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Whacking with a wet trout or trouting is a good-humored way to notify normally constructive community members of an error they've made. It is normally...

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The Wadewitz Tribute Edit-a-thons are a series of Wikipedia editing events that are a tribute to long-time Wikipedia editor and academic, Adrianne Wadewitz...

a lot of information, and has been edited and viewed by millions of people, many of whom have found it useful. Unfortunately, much of it could be a lot...

related material with a single link. While a navbox may appear redundant to a category or list, it is not the same as a single category, a group of categories...

list any sources for verification. This induces many editors to hastily add a speedy-delete tag. If the original editor manages to return before the article...

and are looking for a niche, you could write about businesses in your hometown or a place where you have visited.  To be sure if a small business qualifies...

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are the six standards by which a good article nomination (GAN) may be compared and judged to be a good article (GA). A good article does not have to meet...

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especially a celebrity, a business, for a work such as a book, film, or album, or for a commercial product. A publicist may be an employee of a company or organization...

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subject. Note that there is a delay between a portal's creation and its addition to the listing. Category:All portals is a comprehensive listing, including...

One to notice it went out, and slap a {{Lightbulb is burned out}} tag on it. Two to research about how to replace a lightbulb. One to patrol Category:Lightbulbs...

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a stub. But if you're going to make a stub, at least put a little effort into it. Even just a one-sentence stub becomes a little more if you leave a useful...

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make a right" highlights the illogic of claiming innocence because of someone else's bad behavior. Such excuses are a form of whataboutism and a discrediting...

A cappella songs (1 C, 30 P) {{WikiProject A Cappella}} on a talkpage gives: A Cappella This article is within the scope of WikiProject A Cappella, a...

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with additional parameters according to the quality of the article. When a parameter is used, the article is placed into the appropriate sub-category...

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of Wikipedia's articles related to soccer in Australia. Keep all A-League Men and A-League Women clubs, seasons, player and other related articles up-to-date...

Wikipedia is a volunteer service. But what exactly does this mean? Almost all contributions are made in the free time of their contributors. There are...

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a new article, usually the best approach is to start with the Article Wizard or create a draft. If you want an idea for a new article, try filling a request...

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A C-class article must be appreciably better than a start-class one and, by passing the majority of B-class criteria, it is closer to a B than to a start...

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As a user-generated source, it can be edited by anyone at any time, and any information it contains at a particular time could be vandalism, a work...

having a "Low" rating within the scope of WikiProject Star Trek does not mean the subject is not important, it simply means that other articles have a higher...

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the Project (Low, Mid, High or Top) and its quality (Stub, Start, B, Good, A and Featured). Individual users are allowed to rate the article's importance...

believe has been sufficiently improved, please list it here and, if possible, a reviewer will reassess the article and leave comments. Until an article meets...

not a game of Whac-A-Mole. You don't score points for seeing how many articles facing deletion that pop up daily you can mark down in as quick a time...

Wikipedia is a mainstream encyclopedia. This means that writers and editors on Wikipedia should strive for articles that would be appreciated as being...

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2016, WikiConference India 2016 team is organizing a multi-lingual edit-a-thon. The goal of this edit-a-thon is to create and improve Punjab-related articles...

That a person receives a namecheck in a larger article about a subject that involves that person does not automatically warrant a redlink, or a biographical...

FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class education articles) A (adds articles to Category:A-Class education articles) GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class...

of further work, and are also expected to play a role in the WP:1.0 program. The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the...

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not right for a Wikipedia article – even a brilliant one. Perhaps you are the first person to have noticed a performer, a politician, a business, etc...

field (a) is included while a similar article in field (b) is deleted. Several possible reasons for this: Wikis should generally be constructed in a hierarchical...

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of further work, and are also expected to play a role in the WP:1.0 program, The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the...

contributions and identifying topics in need of further work. The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Philately}} project...

Wikipedia has a lot of policies and guidelines. They have evolved from the early days, due to consensus. For instance, we have experimented with various...

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namespace (draftspace) where new articles may be created and developed, for a limited period of time. They allow editors to develop new articles and to...

