Template:Wikipedia policies and guidelines

v t e Key Wikipedia policies and guidelines

Overview	Five pillars Policies and guidelines List of policies and guidelines List of policies List of guidelines

Project-wide principles	Consensus Dispute resolution Editing policy Ignore all rules What Wikipedia is not

Core content policies	Neutral point of view No original research Verifiability

Other content policies	Article titles Biographies of living persons Deletion Image use

Content guidelines	Citing sources Disambiguation Do not create hoaxes Do not include copies of primary sources Treatment of fringe theories Identifying reliable sources Notability Patent nonsense

Behavioural policies	Child protection Civility Courtesy vanishing Edit warring Harassment No legal threats No personal attacks Ownership of articles Sock puppetry

Behavioural guidelines	Assume good faith Conflict of interest Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point Etiquette Gaming the system Please do not bite the newcomers

Editing guidelines	Article size Be bold Hatnotes Signatures Subpages Talk page guidelines User pages Vandalism WikiProjects

Style conventions	Manual of Style Contents Accessibility Understandability Dates and numbers Images Layout Lead section Linking Lists

Classification guidelines	Categories, lists, and navigation templates Categorization Template namespace

Wikimedia Foundation	List of policies Licensing and copyright Privacy policy Values

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