This is a list of Wikipedia specific abbreviations and includes some of the most common shortcuts. You can add to this list, but it should be something that is relatively frequently used. The shortcuts list may also be helpful. See also WP:Wikipedia abbreviations.


AbbreviationDefinition
3RR Three Revert Rule
AfC Articles for Creation
AfD Articles for Deletion
AGF Assume Good Faith
AMG All Music Guide
AN Administrator's Noticeboard
AP Arbitration Policy
ArbCom Arbitration Committee
AWB AutoWikiBrowser
CfD Categories for Deletion
CP Copyright Problems
CSD Criteria for Speedy Deletion
CV Copyright Violation
DR Deletion Review
DYK Did You Know
IAR Ignore All Rules
IfD Images for Deletion
MfD Miscellany for Deletion
NN Non-Notable
NNPOV Non-Neutral Point Of View
NOR No Original Research
NPA No Personal Attacks
NPOV Neutral Point Of View
PD Public Domain
POV Point Of View
PROD Proposed Deletion
RfA Requests for Adminship
RfD Redirects for Deletion
SD Speedy Delete, Speedy Deletions
SP Semi-Protection
Sprotection Semi-protection
TfD Templates for Deletion
V Verifiability
VIE Voting Is Evil
WM Wikimedia
WP Wikipedia
WP:3RR Three Revert Rule
WP:ADMIN Administrators
WP:AFC Articles For Creation
WP:AFD Articles For Deletion
WP:AGF Assume Good Faith
WP:AN Administrator's Noticeboard
WP:AP Arbitration Policy
WP:AUTO Autobiography guidelines
WP:AWB AutoWikiBrowser
WP:BB Be bold in updating pages
WP:BIO People notability guidelines
WP:BOT Bots
WP:BCRAT Bureaucrats
WP:CIVIL Civility
WP:CORP Business notability guidelines
WP:D Disambiguation
WP:DEL Deletion Policy
WP:DP Deletion Policy
WP:FAITH Assume Good Faith
WP:FICTION Fiction notability guidelines
WP:I Introduction to Wikipedia
WP:MUSIC Music notability guidelines
WP:NEW New user log
WP:NOR No Original Research
WP:NOT What Wikipedia is not
WP:NPA No Personal Attacks
WP:NPOV Neutral Point Of View
WP:RPP Requests for Page Protection
WP:PD Public Domain
WP:PN Patent Nonsense
WP:POINT Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point
WP:PROD Proposed Deletion
WP:SELF Avoid self-references
WP:SEMI Semi-Protection Policy
WP:SPP Semi-Protection Policy
WP:V Verifiability
WP:VAIN Vanity guidelines
WP:VAND Vandalism
WP:VANITY Vanity guidelines
WP:VIE Voting Is Evil
XfD Anything for deletion