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Wikipedia policy
This page documents an English Wikipedia
policy
.
It describes a widely accepted standard that all editors should
normally
follow. Changes made to it should reflect
consensus
.
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WP:IAR
WP:IGNORE
Short URL
w.wiki/i
If a
rule
prevents you from improving or maintaining
Wikipedia
,
ignore it
.
See also
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Be bold
Wikipedia's fifth pillar: Wikipedia has no firm rules
List of
"Ignore all rules" essays and related topics
Ignore all rules
Letter and spirit of the law
Wikipedia:Purpose
Use common sense
v
t
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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
(?)
P
Editing policy
G
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
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List of policies
G
:
List of guidelines
Summaries of values and principles