This is a guide to making unblock requests. Users may be blocked from editing by Wikipedia administrators to prevent damage or disruption to Wikipedia...

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One would expect, when putting up a pole (like a flagpole), that making sure it's straight is a result of trying to put it up straight. However, consider...

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the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is organizing and hosting an edit-a-thon to improve coverage of women in science in Wikipedia. The focus will...

up one fact that may or may not be useful. Being from Denmark, I knew of a Danish cover version by Flemming Jørgensen that was very famous here, but...

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The first Tech LadyMafia Edit-a-thon will be Friday, April 17, 2015 at Taoti Creative in Washington, D.C. During this edit-a-thon, we will work together...

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U.S. Ada Lovelace Day 2012 edit-a-thon, Harvard University (remote participants also welcome) Now in its fourth year, Ada Lovelace Day is an international...

in a comment to me. On the other hand, if I notice that you don't say "Have a nice day" to everyone, then if you say it to me, I'll know that (a) you're...

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There comes a point in every debate where the debate itself has come to a natural end. You may have won the debate, you may have lost the debate, or you...

it's not a paper encyclopedia, a dictionary, a publisher of original thought, a soapbox, a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media, a blog, webspace...

English Wikipedia has the following duties and responsibilities: To act as a final binding decision-maker primarily for serious conduct disputes the community...

A featured picture: Is of a high technical standard. It has good contrast, accurate exposure and neutral colour balance. It shows no significant compression...

The duck test—"If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck"—suggests that something can be identified...

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Assume good faith. Wikipedia has worked remarkably well so far based on a policy of nearly complete freedom to edit. People come here to collaborate...

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as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) L.A.P.D.: To Protect and to Serve (talk) removed. Draft:Scott Westerhuis (talk)...

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than an encyclopedia article. Even when the promotional material is added in a good-faith effort to improve Wikipedia, it is not appropriate for an encyclopedia...

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at the article talk page before a request for DR can be properly filed. This is because Wikipedia is built around a model of collaboration through discussion...

or as a subtopic covered by an article in addition to the article's main topic. For example, Mercury can refer to a planet, a chemical element, a Roman...

links in articles per the verifiability policy. Articles that use a republished work as a source should be edited to either remove the work or to tag the...

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So, you just wrote a killer new article, and you see lots of red links. You're surprised, because these topics would probably satisfy the notability guidelines...

A redirect is a page that automatically sends readers to another page, usually an article or section of an article. For example, if you type "UK" in the...

a lead: a concise lead section that summarizes the topic and prepares the reader for the detail in the subsequent sections; appropriate structure: a substantial...

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to assess, summarize, and formally close a Wikipedia discussion. Do so when consensus appears unclear, it is a contentious issue, or where there are wiki-wide...

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duplicative. Furthermore, arguing that a category duplicates a list (or vice versa) at a deletion discussion is not a valid reason for deletion and should...

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Page blanking means editing a page and removing its content to leave it completely blank, or without any substantial content. Under normal circumstances...

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and format articles. Here you can ask the project membership to perform a review on any of its tagged articles. Olympics articles by quality and importance...

articles, media, and other pages. Normally, a deletion discussion must be held to form a consensus to delete a page. In general, administrators are responsible...

appeared in those sources are covered (). If no reliable sources can be found on a topic, Wikipedia should not have an article on it. This guideline discusses...

reasons ranging from quirks of a website's code to robots.txt preventing a website from being archived). This is done with a program called "NoMore404" which...

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work, and are also expected to play a role in the Version 1.0 Editorial Team program. The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters...

the hardest part of writing a Wikipedia article on a mathematical topic, and generally any Wikipedia article, is addressing a reader's level of knowledge...

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introductions, continue with a clear structure, and end with standard appendices such as references and related articles. Articles start with a lead section (WP:CREATELEAD)...

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take some time off away from edit wars, or at the very least, a nice cup of tea and a sit down. Or walk the dog if you're more of an outdoorsy type....

