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Wikipedia essays
Essays on building, editing, and deleting content
Philosophy
  • Articles must be written
  • All Five Pillars are the same height
  • Avoid vague introductions
  • Be a reliable source
  • Civil POV pushing
  • Cohesion
  • Competence is required
  • Concede lost arguments
  • Dissent is not disloyalty
  • Don't lie
  • Don't search for objections
  • Editing Wikipedia is like visiting a foreign country
  • Editors will sometimes be wrong
  • Eight simple rules for editing our encyclopedia
  • Explanationism
  • External criticism of Wikipedia
  • Here to build an encyclopedia
  • Levels of competence
  • Most ideas are bad
  • Need
  • Neutrality of sources
  • Not editing because of Wikipedia restriction
  • The one question
  • Oversimplification
  • Paradoxes
  • Paraphrasing
  • POV and OR from editors, sources, and fields
  • Process is important
  • Product, process, policy
  • Purpose
  • Reasonability rule
  • Systemic bias
  • There is no seniority
  • 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
Article construction
  • 100K featured articles
  • Acronym overkill
  • Advanced source searching
  • Adding images improves the encyclopedia
  • Advanced article editing
  • Advanced table formatting
  • Advanced template coding
  • Advanced text formatting
  • Alternatives to the "Expand" template
  • Amnesia test
  • A navbox on every page
  • 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
  • BOLD, revert, discuss cycle
  • Build content to endure
  • Cherrypicking
  • Chesterton's fence
  • Children's lit, adult new readers, & large-print books
  • Citation overkill
  • Citation underkill
  • Common-style fallacy
  • Concept cloud
  • Creating controversial content
  • Criticisms of society may be consistent with NPOV and reliability
  • Deprecated sources
  • Dictionaries as sources
  • Don't demolish the house while it's still being built
  • Don't get hung up on minor details
  • Don't hope the house will build itself
  • Don't panic
  • Don't revert due solely to "no consensus"
  • Don't teach the controversy
  • Editing on mobile devices
  • Editors are not mindreaders
  • Encourage the newcomers
  • Endorsements (commercial)
  • Featured articles may have problems
  • Formatting bilateral relations articles
  • Formatting bilateral relations templates
  • Fruit of the poisonous tree
  • Give an article a chance
  • How to write a featured article
  • Identifying and using independent sources
    • History sources
    • Law sources
    • Primary sources
    • Science sources
    • Style guides
    • Tertiary sources
  • Ignore STRONGNAT for date formats
  • Inaccuracies in Wikipedia namespace
  • Inaccuracy
  • Introduction to structurism
  • 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
  • Not everything needs a template
  • Not everything needs a WikiProject
  • Nothing is in stone
  • Obtain peer review comments
  • Organizing disambiguation pages by subject area
  • Permastub
  • Potential, not just current state
  • Presentism
  • Principle of Some Astonishment
  • Printability
  • Pruning article revisions
  • Publicists
  • Put a little effort into it
  • Restoring part of a reverted edit
  • Robotic editing
  • Sham consensus
  • Specialized-style fallacy
  • Stub Makers
  • Run an edit-a-thon
  • Temporary versions of articles
  • Tertiary-source fallacy
  • There is a deadline
  • There is no deadline
  • The deadline is now
  • Understanding Wikipedia's content standards
  • Walled garden
  • What an article should not include
  • Wikipedia is a work in progress
  • Wikipedia is not a reliable source
  • Wikipedia is not being written in an organized fashion
  • The world will not end tomorrow
  • Write the article first
  • Writing better articles
Writing article content
  • Avoid thread mode
  • Copyediting reception sections
  • Gender-neutral language
  • Proseline
  • Use feminine pronouns
  • Write the article first
  • Writing about women
  • Writing better articles
Removing or
deleting content
  • 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!
  • Confusing arguments mean nothing
  • Content removal
  • Counting and sorting are not original research
  • Delete the junk
  • Does deletion help?
  • Don't attack the nominator
  • Don't confuse stub status with non-notability
  • 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
  • Identifying blatant advertising
  • Identifying test edits
  • Immunity
  • Keep it concise
  • Liar liar pants on fire
  • Nothing
  • Nothing is clear
  • Overzealous deletion
  • Relisting can be abusive
  • Relist bias
  • The Heymann Standard
  • Unopposed AFD discussion
  • 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
  • No Encyclopedic Use
Essays on civility
The basics
  • Accepting other users
  • Apology
  • Contributing to complicated discussions
  • Divisiveness
  • Edit at your own pace
  • Encouraging the newcomers
  • Enjoy yourself
  • Expect no thanks
  • High-functioning autism and Asperger's editors
  • How to be civil
  • Maintaining a friendly space
  • Negotiation
  • Obsessive–compulsive disorder editors
  • Relationships with academic editors
  • Thank you
  • Too long; didn't read
  • Truce
  • Unblock perspectives
  • We are all Wikipedians here
Philosophy
  • A weak personal attack is still wrong
  • Advice for hotheads
  • An uncivil environment is a poor environment
  • Be the glue
  • Beware of the tigers!
  • 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
  • Old-fashioned Wikipedian values
  • Profanity, civility, and discussions
  • Revert notification opt-out
  • Shadowless Fists of Death!
  • Staying cool when the editing gets hot
  • The grey zone
  • The last word
  • There is no Divine Right Of Editors
  • Most ideas are bad
  • Nothing is clear
  • The rules of polite discourse
