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Wikipedia essays (?)
Building, editing, and deletion
Philosophy
  • Articles are more important than policy
  • Articles must be written
  • All Five Pillars are equally important
  • Avoid vague introductions
  • Civil POV pushing
  • Cohesion
  • Competence is required
  • Concede lost arguments
  • Dissent is not disloyalty
  • Don't lie
  • Don't search for objections
  • Duty to comply
  • Editing Wikipedia is like visiting a foreign country
  • Editors will sometimes be wrong
  • Eight simple rules for editing our encyclopedia
  • Explanationism
  • External criticism of Wikipedia
  • Five pillars
  • Here to build an encyclopedia
  • Leave it to the experienced
  • Levels of competence
  • Levels of consensus
  • Most ideas are bad
  • Need
  • Not broken is ugly
  • Not editing because of Wikipedia restriction
  • Not every article can be a Featured Article
  • The one question
  • Oversimplification
  • Paradoxes
  • Pave the path
  • Paraphrasing
  • POV and OR from editors, sources, and fields
  • Process is important
  • Product, process, policy
  • Purpose
  • Reasonability rule
  • Systemic bias
  • There is no seniority
  • Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia
  • Tendentious editing
  • The role of policies in collaborative anarchy
  • The rules are principles
  • Trifecta
  • We are absolutely here to right great wrongs
  • Wikipedia in brief
  • Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
  • Wikipedia is a community
  • Wikipedia is not RationalWiki
  • Wikipedia is written by humans, for humans
Article construction
  • 100K featured articles
  • Abandoned stubs
  • Acronym overkill
  • Adding images improves the encyclopedia
  • Advanced text formatting
  • Akin's Laws of Article Writing
  • Alternatives to the "Expand" template
  • Amnesia test
  • A navbox on every page
  • An unfinished house is a real problem
  • Archive your sources
  • Article revisions
  • Articles have a half-life
  • Autosizing images
  • Avoid mission statements
  • Be neutral in form
  • Beef up that first revision
  • Blind men and an elephant
  • BOLD, revert, discuss cycle
  • Build content to endure
  • Cargoculting
  • Cherrypicking
  • Chesterton's fence
  • Children's lit, adult new readers, & large-print books
  • Citation overkill
  • Citation underkill
  • Common-style fallacy
  • Concept cloud
  • Creating controversial content
  • Criticisms of society may be consistent with NPOV and reliability
  • Dictionaries as sources
  • Don't cite Wikipedia on Wikipedia
  • Don't demolish the house while it's still being built
  • Don't get hung up on minor details
  • Don't hope the house will build itself
  • Don't panic
  • Don't "teach the controversy"
  • Editing on mobile devices
  • Editors are not mindreaders
  • Encourage the newcomers
  • Endorsements (commercial)
  • Featured articles may have problems
  • Formatting bilateral relations articles
  • Formatting bilateral relations templates
  • Fruit of the poisonous tree
  • Give an article a chance
  • Gotfryd custom
  • How to write a featured article
  • Identifying and using independent sources
    • History sources
    • Law sources
    • Primary sources
    • Science sources
    • Style guides
    • Tertiary sources
  • Ignore STRONGNAT for date formats
  • Introduction to structurism
  • 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
  • Not everything needs a template
  • Nothing is in stone
  • Obtain peer review comments
  • Organizing disambiguation pages by subject area
  • Permastub
  • Potential, not just current state
  • Presentism
  • Principle of Some Astonishment
  • The problem with elegant variation
  • Pro and con lists
  • Printability
  • Publicists
  • Put a little effort into it
  • Restoring part of a reverted edit
  • Robotic editing
  • Sham consensus
  • Source your plot summaries
  • Specialized-style fallacy
  • Spoons versus forks
  • Stublet
  • Stub Makers
  • Run an edit-a-thon
  • Temporary versions of articles
  • Tertiary-source fallacy
  • There are no shortcuts to neutrality
  • There is no deadline
  • There is a deadline
  • The deadline is now
  • Try not to leave it a stub
  • What is a reliable source
  • Understanding Wikipedia's content standards
  • Walled garden
  • What an article should not include
  • Wikipedia is a work in progress
  • Wikipedia is not being written in an organized fashion
  • The world will not end tomorrow
  • Write the article first
  • Writing better articles
Content additions
  • Avoid thread mode
  • Copyediting reception sections
  • Coup
  • Don't throw more litter onto the pile
  • Gender-neutral language
  • Myth vs fiction
  • Proseline
  • Reading in a flow state
  • Turning biology research into a Wikipedia article
  • Use our own words
  • We shouldn't be able to figure out your opinions
  • Write the article first
  • Writing about women
  • 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 or merge
  • Delete the junk
  • Deletion is not cleanup
  • Does deletion help?
