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[1] The following is a comprehensive list of policies and guidelines. For descriptive directories see Wikipedia:List of policies, Wikipedia:List of guidelines and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Contents.

Terminology[edit]

Wikipedia's rules and best practices are specified in two types of documents:

Green check.svg Policy[edit]

A policy documents a rule or standard with wide acceptance among Wikipedia editors that all users should normally follow.

Blue check.svg Guideline[edit]

A guideline is a set of best practices that are supported by the consensus of Wikipedia editors. Editors should attempt to follow guidelines, though they are best treated with common sense. Occasional exceptions may apply. Naming conventions are considered guidelines.

The basics[edit]

The Five Pillars[edit]

The Five Pillars are the five fundamental principles of Wikipedia:

Full list[edit]

  Large-print links are broad, fundamental policies and guidelines that apply throughout Wikipedia.

Normal-print links are policies and guidelines that are general in scope but may apply to more specific situations.

Small-print links are policies and guidelines that are specific to a subject area or process on Wikipedia.
 

Green check.svg Content policies[edit]

Biographies of Living Persons – Image Use Policy – Wikipedia is Not a Dictionary

Blue check.svg Content guidelines[edit]

Autobiography – Accuracy Dispute – Content Forking – External Links – No Disclaimers in Articles – Non-Free Content – Non-Free Use Rationale Guideline – Non-U.S. Copyrights – Offensive Material – Portal Guidelines – Public Domain – Spam – Spoiler

Blue check.svg Editing guidelines[edit]

As Of – Broad Concept Articles – Categories, Lists, and Navigation Templates – Copying within Wikipedia – Reviewing Good Articles – Hatnote – Page Blanking – Overcategorization – Preparing Images for Upload – Red Link – Redirect – Set Index Articles – Shortcut – Soft Redirect – Spellchecking – Subpages – Updating Information – User Categories

Blue check.svg Notability guidelines[edit]

Academics – Astronomical Objects – Books – Events – Films – Geographic Features – Music – Numbers – Organizations and Companies – People – Sports – Web

Blue check.svg Naming conventions[edit]

Acronyms – Capitalization – Country-Specific Topics – Definite or Indefinite Articles – Events – Geographic Names – Numbers and Dates – Long Lists – People – Plurals – Technical Restrictions – Use English

Aircraft – Ancient Romans – Armenian – Astronomical Objects – Australian Roads – Baseball Players – Belgium: Castle, Country House, Château and Kasteel – Belgium: Alternate Language Names – Books – Broadcasting – Brussels – Burmese – Law Enforcement Agency Categories – Chemistry – Chinese – Clergy – College Football – Comics – Companies – Fauna – Films – Flora – Geographic names – UK Parliament Constituencies – Government and Legislation– Greek – Hebrew – Ice Hockey – Indic – Irish Categories – Korean – Languages – Latter Day Saints – Macedonia – Manuscripts – Mongolian – Music – New Zealand – Norse Mythology – Operas – Ethnicities and Tribes – Mining – Political Parties – Ships – Sports Teams – Sportspeople – Stations in Poland – Television – Tibetan – Royalty and Nobility – U.S. State and Territory Highways – UK Stations – Video Games – West Bank – Swiss Municipalities – Writing Systems

Blue check.svg Style guidelines[edit]

Content: Accessibility – Biographies – Linking – Self-References to Avoid – Words to Watch – Wikimedia Sister Projects

Formatting: Abbreviations – Capital Letters – Dates and Numbers – Pronunciation – Proper Names – Spelling – Text Formatting – Titles

Layout: Layout – Lead Section – Lists (Embedded Lists – Lists of Works – Road Junction Lists – Stand-Alone Lists) – Tables – Trivia Sections

Images: Images – Captions – Icons

Arts – Anime and Manga – Comics – Film – Music (Music Samples – Record Charts – Stringed Instrument Tunings) – Novels – Television – Visual Arts – Writing About Fiction – History – Military History – Blazon – Legal – Legal – Trademarks – Regional – Canada – China – France – Hawaii – India – Ireland – Japan – Korea – Philippines – Poland – Singapore – Trinidad and Tobago – Religion – Islam – Latter Day Saints – Science – Chemistry – Computing – Mathematics – Medicine – TaxoBox Documentation – Sports – Cue Sports – Snooker – Wikipedia Content – Disambiguation Pages – Infoboxes

Green check.svg Conduct policies[edit]

Clean Start – Dispute Resolution – Edit Warring – No Personal Attacks – Ownership of Articles – Sock Puppetry – Username Policy

Blue check.svg Behavioral guidelines[edit]

Appealing a Block – Article Feedback Response Guidelines – Canvassing – Changing Username Guidelines – Courtesy Vanishing – Deceased Wikipedians Guidelines – Do Not Disrupt Wikipedia to Illustrate a Point – Gaming the System – Please Do Not Bite the Newcomers – Reviewing – Rollback – Signatures – Spam Blacklist – Linking to External Harassment

Green check.svg Deletion policies[edit]

Attack Page – Oversight – Proposed Deletion (Books) – Proposed Deletion of Biographies of Living People – Revision Deletion

Blue check.svg Deletion guidelines[edit]

Deletion Guidelines for Administrators – Speedy Keep

Green check.svg Procedural policies[edit]

Arbitration Committee: CheckUser and Oversight – Bot Policy – Bureaucrats – CheckUser – Global Rights Policy – IP Block Exemption – Mediation Committee Policy – Office Actions – Open Proxies – Volunteer Response Team

Green check.svg Enforcement policies[edit]

Discretionary Sanctions – Banning Policy

Green check.svg Legal policies[edit]

Child Protection – Copyright Violations – Libel – Non-Free Content Criteria – Reusing Wikipedia Content

Blue check.svg Project content guidelines[edit]

Userboxes – WikiProject Council Guide

Blue check.svg Template guidelines[edit]

High-Risk Templates – Substitution – Talk Page Templates

See also[edit]

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Related essays
  • Simplified rule-set – some basic aspect of Wikipedia norms and practices.
    • Eight rules for editing  – if you start out by following these simple rules, the rest should come naturally.
    • Ten rules for editing  – Wikipedia can be daunting, but here we provide tips to make editing smoother.
    • Trifecta – ultra fast overview of foundational principles related to policies and guidelines.
  • The rules are principles – policies and guidelines exist as rough approximations of their underlying principles.
   

Five pillars
Statement of our principles

Jimbo's statement
Historic principles

Simplified ruleset
Synopsis of our conventions

Wikimedia principles
Common to all projects
(in Meta-Wiki)

Principles
Other essays on Wikipedia's principles
Overview
Project-wide principles
Core content policies
Other content policies
Content guidelines
Behavioural policies
Behavioural guidelines
Editing guidelines
Style conventions
Classification guidelines
Deletion policies
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source: https://web.archive.org/web/20151105172140/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies_and_guidelines

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