  • There is no common sense
  • Two wrongs don't make a right
  • Wikipedia is not about winning
  • Wikipedia should not be a monopoly
  • Writing for the opponent
  • Reader
Dos
  • Argue better
  • Assume good faith
  • Assume the assumption of good faith
  • Assume no clue
  • Avoid personal remarks
  • Avoid the word "vandal"
  • Be excellent to one another
  • Beyond civility
  • Call a spade a spade
  • Candor
  • Deny recognition
  • Desist
  • Discussing cruft
  • Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass
  • Encourage full discussions
  • Get over it
  • How to lose
  • Imagine others complexly
  • Just drop it
  • Keep it down to earth
  • Mind your own business
  • Say "MOBY"
  • Read before commenting
  • Settle the process first
Don'ts
  • ALPHABETTISPAGHETTI
  • Civil POV pushing
  • Cyberbullying
  • Don't accuse someone of a personal attack for accusing of a personal attack
  • Don't be a fanatic
  • Don't be a jerk
  • Don't be an ostrich
  • Don't be ashamed
  • Don't be a WikiBigot
  • Don't be high-maintenance
  • Don't be inconsiderate
  • Don't be obnoxious
  • Don't be prejudiced
  • Don't be rude
  • Don't be the Fun Police
  • Don't bludgeon the process
  • Don't call a spade a spade
  • Don't call the kettle black
  • Don't call things cruft
  • Don't come down like a ton of bricks
  • Don't cry COI
  • Don't demand that editors solve the problems they identify
  • Don't drink the consensus Kool-Aid
  • Don't eat the troll's food
  • Don't fight fire with fire
  • Don't give a fuck
  • Don't help too much
  • Don't make a smarmy valediction part of your signature
  • Don't remind others of past misdeeds
  • Don't shout
  • Don't spite your face
  • Don't take the bait
  • Don't template the regulars
  • Don't throw your toys out of the pram
  • Do not insult the vandals
  • Griefing
  • Nationalist editing
  • No angry mastodons
    • just madmen
  • No Nazis
  • No, you can't have a pony
  • Passive aggression
  • Please don't bite the newcomers
  • POV railroad
  • There are no oracles
  • You can't squeeze blood from a turnip
WikiRelations
  • WikiBullying
  • WikiCrime
  • WikiHarassment
  • WikiHate
  • WikiLawyering
  • WikiLove
  • WikiPeace
Essays on notability
  • Advanced source searching
  • All high schools can be notable
  • Alternative outlets
  • Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
  • Articles with a single source
  • Avoid template creep
  • Bare notability
  • Big events make key participants notable
  • Bombardment
  • Businesses with a single location
  • But it's true!
  • Citation overkill
  • Common sourcing mistakes
  • Clones
  • Coatrack
  • Discriminate vs indiscriminate information
  • Drafts are not checked for notability or sanity
  • Every snowflake is unique
  • Existence ≠ Notability
  • Existence does not prove notability
  • Extracting the meaning of significant coverage
  • Fart
  • Google searches and numbers
  • High Schools
  • Inclusion is not an indicator of notability
  • Independent sources
  • 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 comparison test
  • 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
  • Notabilitymandering
  • Not every single thing Donald Trump does deserves an article
  • Obscurity ≠ Lack of notability
  • Offline sources
  • One hundred words
  • One sentence does not an article make
  • Other stuff exists
  • Overreliance upon Google
  • Perennial websites
  • Pokémon test
  • Read the source
  • Reducing consensus to an algorithm
  • Run-of-the-mill
  • Significant coverage not required
  • Solutions are mixtures and nothing else
  • Subjective importance
  • Third-party sources
  • Trivial mentions
  • Video links
  • Vanispamcruftisement
  • What BLP1E is not
  • What is and is not routine coverage
  • What notability is not
  • What to include
  • Wikipedia is not Crunchbase
  • Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause
  • Wikipedia is not the place to post your résumé
Humorous essays
  • Anti-Wikipedian
  • Asshole John rule
  • Assume bad faith
  • Assume 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
  • Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense
  • BOLD, revert, revert, revert
  • Boston Tea Party
  • Barnstaritis
  • CaPiTaLiZaTiOn MuCh?
  • Don't stuff beans up your nose
  • Don't-give-a-fuckism
  • Editcountitis
  • Edits Per Day
  • Editsummarisis
  • Editing Under the Influence
  • Embrace Stop Signs
  • Emerson
  • Seven Ages of Editor, by Will E. Spear-Shake
  • Go ahead, vandalize
  • How many Wikipedians does it take to change a lightbulb?
  • How to put up a straight pole by pushing it at an angle
  • How to vandalize correctly
  • Is that even an essay?
  • Newcomers are delicious, so go ahead and bite them
  • Legal vandalism
  • LTTAUTMAOK
  • No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man
  • Oops Defense
  • Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you
  • Please bite the newbies
  • R-e-s-p-e-c-t
  • Requests for medication
  • Requirements for adminship
  • Rouge admin
  • Rouge editor
  • Sarcasm is really helpful
  • Sausages for tasting
  • The Night Before Wikimas
  • The first rule of Wikipedia
  • The Five Pillars of Untruth
  • Things that should not be surprising
  • The WikiBible
  • Watchlistitis
  • Why not create an account?
  • You don't have to be mad to work here, but
About essays
About essays
  • Essay guide
  • Value of essays
  • Difference between policies, guidelines and essays
  • Don't cite essays as if they were policy
  • Avoid writing redundant essays
  • Finding an essay
  • Quote your own essay
Policies and guidelines
  • About policies and guidelines
    • Policies
    • Guidelines
  • How to contribute to Wikipedia guidance
  • Policy writing is hard
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Contents

