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Policies and guidelines

Wikipedia principles

Five pillars
Statement of our principles

Jimbo's statement
Historic principles

Simplified ruleset
Synopsis of our conventions

Wikimedia principles
Common to all projects
(in Meta-Wiki)

Principles
Other essays on Wikipedia's principles

v d 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	What Wikipedia is not Editing policy Consensus Dispute resolution Ignore all rules

Core content policies	Neutral point of view No original research Verifiability

Other content policies	Article titles Biographies of living persons Deletion

Content guidelines	Citing sources Disambiguation Do not create hoaxes Do not include copies of primary sources Identifying reliable sources Notability Map conventions Patent nonsense

Behavioural policies	Child protection Civility 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 Talk page guidelines Subpages User pages WikiProjects

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

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

Wikimedia Foundation	Privacy Licensing and copyright (List of policies)

Policies Guidelines