Consensus is typically reached as a natural and inherent product of the wiki-editing process; generally someone makes a change to a page content, and then everyone...

and people don't know to use the Requested moves forum to start a move request. When a cut-and-paste move is done, the page history of an article or talk...

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with the exception of the featured classes, A-class, and GA-class, as these can only be applied after a successful review at the relevant forum. Articles...

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After it has been determined, often through multiple processes, that a certain result will stand, it makes no sense to continue fighting. Editors feeling...

of creating a free, reliable encyclopedia. There is no need to read any policy or guideline pages to start editing. The five pillars are a popular summary...

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were test edits, unsourced and/or unencyclopedic additions. As a result, it is unlikely for a new editor to be familiar with Wikipedia's markup language and...

sometimes allowed. If a credible expert has tried to explain, say, human–cat relationship from a cat perspective, a summary of this might make a good addition...

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The Mediation Committee was a panel of editors who resolved content disputes on Wikipedia articles by providing formal mediation. The Mediation Committee...

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A Wikipedia article title is the large heading displayed above the article's content, and the basis for the article's page name and URL. The title indicates...

youths who break the windows of a house during a riot; it doesn't include someone who destroys a house in order to create a highway, no matter how bad of...

navbox because: the navbox displays a full list of the articles. The portal displays only one page at a time, out of a randomly selected subset of up to...

questions. They should focus on improving the encyclopedia while maintaining a pleasant editing environment by behaving politely, calmly, and reasonably...

is a technical restriction applied only by administrators, although any user may request protection. Protection can be indefinite or expire after a specified...

categorization system on Wikipedia is to provide navigational links within a structured, tree-like hierarchy of categories. By grouping pages according...

For a list of reliable sources for anime and manga, check out the online reliable sources page. Wikipedia:Manual of Style Manual of Style/Anime and manga...

using a pre-existing template as a guide, re-wording it or adding a personal message to it, is an option. Some regulars will not actually read a warning...

On Wikipedia, notability is a test used by editors to decide whether a given topic warrants its own article. Information on Wikipedia must be verifiable;...

Voting Is Not Evil (VINE) is a counterpoint to the Wikipedia essay "Polling is not a substitute for discussion", or WP:PNSD, a page written from scratch...

This is a list of world music articles, all of which have been assessed according to the Wikipedia 1.0 criteria. Articles are rated "Featured", "A-Class"...

are not autoconfirmed and therefore cannot create new articles directly. A much better way of dealing with that restriction is to start new articles...

How to measure a WikiProject's workload: How can we measure the challenges facing a project or determine a WikiProject's productivity? Several prominent...

are four main areas of work: The bot-supported assessment scheme serves as a valuable tool for WikiProjects while supplying this project with quality and...

A featured topic (or a good topic) is a collection of articles or lists that represents Wikipedia's best work in covering a subject comprehensively and...

the article meets all of the A-Class criteria. Full instructions for requesting an A-Class review are provided on the A-Class review page. Shortcut WP:MHA#FACWP:MHA#FAC...

with the Wikipedia project and acceptable to the community; Wikipedia is not a blog, webspace provider, or social networking site. Wikipedia policies concerning...

Shortcuts WP:A/A/SWP:A/A/S WP:AUDIT/STATSWP:AUDIT/STATS The Arbitration Committee will periodically analyze CheckUser and Oversight use and publish reports...

in a days of the year list must be verifiable by referring to a reliable source which directly supports the entry. The editor adding entries to a list...

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All encyclopedic content on Wikipedia must be written from a neutral point of view (NPOV), which means representing fairly, proportionately, and, as far...

Wikipedia is a sequel to the game Nupedia, an encyclopedia-themed MMORPG in a hack and slash and "article roaming" style. It was released for web browsers...

is used to assess the quality of a Wikipedia article and give it a grade (or rating or class). The system is based on a letter scheme that reflects principally...

incivility, edit wars, and typically result in protection on the Wrong Version by a passing administrator. Where the issues are of paramount importance, editors...