  • 1 Usage
    • 1.1 Opening a single subsection
    • 1.2 Opening multiple subsections
  • 2 Background
  • 3 See also

Usage

Opening a single subsection

Add |name to show (uncollapse) any of the subsections, by default.

Abbreviated section names are building, civility, notability, and humour.

  • {{Wikipedia essays|building}}
  • {{Wikipedia essays|civility}}
  • {{Wikipedia essays|notability}}
  • {{Wikipedia essays|humour}}

For example, {{Wikipedia essays|notability}} will produce:

  • v
  • t
  • e
Wikipedia essays
Essays on building, editing, and deleting content
Philosophy
  • Articles must be written
  • All Five Pillars are the same height
  • Avoid vague introductions
  • Be a reliable source
  • Civil POV pushing
  • Cohesion
  • Competence is required
  • Concede lost arguments
  • Dissent is not disloyalty
  • Don't lie
  • Don't search for objections
  • Editing Wikipedia is like visiting a foreign country
  • Editors will sometimes be wrong
  • Eight simple rules for editing our encyclopedia
  • Explanationism
  • External criticism of Wikipedia
  • Here to build an encyclopedia
  • Levels of competence
  • Most ideas are bad
  • Need
  • Neutrality of sources
  • Not editing because of Wikipedia restriction
  • The one question
  • Oversimplification
  • Paradoxes
  • Paraphrasing
  • POV and OR from editors, sources, and fields
  • Process is important
  • Product, process, policy
  • Purpose
  • Reasonability rule
  • Systemic bias
  • There is no seniority
  • 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
Article construction
  • 100K featured articles
  • Acronym overkill
  • Advanced source searching
  • Adding images improves the encyclopedia
  • Advanced article editing
  • Advanced table formatting
  • Advanced template coding
  • Advanced text formatting
  • Alternatives to the "Expand" template
  • Amnesia test
  • A navbox on every page
  • 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
  • BOLD, revert, discuss cycle
  • Build content to endure
  • Cherrypicking
  • Chesterton's fence
  • Children's lit, adult new readers, & large-print books
  • Citation overkill
  • Citation underkill
  • Common-style fallacy
  • Concept cloud
  • Creating controversial content
  • Criticisms of society may be consistent with NPOV and reliability
  • Deprecated sources
  • Dictionaries as sources
  • Don't demolish the house while it's still being built
  • Don't get hung up on minor details
  • Don't hope the house will build itself
  • Don't panic
  • Don't revert due solely to "no consensus"
  • Don't teach the controversy
  • Editing on mobile devices
  • Editors are not mindreaders
  • Encourage the newcomers
  • Endorsements (commercial)
  • Featured articles may have problems
  • Formatting bilateral relations articles
  • Formatting bilateral relations templates
  • Fruit of the poisonous tree
  • Give an article a chance
  • How to write a featured article
  • Identifying and using independent sources
    • History sources
    • Law sources
    • Primary sources
    • Science sources
    • Style guides
    • Tertiary sources
  • Ignore STRONGNAT for date formats
  • Inaccuracies in Wikipedia namespace
  • Inaccuracy
  • Introduction to structurism
  • 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
  • Not everything needs a template
  • Not everything needs a WikiProject
  • Nothing is in stone
  • Obtain peer review comments
  • Organizing disambiguation pages by subject area
  • Permastub
  • Potential, not just current state
  • Presentism
  • Principle of Some Astonishment
  • Printability
  • Pruning article revisions
  • Publicists
  • Put a little effort into it
  • Restoring part of a reverted edit
  • Robotic editing
  • Sham consensus
  • Specialized-style fallacy
  • Stub Makers
  • Run an edit-a-thon
  • Temporary versions of articles
  • Tertiary-source fallacy
  • There is a deadline
  • There is no deadline
  • The deadline is now
  • Understanding Wikipedia's content standards
  • Walled garden
  • What an article should not include
