Policies and guidelines
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Wikipedia has many established policies, guidelines, conventions, and traditions. This is a very brief sampling of some of the most important; for more information, see the main policies and guidelines page. Policies and guidelines apply to both articles and how to work with fellow editors. For easy access, the shortcuts to the pages are also listed.
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Dept. of Fun ·
Missing encyclopedic articles
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Featured content ·
Good articles ·
Requests for feedback ·
Deleting a page (full policy) ·
Moving a page (naming policies) ·
Protecting a page (full policy) ·
Reverting a page ·
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Category-based access
How to resolve conflicts
Stay cool! ·
Be nice to newcomers ·
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Mottoes
Here is a list of the main community pages of Wikipedia's sister projects. All of these projects are multilingual and open-content.
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Meta-Wiki –
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Coordination of all Wikimedia projects.
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Wiktionary –
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A collaborative multilingual dictionary.
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Wikinews –
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News stories written by readers.
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Wikibooks –
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A collection of collaborative non-fiction books.
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Wikiquote –
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A compendium of referenced quotations.
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Wikisource –
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A repository for free source texts.
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Wikispecies –
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A directory of species.
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Wikiversity –
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Where teachers learn, and learners teach.
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Wikivoyage –
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A world-wide travel guide.
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Wikidata –
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A free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike.
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Commons –
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Repository for free images and other media files.
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