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Wikipedia principles

Five pillars
Statement of our principles

Jimbo's statement
Historic principles

Simplified ruleset
Synopsis of our conventions

Wikimedia principles
Common to all projects
(in Meta-Wiki)

Principles
Other essays on Wikipedia's principles

v t e Wikipedia key policies and guidelines

Overview	Five pillars Policies and guidelines List of policies and guidelines List of policies List of guidelines

Project-wide principles	Consensus Dispute resolution Editing policy Ignore all rules What Wikipedia is not Wikipedia is not a dictionary

Core content policies	Neutral point of view No original research Verifiability

Other content policies	Article titles Autobiography Biographies of living persons Image use

Content guidelines	Citing sources Don't create hoaxes Do not include copies of primary sources External links Fringe theories Identifying reliable sources Notability Patent nonsense

Behavioural policies	Child protection Civility Courtesy vanishing Edit warring Harassment No legal threats No personal attacks Ownership of content Paid editing disclosure Sock puppetry

Behavioural guidelines	Assume good faith Conflict of interest Disruptive editing Do not disrupt to illustrate a point Etiquette Gaming the system Do not bite the newcomers

Editing guidelines	Article size Be bold Disambiguation Hatnotes Set index articles Subpages Talk page guidelines Signatures User pages Vandalism Project namespace WikiProjects

Style conventions	Manual of Style Contents Accessibility Understandability Dates and numbers Images Layout Lead section Linking Lists

Classification guidelines	Categories, lists, and navigation templates Categorization Template namespace

Deletion policies	Attack page Criteria for speedy deletion Deletion policy Oversight Proposed deletion Proposed deletion of BLP Proposed deletion (books) Revision deletion

Wikimedia Foundation	List of policies Friendly space policy Licensing and copyright Privacy policy Values

Category: Policies / Guidelines

Essays about Wikipedia

Essays on building, editing, and deleting content

Philosophy	Articles must be written Avoid vague introductions Be a reliable source Cohesion Concede lost arguments Eight simple rules for editing our encyclopedia Don't lie Explanationism External criticism of Wikipedia Here to build an encyclopedia Most ideas are bad Need Neutrality of sources Not editing because of Wikipedia restriction Oversimplification Paradoxes Paraphrasing POV and OR from editors, sources, and fields Product, process, policy Purpose Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia Tendentious editing The role of policies in collaborative anarchy The rules are principles Trifecta Wikipedia in brief Wikipedia is an encyclopedia Wikipedia is a community

Construction	100K featured articles Advanced source searching A navbox on every page Acronym Overkill Adding images improves the encyclopedia Advanced article editing Advanced table formatting Advanced template coding Advanced text formatting Alternatives to the "Expand" template Amnesia test An unfinished house is a real problem Articles have a half-life Autosizing images Avoid mission statements Bare URLs Be neutral in form Beef up that first revision Blind men and an elephant Cherrypicking Children's lit, adult new readers, & large-print books Citation overkill Concept cloud Creating controversial content Criticisms of society may be consistent with NPOV and reliability Dictionaries as sources Don't demolish the house while it's still being built Don't hope the house will build itself Don't panic Editing on mobile devices Editors are not mindreaders Endorsements (commercial) Featured articles may have problems Fruit of the poisonous tree Give an article a chance Ignore STRONGNAT for date formats Inaccuracy Introduction to structurism Law sources Link rot Mine a source Merge Test Minors and persons judged incompetent "Murder of" articles Not every story/event/disaster needs a biography Not everything needs a navbox Nothing is in stone Organizing disambiguation pages by subject area Permastub Potential, not just current state Printability Pruning article revisions Publicists Put a little effort into it Restoring part of a reverted edit Robotic editing Sham consensus Run an edit-a-thon Temporary versions of articles There is a deadline There is no deadline The deadline is now Walled garden What an article should not include Wikipedia is a work in progress Wikipedia is not being written in an organized fashion The world will not end tomorrow Write the article first Writing better articles

