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Essays on building Wikipedia
Philosophy
Articles must be written
Be a reliable source
Cohesion
Concede lost arguments
8 simple rules for editing our encyclopedia
Explanationism
Here to build an encyclopedia
Paradoxes
Product, process, policy
Purpose
The role of policies in collaborative anarchy
Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia
Trifecta
User Creed
Wikipedia in brief
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
Avoid vague introductions
Inclusion
Alternative outlets
Articles with a single source
Avoid template creep
Bare notability
Bombardment
But it's true!
Citation overkill
Clones
Coatrack
Discriminate vs indiscriminate information
Existence ≠ Notability
Explanationism
Google searches and numbers
High Schools
Inaccuracy
Inclusion is not an indicator of notability
Independent sources
Inherent notability
Insignificant
Masking the lack of notability
Make stubs
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 is not a matter of opinion
Notability means impact
Obscurity ≠ Lack of notability
Offline sources
Notability sub-pages
One sentence does not an article make
Other stuff exists
Perennial websites
Pokémon test
Run-of-the-mill
Solutions are mixtures and nothing else
Subjective importance
Third-party sources
Video links
What notability is not
Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause
Construction
100K featured articles
A navbox on every page
Alternatives to the "Expand" template
Amnesia test
An unfinished house is a real problem
Avoid mission statements
Bare URLs
Be neutral in form
Beef up that first revision
Concept cloud
Don't demolish the house while it's still being built
Don't hope the house will build itself
Don't leave giant breaks between sections
Don't panic
Editing on iPhones, iPads, etc.
Editors are not mindreaders
Featured articles may have problems
Give an article a chance
Inaccuracies in Wikipedia namespace
Link rot
Not everything needs a navbox
Not everything needs a WikiProject
Nothing is in stone
Over explained
Permastub
Potential, not just current state
Put a little effort into it
Pruning article revisions
Restoring part of a reverted edit
Robotic editing
Temporary versions of articles
The world will not end tomorrow
There is a deadline
There is no deadline
Wikipedia is a volunteer service
Wikipedia is a work in progress
Wikipedia is not being written in an organized fashion
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!
Content removal
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
Why was my page deleted?
About essays
Value of essays
Difference between policies, guidelines and essays
Essays are not policy
Don't cite essays as if they were policy
Finding an essay
Quote your own essay
Essays
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