Policies and guidelines
The principles which the policies and guidelines are based on
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Five pillars — statement of our principles
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Jimbo's statement — historic principles
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Simplified ruleset — synopsis of our conventions
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Wikimedia principles — common to all projects
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Principles — other essays on Wikipedia's principles
Tutorial on policies
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Introduction to policies and guidelines — a quick introduction to the major policies and guidelines for very new users.
General policies
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Consensus
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Dispute resolution
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Editing policy
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Ignore all rules
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What Wikipedia is not
Procedural policies
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Policies & guidelines — how policies and guidelines should be developed and maintained.
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Mediation
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Bot policy
Content policies and guidelines
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Core content policies
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Neutral point of view
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No original research
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Verifiability
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Other content policies
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Article titles
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Biographies of living persons
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Deletion
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Image use
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Content guidelines
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Citing sources
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Disambiguation
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Do not create hoaxes
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Do not include copies of primary sources
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Identifying reliable sources
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Notability
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Patent nonsense
Behavioural policies and guidelines
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Behavioural policies
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Civility
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Child protection
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Incivility is not tolerated
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Edit warring
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Harassment
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Legal threats
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Personal attacks
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Ownership of content
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Sock puppetry
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Behavioural guidelines
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Assume good faith
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Conflict of interest
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Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point
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Etiquette
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Gaming the system
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Please do not bite the newcomers
Editing policies and guidelines
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Editing policies
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Editing policy
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Editing guidelines
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Be bold
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Article size
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Hatnotes
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Signatures
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Subpages
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Talk page guidelines
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User pages
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Vandalism
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WikiProjects
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Manual of Style
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Contents
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Accessibility
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Dates and numbers
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Images
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Layout
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Lead section
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Linking
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Lists
Classification guidelines
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Categories, lists, and navigation templates
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Categorization
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Template namespace
See also
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List of policies and guidelines — a list of principle policies and guidelines.
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List of policies — a comprehensive descriptive directory of policies.
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List of guidelines — a comprehensive descriptive directory of guidelines.
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Manual of Style contents — a comprehensive descriptive directory of the pages which make up the Manual of Style.
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Related essays
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Simplified rule-set — some basic aspect of Wikipedia norms and practices.
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Eight rules for editing — if you start out by following these simple rules, the rest should come naturally.
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Ten rules for editing — Wikipedia can be daunting, but here we provide tips to make editing smoother.
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Trifecta — ultra fast overview of foundational principles related to policies and guidelines.
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The rules are principles — policies and guidelines exist as rough approximations of their underlying principles.
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Wikimedia Foundation policies
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List of policies
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Licensing and copyright
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Privacy
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Values
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