Wikipedia:Overlapping policies and guidelines

Wikipedia has a lot of policies and guidelines. Several of these overlap or are partially or wholly redundant with one another; this page serves as a list of those. It may be desirable to merge some of the pages listed here, although the community has rather strongly objected to merging policies in the past. This page lists suggested mergings, which are then discussed on the talk page here or the talk page of the involved pages.


 * You are welcome to add to this list. Please do not simply remove items from the list just because you believe they Should Not Be Merged, but instead discuss this on the talk page.

Possible candidates for merging: policies

 * Appealing a block, Blocking policy and Banning policy
 * Copyright violations and Copyrights
 * What Wikipedia is not, Wikipedia is not a dictionary & Alternative outlets
 * Libel, Attack page and Biographies of living persons
 * No personal attacks, Civility and No legal threats
 * Policies and guidelines with How to create policy
 * Patent nonsense and Attack page to Criteria for speedy deletion
 * Proposed deletion to Deletion policy
 * Deletion process to Deletion policy

Possible candidates for merging: guidelines

 * Notability and the innumerable sub-guidelines to it (WP:BIO, WP:PORNBIO, WP:PROF, WP:MUSIC, WP:WEB...)
 * Categories, lists, and series boxes (guideline) and Categories vs lists (essay)

Merge draft in progress

 * Deletion guidelines for administrators to Deletion process
 * Sock puppetry and Single purpose account merged into Username policy