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 * Policies and guidelines pages
 * Green check.svg policy – Category:Wikipedia policies – contains important rules that are widely accepted, and procedures for important processes such as deletion; there are relatively few of those.
 * Blue check.svg guideline – Category:Wikipedia guidelines – contains consensual rules-of-thumb that are not strict, but are considered by most editors to be useful most of the time.
 * Blue check.svg MoS guideline – Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style – contains style guidelines widely acceptance among editors.
 * Information and discussions
 * How-to and information pages
 * Information.svg – Category:Wikipedia information pages
 * Twemoji 1f527.svg – Category:Wikipedia how-to
 * Information.svg – Category:Wikipedia supplemental pages
 * Essay pages
 * Essay.svg – Category:Wikipedia essays – Essays like information pages have no official status, and do not speak for the Wikipedia community as they may be created and edited without overall community oversight.

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 * – Double redirects – A double redirect is a redirect to another redirect. The Mediawiki software won't follow these redirects to avoid infinite loops and other problems. Double redirects are easily fixed by bots and human editors should devote their efforts elsewhere. However, an editor should not leave behind the double redirects that he created himself.
 * – No 3D illustrations – Guideline – Don't use pictures which can only be correctly viewed with special 3D equipment.
 * Green check.svg – Three-revert rule – Part of Edit warring (policy) – An editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page—whether involving the same or different material—within a 24-hour period. An edit or a series of consecutive edits that undoes other editors' actions—whether in whole or in part—counts as a revert. Violations of the rule normally attract blocks of at least 24 hours. Any appearance of gaming the system by reverting a fourth time just outside the 24-hour slot is likely to be treated as an edit-warring violation.

A

 * – Attribution – All material in Wikipedia must be attributable to a reliable, published source.
 * – Article alerts
 * – Autobiography – Guideline – We have biographies here, not autobiographies. Avoid writing or editing an article about yourself, other than to correct unambiguous errors of fact.
 * – Problems in an article about you.
 * – Arbitration Committee – The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve.
 * – Accuracy dispute – Guideline
 * Green check.svg – Part of Consensus (policy) – Raising essentially the same issue on multiple noticeboards, or to multiple administrators, is unhelpful to finding and achieving consensus. It doesn't help develop consensus to try different forums in the hope of finding one where you get the answer you want. (This is also known as "asking the other parent".)
 * – Administrators' noticeboard/Arbitration enforcement
 * – Articles for deletion
 * – Assume good faith – Guideline – Unless there is clear evidence to the contrary, assume that people who work on the project are trying to help it, not hurt it. If criticism is needed, discuss editors' actions, but avoid accusing others of harmful motives without clear evidence.
 * – Article Incubator
 * – Administrator intervention against vandalism
 * – Articles must be written – Essay
 * – Articles must be written – Essay
 * – Administrators' noticeboard – General announcements, discussion of administration methods, ban proposals, block reviews, and backlog notices.
 * – Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents – for reporting and discussing incidents on the English Wikipedia that require the intervention of administrators and experienced editors
 * – ANI Advice – Essay – Helpful advice on ANI discussions
 * – As of – Guideline – The "as of" technique is a method to deal with information that will date quickly.
 * Green check.svg – Arbitration policy – This policy governs the Arbitration Committee, arbitration proceedings and arbitration processes.
 * – Arbitration Committee – The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process.
 * – Article size – Guideline – Articles should be neither too big nor too small.
 * – > 100 kB 	Almost certainly should be divided. These rules of thumb only apply to readable prose (found by counting the words, perhaps with the help of Shubinator's DYK tool or Prosesize) and not to wiki markup size (as found on history lists or other means).
 * – An editor must not accuse another of misbehaviour without evidence, especially when the accusations are repeated or severe. If accusations must be made, they should be raised, with evidence, on the user-talk page of the editor they concern or in the appropriate forums.
 * – Arguments to avoid in edit wars – When an edit war takes place, arguments should be productive and should be aimed at reaching an agreement, and not about acting superior, having it one's way, or otherwise discounting the other(s) involved.
 * – Accusations – The act of throwing around such accusations is a lack of assumption of good faith.
 * – Creator/Contributor – On Wikipedia, articles are not owned. Just because you created an article does not mean it is yours to decide how it should be written in the future.
 * – Empowerment – Wikipedia's mission is to provide readers with the best possible information to everyone. Wanting to have it your way all the time defeats that purpose.
 * – Experience/Standing on Wikipedia – There are no vested contributors. No editor has more authority than any other, regardless of prior experience.
 * – Expertise in the field – You may have a Ph.D. in the subject. You may work in the field. But your own personal knowledge cannot be published unless it can be verified.
 * – Fixed page – Nothing on Wikipedia is in stone. Not once. Ever. Every page is editable to at least someone, and most pages are editable to everyone.
 * – Outside guidelines – Wikipedia is not a system of laws. While Wikipedia does respect the well-being of people, companies, and organizations, civil laws, and religions, its policies are not dictated by other sets of rules.
 * – Prior discussion – Yes, certain conclusions may have been reached some time back via a discussion. But consensus can change.
 * – Prior discussion – Yes, certain conclusions may have been reached some time back via a discussion. But consensus can change.
 * – Threats and intimidation – On Wikipedia, personal attacks are not tolerated. In particular, it is unacceptable to threaten another that some form of action that cannot or will not likely be taken will occur.
 * – Threats and intimidation – On Wikipedia, personal attacks are not tolerated. In particular, it is unacceptable to threaten another that some form of action that cannot or will not likely be taken will occur.
 * – Three revert rule – The Three revert rule is just a general guideline to draw the line somewhere. But making edits in a manner that just barely dodges this time frame does not make one immune from the consequences.
 * – Three revert rule – The Three revert rule is just a general guideline to draw the line somewhere. But making edits in a manner that just barely dodges this time frame does not make one immune from the consequences.
 * – Attribution – Proposal with no consensus
 * – Avoid the word "vandal" – Essay – Vandals are people who deliberately attempt to damage Wikipedia, not those who make adverse edits.
 * – Avoid using preview button – Humorous essay