  • Wikipedia is a work in progress
  • Wikipedia is not a reliable source
  • Wikipedia is not being written in an organized fashion
  • The world will not end tomorrow
  • Write the article first
  • Writing better articles
Writing article content
  • Avoid thread mode
  • Copyediting reception sections
  • Gender-neutral language
  • Proseline
  • Use feminine pronouns
  • Write the article first
  • Writing about women
  • Writing better articles
Removing or
deleting content
  • 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!
  • Confusing arguments mean nothing
  • Content removal
  • Counting and sorting are not original research
  • Delete the junk
  • Does deletion help?
  • Don't attack the nominator
  • Don't confuse stub status with non-notability
  • 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
  • Identifying blatant advertising
  • Identifying test edits
  • Immunity
  • Keep it concise
  • Liar liar pants on fire
  • Nothing
  • Nothing is clear
  • Overzealous deletion
  • Relisting can be abusive
  • Relist bias
  • The Heymann Standard
  • Unopposed AFD discussion
  • 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
  • No Encyclopedic Use
Essays on civility
The basics
  • Accepting other users
  • Apology
  • Contributing to complicated discussions
  • Divisiveness
  • Edit at your own pace
  • Encouraging the newcomers
  • Enjoy yourself
  • Expect no thanks
  • High-functioning autism and Asperger's editors
  • How to be civil
  • Maintaining a friendly space
  • Negotiation
  • Obsessive–compulsive disorder editors
  • Relationships with academic editors
  • Thank you
  • Too long; didn't read
  • Truce
  • Unblock perspectives
  • We are all Wikipedians here
Philosophy
  • A weak personal attack is still wrong
  • Advice for hotheads
  • An uncivil environment is a poor environment
  • Be the glue
  • Beware of the tigers!
  • 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
  • Old-fashioned Wikipedian values
  • Profanity, civility, and discussions
  • Revert notification opt-out
  • Shadowless Fists of Death!
  • Staying cool when the editing gets hot
  • The grey zone
  • The last word
  • There is no Divine Right Of Editors
  • Most ideas are bad
  • Nothing is clear
  • The rules of polite discourse
  • There is no common sense
  • Two wrongs don't make a right
  • Wikipedia is not about winning
  • Wikipedia should not be a monopoly
  • Writing for the opponent
  • Reader
Dos
  • Argue better
  • Assume good faith
  • Assume the assumption of good faith
  • Assume no clue
  • Avoid personal remarks
  • Avoid the word "vandal"
  • Be excellent to one another
  • Beyond civility
  • Call a spade a spade
  • Candor
  • Deny recognition
  • Desist
  • Discussing cruft
  • Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass
  • Encourage full discussions
  • Get over it
  • How to lose
  • Imagine others complexly
  • Just drop it
  • Keep it down to earth
  • Mind your own business
  • Say "MOBY"
  • Read before commenting
  • Settle the process first
Don'ts
  • ALPHABETTISPAGHETTI
  • Civil POV pushing
  • Cyberbullying
  • Don't accuse someone of a personal attack for accusing of a personal attack
  • Don't be a fanatic
  • Don't be a jerk
  • Don't be an ostrich
  • Don't be ashamed
  • Don't be a WikiBigot
  • Don't be high-maintenance
  • Don't be inconsiderate
  • Don't be obnoxious
  • Don't be prejudiced
  • Don't be rude
  • Don't be the Fun Police
  • Don't bludgeon the process
  • Don't call a spade a spade
  • Don't call the kettle black
  • Don't call things cruft
  • Don't come down like a ton of bricks
  • Don't cry COI
  • Don't demand that editors solve the problems they identify
  • Don't drink the consensus Kool-Aid
  • Don't eat the troll's food
  • Don't fight fire with fire
  • Don't give a fuck
  • Don't help too much
  • Don't make a smarmy valediction part of your signature
  • Don't remind others of past misdeeds
  • Don't shout
  • Don't spite your face
  • Don't take the bait