Deletion	Adjectives in your recommendations AfD is not a war zone Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions Arguments to avoid in deletion reviews Arguments to avoid in image deletion discussions Arguments to make in deletion discussions Avoid repeated arguments Before commenting in a deletion discussion But there must be sources! Confusing arguments mean nothing Content removal Counting and sorting are not original research Delete the junk Does deletion help? Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument Follow the leader How to save an article proposed for deletion I just don't like it Immunity Liar Liar Pants on Fire Nothing Overzealous deletion Relisting can be abusive Relist bias The Heymann Standard Unopposed AFD discussion Wikipedia is not Whack-A-Mole Why was the page I created deleted? What to do if your article gets tagged for speedy deletion When in doubt, hide it in the woodwork No Encyclopedic Use

Essays on civility

The basics	How to be civil Compromise Accepting other users Enjoy yourself Expect no thanks Thank you Apologizing Truce Divisiveness Encouraging newcomers Relationships with academic editors High-functioning autism and Asperger's editors Obsessive Compulsive Disorder editors

Philosophy	Advice for hotheads An uncivil environment is a poor environment Be the glue Civility warnings Deletion as revenge Failure Forgive and forget It's not the end of the world Nobody cares Most people who disagree with you on content are not vandals Staying cool when the editing gets hot The grey zone The last word Most ideas are bad The rules of polite discourse There is no common sense Wikipedia is not about winning Writing for the opponent

Dos	Argue better Assume good faith Assume the assumption of good faith Assume no clue Avoid personal remarks Avoid the word "vandal" Beyond civility Call a spade a spade Candor Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass Deny recognition Encourage full discussions Get over it How to lose Just drop it Keep it down to earth Mind your own business

Don'ts	Don't give a fuck Don't be inconsiderate Don't be rude Don't call a spade a spade Don't call the kettle black Don't take the bait Do not insult the vandals Don't come down like a ton of bricks Don't be ashamed Don't drink the consensus Kool-Aid Don't spite your face Don't call things cruft No angry mastodons No, you can't have a pony Don't be an ostrich Don't template the regulars Don't be a fanatic Don't accuse someone of a personal attack for accusing of a personal attack Don't fight fire with fire Don't be prejudiced Don't remind others of past misdeeds Don't throw your toys out of the pram Don't help too much Passive Aggressive Don't cry COI Don't be obnoxious Don't be a WikiBigot Don't confuse stub status with non-notability You can't squeeze blood from a turnip

Wiki relations	WikiLove WikiHate WikiCrime WikiBullying WikiPeace WikiLawyering WikiHarassment POV Railroading

Essays on notability

Notability	Alternative outlets Articles with a single source Bare notability Bombardment Businesses with a single location But it's true! Churnalism Citation overkill Clones Coatrack articles Common sourcing mistakes Discriminate vs indiscriminate information Every snowflake is unique Existence ≠ Notability Fart Google searches and numbers High Schools Inclusion is not an indicator of notability Inherent notability Insignificant Masking the lack of notability Make stubs News coverage does not decrease notability No amount of editing can overcome a lack of notability No big loss No one cares about your garage band No one really cares Notability/Historical/Arguments Notability cannot be purchased Notability is not a level playing field Notability is not a matter of opinion Notability is not relevance or reliability Notability means impact Notability points Notability sub-pages Obscurity ≠ Lack of notability Offline sources One hundred words One sentence does not an article make Other stuff exists Pokémon test Read the source Run-of-the-mill Significant coverage not required Solutions are mixtures and nothing else Subjective importance What notability is not What is and is not routine coverage Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause

General notability guideline	Independent sources Significant coverage Third-party sources Trivial mentions

Humorous essays

Humorous material	Assume bad faith Assume faith Assume good wraith Assume stupidity Assume that everyone's assuming good faith, assuming that you are assuming good faith Avoid using preview button Avoid using wikilinks BOLD, revert, revert, revert Boston Tea Party Barnstaritis Don't-give-a-fuckism Edits Per Day Editsummarisis Go ahead, vandalize Lamest edit wars Newcomers are delicious, so go ahead and bite them No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you Please bite the newbies R-e-s-p-e-c-t How many Wikipedians does it take to change a lightbulb? The first rule of Wikipedia The Five Pillars of Untruth The WikiBible Watchlistitis Why not create an Account?

