Wikipedia:Haiku about Wikipedia policy

Notability
If only one source Can be found for your subject No article here.

Notability Do not write about yourself Deletion is near

Although it exists Check to see it's notable Or page disappears

Usernames
In your username May be no reference to An obscenity

Choose your name wisely It will stay with your edits Bad names go bye-bye

Be careful, newbie Decide your fate your name will Change it you can, hrm?

Copyright violations
Content pages that Violate a copyright Will be deleted

No copy and paste Google is not a good source Tempting it may be

Taken from elsewhere This ten-page article dies Very easily

No personal attacks
If you say mean things to others on or off site you may be blocked fast.

Calling me a jerk May seem like a lot of fun Indefinite block!

Attribution
Write your article With reliable sources That have been published.

Neutral point of view
Articles must not Favor any one viewpoint They must be neutral.

No original research
Facts in articles You must attribute elsewhere Not your own research.

These unsourced beliefs like blossoms of cherry trees will be swept away.

These unsourced beliefs like blossoms of cherry trees Which weren't planted yet.

What Wikipedia is not
Wikipedia: 'Net encyclopedia And not something else.

Wikipedia is not a crystal ball
Do not speculate If it hasn't happened yet. State facts, cite sources.

Wikipedia is not a travel guide
Wikipedia Cannot be a travel guide That's Wikivoyage

Speedy deletion
Some articles may Be deleted speedily If nonsense or ads.

Complete gibberish Will be deleted on sight, Do not even try

Why are you famous? If you cannot tell us soon Article goes "bye!"

The Samurai moves Very fast to cut the Bad So must some Admins

No less than the leaves Does every page of CSD Expound the Dharma.

Three-revert rule
Revert once or twice Or even a third time, but Beware of the fourth

Ignore all rules
Ignore all the rules Only if they do not work; This is very rare.

As spiders spin webs, So are the rules around here. Be Bold. You're Allowed.

Sometimes one must just Ignore all the rules so that One can end a sentence.

Ignoring the Rules Serves all users here best, When Articles Strengthened

Even IAR Has guidelines to be followed Free reign it is not.

Ownership
All that you write here Is editable by all And not you alone

As the Earth outlives So must Wikipedia That page is not yours.

Consensus
Express your own view But once we reach consensus Agree to abide

In serenity Everyone stops arguing. That is consensus.

Sun comes after rain, And all have stopped arguing. This is consensus.

Sock puppetry
To yourself be true So avoid playing with socks Or even with meat

Biographies of living persons
Source, and be neutral Always, but especially About the living

careful, the living are jealous of articles so source - OH NOES! "BRAINS!"

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
Wikipedia An Encyclopedia It is that simple

Don't be a jerk
Being a real jerk Will probably get you banned You can't lawyer this

List of Bad Article Ideas
Articles about Your cute pet, your band, or you: Very bad ideas

Vandalism
Countless bathroom walls For you to scribble upon - Except for this one

Copyrights
All text is licensed Under the GFDL, Free as in freedom

No Front-Cover Texts No Invariant Sections No Back-Cover Texts

Creative Commons Attribute and Share-alike is also offered

Request for Adminship
!voting up, or down¡ candidate suffers great stress from silly questions

RfA causes People to freak out about silly little things.

RfB? Drama. If you so much as sneeze wrong, good-bye supporters.

Countering systemic bias
Haiku (はいく) has three Syllables in Japanese But two in English.

Articles for deletion
Summer AFD the sole remnant of many editors' hard work.

Missing Wikipedians
The summer grasses. I edit my user page One last time - really.