#ArtandFeminism #wikiwomeneditathon Please bring a laptop with you! Do you have a Wikipedia User Name? No? Create a Wikipedia account Yes? Sign in Training sessions...

arguments that should generally be avoided–or at the least supplemented with a better-grounded rationale for the position taken, whether that would be "keep"...

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can lie on Wikipedia, such as deliberately using a quote out of context to mislead readers, fabricating a reference, stating content is not included in an...

discussions, either start a new thread or use the talk page associated with that topic. < Older discussions · Archives: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J...

dealing with a particularly difficult editor or situation, you will never be tempted to resort to sarcasm. But if you somehow are, that's a really great...

Shortcut WP:UBX/INTERESTSWP:UBX/INTERESTS This gallery is a collection of userbox templates and galleries sorted alphabetically by user interest. You...

instead go to Requests for oversight. When starting a discussion about an editor, you must leave a notice on their talk page; pinging is not enough. You...

Wikipedia. A WikiProject is a group of people, not a set of pages, a subject area, a list of tasks, or a category. The pages of a WikiProject serve as a central...

Wikipedia Task Center! What do Wikipedians do? If you are looking for a way to help, find a task that suits you, read the appropriate background pages, and...

This is a list of websites that editors frequently discuss on Wikipedia. Some of these are currently accepted, some are currently opposed, and some depend...

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Speedy deletion is a process that provides administrators with broad consensus to bypass deletion discussion, at their discretion, and immediately delete...

task force is to organize, clean, and improve game show information within a format that fits Wikipedia's notability procedures, as well as following the...

but the request can be fulfilled via a photograph of a picture or scanning or creating a diagram or a screenshot of a computer image. Before posting, please...

The purpose of a talk page (accessible via the "Talk" tab) is to provide space for editors to discuss editing that page. Article talk pages should not...

in leadership. To help remedy the situation, we are focusing on a Virtual World Edit-a-thon from 7 to 20 September 2015 when we hope both inexperienced...

notability is a test used by editors to decide whether a given topic warrants its own article. For people, the person who is the topic of a biographical...

A citation, or reference, uniquely identifies a source of information, e.g.: Ritter, R. M. (2003). The Oxford Style Manual. Oxford University Press. p...

Claremont, California, 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles Event: An edit-a-thon! Learn how to contribute to Wikipedia and collaborate with others to...

a single editor have a higher probability of needing attention than those which have received contributions from several editors. So, we generate a list...

involves multiple steps: first, the problem needs to be identified, then a solution agreed upon, then that solution implemented. Sometimes, an editor...

Do not post legal threats on Wikipedia. A legal threat, in this context, is a threat to engage in an off-wiki ("real life") legal or other governmental...

Racism of various kinds has been a recurring problem on Wikipedia, and nearly since its inception. Indeed, most of the article subjects topics that have...

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but make sure to note that you wish for a peer review, not just a regular review) Duchy of Florence I wrote a new artilce. (Jack1755 (talk) 00:01, 25...

A bot (a common nickname for software robot) is an automated tool that carries out repetitive and mundane tasks to maintain the 66,003,411 pages of the...

This includes appeals to delete pages kept after a prior discussion. If you are considering a request for a deletion review, please read the "Purpose" section...

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detailed information on how to carry out tasks to volunteer in the Online edit-a-thon for SDGs in September 2020. You can find SDG content-related tasks here...

instances where a new disambiguation page is needed. Use "Foo" rather than "Foo (disambiguation)" as the disambiguation page name unless there is a primary topic...

how to nominate and review a good article nomination (GAN) according to the good article criteria, so that it may become a good article (GA). Instructions...

"What links here" counts the number of pages in all namespaces that link to a given target, but this listing counts the number of pages in the main namespace...

A credible claim of significance is a statement in the article that attributes noteworthiness, or information written about the subject in reliable sources...

Shortcuts WP:GWP:G WP:TERMWP:TERM This is a glossary of terms commonly used on Wikipedia. Contents !$@ 0–9 A B C D E F G H I JK L M N O P Q R S T U V W...

technical expertise, writing prowess or tidbits of information, but all united by a willingness to help. Even the best articles should not be considered complete...

on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.‎ The result...