Inactive historical references	Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Unblock Emails

About essays	Essay guide Value of essays Difference between policies, guidelines and essays Don't cite essays as if they were policy Avoid writing redundant essays Finding an essay Quote your own essay

Policies and guidelines	About policies and guidelines Policies Guidelines How to contribute to Wikipedia guidance Policy writing is hard

v t e Wikipedia community

For a listing of current collaborations, tasks, and news, see the Community portal. For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the Dashboard.

About Wikipedia	Welcome! Administration Regional notice boards News The Signpost Goings-on In the media Meetups Mailing lists Awards Reward board Contests Wikipedians Statistics Milestones The Wikipedia Library Centralized discussion Village pump Idea lab Policy Proposals Technical Miscellaneous

Contents and grading	Requested articles Most-wanted articles Images needing articles Articles needing images Articles for creation Creation Help Vital articles Today's articles for improvement Peer review Good article nominations Featured article candidates Lists Pictures Portals Topics Article translation Pages Main Page Errors

WikiProjects and groups	Directory Culture and the arts Geographical History and society Science, technology and engineering Wikipedia assistance and tasks Patrols Recent changes Counter-Vandalism Unit Version 1.0 Editorial Team Accessibility

Maintenance tasks	Task Center Open tasks Backlog Database reports Category tracker Dusty articles Special pages New pages Recent changes Controversial issues

Administrators and noticeboards	Admin dashboard Admin requests Administrators' Incidents Edit warring Vandalism Requests for closure Revision deletion Oversight Request Page protection Sockpuppets User permissions Open proxies Usernames Changing Title blacklist OTRS Bureaucrats' Requests for adminship & bureaucratship Arbitration Committee Requests Enforcement

Content dispute resolution	Editor assistance Requests for comment Third opinion Dispute resolution noticeboard Biographies of living persons Conflict of interest External links Fringe theories Neutral point of view No original research Reliable sources Mediation

Other noticeboards and assistance	Requests for help Asking questions Teahouse Help desk Reference desk Adopt-a-user Online Ambassadors Copyright assistance Copyright investigations Text problems Media questions Paid editors Resource requests Mergers History mergers Moves Page importation Spam Blacklist Whitelist Bot owners' Education Incidents New pages patrol General sanctions Editor sanctions Long-term abuse

Deletion discussions	Guide Admin Today Articles Templates Files Categories Redirects Miscellany Speedy Proposed BLP Books Review Undeletion Arguments to avoid Arguments to make Article Rescue

Elections and votings	Requests for comment (meta) Wikimedia Foundation elections WP Democracy Voting is not evil Milestones

Directories and summaries	Departments Edit summary legend Editor's index Essays FAQs Glossary Abbreviations Help Manual of Style Simplified Rules Five pillars Policies Guidelines Shortcuts Template messages Citation templates Tips Today Tools Wikis Wiki markup

v t e Main Page and featured content

Main Page topics	Errors Administrator instructions Main Page alternatives FAQ Editing Redesign proposals Queue Yesterday Tomorrow Main Page history Wikipedia languages Sister projects Sandbox April Fools' Day Don't delete!