  • Don't template the regulars
  • Don't throw your toys out of the pram
  • Do not insult the vandals
  • Griefing
  • Nationalist editing
  • No angry mastodons
    • just madmen
  • No Nazis
  • No, you can't have a pony
  • Passive aggression
  • Please don't bite the newcomers
  • POV railroad
  • There are no oracles
  • You can't squeeze blood from a turnip
WikiRelations
  • WikiBullying
  • WikiCrime
  • WikiHarassment
  • WikiHate
  • WikiLawyering
  • WikiLove
  • WikiPeace
Essays on notability
  • Advanced source searching
  • All high schools can be notable
  • Alternative outlets
  • Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
  • Articles with a single source
  • Avoid template creep
  • Bare notability
  • Big events make key participants notable
  • Bombardment
  • Businesses with a single location
  • But it's true!
  • Citation overkill
  • Common sourcing mistakes
  • Clones
  • Coatrack
  • Discriminate vs indiscriminate information
  • Drafts are not checked for notability or sanity
  • Every snowflake is unique
  • Existence ≠ Notability
  • Existence does not prove notability
  • Extracting the meaning of significant coverage
  • Fart
  • Google searches and numbers
  • High Schools
  • Inclusion is not an indicator of notability
  • Independent sources
  • 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 comparison test
  • 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
  • Notabilitymandering
  • Not every single thing Donald Trump does deserves an article
  • Obscurity ≠ Lack of notability
  • Offline sources
  • One hundred words
  • One sentence does not an article make
  • Other stuff exists
  • Overreliance upon Google
  • Perennial websites
  • Pokémon test
  • Read the source
  • Reducing consensus to an algorithm
  • Run-of-the-mill
  • Significant coverage not required
  • Solutions are mixtures and nothing else
  • Subjective importance
  • Third-party sources
  • Trivial mentions
  • Video links
  • Vanispamcruftisement
  • What BLP1E is not
  • What is and is not routine coverage
  • What notability is not
  • What to include
  • Wikipedia is not Crunchbase
  • Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause
  • Wikipedia is not the place to post your résumé
Humorous essays
  • Anti-Wikipedian
  • Asshole John rule
  • Assume bad faith
  • Assume 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
  • Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense
  • BOLD, revert, revert, revert
  • Boston Tea Party
  • Barnstaritis
  • CaPiTaLiZaTiOn MuCh?
  • Don't stuff beans up your nose
  • Don't-give-a-fuckism
  • Editcountitis
  • Edits Per Day
  • Editsummarisis
  • Editing Under the Influence
  • Embrace Stop Signs
  • Emerson
  • Seven Ages of Editor, by Will E. Spear-Shake
  • Go ahead, vandalize
  • How many Wikipedians does it take to change a lightbulb?
  • How to put up a straight pole by pushing it at an angle
  • How to vandalize correctly
  • Is that even an essay?
  • Newcomers are delicious, so go ahead and bite them
  • Legal vandalism
  • LTTAUTMAOK
  • No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man
  • Oops Defense
  • Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you
  • Please bite the newbies
  • R-e-s-p-e-c-t
  • Requests for medication
  • Requirements for adminship
  • Rouge admin
  • Rouge editor
  • Sarcasm is really helpful
  • Sausages for tasting
  • The Night Before Wikimas
  • The first rule of Wikipedia
  • The Five Pillars of Untruth
  • Things that should not be surprising
  • The WikiBible
  • Watchlistitis
  • Why not create an account?
  • You don't have to be mad to work here, but
About essays
About essays
  • Essay guide
  • Value of essays
  • Difference between policies, guidelines and essays
  • Don't cite essays as if they were policy
  • Avoid writing redundant essays
  • Finding an essay
  • Quote your own essay
Policies and guidelines
  • About policies and guidelines
    • Policies
    • Guidelines
  • How to contribute to Wikipedia guidance
  • Policy writing is hard

