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पढ़ऽ
श्रोत सम्पादन अद्य्या
इतिहास तकऽ
औजारअन
उपकरणहरू
बाँया खण्डमा सार्नुहोस्
लुकाउनुहोस्
कार्यहरू
पढ़ऽ
श्रोत सम्पादन अद्य्या
इतिहास तकऽ
साधारण
याँखाइ कि जोणीन्छ
सम्बन्धित फेरबदल
फाइल अपलोड गरऽ
खास पन्नाअन
स्थायी कडी
पन्नाइ जानकारी
छोटो युआरएल प्राप्त गर्नुहोस्
क्युआर कोड डाउनलोड गर्नुहोस्
छाप्नुहोस्/निर्यात गर्नुहोस्
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छाप्द मिल्ल्या संस्करण
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The role of policies in collaborative anarchy
The rules are principles
Trifecta
Wikipedia in brief
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
Wikipedia is a community
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100K featured articles
Acronym Overkill
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Adding images improves the encyclopedia
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Alternatives to the "Expand" template
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A navbox on every page
An unfinished house is a real problem
Articles have a half-life
Autosizing images
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Be neutral in form
Beef up that first revision
Blind men and an elephant
Cherrypicking
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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 a reliable source
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
A weak personal attack is still wrong
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
Old Fashioned Wikipedian Values
Staying cool when the editing gets hot
The grey zone
The last word
There is no Divine Right Of Editors
Most ideas are bad
Nothing is clear
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 aggression
Don't cry COI
Don't be obnoxious
Don't be a WikiBigot
Don't confuse stub status with non-notability
Don't eat the troll's food
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!
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
What to include
Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause
General notability guideline
Independent sources
Significant coverage
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
How to put up a straight pole by pushing it at an angle
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
Things that should not be surprising
The WikiBible
Watchlistitis
Why not create an Account?
Inactive historical
references
Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Unblock Emails
About essays
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
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About policies and guidelines
Policies
Guidelines
How to contribute to Wikipedia guidance
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