Today's featured article	Requests Pending requests Recent Oddities Most viewed Not yet used

Featured articles	Criteria Candidates Log Review Archive Statistics Former featured articles Unreviewed

Did you know...	Discussion Rules Supplementary rules Nominations Reviewing guide Preps & Queues Removed hooks Archive Stats

In the news	Error reports Nominations Discussion Admin guide General criteria Death criteria Recurring items Awards Sports Discussion Archives Candidate archives

Current events portal	Current events portal for sports Discussion How the Current events portal works How to archive the portal

Selected anniversaries	Discussion Holidays and observances All

Today's featured list	Submissions Statistics Previously run lists Get involved

Featured lists	Criteria Candidates Log Task force Removal candidates Review list Log Former featured lists

Picture of the day	Guidelines Unused Archive Tomorrow

Featured pictures	Criteria Candidates Nomination procedure

Featured topics	Featured topics on the main page Candidates Log Nomination procedure Criteria Removal candidates Good topics Former featured topics Featured topic questions

Featured portals	Criteria Peer review Candidates Log Review Former featured portals

v t e Wikipedia help pages

*Visit the Teahouse* if you are a new editor looking for interactive help, or the Help desk for an interactive Q & A forum. Or ask for help on your talk page Noticeboards (?) FAQs (?) Reference desks (?) The Missing Manual (?) Directories** (?)

About Wikipedia	Administration Purpose Principles Wikipedia in brief Policies and guidelines What Wikipedia is not Disclaimer (parental advice) Making requests where to ask questions contact Wikipedia directly Who writes Wikipedia? Why create an account?

Help for readers	FAQ Books Copyright Glossary Mobile access Navigation Other languages Searching Students Viewing media

Contributing to Wikipedia	A plain and simple overview A primer for newcomers Asking for help Advice for young editors Avoiding common mistakes Etiquette (community expectations) Learning the ropes Instructional material Simplified Manual of Style Simplified rule-set "Ignore all rules" "The rules are principles" Style-tips Tip of the day Task Center Your first article (article wizard) Vandalism

Getting started	Wikipedia intro Wikipedia tutorial The Wikipedia Adventure Manual of Style intro Graphics tutorials Picture tutorial (Uploading intro) IRC (live chat) tutorial Navigating intro Policies intro Referencing intro Tables intro Talk pages intro VisualEditor user guide

Dos and don'ts	Accessibility Bio's Categorization Disambiguation Images Links Lists References Tables Talks

How-to pages and information pages	Appealing blocks Article deletion Categories Citations / references Referencing for beginners Citation Style 1 Cite errors References and page numbers Convert Diff Editing toolbar edit conflict Email confirmation Find sources Files Footnotes Image deletion Infoboxes Linking (link color) Logging in Merging Namespaces Page name Redirect Renaming pages Passwords Reverting Talk pages (archiving) URL User contributions User page design center

Coding wiki markup	Wiki markup (cheatsheet) Barcharts Calculations Characters Citation templates Columns Hidden text HTML Lists Magic words (introduction) Music symbols Sections Sounds Tables (introduction) Templates documentation messages cleanup messages Transclusion Visual files Wiki tools

Directories	Abbreviations Departments Editor's index Essays FAQs Glossary Guidelines Help menu Manual of Style Policies Shortcuts Tips

See also: Category:Wikipedia information pages and Category:Wikipedia how-to

v t e Wikipedia technical help

Get personal technical help at the Teahouse, Help desk, Village pump (technical), talk pages or IRC.

General technical help	Multilingual support Special Characters Entering Browser notes Troubleshooting Bypass cache Mobile access Printing Keyboard shortcuts Editing Edit toolbar CharInsert Edit conflict Reverting VisualEditor User guide User access levels Software notices Editnotice IRC Tutorial Create a page Page history Page information Page name Introduction

Special page related	Special page help Searching Advanced search Linksearch Logging in Reset passwords Notifications/Echo FAQ Moving a page Fixing cut-and-paste moves Watching pages User contributions Emailing users Random pages Logs What links here Related changes Recent changes Pending changes Page Curation Page import Edit filter Tags

