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The principles which the policies and guidelines are based on

 * Five pillars &mdash; statement of our principles
 * Jimbo's statement &mdash; historic principles
 * Simplified ruleset &mdash; synopsis of our conventions
 * Wikimedia principles &mdash; common to all projects
 * Principles &mdash; other essays on Wikipedia's principles

Tutorial on policies

 * Introduction to policies and guidelines &mdash; a quick introduction to the major policies and guidelines for very new users.

General policies

 * Consensus
 * Dispute resolution
 * Editing policy
 * Ignore all rules
 * What Wikipedia is not

Procedural policies

 * Policies & guidelines &mdash; how policies and guidelines should be developed and maintained.
 * Mediation
 * Bot policy

Content policies and guidelines

 * Core content policies
 * Neutral point of view
 * No original research
 * Verifiability


 * Other content policies
 * Article titles
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Deletion
 * Image use


 * Content guidelines
 * Citing sources
 * Disambiguation
 * Do not create hoaxes
 * Do not include copies of primary sources
 * Identifying reliable sources
 * Notability
 * Patent nonsense

Behavioural policies and guidelines

 * Behavioural policies
 * Civility
 * Child protection
 * Incivility is not tolerated
 * Edit warring
 * Harassment
 * Legal threats
 * Personal attacks
 * Ownership of content
 * Sock puppetry


 * Behavioural guidelines
 * Assume good faith
 * Conflict of interest
 * Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point
 * Etiquette
 * Gaming the system
 * Please do not bite the newcomers

Editing policies and guidelines

 * Editing policies
 * Editing policy


 * Editing guidelines
 * Be bold
 * Article size
 * Hatnotes
 * Signatures
 * Subpages
 * Talk page guidelines
 * User pages
 * Vandalism
 * WikiProjects

Style and formatting conventions

 * Manual of Style
 * Contents
 * Accessibility
 * Dates and numbers
 * Images
 * Layout
 * Lead section
 * Linking
 * Lists

Classification guidelines

 * Categories, lists, and navigation templates
 * Categorization
 * Template namespace