Category talk:Wikipedia guidelines

Define your terms?

 * I have run across statements (in contentious articles) that could have very different meanings depending on how the words in them are defined. The intended meaning of the words is not clear from the context.
 * This makes it impossible to discuss or challenge the statements.
 * When I suggest rewording the statements to clarify the meaning there are objections from people who prefer an ambiguous but suggestive statement to a more precise statement.
 * I came here hoping to find a Wikipedia policy that says something like:
 * "If the meaning/sense/usage of a word is not clear from the context, the meaning should be specified. One way to do this is to replace the word with its definition".
 * but I don't see anything like that. Have I missed it, or should I try to write a new policy? 24.64.166.191 04:56, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * I am not aware of any such policy or guideline. Libcub (talk) 05:02, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Minor nit
Why is Vanity page under "W"? Should be under "V", correct? (Yes, I'm relatively new, and don't know how to change it myself, if category pages can be changed by non-admins.)--Canuckguy 17:24, 12 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Seems that article has been renamed & re-categorized. Libcub (talk) 06:09, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

How to rally support?
In the multiposting guideline it says:

"I rally you, my fellow hamster-lovers! Come and support me in my proposal to give all hamsters the same rights as men at Village pump (proposals). Please limit discussion to that page, however."

as an example of how to rally support for a particular idea. Yet, I see editors/administrators criticizing others for rallying support by posting notices to other editors' talk pages.

Does the guideline mean that it is 'ok' to rally support by posting notices to article/category talk pages, but the practice (not policy or guideline have I found) is that it is not ok to rally support by posting notices to users' talk pages and you will be urgently attacked if you do so. Thanks Hmains 22:42, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Funny thing
It seems strange that Talk:Muhammad's slaves sat here on the list of pages in the Wikipedia Guidelines category for some nine months and no one did anything about it. (Someone added WP:AGF with double braces instead of double square brackets to that article back in March.) &#8212;Largo Plazo (talk) 13:42, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Sorting
"Wikipedia" is sorting under "WikiProject", and "Avoid" appears under W. &#8212;Largo Plazo (talk) 13:46, 2 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Perhaps unfortunately, in the default sort, capital letters sort before lowercase letters. I have asked for a sort key option in the Template:Guideline. I don't see any "Avoids" on the page; did you see that on a different page? Libcub (talk) 05:19, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Main category missing?
This article starts with a big tag, calling attention to Category:Wikipedia official policy. Which redlinks!

I'm really new here, and don't know where it should link, but I'd like to know...Tøpholm (talk) 21:15, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Was quickly fixed by Good Ol’factory. Not sure if I should just delete this section now...Tøpholm (talk) 01:28, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

"Wikinese" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Wikinese. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 July 3 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. signed,Rosguill talk 17:30, 3 July 2021 (UTC)