  • Don't attack the nominator
  • Don't confuse stub status with non-notability
  • Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument
  • Emptying categories out of process
  • Follow the leader
  • How the presumption of notability works
  • How to save an article nominated for deletion
  • I just don't like it
  • Identifying blatant advertising
  • Identifying test edits
  • Immunity
  • Keep it concise
  • Liar liar pants on fire
  • No Encyclopedic Use
  • Notability is not everything
  • Nothing
  • Nothing is clear
  • 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
  • Zombie page
Civility
The basics
  • Accepting other users
  • Apology
  • Autistic editors
  • Being right isn't enough
  • Contributing to complicated discussions
  • Divisiveness
  • Don't retaliate
  • Editors' pronouns
  • Edit at your own pace
  • Encouraging the newcomers
  • Enjoy yourself
  • Expect no thanks
  • How to be civil
  • Maintaining a friendly space
  • Negotiation
  • Obsessive–compulsive disorder editors
  • Please say please
  • Relationships with academic editors
  • Thank you
  • Too long; didn't read
  • Truce
  • Unblock perspectives
  • We are all Wikipedians here
  • You have a right to remain silent
Philosophy
  • A thank you never hurts
  • A weak personal attack is still wrong
  • Advice for hotheads
  • An uncivil environment is a poor environment
  • Be the glue
  • Beware of the tigers!
  • Civility warnings
  • Deletion as revenge
  • Duty to comply
  • 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
  • On Wikipedia no one knows you're a dog
  • Old-fashioned Wikipedian values
  • Profanity, civility, and discussions
  • Revert notification opt-out
  • Shadowless Fists of Death!
  • 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
  • Reader
  • The rules of polite discourse
  • There is no common sense
  • Two wrongs don't make a right
  • Wikipedia clichés
  • Wikipedia is not about winning
  • Wikipedia should not be a monopoly
  • Writing for the opponent
Dos
  • Assume good faith
  • Assume the assumption of good faith
  • Assume no clue
  • Avoid personal remarks
  • Avoid the word "vandal"
  • Be a humble article creator
  • Be excellent to one another
  • Be pragmatic
  • Beyond civility
  • Call a spade a spade
  • Candor
  • Deny recognition
  • Desist
  • Discussing cruft
  • Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass
  • Encourage full discussions
  • Get over it
  • How to lose
  • Imagine others complexly
  • Just drop it
  • Keep it concise
  • Keep it down to earth
  • Mind your own business
  • Say "MOBY"
  • Mutual withdrawal
  • Read before commenting
  • Read the room
  • Settle the process first
  • Wikipedia:Stop it
  • You can search, too
Don'ts
  • Wikipedia:Because I can
  • Civil POV pushing
  • Cyberbullying
  • Don't accuse someone of a personal attack for accusing of a personal attack
  • Don't be a fanatic
  • Don't be a jerk
  • Don't be an ostrich
  • Don't be ashamed
  • Don't be a WikiBigot
  • Don't be high-maintenance
  • Don't be inconsiderate
  • Don't be obnoxious
  • Don't be prejudiced
  • Don't be rude
  • Don't be the Fun Police
  • Don't bludgeon the process
  • Don't call a spade a spade
  • Don't call people by their real name
  • Don't call the kettle black
  • Don't call things cruft
  • Don't come down like a ton of bricks
  • Don't cry COI
  • Don't demand that editors solve the problems they identify
  • Don't eat the troll's food
  • Don't fight fire with fire
  • Don't give a fuck
  • Don't help too much
  • Don't ignore community consensus
  • Don't knit beside the guillotine
  • Don't make a smarmy valediction part of your signature
  • Don't remind others of past misdeeds
  • Don't shout
  • Don't spite your face
  • Don't take the bait