B

 * – Bots
 * – List of bad article ideas
 * – Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense
 * – Don't take the bait – Essay – Goading others into making uncivil comments is a common tactic. Don't take the bait.
 * Green check.svg – Banning policy – A ban is a formal prohibition from editing some or all Wikipedia pages, either temporarily or indefinitely.
 * – Be bold – Go for it!
 * – Borderline biographies – Essay – When low-notability biographies of living people are considered for deletion, closing administrators may wish to consider requiring a positive consensus to retain the article.
 * – Don't stuff beans up your nose – Essay – If you tell people not to do something, your advice may backfire and may instead tempt them to do it.
 * – Dealing with bad faith – Even if bad faith is evident, do not act uncivilly yourself in return, attack others, or lose your cool over it.
 * – Notability (books)
 * – Part of WP:IRS – Wikipedia articles are required to present a neutral point of view. However, reliable sources are not required to be neutral, unbiased, or objective. Sometimes non-neutral sources are good sources for supporting information about the different viewpoints held on a subject.
 * – But it's true! – Essay – "But it's true!" is not a sufficient reason to keep information on Wikipedia.
 * – Don't bite the newcomers
 * – Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense
 * – Page blanking – Don't blank articles; instead, request deletion.
 * – Policy does not prohibit users, whether registered or unregistered users, from removing comments from their own talk pages, although archiving is preferred. The removal of material from a user page is normally taken to mean that the user has read and is aware of its contents.
 * Green check.svg – Biographies on living persons – Policy – Material about living persons added to any Wikipedia page must be written with the greatest care and attention to verifiability, neutrality, and avoidance of original research.
 * – BLPs should be written responsibly, cautiously, and in a dispassionate tone, avoiding both understatement and overstatement. Articles should document in a non-partisan manner what reliable secondary sources have published about the subjects, and in some circumstances what the subjects have published about themselves.
 * – Wikipedia's sourcing policy, Verifiability, says that all quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable, published source using an inline citation; material not meeting this standard may be removed.
 * – Remove immediately any contentious material about a living person that is unsourced or poorly sourced.
 * – Avoid repeating gossip.
 * – Exercise extreme caution in using primary sources. Do not use trial transcripts and other court records, or other public documents, to support assertions about a living person. Do not use public records that include personal details, such as date of birth, home value, traffic citations, vehicle registrations, and home or business addresses.
 * – Never use self-published sources – including but not limited to books, zines, websites, blogs, and tweets – as sources of material about a living person, unless written or published by the subject.
 * – Subjects receiving coverage for a single event
 * – Blank maps
 * – Bureaucrats' noticeboard
 * – Be bold – Go for it!
 * – Don't shoot yourself in the foot – Essay – Consider your own actions before bringing attention to the actions of others.
 * Green check.svg – Blocking policy
 * – BOLD, revert, discuss cycle – Making bold edits is encouraged, as it will result in either improving an article, or stimulating discussion. Therefore, if your edit gets reverted, do not revert again. Instead, use the opportunity to begin a discussion with the interested parties to establish consensus.
 * – BRD misuse – Essay – In BRD cycle remember that after BR comes D for Discuss. And, shortly, B comes again.
 * – Don't come down like a ton of bricks – Essay – Do not do that which creates rancor amongst good faith contributors. People are not obliged to memorize policies and guidelines before editing.
 * – Don't come down like a ton of bricks – Essay – Do not do that which creates rancor amongst good faith contributors. People are not obliged to memorize policies and guidelines before editing.
 * – Don't come down like a ton of bricks – Essay – Do not do that which creates rancor amongst good faith contributors. People are not obliged to memorize policies and guidelines before editing.
 * – My little brother did it – Humorous essay – Blaming disruptive edits made from your account on your little brother or anyone else may seem like a good idea, but it isn't. It's a very common excuse, and we have no way of verifying it, and won't bother to try. You are responsible for all edits made from your account.
 * – Barnstars
 * – Build the web
 * – Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy

C

 * – Copyrights
 * – Staying cool when the editing gets hot – Essay – Remain calm when in an editing dispute. Respond politely and assume good faith.
 * – Categories
 * – Complete bollocks – Essay – Articles that are obviously false are complete bollocks and should be treated differently from similar articles.
 * – Wikipedia is not a crystal ball
 * – User access levels#Course coordinator, instructor, online and campus volunteer
 * – Consensus can change
 * – Contributor copyright investigations
 * – Centralized discussion
 * – Current date and time
 * – Category for deletion
 * – Category for merging
 * – Category for renaming
 * – Coatrack – Essay – Articles about one thing shouldn't mostly focus on another thing. – Subjects split into multiple articles so each can advocate a different stance on the subject. – Where an article, ostensibly on one topic, actually is a content fork of another.
 * – Coatrack – Essay – Articles about one thing shouldn't mostly focus on another thing. – Subjects split into multiple articles so each can advocate a different stance on the subject. – Where an article, ostensibly on one topic, actually is a content fork of another.
 * – Coatrack – Essay – Articles about one thing shouldn't mostly focus on another thing. – Subjects split into multiple articles so each can advocate a different stance on the subject. – Where an article, ostensibly on one topic, actually is a content fork of another.
 * – Essay – Do not cherrypick. When selecting information from a source, include contradictory and significant qualifying information from the same source.
 * – CheckUser
 * – Category intersection
 * – Civility
 * – Civility
 * – Common knowledge
 * – Cats, lists and navboxes
 * – Cluocracy – Essay – Wikipedia is not a democracy or an anarchy. Wikipedia is a cluocracy. That means that disputes generally are, and should be, resolved in favor of whoever has the best reasoning – not in terms of rhetoric but in terms of his or her understanding of the established policies of Wikipedia and of knowing what works and what doesn't.
 * – Conflict of interest
 * Green check.svg – Consensus – Policy – Consensus is Wikipedia's fundamental model for editorial decision-making.
 * – Concession – Essay – Make explicit concessions when an argument is lost.
 * – Concession – Essay – Make explicit concessions when an argument is lost.
 * – Concession – Essay – Make explicit concessions when an argument is lost.
 * – Copyright violation
 * – Copyright problems
 * – Cleanup resources
 * – Bureaucrats
 * Green check.svg – Wikipedia is not a crystal ball – Policy – The showcasing of unreferenced planned events, products, or releases.
 * – Citing sources
 * – Criteria for speedy deletion
 * – Copyright problems
 * – Citing Wikipedia

D

 * – Disambiguation
 * – Disambiguation
 * – Don't be inconsiderate – Essay on civility – If people were considerate, we wouldn't need any other policies about behaviour. If people are telling you that you're inconsiderate, chances are that you need to change your behaviour.
 * – Database download
 * – Disambiguation dos and don'ts
 * – Disruptive editing – Guideline – Disruptive editors may be blocked or banned indefinitely.
 * – Editing on Wikipedia can be done on mobile devices, but beware of the challenges.
 * Green check.svg – Deletion policy
 * – Deletion review
 * – Department of Fun
 * Green check.svg – Legitimate use of doppelgänger accounts – Policy – A doppelgänger account is a second account created with a username similar to one's main account to prevent impersonation. Such accounts should not be used for editing. Doppelgänger accounts may be marked with the doppelganger or doppelganger-other tag (or simply redirected to the main account's userpage).
 * – Don't-give-a-fuckism – Humorous essay – Don't-give-a-fuckism is the idea that attachment to things (articles, policies, AfDs, etc...) which are essentially beyond your control is a stumbling block to being a good Wikipedian.
 * – Introduction to deletion process
 * – Don't overlook legal threats – Essay – When newcomers blank articles or make legal threats, they may have good cause. Stop and look carefully before assuming they're disruptive or wielding a banhammer.
 * Green check.svg – Deletion policy
 * – Dispute resolution – Resolving disputes
 * – Deletion review
 * – Dispute templates
 * – Did you know – The project page for the "Did you know" section on the Main Page.

E

 * – Editor assistance
 * – Edit count
 * – Edit conflict
 * – Experimental Deletion
 * – Edit filter
 * – Editing the interface
 * – External links
 * – Editors matter
 * – Naming conventions (use English)
 * Green check.svg – Editing policy
 * – Etiquette
 * – Editor review
 * – Edit summary
 * – Editor tags
 * – Edit war
 * – Expert editors
 * – Requests for expansion

F

 * – Featured articles
 * – Featured article candidates
 * – Featured article review
 * – Facebook
 * – Files for deletion
 * – Featured pictures
 * – Be firm – Essay – Assuming good faith does not allow vandals to be disruptive in an attempt to game the system.
 * – Featured lists
 * – Footnotes
 * – Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought
 * Green check.svg – Part of Consensus (policy) – Raising essentially the same issue on multiple noticeboards, or to multiple administrators, is unhelpful to finding and achieving consensus. It doesn't help develop consensus to try different forums in the hope of finding one where you get the answer you want. (This is also known as "asking the other parent".)
 * – Featured pictures
 * – Featured portals
 * – Featured sounds
 * – Featured topics
 * Green check.svg – Wikipedia is not a crystal ball – Policy – The showcasing of unreferenced planned events, products, or releases.

