Wikipedia:List of policies and guidelines
This page lists Wikipedia policies and guidelines. Every Wikipedia page with policy status is included. They are shown in bold type; those that take precedence within a given category are italicized, as well. All Wikipedia pages with guideline status that are general in scope are included. Where applicable, they are organized in tree fashion to clarify their relationships. Most of the many subject-specific guidelines are not listed here; directions for locating them are provided. For lists of key pages with summaries of their content, see List of policies and List of guidelines.
General
[edit]- Privacy policy (Wikimedia Foundation policy)
Article maintenance
[edit]Article naming
[edit]- Article titles
- Naming conventions (capitalization)
- Naming conventions (definite and indefinite articles at beginning of name)
- Naming conventions (geographic names)
- Naming conventions (long lists)
- Naming conventions (numbers and dates)
- Naming conventions (people)
- Naming conventions (plurals)
- Naming conventions (technical restrictions)
- Naming conventions (use English)
There are many additional naming convention guidelines that deal with specific topics. See Category:Wikipedia naming conventions.
Article style
[edit]- Manual of Style
- Manual of Style/Abbreviations
- Manual of Style/Accessibility
- Manual of Style/Article message boxes
- Manual of Style/Biographies
- Manual of Style/Capital letters
- Manual of Style/Captions
- Manual of Style/Dates and numbers
- Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages
- Manual of Style/Embedded lists
- Manual of Style/Icons
- Manual of Style/Infoboxes
- Manual of Style/Layout
- Manual of Style/Lead section
- Manual of Style/Linking
- Manual of Style/Lists
- Manual of Style/Lists of works
- Manual of Style/Pronunciation
- Manual of Style/Proper names
- Manual of Style/Self-references to avoid
- Manual of Style/Spelling
- Manual of Style/Tables
- Manual of Style/Text formatting
- Manual of Style/Titles
- Manual of Style/Trademarks
- Manual of Style/Trivia sections
- Manual of Style/Words to watch
There are many additional style guidelines that deal with specific topics. See Category:Style guidelines of WikiProjects, Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (arts), Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (legal), Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (regional), Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (religion), and Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (science).
Categories, lists, and tables
[edit]- Categories, lists, and navigation templates
- Categorization
- Overcategorization
- Manual of Style/Lists
- Manual of Style/Tables
There are additional guidelines that deal with lists or tables concerning specific topics, including record charts and road junction lists.
Content standards
[edit]- Neutral point of view
- No original research
- Verifiability
- Biographies of living persons
- Libel
- Wikipedia is not a dictionary
- Autobiography
- Citing sources
- Content forking
- Disputed statement
- Do not create hoaxes
- Do not include the full text of lengthy primary sources
- External links
- Fringe theories
- Identifying reliable sources
- No disclaimers in articles
- Offensive material
- Patent nonsense
- Plagiarism
- Portal guidelines
- Spam
- Spoiler
- Summary style
- Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
- Wikipedia is not for things made up one day
There are additional content guidelines that deal with specific topics, including anarchism, medicine, science, and video games.
Copyright and licensing
[edit]- Copyrights
- Copyright violations
- Non-free content criteria
- Reusing Wikipedia content
- Terms of Use (Wikimedia Foundation policy)
- Copying within Wikipedia
- Non-free content
- Non-free use rationale guideline
- Non-U.S. copyrights
- Public domain
- Texts of licenses: CC-BY-SA 3.0 and GFDL
Deletion
[edit]- Deletion policy
- Attack page
- Criteria for speedy deletion
- Proposed deletion
- Proposed deletion of biographies of living people
- Proposed deletion (books)
- Revision deletion
- Deletion process
Disambiguation
[edit]Editing practices
[edit]Editor behavior
[edit]- Child protection
- Civility
- Consensus
- Edit warring (including the three-revert rule)
- Harassment
- No legal threats
- No personal attacks
- Ownership of articles
- Sock puppetry
- Vandalism
- Assume good faith
- Canvassing
- Conflict of interest
- Disruptive editing
- Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point
- Etiquette
- Gaming the system
- Linking to external harassment
- Polling is not a substitute for discussion
- Talk page guidelines
Handling disputes and disruption
[edit]- Arbitration policy
- Banning policy
- Blocking policy
- Dispute resolution
- GlobalBlocking
- IP block exemption
- Mediation policy
- Office actions
- Open proxies
- Protection policy
- Appealing a block
- High-risk templates
- Main Page featured article protection
Images and other media
[edit]Notability
[edit]Project activities
[edit]- In the news/Recurring items
- Reference desk guidelines
- Reviewing good articles
- Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment
- WikiProjects
Project roles
[edit]- Administrators
- Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight
- CheckUser
- Global rights policy
- Oversight
- Volunteer response team
Redirects, shortcuts, and subpages
[edit]Tools and templates
[edit]User names and pages
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