Opening multiple subsections

To show multiple, or all of, the subsections at once, use staten, e.g.:

  • {{Wikipedia essays|state=expanded|state1=collapsed|state2=collapsed|state3=expanded|state4=collapsed|state5=collapsed}}

Parameter state controls the entire template; state1 controls the building essays; state2 controls the civility essays; state3 controls the notability essays; state4 controls the humour essays; state5 controls the 'About essays' section. These can be set to expanded or collapsed. The above example will produce this:

  • v
  • t
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Wikipedia essays
Essays on building, editing, and deleting content
Philosophy
  • Articles must be written
  • All Five Pillars are the same height
  • Avoid vague introductions
  • Be a reliable source
  • Civil POV pushing
  • Cohesion
  • Competence is required
  • Concede lost arguments
  • Dissent is not disloyalty
  • Don't lie
  • Don't search for objections
  • Editing Wikipedia is like visiting a foreign country
  • Editors will sometimes be wrong
  • Eight simple rules for editing our encyclopedia
  • Explanationism
  • External criticism of Wikipedia
  • Here to build an encyclopedia
  • Levels of competence
  • Most ideas are bad
  • Need
  • Neutrality of sources
  • Not editing because of Wikipedia restriction
  • The one question
  • Oversimplification
  • Paradoxes
  • Paraphrasing
  • POV and OR from editors, sources, and fields
  • Process is important
  • Product, process, policy
  • Purpose
  • Reasonability rule
  • Systemic bias
  • There is no seniority
  • 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
Article construction
  • 100K featured articles
  • Acronym overkill
  • Advanced source searching
  • Adding images improves the encyclopedia
  • Advanced article editing
  • Advanced table formatting
  • Advanced template coding
  • Advanced text formatting
  • Alternatives to the "Expand" template
  • Amnesia test
  • A navbox on every page
  • 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
  • BOLD, revert, discuss cycle
  • Build content to endure
  • Cherrypicking
  • Chesterton's fence
  • Children's lit, adult new readers, & large-print books
  • Citation overkill
  • Citation underkill
  • Common-style fallacy
  • Concept cloud
  • Creating controversial content
  • Criticisms of society may be consistent with NPOV and reliability
  • Deprecated sources
  • Dictionaries as sources
  • Don't demolish the house while it's still being built
  • Don't get hung up on minor details
  • Don't hope the house will build itself
  • Don't panic
  • Don't revert due solely to "no consensus"
  • Don't teach the controversy
  • Editing on mobile devices
  • Editors are not mindreaders
  • Encourage the newcomers
  • Endorsements (commercial)
  • Featured articles may have problems
  • Formatting bilateral relations articles
  • Formatting bilateral relations templates
  • Fruit of the poisonous tree
  • Give an article a chance
  • How to write a featured article
  • Identifying and using independent sources
    • History sources
    • Law sources
    • Primary sources
    • Science sources
    • Style guides
    • Tertiary sources
  • Ignore STRONGNAT for date formats
  • Inaccuracies in Wikipedia namespace
  • Inaccuracy
  • Introduction to structurism
  • 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
  • Not everything needs a template
  • Not everything needs a WikiProject
  • Nothing is in stone
  • Obtain peer review comments
  • Organizing disambiguation pages by subject area
  • Permastub
  • Potential, not just current state
  • Presentism
  • Principle of Some Astonishment
  • Printability
  • Pruning article revisions
  • Publicists
  • Put a little effort into it
  • Restoring part of a reverted edit
  • Robotic editing
  • Sham consensus
  • Specialized-style fallacy
  • Stub Makers
  • Run an edit-a-thon
  • Temporary versions of articles
  • Tertiary-source fallacy
  • There is a deadline
  • There is no deadline
  • The deadline is now
  • Understanding Wikipedia's content standards
  • Walled garden
  • What an article should not include
  • Wikipedia is a work in progress
  • Wikipedia is not a reliable source
