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edit- Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- Wikipedia:Verifiability, not truth
- Wikipedia:Reliable sources WP:RELIABILITY
- Wikipedia:Citing sources WP:CS WP:CITE WP:REF
- Help:Footnotes
- Wikipedia:Inline citation
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view WP:NPOV WP:Neutrality Template:POV
- Conflict of Interest Guide WP:PLAINSIMPLECOI
- WP:COPYEDIT
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch MOS:WEASEL
- Wikipedia:Relevance of content, Wikipedia:Relevance, Wikipedia:Out of scope (OOS), WP:TOPIC / WP:OFFTOPIC, Wikipedia:WikiProject scope creep
- Sources are addressed in body: MOS:CITELEAD MOS:INTRO
- Articles worth existing/being written: Wikipedia:Notability
- MOS:BLOCKQUOTE
- Formality: WP:TONE WP:SLANG
- Don't surprise readers: Principle of least astonishment WP:ASTONISH WP:SURPRISE
- How'd I get here? (Redirects): WP:RASTONISH WP:RSURPRISE
- Crime: WP:CRIME WP:VICTIM WP:PERPETRATOR WP:CRIMINAL
- Labelling Criminals: Wikipedia:Crime labels MOS:CRIMINAL MOS:CONVICTEDFELON
- Anti-Victimization: WP:AVOIDVICTIM WP:VICTIMIZE
- Innocent Until Proven Guilty (also: no pre-guilt crime references for non-public figures) : WP:BLPCRIME WP:SUSPECT
- WP:COMMONNAME
- Wikipedia:Recentism
- WP:IMPROVEIT WP:PRESERVE WP:POTENTIAL WP:FIXIT Wikipedia:Somebody else's problem
- User:Jimbo Wales/Statement of principles
- Help:Archiving a talk page
- Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources
- Wikipedia:Etiquette WP:COURTESY
- Wikipedia:Vandalism WP:VANDAL
- Wikipedia:Disruptive editing WP:DISRUPTIVE
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not WP:PROMOTION WP:NOTADVERT WP:NOTPROMO WP:SOAPBOX WP:NOTADVOCACY WP:NOTOPINION WP:NOTSCANDAL WP:NOTCENSORED
- Wikipedia:Civility WP:CIVIL WP:NICE WP:POLITE
- Wikipedia:Conflict of interest WP:COI
- Wikipedia:Assume good faith WP:GOODFAITH
- Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers WP:BITE WP:NOBITING WP:DONTBITE WP:NEWBIES
- Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point
- Wikipedia:Editor integrity
- Wikipedia:Copyright violations
- Wikipedia:Article titles WP:CRITERIA
- Wikipedia:Merging Wikipedia:Proposed article mergers
- Wikipedia:No disclaimers
- Wikipedia:Spoiler
Tools
edit- Icons
Running with scissors is too dangerous for Wikipedia! - Redirect Page Maker and How-to
- Wikipedia:List_of_discussion_templates
- Wikipedia:Template index/Maintenance
- Wikipedia:Barnstars
Tutorials
edit- Introductory tutorial
- Contributing to Wikipedia
- Writing an article
- Five pillars of Wikipedia
- Community portal
- Help pages
- The Teahouse (newcomer help)
- Main help desk
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Administrative
edit- User reporting for vandalism
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests
- Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard
- User Warnings
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User warnings#Commitment to civility
Page Protection
editProtection Policies
edit- Wikipedia:Protection policy
- Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard - For determining whether a specific editor has a conflict of interest (COI) for an article.
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Infoboxes & Flags
editWorks in Progress
edit- Inline, comment-level templates
Task complete. 
Being worked on- Template:Done/See also
- Template:Resolved/See also
- Template:In use
- Template:Under construction Being reconstructed over time, replace with IN USE when actually editing.
- Template:Recently revised
Current Events, Recentism, & Speculation
edit- Wikipedia:Current event templates {Current related} {current} {Current event editnotice}
- Wikipedia:Recentism WP:RECENTISM
- Template:Recentism
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This article may contain unsourced predictions, speculative material, or accounts of events that might not occur.
