User:Bahamut0013/essays

This is where I collect essays I have an interest in, agree with, or reference often. Humorous essays or joke articles are marked with:

=Mine=
 * User:Bahamut0013/CSIOR: Common Sense Isn't Origional Research
 * User:Bahamut0013/Secret pages‎: hidden user page challenges
 * User:Bahamut0013/editors are not the enemy‎: cooperation amongst editors
 * [[Image:Joke Alert.png|20px]] User:bahamut0013/right: who is always right

=Others=
 * Crash Course in Wikipedianism
 * Fun

Internal Wiki-Affairs

 * Arbitration policy/Past decisions shows some of the precedents set by the Arbitration Committee
 * Snowball clause
 * Avoid instruction creep
 * The world will not end tomorrow
 * Practical process
 * If it ain't broke, don't fix it
 * Product, process, policy
 * Don't be officious
 * Dig
 * User:John Reid/Metastasis
 * [[Image:Joke Alert.png|20px]] Anti-Wikipedianism
 * [[Image:Joke Alert.png|20px]] Wikipedia is failing
 * [[Image:Joke Alert.png|20px]] Don't just ignore the process
 * [[Image:Joke Alert.png|20px]] Terminal Event Management Policy

Writing articles

 * Can't break it
 * Avoid template creep
 * Categories vs lists
 * Tagging pages for problems
 * Defending article quality
 * Do not write articles using categories
 * Wikipedia doesn't use Allwiki
 * Fact stuffing
 * [[Image:Joke Alert.png|20px]] Huge message boxes

Deleting content

 * Deletion and deletionism
 * Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
 * List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create
 * Deleted articles with freaky titles
 * Content authoritarianism
 * Criteria for speedy deletion (Human Readable Version)
 * Discriminate vs indiscriminate information
 * Do not call things cruft
 * Don't be an ostrich
 * Why do you care?
 * Editors matter but...
 * Existence does not prove notability
 * [[Image:Joke Alert.png|20px]] Arguments to use in deletion discussions

Experts

 * Expert editors
 * Expert retention
 * Credentials matter
 * Credentials are irrelevant
 * Ignore all credentials
 * Competence is required
 * Contribute where qualified
 * Contribute what you know or are willing to learn more about

Behavior

 * User:Antandrus/observations on Wikipedia behavior
 * Levels of competence
 * Honesty
 * Don't call the kettle black
 * BRD misuse
 * Call a spade a spade
 * Don't call a spade a spade
 * You can't squeeze blood from a turnip
 * Reasonability Rule
 * Don't stuff beans up your nose
 * Divisiveness
 * Don't be a dork
 * Don't accuse someone of a personal attack for accusing of a personal attack
 * Assume that everyone's assuming good faith, assuming that you are assuming good faith
 * Wikipedians aren't islands
 * Don't go out of your way to be diplomatic
 * Wikipedia is in the real world
 * [[Image:Joke Alert.png|20px]] Assume bad faith
 * [[Image:Joke Alert.png|20px]] The Last Word
 * [[Image:Joke Alert.png|20px]] The Most Important Thing Possible
 * [[Image:Joke Alert.png|20px]] Newcomers are delicious, so go ahead and bite them

Troublesome editors

 * Deny recognition
 * Shouting things loudly does not make them true
 * Don't be a dork
 * No vested contributors
 * Don't spite your face
 * [[Image:Joke Alert.png|20px]] Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you

Wikidrama

 * Drama
 * Ignore all dramas
 * Avoid Parkinson's Bicycle Shed Effect
 * Don't Feed the Divas
 * Don't edit war over the colour of templates
 * Don't smother conflict
 * [[Image:Joke Alert.png|20px]] No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man
 * [[Image:Joke Alert.png|20px]] Lamest edit wars
 * [[Image:Joke Alert.png|20px]] Wikipedia is an MMORPG

Wikilawyering/essays

 * Wikilawyering
 * Policy shopping
 * Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument
 * WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG!
 * Don't cite essays or proposals as if they were policy
 * Essays are not policy
 * Common sense and decision making

POV

 * Civil POV pushing
 * Tendentious editing
 * Describing points of view

Tools

 * Edit summary legend