Wiki markup	Wiki markup main page Cheatsheet Colours use Columns Line-break handling Lists Magic words For beginners Conditional expressions Switch parser function Time function Redirects Sections and TOCs Tables Introduction Basics Conditional tables Sorting Collapsing Advanced table formatting

Links and diffs	URLs Links Permanent link Interwikimedia links Interlanguage links Link color Pipe trick Colon trick Magic links Diffs Simplest diff guide Simple diff and link guide Complete diff and link guide

Media files: images, videos and sounds	Media help Options to hide an image Uploading images Introduction Files Creation and usage Moving files to Commons Visual file markup Images Preparing images for upload Picture tutorial Extended image syntax Gallery tag Graphics tutorials Basic bitmap image editing How to improve image quality Graphics Lab resources Sound file markup SVG help

Other graphics	Family trees Graphs and charts How to create To scale charts Barcharts Math formula Math symbols Rendering math LaTeX symbols Musical scores Musical symbols Timeline EasyTimeline syntax WikiHiero syntax

Templates and Lua modules	Templates Template messages Citation templates Transclusion Labeled section Substitution Advanced template coding Template limits Template sandbox and test cases Template documentation Purge Lua help Lua project To do Resources Guide to Scribbling

Data structure	Namespaces Main/Article Talk namespaces Archiving User User page design Project/Wikipedia File File pages MediaWiki Bug reports and feature requests System message Template Help Category Portal Book Draft Education Program TimedText Module/Lua Topic/Flow Special Media

HTML and CSS	HTML in wikitext Markup validation Span tags Cascading Style Sheets Catalogue of CSS classes Useful styles Classes used in microformats Ambox classes Common.js and common.css

Customisation and tools	Preferences Skins Customizing watchlists Hide pages Gadgets Beta Features User scripts Guide Techniques IRC Scripts User styles Tools Navigation shortcuts Browser tools Alternative browsing Editing tools Optimum tool set Cleaning up vandalism tools Citation tools Wikimedia Labs

Automating editing	Bots Creating Twinkle FurMe NPWatcher HotCat WPCleaner igloo AutoWikiBrowser Navigation popups STiki AfC helper script Huggle

See also: Category:Wikipedia information pages Category:Wikipedia how-to Further navigation at: Help pages Administrators Templates Referencing Citation metadata Accessibility Bots User scripts Accounts

v t e Manual of Style

Overview Directory Tips

Content	Accessibility Biographies Disambiguation pages Infoboxes Linking Self-references Words to watch

Formatting	Abbreviations Capitalization Dates and numbers Pronunciation Proper names Spelling Text formatting Titles

Images	Captions Galleries Icons Images

Layout	Layout Lead section Tables Trivia sections

Lists	Embedded lists Lists Lists of works Road junctions Stand-alone lists

Legal	Legal Trademarks

Arts	Anime & Manga Comics Film Lyrics and Poetry Novels Television Visual arts Writing about fiction

Music	Music Music samples Record charts

Regional	Canada China France Hawaii India Ireland Japan Korea Malaysia Philippines Poland Singapore Trinidad and Tobago

Religion	Islam Latter Day Saints

Science	Chemistry Computer commands Mathematics Medicine Taxonomy

Sports	Cue sports Snooker

Related	Article size Article titles Categories, lists, and navigation templates Categorization Citing sources Hatnotes Military history Signatures Subpages Talk page guidelines Template namespace Understandability User pages Wikimedia sister projects WikiProjects

Search	<inputbox> id=style-wide-searchbox type=fulltext width = 25 prefix=Wikipedia:Manual of Style searchbuttonlabel=Search the MoS break=no placeholder= e.g. image placement </inputbox>

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v t e Wikipedia referencing

Policies and guidelines	Verifiability Biographies of living persons Identifying reliable sources Medicine Citing sources Scientific citations

General advice	Citation needed Find sources Combining sources Offline sources Referencing styles