  • Don't template the regulars
  • Don't throw your toys out of the pram
  • Do not insult the vandals
  • Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs
  • Griefing
  • Hate is disruptive
  • Jew-tagging
  • Nationalist editing
  • No angry mastodons
    • just madmen
  • No ableism
  • No Nazis
  • No racists
  • No Confederates
  • No queerphobia
  • No, you can't have a pony
  • Passive aggression
  • POV railroad
  • Superhatting
  • There are no oracles
  • There's no need to guess someone's preferred pronouns
  • You can't squeeze blood from a turnip
  • UPPERCASE
WikiRelations
  • WikiBullying
  • WikiCrime
  • WikiHarassment
  • WikiHate
  • WikiLawyering
  • WikiLove
  • WikiPeace
Neutrality
  • Academic bias
  • Activist
  • Advocacy
  • Avoid thread mode
  • Be neutral in form
  • Blind men and an elephant
  • Cherrypicking
  • Civil POV pushing
  • Coatrack
  • Controversial articles
  • Creating controversial content
  • Criticisms of society may be consistent with NPOV and reliability
  • Criticism
  • Describing points of view
  • Don't "teach the controversy"
  • Endorsements
  • Inaccuracy
  • Let the reader decide
  • Myth vs fiction
  • NPOV dispute
  • Neutral and proportionate point of view
  • Not Wikipedia's fault
  • POV and OR from editors, sources, and fields
  • Partisans
  • Partisanship
  • Presentism
  • Pro and con lists
  • Systemic bias
  • Tendentious editing
  • There are no shortcuts to neutrality
  • Wikipedia:Truth
  • We are absolutely here to right great wrongs
  • We shouldn't be able to figure out your opinions
  • What false balance is not
  • What is fringe?
  • Why Wikipedia cannot claim the Earth is not flat
  • Wikipedia is not RationalWiki
  • Yes, it is promotion
Notability
  • Advanced source searching
  • All high schools can be notable
  • Alternative outlets
  • Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
  • Articles with a single source
  • Avoid template creep
  • Bare notability
  • Big events make key participants notable
  • Businesses with a single location
  • But it's true!
  • Common sourcing mistakes
  • Clones
  • Coatrack
  • Discriminate vs indiscriminate information
  • Drafts are not checked for notability or sanity
  • Every snowflake is unique
  • Existence ≠ Notability
  • Existence does not prove notability
  • Extracting the meaning of significant coverage
  • Google searches and numbers
  • How the presumption of notability works
  • High schools
  • Historical/Policy/Notability/Arguments
  • Inclusion is not an indicator of notability
  • Independent sources
  • Inherent notability
  • Insignificant
  • Just because BFDI has an article doesn't mean you can add fancruft about it
  • Masking the lack of notability
  • Make stubs
  • Minimum coverage
  • News coverage does not decrease notability
  • No amount of editing can overcome a lack of notability
  • No one cares about your garage band
  • No one really cares
  • Notability and tornadoes
  • Notability cannot be purchased
  • Notability comparison test
  • Notability is not everything
  • Notability is not a level playing field
  • Notability is not a matter of opinion
  • Notability is not relevance or reliability
  • Notability means impact
  • Notabilitymandering
  • Not all Vocaloid songs deserve their own article
  • Not every single thing Donald Trump does deserves an article
  • No special considerations
  • Obscurity ≠ Lack of notability
  • Offline sources
  • One sentence does not an article make
  • Overreliance upon Google
  • Perennial websites
  • Popularity ≠ Notability
  • Read the source
  • Red flags of non-notability
  • Reducing consensus to an algorithm
  • Run-of-the-mill
  • Solutions are mixtures and nothing else
  • Significance is not a formula
  • Source content comes first!