G

 * – Good articles
 * – Don't game the system
 * – NOT:Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook
 * – Good article nominations
 * – GlobalBlocking
 * – Guide to deletion
 * – Assume good faith
 * – Graphic Lab
 * – General notability guideline
 * – Don't take the bait – Essay – Goading others into making uncivil comments is a common tactic. Don't take the bait.
 * – Arguments to make in deletion discussions – Essay – These are some arguments that have successfully saved articles from deletion in the past, or otherwise supported one's cause, and therefore, may support yours.
 * – Good topics
 * – German userbox solution
 * – Gnome Week

H

 * – Harassment
 * – Highly Active Users
 * – WP:HAZING – Hazing – Essay – When a notable person comes to Wikipedia to edit, don't give them a hazing just because you can.
 * – Help desk
 * – Huggle
 * – Hatnote
 * – Don't create hoaxes
 * – High Schools
 * – Huge message boxes
 * – Do your own homework

I

 * – Ignore all dramas – Essay – If the dramas prevent you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore them. With Ignore all rules being Wikipedia's first [ rule to consider], this should be the zeroth rule.
 * Green check.svg – Ignore all rules – Policy – If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it.
 * – Ignoring all rules – a beginner's guide – Essay – Ignore All Rules – but only for good reasons
 * – Understanding IAR – Essay – If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it.
 * – Interaction ban
 * – Inline citation
 * – Files for deletion
 * – Interlanguage links
 * – Ignore all rules
 * – Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
 * – WikiProject Images and Media
 * – Don't be inconsiderate – Essay on civility – If people were considerate, we wouldn't need any other policies about behaviour. If people are telling you that you're inconsiderate, chances are that you need to change your behaviour.
 * – Anonymous users (IP users)
 * – Internet Relay Chat
 * – Identifying reliable sources – Guideline – This guideline discusses how to identify reliable sources. The policy on sourcing is Verifiability. This requires inline citations for any material challenged or likely to be challenged, and for all quotations.
 * – Part of WP:IRS
 * – Part of WP:IRS – Wikipedia articles are required to present a neutral point of view. However, reliable sources are not required to be neutral, unbiased, or objective. Sometimes non-neutral sources are good sources for supporting information about the different viewpoints held on a subject.
 * – Questionable sources are those with a poor reputation for checking the facts, or with no editorial oversight. Such sources include websites and publications expressing views that are widely acknowledged as extremist, that are promotional in nature, or which rely heavily on rumors and personal opinions.
 * – Anyone can create a personal web page or publish their own book, and also claim to be an expert in a certain field. For that reason self-published media—whether books, newsletters, personal websites, open wikis, blogs, personal pages on social networking sites, Internet forum postings, or tweets—are largely not acceptable.
 * – Self-published or questionable sources may be used as sources of information about themselves, especially in articles about themselves, without the requirement that they be published experts in the field, so long as:
 * the material is neither unduly self-serving nor an exceptional claim;
 * it does not involve claims about third parties (such as people, organizations, or other entities);
 * it does not involve claims about events not directly related to the subject;
 * there is no reasonable doubt as to its authenticity;
 * the article is not based primarily on such sources.
 * – Wikipedia articles (or Wikipedia mirrors) are not reliable sources for any purpose.
 * – Some sources may be considered reliable for statements as to their author's opinion, but not for statements asserted as fact without an inline qualifier like "(Author) says...".
 * – Independent sources
 * – Image copyrighttags
 * Green check.svg – Inappropriate usernames
 * – InterWikimedia links

J

 * – Join in -
 * – Just drop it – Essay – If you want an argument to stop, stop arguing.
 * – Just drop it – Essay – If you want an argument to stop, stop arguing.
 * – Just drop it – Essay – If you want an argument to stop, stop arguing.
 * – Just drop it – Essay – If you want an argument to stop, stop arguing.

K

 * – Kindness Campaign – The goal for the Kindness Campaign is to show recognition of people's determination and to give peace and love across all of Wikipedia!
 * – Keyboard shortcuts – The Vector skin, which is the default on Wikipedia, contains many keyboard shortcuts. You can use them to access certain features of Wikipedia more quickly.

L

 * – List of administrators
 * – Listcruft
 * – Legal disclaimer
 * – No legal threats, see WP:NLT
 * – Laissez-faire – Laissez-faire (also known as capitalistic inclusionism or wikilibertarianism), on Wikipedia, is the doctrine that users should be free to make whatever contributions they choose (especially in non-Mainspace pages) as long as they do not forcibly interfere with the equal right of others to contribute as they choose. It especially relates to contributions made to userspace and is the result of a confluence of guidelines such as Don't worry about performance, Editors matter, etc.
 * – List of guidelines
 * – List of policies
 * – Logical quotation
 * – Lead section
 * – Legal warnings

Links

 * – Link intersection
 * – Exclusive collections of internal links, except for allowable lists and disambiguation pages
 * – Adding external links to an article or user page for the purpose of promoting a website or a product is not allowed, and is considered to be spam.

