Template:Wikipedia essays

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| group1 = Essays on building, editing, and deleting content |abbr1=building |state1 = |list1= {{Navbox|child |group1= Philosophy |list1=

• Articles must be written
• Avoid vague introductions
• Be a reliable source
• Cohesion
• Concede lost arguments
• 8 simple rules for editing our encyclopedia
• Don't lie
• Explanationism
• External criticism of Wikipedia
• Here to build an encyclopedia
• Most ideas are bad
• Not editing because of Wikipedia restriction
• Neutrality of Sources
• Oversimplification
• Paradoxes
• Paraphrasing
• POV and OR from editors, sources, and fields
• Product, process, policy
• Purpose
• Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia
• Tendentious editing
• The role of policies in collaborative anarchy
• The rules are principles
• Trifecta
• Wikipedia in brief
• Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
• Wikipedia is a community

|group2=Construction |list2=

• 100K featured articles
• A navbox on every page
• Acronym Overkill
• Adding images improves the encyclopedia
• Advanced article editing
• Advanced table formatting
• Advanced template coding
• Advanced text formatting
• Alternatives to the "Expand" template
• Amnesia test
• An unfinished house is a real problem
• Articles have a half-life
• Autosizing images
• Avoid mission statements
• Bare URLs
• Be neutral in form
• Beef up that first revision
• Blind men and an elephant
• Cherrypicking
• Children's lit, adult new readers, & large-print books
• Citation overkill
• Concept cloud
• Creating controversial content
• Dictionaries as sources
• Don't demolish the house while it's still being built
• Don't hope the house will build itself
• Don't panic
• Editing on mobile devices
• Editors are not mindreaders
• Endorsements (commercial)
• Featured articles may have problems
• Fruit of the poisonous tree
• Give an article a chance
• Ignore STRONGNAT for date formats
• Inaccuracy
• Law sources
• 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
• Nothing is in stone
• Permastub
• Potential, not just current state
• Printability
• Pruning article revisions
• Publicists
• Put a little effort into it
• Restoring part of a reverted edit
• Robotic editing
• Sham consensus
• Run an edit-a-thon
• Temporary versions of articles
• There is a deadline
• There is no deadline
• The deadline is now
• 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
• [[Wikipedia:Verbage|Verbage = Word garbage
• Write the article first
• Writing better articles

|group3=Deletion |list3=

• 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!
• Content removal
• Delete the junk
• Does deletion help
• Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument
• Follow the leader
• How to save an article proposed for deletion
• I just don't like it
• Immunity
• Liar Liar Pants on Fire
• Nothing
• Overzealous deletion
• Relisting can be abusive
• 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

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| group2 = Essays on civility |abbr2=civility |state2 =

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The basics	How to be civil Compromise Accepting other users Enjoy yourself Expect no thanks Thank you Apologizing Truce Divisiveness Encouraging newcomers Relationships with academic editors High-functioning autism and Asperger's editors Wikipedia:Editors with OCD
Philosophy	An uncivil environment is a poor environment Be the glue Civility warnings Deletion as revenge 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 Staying cool when the editing gets hot The grey zone The last word Most ideas are bad The rules of polite discourse There is no common sense Wikipedia is not about winning Writing for the opponent
Dos	Assume good faith Assume the assumption of good faith Assume no clue Avoid personal remarks Avoid the word "vandal" Call a spade a spade Candor Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass Deny recognition Encourage full discussions Get over it Inform for guidance How to lose Just drop it Mind your own business Keep it down to earth
Don'ts	Don't give a fuck Don't be inconsiderate Don't be rude Don't call a spade a spade Don't call the kettle black Don't take the bait Do not insult the vandals Don't come down like a ton of bricks Don't be ashamed Don't drink the consensus Kool-Aid Don't spite your face Don't call things cruft No angry mastodons No, you can't have a pony Don't be an ostrich Don't template the regulars Don't be a fanatic Don't accuse someone of a personal attack for accusing of a personal attack Don't fight fire with fire Don't be prejudiced Don't remind others of past misdeeds Don't throw your toys out of the pram Don't help too much Passive Aggressive Don't cry COI Don't be obnoxious Don't be a WikiBigot You can't squeeze blood from a turnip
Wiki relations	WikiLove WikiHate WikiCrime WikiBullying WikiPeace WikiLawyering WikiHarassment POV Railroading

| group3 = Essays on notability |abbr3=notability |state3 =

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Notability

Alternative outlets Articles with a single source Bare notability Bombardment Businesses with a single location But it's true! Citation overkill Clones Coatrack Discriminate vs indiscriminate information Every snowflake is unique Existence ≠ Notability Fart Google searches and numbers High Schools Inclusion is not an indicator of notability Inherent notability Insignificant Masking the lack of notability Make stubs News coverage does not decrease notability No amount of editing can overcome a lack of notability No big loss No one cares about your garage band No one really cares Notability/Historical/Arguments Notability cannot be purchased Notability is not a level playing field Notability is not a matter of opinion Notability is not relevance or reliability Notability means impact Notability points Notability sub-pages Obscurity ≠ Lack of notability Offline sources One hundred words One sentence does not an article make Other stuff exists Pokémon test Run-of-the-mill Significant coverage not required Solutions are mixtures and nothing else Subjective importance What notability is not Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause

General notability guideline

Independent sources Significant coverage Third-party sources Trivial mentions

| group4 = Humorous essays |abbr4=humour |state4 =

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Humorous material

Assume bad faith Assume good wraith Assume stupidity Assume that everyone's assuming good faith, assuming that you are assuming good faith Avoid using preview button Avoid using wikilinks BOLD, revert, revert, revert Boston Tea Party Barnstaritis Don't-give-a-fuckism Edits Per Day Editsummarisis Go ahead, vandalize Lamest edit wars Newcomers are delicious, so go ahead and bite them No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you Please bite the newbies R-e-s-p-e-c-t How many Wikipedians does it take to change a lightbulb? The first rule of Wikipedia The Five Pillars of Untruth Watchlistitis Why not create an Account?

Inactive historical references

Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Unblock Emails

| group5 =About essays |abbr5=about |state5 =

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About essays	Essay guide Value of essays Difference between policies, guidelines and essays Essays are not policy Don't cite essays as if they were policy Avoid writing redundant essays Finding an essay Quote your own essay
Related subjects	About policies and guidelines Policies Guidelines

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