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Wikipedia essays
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Essays about Wikipedia
Essays on building, editing, and deleting content
Philosophy
Articles must be written
Avoid vague introductions
Be a reliable source
Cohesion
Concede lost arguments
8 simple rules for editing our encyclopedia
Explanationism
Here to build an encyclopedia
Not editing because of Wikipedia restriction
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
Construction
100K featured articles
A navbox on every page
Acronym Overkill
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
Autosizing images
Avoid mission statements
Bare URLs
Be neutral in form
Beef up that first revision
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 leave giant breaks between sections
Don't panic
Editing on mobile devices
Editors are not mindreaders
Encourage the newcomers
Endorsements (commercial)
Featured articles may have problems
Give an article a chance
How to run an edit-a-thon
Ignore STRONGNAT for date formats
Inaccuracies in Wikipedia namespace
Inaccuracy
Link rot
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 WikiProject
Nothing is in stone
Permastub
Potential, not just current state
Put a little effort into it
Pruning article revisions
Publicists
Restoring part of a reverted edit
Robotic editing
Sham consensus
Temporary versions of articles
The world will not end tomorrow
There is a deadline
There is no deadline
The deadline is now
What an article should not include
Wikipedia is a volunteer service
Wikipedia is a work in progress
Wikipedia is not being written in an organized fashion
Write the article first
Writing better articles
Deletion
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
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
Essays on
civility
The basics
How to be civil
Compromise
Accepting other users
Enjoy yourself
Thank you
Apologizing
Truce
Divisiveness
Encouraging newcomers
Relationships with academic editors
High-functioning autism and Aspergers editors
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
Shadowless Fists of Death!
Staying cool when the editing gets hot
The grey zone
The last word
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
Assume 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
How to lose
Just drop it
Mind your own business
Discussing cruft
Keep it down to earth
Don'ts
Don't give a fuck
Don't be inconsiderate
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 eat the troll's food
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
Don't misuse the Current Events template
Passive Aggressive
Don't cry COI
Don't be obnoxious
Wiki relations
WikiLove
WikiHate
WikiCrime
WikiBullying
WikiPeace
WikiLawyering
WikiHarassment
POV Railroading
Essays on
notability
Notability
Alternative outlets
Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
Articles with a single source
Avoid template creep
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
Independent sources
Inherent notability
Insignificant
Masking the lack of notability
Make stubs
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 is not a level playing field
Notability is not a matter of opinion
Notability means impact
Notability points
Notability sub-pages
Obscurity ≠ Lack of notability
Offline sources
One sentence does not an article make
Other stuff exists
Perennial websites
Pokémon test
Run-of-the-mill
Solutions are mixtures and nothing else
Subjective importance
Third-party sources
Trivial mentions
Video links
What notability is not
Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause
Your alma mater is not your ticket to Wikipedia
Humorous essays
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
Hotties are always notable
Go ahead, vandalize
Lamest edit wars
Newcomers are delicious, so go ahead and bite them
Please bite the newbies
R-e-s-p-e-c-t
How many Wikipedians does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
The Five Pillars of Untruth
Watchlistitis
Why not create an Account?
Inactive historical references
Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Unblock Emails
About essays
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
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