Lists

 * – Manual of Style/Lists
 * – Listed items – Lists, whether they are embedded lists or stand-alone lists, are encyclopedic content as are paragraphs and articles, and they are equally subject to Wikipedia's content policies such as Verifiability, No original research, Neutral point of view, and others. ... The verifiability policy states that material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable published source. Inclusion of material on a list should be based on what reliable sources say, not on what the editor interprets the source to be saying. In lists that involve living persons, the Biographies of living persons policy applies.
 * – Guideline – A company or organization may be included in a list of companies or organizations whether or not it meets the Wikipedia notability requirement, unless a given list specifically requires this. If the company or organization does not have an existing article in Wikipedia, a citation to an independent, reliable source should be provided to establish its membership in the list's group.
 * – Manual of Style/Stand-alone lists

M

 * Green check.svg – Mediation – Policy – Mediation is a process that creates valid consensus with the aid of a neutral third party skilled in dispute resolution.
 * – WP:MADEUP – Creations of an individual, group, or community that have not been formally published.
 * – Mediation Committee – a panel of editors who resolve content disputes on Wikipedia articles by providing formal mediation.
 * – Minor edit – Checking the minor edit box signifies that the current and previous versions differ only superficially (typographical corrections, etc.), in a way that no editor would be expected to regard as disputable.
 * – Reliable sources for medical articles
 * – Mirrors and forks
 * – Miscellany for deletion
 * – Media help
 * – Multilingual coordination
 * – Mailing lists
 * – Manual of Style – Guideline
 * – Most captions are not complete sentences, but merely sentence fragments that should not end with a period. If any complete sentence occurs in a caption, all sentences and any sentence fragments in that caption should end with a period.
 * – Manual of Style/Icons – While icons can be useful in Wikipedia articles in some circumstances, there are also problems associated with their misapplication and overuse. Words can be clearer.
 * – Manual of Style/Images – A very brief overview of how images are used in Wikipedia
 * – Images for the lead – Lead images should be images that are natural and appropriate visual representations of the topic; they not only should be illustrating the topic specifically, but should also be the type of image that is used for similar purposes in high-quality reference works, and therefore what our readers will expect to see.
 * / /  – Don't make a mountain out of a molehill – Essay – Don't turn a small problem into a bigger problem.
 * – Mediation Committee/Policy (formerly Million pool)
 * – MPOV is characterized not by a belief that your own personal viewpoints are correct and thus must be represented in Wikipedia — although those who hold a MPOV very often also believe this — but rather by the belief that your own personal viewpoints are neutral. – Ex.: "It strikes me that there is a strong dose of MPOV on both sides, and there is a problem in that once you have demonstrated that something is true, it is then a matter of debate how significant that may be."
 * – Music samples
 * – Template messages
 * – Meetup
 * – Moving a page
 * – Missing Wikipedians

N

 * – Notability – Guideline – See below under section 3 heading Notability
 * Green check.svg – Non-free content criteria – Legal policy
 * Green check.svg – No legal threats – Legal policy – If you have a dispute with the community or its members, use dispute resolution. If you do choose to use legal action or threats of legal action to resolve disputes, you will not be allowed to continue editing until it is resolved and your user account and or IP address may be blocked. A polite report of a legal problem such as defamation or copyright infringement is not a threat and will be acted on quickly.
 * – Notability – Guideline – See below under section 3 heading Notability
 * Green check.svg – No original research – Policy – Wikipedia does not publish original thought: all material in Wikipedia must be attributable to a reliable, published source. Articles may not contain any new analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to advance a position not clearly advanced by the sources themselves.
 * – Assume no clue – Essay – Assume that people don't know what they're doing before you assume bad faith.
 * – Don't call a spade a spade – Essay – When "calling a spade a spade" means applying labels to an editor, doing so is just going to cause the dispute to escalate, and turn out to be really embarrassing if you turn out to be wrong.
 * – Notability – Guideline – See below under section 3 heading Notability
 * – The deadline is now – Essay – When an article contains unverifiable content, it needs to be corrected now before someone reads it and is misled by it.
 * Green check.svg – No personal attacks – Conduct policy – Do not make personal attacks anywhere in Wikipedia. Comment on content, not on the contributor. Personal attacks do not help make a point; they only hurt the Wikipedia community and deter users from helping to create a good encyclopedia. Derogatory comments about other editors may be removed by anyone. Repeated or egregious personal attacks may lead to blocks.
 * Green check.svg – Neutral point of view – Policy – Articles must not take sides, but should explain the sides, fairly and without bias. This applies to both what you say and how you say it.
 * – Achieving what the Wikipedia community understands as neutrality means carefully and critically analyzing a variety of reliable sources and then attempting to convey to the reader the information contained in them fairly, proportionately, and as far as possible without bias.
 * – Don't include copies of primary sources – Guideline – Wikipedia is not a mirror of public domain or other source material. In Wikipedia articles, quotes of any original texts being discussed should be relevant to the discussion (or illustrative of style) and should be kept to an appropriate length.
 * – Notability requires that verifiable evidence be provided
 * – Temporary, brief, short-lived coverage of a subject in reliable sources

Names

 * Green check.svg – Naming conventions – Policy – Article titles are based on how reliable English-language sources refer to the article's subject. There is often more than one appropriate title for an article. In that case, editors choose the best title by consensus based on the considerations that Article titles explains.
 * – Naming conventions (capitalization) – Guideline – Do not capitalize the second or subsequent words in an article title, unless the title is a proper noun.
 * – Naming conventions (people) – Guideline – Most biographical articles have titles in the form  , as with Albert Einstein and Margaret Thatcher. This guideline explains how to handle cases where this format is not obvious, or for one reason or other is not followed.

