from Wikipedia. Respect these bans, don’t bait banned users, and don’t help them to try to get aut from that ban. Some bans can be appealed to Jimbo Wales or the Arbitration Committee, depending on the reason for the ban.
Blocking policy:
bad editors can be blocked from editing for short, long, or periods of time.
Page protections policy:
Some ages can be protected from vandals or fierce content disagreement. Protected pages can be edited by administrators, most of the time this doesn’t happen. Also, pages undergoing vandalism can be at least protected to block edits by very new non-registered editors.
Legal
Child protection:
Editors who publish inappropriate adult-child relationships, or identify themselves as pedophiles, are blocked forever.
Copyright violations
Copied from sources (that are nor cited), Wikipedia doesn’t allow for copyright violations in the enciclopedia, and they actively find and delete violations.
Copyright
Copied texts being licenced to the public under one or several liberal licenses.
Non legal threats:
Non-free content criteria
Paid-contribution disclosure:
Reusing Wikipedia content
Therms of use:
They are established by the Wikipedia Foundation.
Procedural
Bot policy:
Users can use programs to update pages automatically. but just if they are harmless and useful we will welcome them. If their use becomes unacceptable they must be removed.
CheckUser:
This is a tool permitted to use to a small number of editors who are permitted to examine user IP information and server data under certain circumstances, for protecting wikipedia against disruption and abuse.
Edit filter helper:
There is a group of people who can view details, code and logs of private edit filters, but they can't edit them. They are called edit filters.
File mover:
It allows users to rename files subject to policy.
Global rights policy:
Are restrictions on users that have global rights on all websites.
Interface administrators:
They are users who can edit most scripts and pages in the MediaWiki namespace.
IP block exemption:
Editors whose editing is canceled by not related blocks or firewalls might request IP block freedom that can edit on an otherwise-blocked IP address.
New pages patrol/Reviewers:
Reviews the work with the New Pages Feed and the Page Curation Tool to process, pass, or tag the new pages that are created.
Open proxies:
Might be blocked from dieting for any period of time to deal with editing abuse.
Page mover:
It allows editors to move pages, and derive them, without leaving redirects.
Policies and guidelines:
Understand and changing policies and guidelines.
Template editor:
It allows the permission to make changes to modules and templates that have template-protection.
Volunteer response team:
if you are not agree with an edit that someone has made according to a volunteer response ticket number as a reason, or in a edit summary, you must follow the steps listed at “Wikipedia: Volunteer response team#Dispute resolution”
Wikipedia policy:
It’s a list of policies and links of interest to Wikipedians, the links are from the texts of the CC BY-SSA and GFDL license.