Wikipedia:Wikimedia policy

This page documents an English Wikipedia procedural policy.

It documents various processes by which the English Wikipedia operates.

This page in a nutshell: Certain policies are set by the Wikimedia Foundation and not subject to local consensus. These pages are hosted on the Foundation website.

This page contains links to Wikimedia Foundation pages which not only express the policy of the Wikimedia Foundation, but have also been suggested as particularly relevant on the English Wikipedia:

Wikimedia:Terms of Use

Wikimedia:Privacy policy

Also see Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 4.0 (Unported) and GNU Free Documentation License, linked from Wikimedia:Terms of Use.

P	Verifiability No original research Neutral point of view What Wikipedia is not Biographies of living persons Copyright (Copyright violations) Image use Article titles
G	Notability Autobiography Citing sources Reliable sources Medicine Do not include copies of lengthy primary sources Plagiarism Don't create hoaxes Fringe theories Patent nonsense External links

Conduct (?)

P	Civility Consensus Harassment Vandalism Ignore all rules No personal attacks Ownership of content Edit warring Dispute resolution Sockpuppetry No legal threats Child protection Paid-contribution disclosure
G	Assume good faith Conflict of interest Disruptive editing Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point Etiquette Gaming the system Please do not bite the newcomers Courtesy vanishing Responding to threats of harm Talk page guidelines Signatures

Deletion (?)

P	Deletion policy Proposed deletion Biographies Speedy deletion Attack page Oversight Revision deletion

Enforcement (?)

P	Administrators Banning Blocking Page protection

Editing (?)

P

Editing policy

G

Article size Summary style Be bold Disambiguation Hatnotes Broad-concept article Understandability
Style	Manual of Style Contents Accessibility Dates and numbers Images Layout Lead section Linking Lists
Classification	Categories, lists, and navigation templates Categorization Template namespace

Project content (?)

G	Project namespace WikiProjects User pages User boxes Shortcuts Subpages

WMF (?)

P	Universal Code of Conduct Terms of Use List of policies Friendly space policy Licensing and copyright Privacy policy

List of all policies and guidelines
- P: List of policies
- G: List of guidelines
Summaries of values and principles
FAQ

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See also