Users may request that their username be changed. Usernames are global; a username change will change your username on all Wikimedia projects. Username...

Articles: FA-Class | A Class | GA-Class | B-Class | C-Class | Start-Class | Stub Class | Unassessed Welcome to the assessment department of the Years...

Move review is a process to formally discuss and evaluate a contested close of Wikipedia page move discussions, including requested moves (RM), categories...

challenged. Editors are also advised to add in-text attribution whenever a source's words are copied or closely paraphrased. You can make clear which...

a really annoying table in a very annoying format, and doing other miscellanous tweaks. @Novem Linguae was kind enough to walk me through creating a design...

Shortcut WP:SOURCEWP:SOURCE A cited source on Wikipedia is often a specific portion of text (such as a short article or a page in a book). But when editors...

to know what they can and can't do with the files in our encyclopedia. For a file to be considered "free" under Wikipedia's Image use policy, the license...

A single-purpose account (SPA) is a user account or unregistered editor whose editing is limited to one very narrow area or set of articles, or whose...

refers to a section's content, not its name. A trivia section is one that contains a disorganized and unselective collection of facts or examples. A list with...

Shortcut WP:COFAQ#WHYWP:COFAQ#WHY See why on Earth would I want to contribute to a wiki. Shortcut WP:COFAQ#REGWP:COFAQ#REG No. Anyone can edit without any kind...

Templates are a very powerful feature of MediaWiki, but can be confusing to new users, and even experienced users can have difficulty making sense of...

Proposed deletion (PROD) is a way to suggest an article or file for uncontroversial deletion. It is an easier method of removing articles or files than...

improve articles. A collaboration on an article may be chosen by a group of users interested in the topic (WikiProjects) for a period of time (a week, fortnight...

A featured portal exemplifies our very best work on portals; it showcases the best of Wikipedia's content in an area and encourages contributions to that...

discussions, either start a new thread or use the talk page associated with that topic. < Older discussions · Archives: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J...

or a group of editors. Disagreement over what constitutes a religion, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or ethnicity is not a legitimate...

A bare URL is a URL cited as a reference for some information in an article without any accompanying information about the linked page, such as https://www...

Live Help Before you continue, you should know... Live help is offered via a public Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel. This channel is not private or one-on-one...

hatnote uses a template that's used on many biographical articles, but not in a situation like this where a Japanese name is formatted as a Spanish one...

A userbox (commonly abbreviated as UBX) is a small colored box (see examples) designed to appear only on a Wikipedian's user page as a communicative notice...

Shortcuts WP:ACVLWP:ACVL WP:ACADEMICALWP:ACADEMICAL WP:A-VILLEWP:A-VILLE WikiProject Academical Village is a WikiProject for the Wikipedia Ambassador Program...

encyclopedias, almanacs, and gazetteers. Wikipedia is not a soapbox, an advertising platform, a social network, a vanity press, an experiment in anarchy or democracy...

The CheckUser tool is used by a small group of trusted Wikipedia users called checkusers. The tool allows its users to determine from Wikipedia's servers...

A shortcut is a specialized type of redirect page that provides an abbreviated wikilink to an administrative page or one of its sections, usually from...

of further work, and are also expected to play a role in the WP:1.0 program. Assessment is done in a distributed system (with many people and automated...

may be found within the body of a prose article, in appendices such as a "Publications" or "Works" section, or as a stand-alone article. This guideline...

is a very incomplete list of jokes about Wikipedia. What do you call a website that every Wikipedia article cites? Webcites! How can you tell if a Wikimedia...

powers Wikipedia, should be filed on Wikimedia's Phabricator. Phabricator is a software suite that includes tools for bug reporting and project management...

members find the information, knowledge and skills they need. Wikipedia is a free research tool, helping readers check information and find research materials...

discussions, either start a new thread or use the talk page associated with that topic. < Older discussions · Archives: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J...

The BBC organised an edit-a-thon event in Islamabad on 8 December 2016, as part of its annual global 100 Women campaign. This was the first such Wikipedia...