  • Wikipedia is not being written in an organized fashion
  • The world will not end tomorrow
  • Write the article first
  • Writing better articles
Writing article content
  • Avoid thread mode
  • Copyediting reception sections
  • Gender-neutral language
  • Proseline
  • Use feminine pronouns
  • Write the article first
  • Writing about women
  • Writing better articles
Removing or
deleting content
  • 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!
  • Confusing arguments mean nothing
  • Content removal
  • Counting and sorting are not original research
  • Delete the junk
  • Does deletion help?
  • Don't attack the nominator
  • Don't confuse stub status with non-notability
  • 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
  • Identifying blatant advertising
  • Identifying test edits
  • Immunity
  • Keep it concise
  • Liar liar pants on fire
  • Nothing
  • Nothing is clear
  • Overzealous deletion
  • Relisting can be abusive
  • Relist bias
  • The Heymann Standard
  • Unopposed AFD discussion
  • 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
  • No Encyclopedic Use
Essays on civility
The basics
  • Accepting other users
  • Apology
  • Contributing to complicated discussions
  • Divisiveness
  • Edit at your own pace
  • Encouraging the newcomers
  • Enjoy yourself
  • Expect no thanks
  • High-functioning autism and Asperger's editors
  • How to be civil
  • Maintaining a friendly space
  • Negotiation
  • Obsessive–compulsive disorder editors
  • Relationships with academic editors
  • Thank you
  • Too long; didn't read
  • Truce
  • Unblock perspectives
  • We are all Wikipedians here
Philosophy
  • A weak personal attack is still wrong
  • Advice for hotheads
  • An uncivil environment is a poor environment
  • Be the glue
  • Beware of the tigers!
  • 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
  • Old-fashioned Wikipedian values
  • Profanity, civility, and discussions
  • Revert notification opt-out
  • Shadowless Fists of Death!
  • Staying cool when the editing gets hot
  • The grey zone
  • The last word
  • There is no Divine Right Of Editors
  • Most ideas are bad
  • Nothing is clear
  • The rules of polite discourse
  • There is no common sense
  • Two wrongs don't make a right
  • Wikipedia is not about winning
  • Wikipedia should not be a monopoly
  • Writing for the opponent
  • Reader
Dos
  • Argue better
  • Assume good faith
  • Assume the assumption of good faith
  • Assume no clue
  • Avoid personal remarks
  • Avoid the word "vandal"
  • Be excellent to one another
  • Beyond civility
  • Call a spade a spade
  • Candor
  • Deny recognition
  • Desist
  • Discussing cruft
  • Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass
  • Encourage full discussions
  • Get over it
  • How to lose
  • Imagine others complexly
  • Just drop it
  • Keep it down to earth
  • Mind your own business
  • Say "MOBY"
  • Read before commenting
  • Settle the process first
Don'ts
  • ALPHABETTISPAGHETTI
  • Civil POV pushing
  • Cyberbullying
  • Don't accuse someone of a personal attack for accusing of a personal attack
  • Don't be a fanatic
  • Don't be a jerk
  • Don't be an ostrich
  • Don't be ashamed
  • Don't be a WikiBigot
  • Don't be high-maintenance
  • Don't be inconsiderate
  • Don't be obnoxious
  • Don't be prejudiced
  • Don't be rude
  • Don't be the Fun Police
  • Don't bludgeon the process
  • Don't call a spade a spade
  • Don't call the kettle black
  • Don't call things cruft
  • Don't come down like a ton of bricks
  • Don't cry COI
  • Don't demand that editors solve the problems they identify
  • Don't drink the consensus Kool-Aid
  • Don't eat the troll's food
  • Don't fight fire with fire
  • Don't give a fuck
  • Don't help too much
  • Don't make a smarmy valediction part of your signature
  • Don't remind others of past misdeeds
  • Don't shout
  • Don't spite your face
  • Don't take the bait
  • Don't template the regulars
  • Don't throw your toys out of the pram
  • Do not insult the vandals
  • Griefing
  • Nationalist editing
  • No angry mastodons
    • just madmen
  • No Nazis
  • No, you can't have a pony
  • Passive aggression
  • Please don't bite the newcomers
  • POV railroad