  • Sources must be out-of-universe
  • Subjective importance
  • Slow news day
  • Third-party sources
  • Trivial mentions
  • Video links
  • Vanispamcruftisement
  • What BLP1E is not
  • What is and is not routine coverage
  • What notability is not
  • What to include
  • Why was BFDI not on Wikipedia?
  • Wikipedia is not Crunchbase
  • Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause
  • Wikipedia is not the place to post your résumé
  • Two prongs of merit
  • Two sources are good enough
Humorous
  • Adminitis
  • Ain't no rules says a dog can't play basketball
  • Akin's Laws of Article Writing
  • Alternatives to edit warring
  • ANI flu
  • Anti-Wikipedian
  • Anti-Wikipedianism
  • Articlecountitis
  • Asshole John rule
  • 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 the preview button
  • Avoid using wikilinks
  • Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense
  • Barnstaritis
  • Before they were notable
  • Be the fun police
  • BOLD, revert, revert, revert cycle
  • Boston Tea Party
  • Butterfly effect
  • CaPiTaLiZaTiOn MuCh?
  • Case against LLM-generated articles
  • Complete bollocks
  • Counting forks
  • Counting juntas
  • Crap
  • Delete the main page
  • Diffusing conflict
  • Don't stuff beans up your nose
  • Don't-give-a-fuckism
  • Don't abbreviate "Wikipedia" as "Wiki"!
  • Don't delete the main page
  • Editcountitis
  • Edits Per Day
  • Editsummarisis
  • Editing under the influence
  • Embrace Stop Signs
  • Emerson
  • Fart
  • Five Fs of Wikipedia
  • Seven Ages of Editor, by Will E. Spear-Shake
  • Go ahead, vandalize
  • How many Wikipedians does it take to change a lightbulb?
  • How to get away with UPE
  • How to put up a straight pole by pushing it at an angle
  • How to vandalize correctly
  • How to win a citation war
  • If you have a pulse
  • Ignore all essays
  • Ignore all user warnings
  • Ignore every single rule
  • Is that even an essay?
  • Keep beating the horse
  • List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create
  • Mess with the templates
  • My local pond
  • Newcomers are delicious, so go ahead and bite them
  • Legal vandalism
  • List of jokes about Wikipedia
  • LTTAUTMAOK
  • No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man
  • No episcopal threats
  • No one cares about your garage band
  • No one really cares
  • No, really
  • No self attacks
  • Notability is not eternal
  • Oops Defense
  • Play the game
  • Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you
  • Please bite the newbies
  • Please do not murder the newcomers
  • Pledge of Tranquility
  • Project S.C.R.A.M.
  • R-e-s-p-e-c-t
  • Requests for medication
  • Requirements for adminship
  • Rouge admin
  • Rouge editor
  • Sarcasm is really helpful
  • Sausages for tasting
  • Spaling Muich?
  • Template madness
  • The first rule of Wikipedia
  • The Five Pillars of Untruth
  • The Night Before Wikimas
  • The Truth
  • Things that should not be surprising
  • The WikiBible
  • Watchlistitis
  • We are deletionist!
  • Why is BFDI on Wikipedia?
  • Why you shouldn't write articles with ChatGPT, according to ChatGPT
  • Wikipedia is an MMORPG
  • WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG!
  • Yes, falsely
  • Yes legal threats
  • Yes personal attacks
  • You don't have to be mad to work here, but
  • You should not write meaningless lists
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