Other Span Flags
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- Template:Copyedit
This article may require copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone, or spelling. - Template:Context
This article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject. - Template:Technical This article may be too technical for most readers to understand.
- Template:More citations needed
This article needs additional citations for verification. (May 2024) - Template:Cite check
Use when the article or section may have inappropriate or misinterpreted citations
- Template:self-published
This article may contain excessive or inappropriate references to self-published sources. - Template:primary sources This article relies excessively on references to primary sources.
- Template:one source This article relies largely or entirely on a single source.
- Template:BLP
- Template:Third-party This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject, potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral.
- Template: Unreferenced
- Template:Unreferenced section
- Template:More citations needed This article needs additional citations for verification.
- Template:More citations needed section This section needs additional citations for verification.
- Template:Sources exist An editor has determined that sufficient sources exist to establish the subject's notability.
- Template:Update
This user page needs to be updated. Please help update this user page to reflect recent events or newly available information. (August 2016) - Template:Update section
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- Template:Overly detailed This article contains an excessive amount of intricate detail.
- Template:Very long This page may be too long to read and navigate comfortably.
- Template: Very long section This section may be too long to read and navigate comfortably.
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- Template:Long plot This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed.
- Template:Too many see alsos
- Template:Lead too long Template:Lead too short This article's lead section may be too long.
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This article is missing information about ABC. - Template:How-to This article contains instructions or advice.
- Template:Fan POV This article may be written from a fan's point of view, rather than a neutral point of view.
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The neutrality of this article is disputed. - Template:Weasel This article contains weasel words: vague phrasing that often accompanies biased or unverifiable information.
- Template:Cleanup reorganize Template:Cleanup Template:Organize section
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to mark sections (or entire articles, though this is undesirable because it makes it unclear what exactly needs to be improved)This article may be confusing or unclear to readers. - Template:Globalize
The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with countries with federal governments, particularly Australia and the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. (January 2024) - Template:advert This article contains promotional content.
Notice and Warning Templates
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For messages indicating e.g. that errors or misuse may have wide repercussions.
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For notices relating to consensus about methods, procedures, editing, etc.
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For significant information.
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For particularly significant warnings.{{{1}}} 
Warning Inline version of Warning.Warning templates - PageName is optional
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Long/Short Expansion/Lists
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This section needs expansion. You can help by adding missing information. - Template:Expand list
- Template:Very long
This section is too long. Consider splitting it into new pages, adding subheadings, or condensing it. - Template:Inc-up for a list that is frequently updated
- Template:Dynamic list for lists that may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completion
- Template:Dynamic a-list for articles that contain lists that may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completion
Inline Flags
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- [needs context]
- [jargon]
- [needs copy edit]
- [additional citation(s) needed] - the present source is insufficient but should be retained
- [not specific enough to verify] - a reference is too imprecise or ambiguous to enable it to be verified
- [better source needed]
- [clarification needed] to mark individual phrases or sentences
- [definition needed] to mark a term as ambiguous or unclear and in need of a definition
- [example needed] to mark individual phrases or sentences which require examples for clarification
- [further explanation needed] to mark individual phrases or sections which require further explanation for general (i.e. non-expert) readers
- [non sequitur] to mark individual mentions of someone or something in an out-of-context way, the relevance of which is unclear
- [example needed]
- [clarification needed]
- [who?] [when?] [where?] [how?] [why?]
- Wikipedia:Vagueness [vague] [specify]
- Wikipedia:Citation needed [citation needed]
- words[citation needed]
- Template:Failed verification [failed verification]
- test[failed verification]: Use when inline citations have been supplied which support some portion of the statement in question, but not all of it.
- [text–source integrity?]: Use when multiple inline citations to a source are given, but not all of them support the same information.
- [unreliable source?]: Use when an inline citation to a source is given, but it is questionable whether the source used is reliable for supporting the statement.
- [unreliable source]: Use when an inline citation to a source is given, but it is an unreliable source.
- [verification needed]
- [dead link]
- [excessive detail?]