NOT

 * – What Wikipedia is not
 * – Articles about newly-coined words.
 * – Creations of an individual, group, or community that have not been formally published.
 * – Wikipedia is not a directory
 * – WP:NOT PAPERS – Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook
 * – Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought
 * – Wikipedia is not a democracy
 * – Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
 * – Wikipedia is not your web host
 * – Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought
 * – Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
 * – Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
 * – Routine news coverage
 * – Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought
 * – Excessive listing of statistics or the exclusive use of statistics to source an article – Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
 * – Wikipedia is not your web host
 * – Wikipedia is not your web host
 * – Wikipedia is not a soapbox
 * – Wikipedia is not a soapbox
 * – Wikipedia is not an anarchy
 * – Wikipedia is not a battleground
 * – Wikipedia is not a blog, webspace provider, social networking, or memorial site
 * – Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy
 * – Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook
 * – Wikipedia is not a directory
 * – Wikipedia is not censored
 * – Wikipedia is not a crystal ball
 * – Wikipedia is not a democracy
 * for listing on WP:NOT WP:NAD for full page) Pages that exclusively define the title / Lists of dictionary entries, definitions, or slang or jargon guides. – Wikipedia is not a dictionary
 * – Wikipedia is not a directory
 * – Wikipedia is not a directory
 * – Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought
 * – Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook
 * – Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook
 * – Wikipedia is not governed by statute
 * – Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files
 * – Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook
 * – Wikipedia is not a blog, webspace provider, social networking, or memorial site
 * – Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files
 * – Wikipedia is not a blog, webspace provider, social networking, or memorial site
 * – Now is not the right time to run for adminship
 * – Wikipedia is not a soapbox – The publishing of one's personal opinions.
 * – Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia
 * – Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files
 * – Scandals or gossip
 * – Information written purely to teach subject matter
 * – Wikipedia is not a soapbox
 * – Wikipedia is not governed by statute
 * – And finally ...
 * – Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook
 * – Wikipedia is not therapy – Essay – If a user has behavior problems that disrupt the collective work of creating a useful, encyclopedic reference, then the editor's participation in Wikipedia may be restricted or banned. These problems may be caused by personal immaturity, an inability to properly apply Wikipedia's policies, poor social skills, or other reasons.
 * – Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook
 * – Any material added to Wikipedia must have been published previously by a reliable source. Editors may not add or delete content solely because they believe it is true.
 * – Wikipedia is not a blog, webspace provider, social networking, or memorial site

Notability

 * – Notability – Guideline – Wikipedia articles cover notable topics—those that have gained sufficiently significant attention by the world at large and over a period of time, and are not outside the scope of Wikipedia. We consider evidence from reliable independent sources to gauge this attention. The notability guideline does not determine the content of articles, but only whether the topic should have its own article.
 * – General notability guideline – If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list.
 * – "Significant coverage" addresses the topic directly and in detail, so that no original research is needed to extract the content. Significant coverage is more than a passing mention but it need not be the main topic of the source material.
 * – Notability requires verifiable evidence – The common theme in the notability guidelines is that there must be verifiable, objective evidence that the subject has received significant attention from independent sources to support a claim of notability. The absence of citations in an article (as distinct from the non-existence of sources) does not indicate that the subject is not notable.
 * – Notability guidelines do not apply to content within an article – The criteria applied to article creation/retention are not the same as those applied to article content.
 * – Notability is not temporary – Notability is not temporary; once a topic has been the subject of "significant coverage" in accordance with the general notability guideline, it does not need to have ongoing coverage.
 * – Self-promotion and indiscriminate publicity – Wikipedia is not a promotional medium. Self-promotion, paid material, autobiography, and product placement are not valid routes to an encyclopedia article. The barometer of notability is whether people independent of the topic itself (or of its manufacturer, creator, author, inventor, or vendor) have actually considered the topic notable enough that they have written and published non-trivial works of their own that focus upon it – without incentive, promotion, or other influence by people connected to the topic matter.
 * – Articles not satisfying the notability guidelines – Topics that do not meet this criterion are not retained as separate articles. Non-notable topics with closely related notable articles or lists are often merged into those pages, while non-notable topics without such merge targets are generally deleted.

O

 * – Office actions
 * – Overcategorization
 * – Original images
 * – Overlistification
 * – Ombudsman
 * – Subjects receiving coverage for a single event
 * Green check.svg – No original research – Policy – Wikipedia does not publish original thought: all material in Wikipedia must be attributable to a reliable, published source. Articles may not contain any new analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to advance a position not clearly advanced by the sources themselves.
 * – Oversight
 * Green check.svg – Part of Consensus (policy) – Raising essentially the same issue on multiple noticeboards, or to multiple administrators, is unhelpful to finding and achieving consensus. It doesn't help develop consensus to try different forums in the hope of finding one where you get the answer you want. (This is also known as "asking the other parent".)
 * – Open-source Ticket Request System
 * – Oversight
 * – Ownership of articles