  • There are no oracles
  • You can't squeeze blood from a turnip
WikiRelations
  • WikiBullying
  • WikiCrime
  • WikiHarassment
  • WikiHate
  • WikiLawyering
  • WikiLove
  • WikiPeace
Essays on notability
  • Advanced source searching
  • All high schools can be notable
  • Alternative outlets
  • Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
  • Articles with a single source
  • Avoid template creep
  • Bare notability
  • Big events make key participants notable
  • Bombardment
  • Businesses with a single location
  • But it's true!
  • Citation overkill
  • Common sourcing mistakes
  • Clones
  • Coatrack
  • Discriminate vs indiscriminate information
  • Drafts are not checked for notability or sanity
  • Every snowflake is unique
  • Existence ≠ Notability
  • Existence does not prove notability
  • Extracting the meaning of significant coverage
  • Fart
  • Google searches and numbers
  • High Schools
  • Inclusion is not an indicator of notability
  • Independent sources
  • 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 comparison test
  • 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
  • Notabilitymandering
  • Not every single thing Donald Trump does deserves an article
  • Obscurity ≠ Lack of notability
  • Offline sources
  • One hundred words
  • One sentence does not an article make
  • Other stuff exists
  • Overreliance upon Google
  • Perennial websites
  • Pokémon test
  • Read the source
  • Reducing consensus to an algorithm
  • Run-of-the-mill
  • Significant coverage not required
  • Solutions are mixtures and nothing else
  • Subjective importance
  • Third-party sources
  • Trivial mentions
  • Video links
  • Vanispamcruftisement
  • What BLP1E is not
  • What is and is not routine coverage
  • What notability is not
  • What to include
  • Wikipedia is not Crunchbase
  • Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause
  • Wikipedia is not the place to post your résumé
Humorous essays
  • Anti-Wikipedian
  • Asshole John rule
  • Assume bad faith
  • Assume 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
  • Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense
  • BOLD, revert, revert, revert
  • Boston Tea Party
  • Barnstaritis
  • CaPiTaLiZaTiOn MuCh?
  • Don't stuff beans up your nose
  • Don't-give-a-fuckism
  • Editcountitis
  • Edits Per Day
  • Editsummarisis
  • Editing Under the Influence
  • Embrace Stop Signs
  • Emerson
  • Seven Ages of Editor, by Will E. Spear-Shake
  • Go ahead, vandalize
  • How many Wikipedians does it take to change a lightbulb?
  • How to put up a straight pole by pushing it at an angle
  • How to vandalize correctly
  • Is that even an essay?
  • Newcomers are delicious, so go ahead and bite them
  • Legal vandalism
  • LTTAUTMAOK
  • No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man
  • Oops Defense
  • Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you
  • Please bite the newbies
  • R-e-s-p-e-c-t
  • Requests for medication
  • Requirements for adminship
  • Rouge admin
  • Rouge editor
  • Sarcasm is really helpful
  • Sausages for tasting
  • The Night Before Wikimas
  • The first rule of Wikipedia
  • The Five Pillars of Untruth
  • Things that should not be surprising
  • The WikiBible
  • Watchlistitis
  • Why not create an account?
  • You don't have to be mad to work here, but
About essays
About essays
  • Essay guide
  • Value of essays
  • Difference between policies, guidelines and essays
  • Don't cite essays as if they were policy
  • Avoid writing redundant essays
  • Finding an essay
  • Quote your own essay
Policies and guidelines
  • About policies and guidelines
    • Policies
    • Guidelines
  • How to contribute to Wikipedia guidance
  • Policy writing is hard

Background

This template combines the content of the 4 separate templates into one location, for easier watchlisting / updating / organizing / non-duplication / discovery:

  • {{Essays on building Wikipedia}}
  • {{Civility}}
  • {{Essays on notability}}
  • {{Humorous essays}}

It was initially suggested and developed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Essays § Navbox separation or cohesion.

See also

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