Citing sources	Citation Style 1 Citation Style 2 Citation Style Vancouver LSA Comics Citation templates Reflist template

Inline citations	Embedded citations Footnotes Parenthetical referencing Punctuation and footnotes Shortened footnotes Nesting footnotes

Help for beginners	Reference-tags Citations quick reference Introduction to referencing Referencing with citation templates Referencing without using templates Referencing dos and don'ts Citing Wikipedia

Advanced help	Cite link labels Citation tools Cite errors Cite messages Converting between references formats Reference display customization References and page numbers

Template documentation	{{Edit refs}} {{Refref}} {{Refref2}} {{Refstart}}

v t e Template messages

Main namespace	General Cleanup Disputes Hatnotes Infoboxes Links External link templates Linking country articles Lists Main page Section Sources of articles Standard boxes Stub types Translation

Other namespaces	Compact TOC Category File Talk Template User Userboxes User talk Wikipedia WikiProject banners

All namespaces	Deletion Formatting Maintenance Merging Moving Navigation Redirect pages Functional index Splitting Wikimedia sister projects

Navboxes of templates	Archive Articles for deletion Birth, death and age Button Category header Citation and verifiability Citation Style 1 Deletion review Editnotice Hatnotes Help desk Inline cleanup Introduction cleanup IPA Math Notice and warnings Organization infoboxes Proposed article mergers Protection Quotation Redirects Search Semantics Speedy deletion String-handling Sup and sub-related Top icon Transwiki maintenance Unicode User Talk Pages User noticeboard notices Userboxes User rights Userspace linking Userspace Disclaimers Wikibreak WikiLove

Related topics	Template documentation Examples of templates Maintenance template removal Requested templates WikiProject Templates Template help Template namespace

Search	<inputbox> id=style-wide-searchbox type=fulltext width = 25 namespaces=Template** searchbuttonlabel=Search templates break=no placeholder= e.g. Infoboxes </inputbox>

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v t e Wikipedia accounts and governance

Unregistered (IP) users	Why create an account? Create an account Request an account IPs are human too IP addresses are not people IP hopper

Registered users	New account Logging in Reset passwords Username policy Changing username Usernames for administrator attention Unified login or SUL Alternate account

Account security	Password strength requirements User account security Personal security practices Two-factor authentication Simple 2FA 2FA for AWB Committed identity On privacy, confidentiality and discretion Compromised accounts

Blocks, global locks, bans, sanctions	Blocking policy FAQ Admins guide Tools Autoblock Appealing a block Guide to appealing blocks UTRS Unblock Ticket Request System Blocking IP addresses Range blocks IPv6 Open proxies Global locks Banning policy ArbCom appeals Sanctions Personal sanctions General sanctions Discretionary sanctions and Log Essay Long-term abuse Standard offer

Related to accounts	Sock puppetry Single-purpose account Sleeper account Vandalism-only account Wikibreak Enforcer Retiring Courtesy vanishing Clean start Quiet return

User groups and global user groups	Requests for permissions Admin instructions Admin guide Account creator PERM Autopatrolled PERM AutoWikiBrowser PERM Confirmed PERM Extended confirmed PERM File mover PERM Mass message sender PERM New page reviewer PERM Page mover PERM Pending changes reviewer PERM Rollback PERM Template editor PERM IP-block-exempt Requests Courses access Requests Bot accounts Requests Global rights policy OTRS Volunteer Response Team

Advanced user groups	Administrators RfA Bureaucrats RfB Edit filter manager Requests CheckUser and Oversight Requests Founder

Committees and related	Arbitration Committee Mediation Committee Bot approvals group Functionaries Clerks

Governance	Administration FAQ Formal organization Editorial oversight and control Quality control Wikimedia Foundation Board Founder's seat Meta-Wiki Leadership opportunities WikiProjects Elections Policies and guidelines Unbundling administrators' powers Petitions Noticeboards Consensus Dispute resolution Reforms

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