User:NV1982/Guidelines

=Policies & Guidelines=

General

 * Ignore all rules
 * Policies and guidelines
 * What Wikipedia is not
 * Privacy policy (Wikimedia Foundation policy)
 * Terms of Use (Wikimedia Foundation policy)

Article maintenance

 * Article size
 * Stub
 * As of
 * Red link
 * Updating information

Article naming

 * Article titles
 * Naming conventions (capitalization)
 * Naming conventions (definite and indefinite articles at beginning of name)
 * Naming conventions (geographic names)
 * Naming conventions (long lists)
 * Naming conventions (numbers and dates)
 * Naming conventions (people)
 * Naming conventions (plurals)
 * Naming conventions (technical restrictions)
 * Naming conventions (use English)

There are many additional naming convention guidelines that deal with specific topics. See Category:Wikipedia naming conventions.

Article style

 * Manual of Style
 * Manual of Style/Abbreviations
 * Manual of Style/Accessibility
 * Manual of Style/Article message boxes
 * Manual of Style/Biographies
 * Manual of Style/Capital letters
 * Manual of Style/Captions
 * Manual of Style/Dates and numbers
 * Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages
 * Manual of Style/Embedded lists
 * Manual of Style/Icons
 * Manual of Style/Infoboxes
 * Manual of Style/Layout
 * Manual of Style/Lead section
 * Manual of Style/Linking
 * Manual of Style/Lists
 * Manual of Style/Lists of works
 * Manual of Style/Pronunciation
 * Manual of Style/Proper names
 * Manual of Style/Self-references to avoid
 * Manual of Style/Spelling
 * Manual of Style/Tables
 * Manual of Style/Text formatting
 * Manual of Style/Titles
 * Manual of Style/Trademarks
 * Manual of Style/Trivia sections
 * Manual of Style/Words to watch

There are many additional style guidelines that deal with specific topics. See Category:Style guidelines of WikiProjects, Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (arts), Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (legal), Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (regional), Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (religion), and Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (science).

Categories, lists, and tables

 * Categories, lists, and navigation templates
 * Categorization
 * Categorization/Ethnicity, gender, religion and sexuality
 * Categorization of people
 * People by year
 * Categorizing redirects
 * Category names
 * Category naming conventions
 * User categories
 * Overcategorization
 * Overcategorization/User categories
 * Manual of Style/Lists
 * Stand-alone lists
 * Manual of Style/Embedded lists
 * Manual of Style/Lists of works
 * Naming conventions (long lists)
 * Manual of Style/Tables

There are additional guidelines that deal with lists or tables concerning specific topics, including record charts and road junction lists.

Content standards

 * Neutral point of view
 * No original research
 * Verifiability
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Libel
 * Wikipedia is not a dictionary
 * Autobiography
 * Citing sources
 * Content forking
 * Disputed statement
 * Do not create hoaxes
 * Do not include the full text of lengthy primary sources
 * External links
 * Fringe theories
 * Identifying reliable sources
 * Make technical articles understandable
 * No disclaimers in articles
 * Offensive material
 * Patent nonsense
 * Plagiarism
 * Portal guidelines
 * Spam
 * Spoiler
 * Summary style
 * Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
 * Wikipedia is not for things made up one day

There are additional content guidelines that deal with specific topics, including anarchism, medicine, science, and video games.

Copyright and licensing

 * Copyrights
 * '''Copyright violations
 * Non-free content criteria
 * Reusing Wikipedia content
 * Copying within Wikipedia
 * Non-free content
 * Non-free use rationale guideline
 * Non-U.S. copyrights
 * Public domain
 * Texts of licenses: CC-BY-SA 3.0 and GFDL

Deletion

 * Deletion policy
 * Attack page
 * Criteria for speedy deletion
 * Proposed deletion
 * Proposed deletion of biographies of living people
 * Proposed deletion (books)
 * Revision deletion
 * Deletion process
 * Deletion guidelines for administrators
 * Speedy keep
 * The usual outcomes of deletion debates
 * Deletion guidelines for administrators

Disambiguation

 * Disambiguation
 * Hatnote
 * Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages

Editing practices

 * Editing policy

Editing guidelines

 * Be bold
 * Page blanking

Editor behavior

 * Child protection
 * Civility
 * Consensus
 * Edit warring (including the three-revert rule)
 * Harassment
 * No legal threats
 * No personal attacks
 * Ownership of articles
 * Sock puppetry
 * Vandalism
 * Assume good faith
 * Canvassing
 * Conflict of interest
 * Disruptive editing
 * Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point
 * Etiquette
 * Please do not bite the newcomers
 * Gaming the system
 * Linking to external harassment
 * Polling is not a substitute for discussion
 * Talk page guidelines
 * Signatures

Handling disputes and disruption

 * Arbitration policy
 * Banning policy
 * Blocking policy
 * Dispute resolution
 * GlobalBlocking
 * IP block exemption
 * Mediation policy
 * Office actions
 * Open proxies
 * Protection policy
 * Appealing a block
 * High-risk templates
 * Main Page featured article protection

Images and other media

 * Image use policy
 * Images
 * Extended image syntax
 * Image file names
 * Logos
 * Manual of Style/Captions
 * Manual of Style/Icons
 * No 3D illustrations
 * Preparing images for upload
 * Manual of Style (music samples)

Notability

 * Notability
 * Notability (books)
 * Notability (events)
 * Notability (films)
 * Notability (music)
 * Notability (numbers)
 * Notability (organizations and companies)
 * Notability (people)
 * Notability (academics)
 * Notability (sports) - sports persons and organizations
 * Notability (web)

Project activities

 * In the news/Recurring items
 * Reference desk guidelines
 * Reviewing good articles
 * Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment
 * WikiProjects

Project roles

 * Administrators
 * Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight
 * Bureaucrats
 * CheckUser
 * Global rights policy
 * Oversight
 * Volunteer response team

Redirects, shortcuts, and subpages

 * Redirect
 * Shortcut
 * Soft redirect
 * Subpages

Tools and templates

 * Bot policy
 * Edit filter
 * Rollback feature
 * Spam blacklist
 * Spellchecking
 * Template namespace
 * High-risk templates
 * Substitution

User names and pages

 * Username policy
 * Changing username guidelines
 * User pages
 * Right to vanish
 * Userboxes