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further work, and are also expected to play a role in the WP:1.0 programme. The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the...

linking country articles – templates that render a flag icon and a wikilink to a country's article, using a list of country codes. Wikipedia:List of infoboxes...

accounts), IP addresses, and IP address ranges, for either a definite or an indefinite time, to all or a subset of pages. Blocked users can continue to access...

is a section on the English Wikipedia's Main Page that is automatically updated every day with one or more featured pictures, accompanied by a blurb...

the context of DYK, reviewing refers specifically to the process by which a nominated hook and the associated article(s) are evaluated, improved, and...

A Classification is used on category pages to show the hierarchy of the category. For example, Category:Contraltos has this classification: Classification:...

Shortcuts WP:A&M/ORSWP:A&M/ORS WP:A&M/RSWP:A&M/RS WP:A&M/IWP:A&M/I Articles related to anime and manga need reliable sources like any other Wikipedia...

When uploading an image, you have to: make sure the image is published under a free copyright license clearly label the origin and the copyright license...

others.) before a peer review. All reviews are conducted by fellow editors—usually members of the WikiProject. WikiProject peer reviews A Wikipedia Peer...

A Song of Ice and Fire: This week, we spent some time with WikiProject A Song of Ice and Fire, which focuses on the eponymous series of high fantasy literature...

Adopt-a-user Home • Talk || Adoptee's Area • Resources Adopter's Area • Resources || List of Adopters The adoption program is open to relatively inexperienced...

section should not become a lengthy or comprehensive list of external links related to each topic. No page should be linked from a Wikipedia article unless...

Administrators assume these responsibilities as volunteers after undergoing a community review process or being elected by their fellow editors. They do...

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, but it is not a paper encyclopedia. It is not a dictionary, a soapbox, a crystal ball, a repository of links, or an indiscriminate...

Esperanza was a Wikipedia project founded on 12 August 2005. Its goals were to support the encyclopedia indirectly by encouraging a sense of community...

in creating and altering the content of a page. Wikipedia's page history functionality lists all edits made to a page and all users who made these changes...

further work, and are also expected to play a role in the WP:1.0 programme. The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the...

you have a better idea, please don't hesitate to let us know! Did the reviewer leave any comments? If the reviewer had a left a comment, a link, "(see...

WikiProject Plants Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to plants. This page and its subpages contain...

cases, you cannot copy text from other sources into Wikipedia. Doing so is a copyright violation. Always write the articles in your own words. While facts...

This is not a requirement: for instance, it will not be desirable in a case where a large number of terms redirect to a single article, e.g. a plant species...

existed sometime previously. A partial reversion involves reversing only part of a prior edit, while retaining other parts of it. A reversion is an edit, or...

A Wikipedia Book (or a Wikipedia Reading list) is a book formed wholly or partially from an organized collection of Wikipedia articles. Their list forms...

below. Eligibility criteria An editor is eligible to stand as a candidate who: (i) has a registered account and has had at least 500 mainspace edits by...

in the form: {{WikiProject Plants|class=|importance=}} class=??? (assign a class, see below) importance=??? (assign an importance, see below) needs-image=yes...

matter whether a given editor was formally named as a "party" or not."[1] Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Lar There is currently a request for a case below...

a wide variety of topics. Commons files are maintained even if they are not immediately used to illustrate articles. Wikipedia, by contrast, is not a...

is not working to a deadline, though it is not an excuse for complacency. There are various points of view on what this lack of a deadline means. Shortcut...

propose changes to a page when they cannot or should not make the edits themselves. To ensure efficiency, each request should provide a clear and specific...

utilising them in a disruptive, misleading, or unhelpful manner is not. As a rule of thumb, if you suspect the use of multiple accounts or IPs in a manner that...

page and see the to-do list below. The WikiProject United States History is a project aimed towards the development and expansion of articles on the History...

encyclopedias, almanacs, and gazetteers. Wikipedia is not a soapbox, an advertising platform, a social network, a vanity press, an experiment in anarchy or democracy...