P

 * Green check.svg – No personal attacks – Conduct policy – Do not make personal attacks anywhere in Wikipedia. Comment on content, not on the contributor. Personal attacks do not help make a point; they only hurt the Wikipedia community and deter users from helping to create a good encyclopedia. Derogatory comments about other editors may be removed by anyone. Repeated or egregious personal attacks may lead to blocks.
 * – Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia
 * – Pending changes
 * – Public domain
 * – Pertinence and encyclopedic nature of images
 * – Parser functions
 * – Policies and guidelines
 * – Process is important
 * – Proseline
 * – Proposed mergers
 * – Patent nonsense
 * – Plot-only articles (if no sources exist to expand the article further, such as reviews or sourced analysis). – Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
 * – Don't disrupt Wikipedia to make a point
 * – Policies and guidelines
 * – Describing points of view
 * Green check.svg – Protection policy
 * – Don't throw your toys out of the pram – Essay – Conflicts on Wikipedia should be resolved calmly and amicably, assuming good faith on all parties where possible. Raised tempers and expressions of anger are counter-productive.
 * – Articles promoting a cause
 * – Articles about oneself autobiographies or that promote oneself or one's cause
 * – An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing – Essay – You may face problems if there is an article about you on Wikipedia. So think about it before you really go out of your way to try to get one.
 * – Protected Userpage

Q

 * – Questions
 * – Quality articles
 * – Quick directory
 * – Quickpolls
 * – Verifiability#Questionable sources
 * – Part of WP:IRS – Questionable sources are those with a poor reputation for checking the facts, or with no editorial oversight. Such sources include websites and publications expressing views that are widely acknowledged as extremist, that are promotional in nature, or which rely heavily on rumors and personal opinions.

R

 * – Redirect
 * – Requested articles
 * – Wikipedia is not a soapbox
 * – Reward board
 * – Recent changes
 * – Reference desk
 * – Readers First
 * – Requests for adminship
 * – Requests for bureaucratship
 * – Requests for comment
 * – Requests for expansion
 * – Requested moves
 * – Regional notice boards
 * – Give 'em enough rope – Essay – Unblocking to give a last chance
 * – Requested pictures
 * – Requests
 * – Reliable sources aka Identifying reliable sources – Guideline – This guideline discusses how to identify reliable sources. The policy on sourcing is Verifiability. This requires inline citations for any material challenged or likely to be challenged, and for all quotations.
 * – Part of WP:IRS – Some sources may be considered reliable for statements as to their author's opinion, but not for statements asserted as fact without an inline qualifier like "(Author) says...".* SD WP:SD – Criteria for speedy deletion
 * – Requested templates
 * – Refactoring talk pages
 * – Reverting
 * – Researching Wikipedia
 * – Recent years

S

 * – Sandbox
 * – Shortcut
 * – Part of WP:IRS
 * – Part of WP:IRS – Self-published or questionable sources may be used as sources of information about themselves, especially in articles about themselves, without the requirement that they be published experts in the field, so long as:
 * 1) the material is neither unduly self-serving nor an exceptional claim;
 * 2) it does not involve claims about third parties (such as people, organizations, or other entities);
 * 3) it does not involve claims about events not directly related to the subject;
 * 4) there is no reasonable doubt as to its authenticity;
 * 5) the article is not based primarily on such sources.
 * – WP:NOSHAME – WP:ASHAMED – Essay – Sometimes, an edit made in good faith does not comply to policy or consensus. Don't be ashamed of making mistakes.
 * – Sockpuppetinvestigations
 * – Sign on talk pages
 * – Signs of sock puppetry – Essay – There are many possible signs of sock puppetry or other multiple account usage. But none of them are absolute proof sock puppetry is occurring.
 * – Sock puppets are sometimes used to distort the balance in an edit war.
 * – An account with only a few edits that has been performing at a high level of knowledge of wiki language may be a sock puppet. But also notice Wikipedia:Lurkers.
 * – Excessive awarding of barnstars
 * – If multiple editors without a long history come into the scene, these may be sock or meat puppets.
 * – If two accounts have a history of edits to one or more of the same articles, or especially many identical articles, this may lead to suspicion that they may be operated by the same person.
 * – Always there when needed
 * – Common spelling/punctuation/grammar errors
 * – IP sock puppetry
 * – Single-purpose accounts
 * – Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense
 * – Article size
 * – Speedy keep
 * – Spotlight
 * – Editing on Wikipedia can be done on mobile devices, but beware of the challenges.
 * – Survey notification
 * – Standard offer
 * – WP:NOTSOAPBOX Propaganda or advertising. – Wikipedia is not a soapbox
 * – Sock-puppetry
 * – Subpages
 * – Single-purpose account
 * – Sockpuppetinvestigations
 * – Simplified ruleset
 * – Summary style
 * – Don't throw your toys out of the pram – Essay – Conflicts on Wikipedia should be resolved calmly and amicably, assuming good faith on all parties where possible. Raised tempers and expressions of anger are counter-productive.
 * – List of really stupid article ideas
 * – Manual of Style
 * – Simple userbox solution
 * – Stable versions
 * – WP:SYNTH – WP:SYNTHESIS A conclusion put together based on if A is true, and B is true, then C must be true when this is not sourced.

