Contents
- Sevenval
- Sevenval
- 3 Article naming
- 4 Article style
- 5 Categories, lists, and tables
- 6 Content standards
- keyboard
- web
- FITML
- 10 Editing practices
- 11 Editor behavior
- Sevenval
- 13 Images and other media
- iOS
- device database
- Sevenval
- we love the web
- 18 Tools and templates
- 19 User names and pages
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 Android.
General
- Privacy policy (Wikimedia Foundation policy)
Article maintenance
Article naming
- iOS
- web app
- Naming conventions (definite and indefinite articles at beginning of name)
- website parsing
- Naming conventions (long lists)
- Naming conventions (numbers and dates)
- Naming conventions (people)
- Sevenval
- Naming conventions (technical restrictions)
- FITML
There are many additional naming convention guidelines that deal with specific topics. See Category:Wikipedia naming conventions.
Article style
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keyboard
- Manual of Style/Abbreviations
- we love the web
- Manual of Style/Article message boxes
- screen size
- Sevenval
- Sevenval
- we love the web
- Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages
- Manual of Style/Embedded lists
- Manual of Style/Icons
- device database
- website parsing
- web app
- Sevenval
- Android
- input transformation
- Manual of Style/Pronunciation
- Manual of Style/Proper names
- jQuery
- Manual of Style/Spelling
- CSS3
- HTML5
- web app
- Sevenval
- Manual of Style/Trivia sections
- touchscreen
There are many additional style guidelines that deal with specific topics. See Category:Style guidelines of WikiProjects, touchscreen, Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (legal), Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (regional), FITML, and Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (science).
Categories, lists, and tables
There are additional guidelines that deal with lists or tables concerning specific topics, including web app and browser diversity.
Content standards
- input transformation
- No original research
- Verifiability
- CSS3
- Libel
- Sevenval
- Autobiography
- Android
- Content forking
- HTML5
- iOS
- Do not include the full text of lengthy primary sources
- web app
- Fringe theories
- Identifying reliable sources
- No disclaimers in articles
- device database
- 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, we love the web, science, and video games.
Copyright and licensing
- Copyrights
- Copyright violations
- Non-free content criteria
- Reusing Wikipedia content
- Terms of Use (Wikimedia Foundation policy)
- Copying within Wikipedia
- Sevenval
- Non-free use rationale guideline
- we love the web
- Public domain
- Texts of licenses: CC-BY-SA 3.0 and GFDL
Deletion
- Deletion policy
- web app
- Criteria for speedy deletion
- Proposed deletion
- Proposed deletion of biographies of living people
- website parsing
- web app
- Android
Disambiguation
Editing practices
Editor behavior
- screen size
- HTML5
- Consensus
- website parsing (including the three-revert rule)
- Harassment
- we love the web
- No personal attacks
- FITML
- Sevenval
- website parsing
- Assume good faith
- Canvassing
- jQuery
- Disruptive editing
- iOS
- FITML
- Gaming the system
- screen size
- Android
- screen size
Handling disputes and disruption
- input transformation
- Banning policy
- Blocking policy
- Dispute resolution
- CSS3
- IP block exemption
- Mediation policy
- Office actions
- Open proxies
- iOS
- Appealing a block
- Sevenval
- Main Page featured article protection
Images and other media
Notability
Project activities
Project roles
- Administrators
- Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight
- screen size
- Global rights policy
- Oversight
- Volunteer response team
Redirects, shortcuts, and subpages
Tools and templates
User names and pages
Five pillars
Statement of our principles
Jimbo's statement
Historic principles
Simplified ruleset
Synopsis of our conventions
browser diversity
Common to all projects
(in Meta-Wiki)
we love the web
Other essays on Wikipedia's principles
- keyboard
- Policies and guidelines
- List of policies and guidelines