Nominated files are normally discussed for at least seven days, after which a decision may be reached based on community consensus or the file may be deleted...

and child projects: ESA European Union Europe portal WikiProject Europe has a joint peer review programme with WikiProject European Union. Members of both...

A ban is a formal prohibition from editing some or all pages on the English Wikipedia, or a formal prohibition from making certain types of edits on Wikipedia...

A caption is text that appears below an image. Most captions draw attention to something in the image that is not obvious, such as its relevance to the...

Archiving a source can help editors address link rot. If a public archive of a page is available, and the website is rearranged or closes, then editors...

behavior. The snowball clause states: If an issue has a snowball's chance in hell of being accepted by a certain process, there's no need to run it through...

involved if you have ever: opened a request to move the page; supported or opposed a request to move the page closed a previous controversial request to...

Wikipedia has guidelines on biographies, living people, and what constitutes a notable musician, and discourages autobiography and vanity. Despite this,...

page, create a proposal in a new section at Talk:Destination page. If the destination does not exist, do not create its talk page. Create a new topic and...

sources. Citing a review article is preferred over an original trial. To get you started and to explain why this is important here are a number of guides...

include a short quotation such as a significant statement made by the subject of the article or a notable comment about the subject. In these cases a verbatim...

excellent contributions and identifying articles in need of further work. A reader may use the parameters to decide which articles to read if they were...

you can find a more recent, authoritative classification for a single order, this might sometimes be a better approach than trusting a generalized site...

articles containing a set of numbers that identifies location on and relative to the Earth. In particular, we aim to establish a standard for uniform...

reader. However, do not use links as a substitute for explanation; if a technical term can be simply explained in a few words, do so. Shortcut...

WP:Compatibly licensedWP:Compatibly licensed The absence of a copyright notice does not mean that a work may be freely used (at the same time, copyright notices...

Contact a recently active admin directly. If you want to challenge the closure of a request for comment, use {{subst:RfC closure review}} When you start a discussion...

pump (idea lab). This is a high-visibility page intended for proposals with significant impact. Proposals that affect only a single page or small group...

Thank you for joining us for... Women in STEM Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon in celebration of Women's History Month What Hosts DC Public Libraries in collaboration...

Wikipedia is a human-driven endeavor, created and edited with minimal assistance from artificial intelligence. Our purpose is to create a web-based, free...

Click the flag button Improve a random article Or Click the crescent & star button To improve a random Stub article 4% List-Class 48.8% Stub-Class 35...

Shortcuts WP:RAAWP:RAA WP:RFAAWP:RFAA (What is an administrator?) Block a vandal or spammer who has been sufficiently warned? See Wikipedia:Administrator...

Wikipedia's goal is to be a free content encyclopedia, with free content defined as content that does not bear copyright restrictions on the right to...

has a very specific meaning: editing (or other behavior) deliberately intended to obstruct or defeat the project's purpose, which is to create a free...

the same sourcing standards as the article content. Where there is a dispute over a name, editors should cite recognised authorities and organisations...

Hatnotes are short notes placed at the top of a page or a section, in the way that a hat is placed on top of one's head. For example, see the notes in...

Review Outreach Task forces Review . Peer review Old Peer reviews A-Class review Old A-Class reviews Featured article candidates Good article candidates...

0/Criteria A selection of around 2000 articles was made manually, containing all countries, global cities, planets, chemical elements, as well as a large selection...

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editors who disagree about the content of a page repeatedly override each other's contributions. Editors engaged in a dispute should reach consensus or pursue...

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users an award called a "barnstar" as a continuation of the "barn raising" metaphor and the historic usage of barnstars, using a star anchor to represent...

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Tendentious editing is a pattern of editing that is partisan, biased, skewed, and does not maintain an editorially neutral point of view. It may also...

the WikiProject Pakistan can add or change the rating of an article. For a list of users who have dedicated themselves towards the assessment department...

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The format and contents of a 3RR/1RR report are important, use the "Click here to create a new report" button below to have a report template with the necessary...

