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: Five pillars — statement of our principles

:Jimbo's statement — historic principles

:Simplified ruleset — synopsis of our conventions

:Wikimedia principles — common to all projects

:Principles — other essays on Wikipedia's principles

:Introduction to policies and guidelines —  a quick introduction to the major policies and guidelines for very new users.

: Consensus

: Dispute resolution

: Editing policy

: Ignore all rules

: What Wikipedia is not

:Policies & guidelines — how policies and guidelines should be developed and maintained.

:Mediation

:Bot policy

:;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

:;Identifying reliable sources

:;Notability

:;Patent nonsense

:;Behavioural policies

:: Civility

::Child protection

:: Incivility is not tolerated

::Edit warring

::Harassment

::Legal threats

::Personal attacks

::Ownership of content

::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 policies

;;Editing policy

;;Editing guidelines

;;Be bold

;;Article size

;;Hatnotes

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;;Talk page guidelines

;;User pages

;;Vandalism

;;WikiProjects

: Manual of Style

:Contents

: Accessibility

: Dates and numbers

: Images

: Layout

: Lead section

: Linking

: Lists

: Categories, lists, and navigation templates

: Categorization

: Template namespace

: List of policies and guidelines — a list of principle policies and guidelines.

:List of policies — a comprehensive descriptive directory of policies.

:List of guidelines — a comprehensive descriptive directory of guidelines.

:Manual of Style contents — a comprehensive descriptive directory of the pages which make up the Manual of Style.

;; Related essays

::Simplified rule-set — some basic aspect of Wikipedia norms and practices.

::Eight rules for editing  —  if you start out by following these simple rules, the rest should come naturally.

::Ten rules for editing  — Wikipedia can be daunting, but here we provide tips to make editing smoother.

::Trifecta — ultra fast overview of foundational principles related to policies and guidelines.

::The rules are principles — policies and guidelines exist as rough approximations of their underlying principles.

;;Wikimedia Foundation policies

;;List of policies

;;Licensing and copyright

;;Privacy

;;Values