T

 * – Tutorial
 * – Talk page guidelines
 * – Templates for deletion
 * – Tendentious editing
 * – A nice cup of tea and a sit down – A nice cup of tea and a sit down is, in the spirit of WikiLove, a chance to declare publicly what you appreciate about other members of the community or their contributions.
 * – Today's featured article
 * – Today's featured article/requests
 * – Templates for deletion
 * – Template guidelines
 * – Teahouse
 * – WP:NOTTHERAPY – Wikipedia is not therapy – Essay – If a user has behavior problems that disrupt the collective work of creating a useful, encyclopedic reference, then the editor's participation in Wikipedia may be restricted or banned. These problems may be caused by personal immaturity, an inability to properly apply Wikipedia's policies, poor social skills, or other reasons.
 * – Transwiki log
 * – Template messages
 * – Templates
 * – Current date and time
 * – Talk page guidelines
 * – Talk page guidelines#Others' comments
 * – Talk page
 * – Requested templates
 * – Template standardisation
 * – Twinkle
 * – That's why we preview, kids

U

 * – Unusual articles
 * – Wikipedia has many rules. Instead of following every rule, it is acceptable to use common sense as you go about editing. Being too wrapped up in rules can cause loss of perspective, so there are times when it is better to ignore a rule. Even if a contribution "violates" the precise wording of a rule, it might still be a good contribution. Similarly, just because something is not forbidden in a written document, or is even explicitly permitted, doesn't mean it's a good idea in the given situation.
 * – Usage of diacritics
 * – User access levels
 * – Untagged images
 * – Userbox migration
 * Green check.svg – Username policy
 * – User page – Guideline – User pages are for communication and collaboration. While considerable leeway is allowed in personalizing and managing your user pages, they are community project pages, not a personal website, blog, or social networking medium.
 * – Userspace is not a free web host and should not be used to indefinitely host pages that look like articles, old revisions, or deleted content, or your preferred version of disputed content. Private copies of pages that are being used solely for long-term archival purposes may be subject to deletion.
 * – The Wikipedia community strongly discourages simulating the MediaWiki interface, except on the rare occasion when it is necessary for testing purposes. Included in this prohibition are fake user talk notification banners that mislead readers into thinking they have new messages.
 * – Unusual requests
 * – User page
 * – Part of WP:IRS – Anyone can create a personal web page or publish their own book, and also claim to be an expert in a certain field. For that reason self-published media—whether books, newsletters, personal websites, open wikis, blogs, personal pages on social networking sites, Internet forum postings, or tweets—are largely not acceptable.

V

 * Green check.svg – Verifiability – Policy – Readers must be able to check that Wikipedia articles are not just made up. This means that all quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable, published source using an inline citation.
 * – Attribute all quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged to a reliable, published source using an inline citation.
 * – Vital articles
 * – Vague introductions – Essay – Explain the subject of the article concisely in the lead. The lead should summarize the contents of the article.
 * Green check.svg – Vandalism – Policy – Intentionally making abusive edits to Wikipedia will result in a block.
 * – Vested interest – Essay – Beware of using the argument of "vested interest" in content disputes: Discuss the issue, not the editor; and never suggest a view is invalid simply because of who its proponent is.
 * – Vandalism in progress
 * – Victim Lists
 * – Village pump
 * – Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions#Vandal_target
 * – Indef blocked userpages

W

 * – Dashboard – A one-stop overview of the various centralized discussions taking place throughout Wikipedia.
 * – Wikibreak
 * – Welcoming committee
 * – Wikifun
 * – Walled garden
 * – What Wikipedia is not
 * – Wikilawyering – Essay – Using the rules in a manner contrary to their principles in order to "win" editing disputes is highly frowned upon by the Wikipedia community.
 * – Maintenance
 * – Don't cry wolf – Essay – Do not make accusations of harassment or personal attacks lightly.
 * – WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG! – Essay – Avoid cryptic language. Try to keep your use of abbreviations down when talking with human beings.
 * WP – Wikipedia or Wikipedia name space
 * – Part of WP:IRS – Wikipedia articles (or Wikipedia mirrors) are not reliable sources for any purpose.
 * – WikiProject Schools/Article guidelines
 * – Etiquette – Guideline – Wikipedia etiquette, while often wiki specific, is rooted in common sense intuitions about working together: be friendly and flexible, and focus on the task.
 * – Wikiquette alerts (No longer in use.)
 * – WikiReader -> Books
 * – The Wrong Version is the version of a page that is protected during an edit war. The Wrong Version is biased, nationalistic, libellous, inaccurate and a disgrace to Wikipedia in general. There are no reports of a sysop ever having protected the "right" version.


 * – Wheel war – Wheel warring is when an administrator's action is reversed by another admin, but rather than discussing the disagreement, administrator tools are then used in a combative fashion to undo or redo the action. With very few exceptions, once an administrative action has been reverted, it should not be restored without consensus.

X

 * – Experimental Deletion
 * – Deletion discussions

Y

 * – WikiProject Years
 * – YouTube – Part of External links (guideline) – Many videos hosted on YouTube or similar sites do not meet the standards for inclusion in External links sections, and copyright is of particular concern.

Z

 * – WikiProject Zoo