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WikiProject Gastropods is a group of people who are working on creating and improving Wikipedia articles about gastropods, i.e. snails and slugs of every...

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{{Quote}}, or a similar method. Other non-free content—including all copyrighted images, audio and video clips, and other media files that lack a free content...

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MoS). When a MoS guideline offers a choice of styles, choose one and use it consistently throughout an article, and do not unreasonably alter a choice that...

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Articles listed are normally discussed for at least seven days, after which a decision may be reached based on community consensus; if consensus is clear...

further work, and are also expected to play a role in the WP:1.0 programme. The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the...

This page provides a guideline for editors in applying the concept of notability to topics related to music, including artists, bands, albums, and songs...

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disinterested sources is necessary to achieve a neutral point of view in an article. It also ensures articles can catalog a topic's worth and its role and achievements...

Disruptive editing is a pattern of editing that disrupts progress toward improving an article or building the encyclopedia. This may extend over a long time on...

manual gives options, maintain consistency within an article unless there is a good reason to do otherwise. The Arbitration Committee has ruled that editors...

In Wikipedia parlance, the term fringe theory is used in a broad sense to describe an idea that departs significantly from the prevailing views or mainstream...

This is possibly a full list of all Bangladeshi players needing article being international, BCL, NCL in first-class, List A and T20. Selected players...

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publications. After following this, you should have a "perfect stub", and bigger articles should feel a bit more "mainstream". Note that this guide is not...

one side of a dispute (usually called meatpuppetry) Misuse of multiple accounts is a serious breach of community trust. It may lead to: a block of all...

Recentism is a phenomenon on Wikipedia where an article has an inflated or imbalanced focus on recent events. It is writing without an aim toward a long-term...

This is a collection of discussions on the deletion and merging of articles related to Business. It is one of many deletion lists coordinated by WikiProject...

help include asking for a third opinion, seeking help from a mediator, making a request at an appropriate noticeboard, or opening a request for comment....

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unacceptable or doubtful usernames can be handled. It also specifies that a user account should be used only by one person, and that in most cases one...

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(images, videos, and audio clips) are used on Wikipedia, a justification for their usage, called a non-free use rationale (or use rationale or fair use rationale)...

A merge or merger is the process of uniting two or more articles into a single article. It is done by copying some or all content from the source article(s)...

A content fork is a piece of content (such as an inter-wiki object, a page, or a page section) that has the same scope as another piece of content that...

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The Libera Chat network has "chat rooms" dedicated to Wikipedia 24 hours a day, in which Wikipedians can engage in real-time discussions with each other...

The following is a manual of style for film-related articles under WikiProject Film. The majority of the guidelines focus on writing articles about individual...

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potentially problematic redirects are discussed. Items usually stay listed for a week or so, after which they are deleted, kept, or retargeted. If you want...

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particular to evaluate the breathability of construction materials. There is a page in French - not in English. California Academy of Sciences Fellows -...

please see: Category:Compositions by composer. Judgment calls arise when a work has a famous nickname. For example, it might be more useful to readers to label...

Wikipedia a better encyclopedia. How many times have you read something and thought—Why doesn't this page have correct spelling, proper grammar, or a better...

used as a tool to direct certain discussions to more appropriate forums, such as requests for comment, or other noticeboards. You can ask a question...

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to a category should contain a link to a page that describes the category. Similarly, a sub-category belonging to a parent category should contain a link...

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WikiProject Film is a WikiProject dedicated to building comprehensive and detailed articles on Wikipedia about topics related to films. Please feel free...

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(text, pages, images, etc.) is deleted (or not accepted for publication from a draft), various policies and guidelines such as "What Wikipedia is not", notability...

about adhering to a neutral point of view and selecting an appropriate logo and representation. The encyclopedic rationale for including a logo is similar...

A WikiProject is a group of editors who want to work together. A WikiProject is not a subject area, a group of pages, a banner on talk pages, or any of...

forward and helping to break deadlocks. The four steps are: Bold editing is a fundamental principle of Wikipedia. All editors are welcome to make positive...

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