Contents 1 General 2 Copyright and licensing 3 Project roles 4 Editing practices 5 Editor behavior 6 Disputes and handling disruption 7 Content standards 8 Deletion 9 Notability 10 Article naming 11 Article style 12 Linking and redirection 13 Disambiguation 14 Categories, lists and tables 15 Images 16 User space and other namespaces 17 Tools 18 Project activities

This page lists Wikipedia policies and guidelines. Policies are shown in bold type. For lists of key pages with summaries of their content, see List of policies and List of guidelines.

[edit] General

• The five pillars of Wikipedia (fundamental principles)
• Policies and guidelines
• Ignore all rules
• Privacy policy (Wikimedia Foundation policy)

[edit] Copyright and licensing

• Terms of Use (Wikimedia Foundation policy)
• Texts of licenses: CC-BY-SA 3.0 and GFDL
• Copyrights (see also Copyright violations)
• Reusing Wikipedia content
• Non-free content criteria
• Non-free content
• Non-free use rationale guideline
• Non-U.S. copyrights
• Public domain
• Plagiarism
• Copying within Wikipedia

[edit] Project roles

• Administrators
• Oversight
• CheckUser (see also Arbitration Committee policy on CheckUser and oversight)
• Volunteer response team
• Global rights policy
• Bot policy

[edit] Editing practices

• Editing policy
• Be bold
• Page blanking

[edit] Editor behavior

• Civility
• Etiquette
• Harassment
• Linking to external harassment
• No legal threats
• No personal attacks
• Sock puppetry
• Vandalism
• Disruptive editing
• Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point
• Assume good faith
• Please do not bite the newcomers
• Edit warring (including the three-revert rule)
• Ownership of articles
• Consensus
• Polling is not a substitute for discussion
• Canvassing
• Gaming the system
• Conflict of interest
• Autobiography

[edit] Disputes and handling disruption

• Dispute resolution
• Mediation policy
• Arbitration policy
• Protection policy
• Main Page featured article protection
• High-risk templates
• Office actions
• Blocking policy
• GlobalBlocking
• IP block exemption
• Open proxies
• Appealing a block
• Banning policy

[edit] Content standards

• Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
• What Wikipedia is not
• Wikipedia is not a dictionary
• Wikipedia is not for things made up one day
• Verifiability
• Neutral point of view
• No original research
• Biographies of living persons
• Attack page
• Libel
• Copyright violations
• Patent nonsense
• No disclaimers in articles
• Disputed statement
• Content forking
• Fringe theories
• Spam
• Do not create hoaxes
• Reliable sources (see also specific guidelines for medicine and anarchism)
• Citing sources
• Scientific citation guidelines
• Do not include the full text of lengthy primary sources
• Digital Object Identifier (used for citing purposes)

[edit] Deletion

• Deletion policy
• Criteria for speedy deletion
• Proposed deletion
• Revision deletion
• Deletion process
• Deletion guidelines for administrators
• Speedy keep

[edit] Notability

• Notability
• Notability (academics)
• Notability (books)
• Notability (criminal acts)
• Notability (films)
• Notability (music)
• Notability (numbers)
• Notability (organizations and companies)
• Notability (people)
• Notability (web)

[edit] Article naming

• Naming conventions
• Naming conventions (use English)
• Naming conventions (plurals)
• Naming conventions (technical restrictions)
• Naming conventions (definite and indefinite articles at beginning of name)
• Naming conventions (capitalization)
• Naming conventions (people)
• Naming conventions (geographic names)

There are many more naming convention guidelines dealing with specific topics. For a full list, see Category:Wikipedia naming conventions.

[edit] Article style

• Manual of Style
  • Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
  • Manual of Style (abbreviations)
  • Romanization of Russian
  • Romanization of Ukrainian
  • Accessibility
  • Article message boxes
  • Article size
  • Avoid neologisms
  • Avoid peacock terms
  • Avoid weasel words
  • Manual of Style (biographies)
  • Manual of Style (capital letters)
  • Colours
  • Controversial articles
  • Don't use line breaks
  • Embedded list
  • Explain jargon
  • Manual of Style (writing about fiction)
  • Footnotes
  • How to copy-edit
  • Manual of Style (icons)
  • Manual of Style (infoboxes)
  • Layout
  • Lead section
  • Lyrics and poetry
  • Make technical articles accessible
  • Music samples
  • Profanity
  • Manual of Style (pronunciation)
  • Manual of Style (pronunciation)/IPA vs. other pronunciation symbols
  • Proper names
  • Self-references to avoid
  • Manual of Style (spelling)
  • Spoiler
  • Stub
  • Talk page templates
  • Technical terms and definitions
  • Manual of Style (text formatting)
  • The perfect article
  • Manual of Style (titles)
  • Manual of Style (trademarks)
  • Transclude text
  • Trivia sections
  • Wikimedia sister projects
  • Words to avoid
  • Writing better articles
  • As of
  • Recent years
  • Updating information

There are many other style guidelines dealing with specific topics. Full lists of these can be found in the following categories:

• Wikipedia style guidelines
• Style guidelines of WikiProjects
• Wikipedia topic guidelines

[edit] Linking and redirection

• Linking
• External links
• Red link
• Subpages
• Summary style
• Redirect
• Soft redirect
• Shortcut

[edit] Disambiguation

• Disambiguation
• Hatnote
• Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)

[edit] Categories, lists and tables

• Categorization
• Categories, lists, and navigation templates
• Categorization of people
• People by year
• Ethnicity, gender, religion and sexuality
• Overcategorization
• Overcategorization and user categories
• Categorizing redirects
• User categories
• Category naming conventions
• Lists
• Naming conventions for long lists
• Pro and con lists
• Stand-alone lists
• Lists of works
• When to use tables

[edit] Images

• Image use policy
• Images
• Alternative text for images
• Captions
• Extended image syntax
• Preparing images for upload
• Image file names
• Logos
• No 3D illustrations

[edit] User space and other namespaces

• Username policy
• User page
• Userboxes
• Signatures
• Right to vanish
• Changing username guidelines
• Talk page guidelines
• Template namespace
• Substitution
• Portal guidelines

[edit] Tools

• Rollback feature
• Edit filter
• Spam blacklist
• Spellchecking

[edit] Project activities

• WikiProjects
• Recurring items on "In The News"
• Version 1.0 Editorial Team: Assessment
• Reviewing good articles
• Reference desk guidelines