Wikipedia:Ethics

This page is intended to serve as an index or collection of essays. It is not a policy or a guideline.

Please write your proposal on a subpage of this page (for example, Wikipedia:Ethics/User:Wjhonson, replacing "User:Wjhonson" with your username) for a code of ethics which you believe that the community should follow. Link to your proposal from this page.

Essays

• Wikipedia:Ethics/Seraphimblade

• Ethics on Wikipedia and the Internet

Issues to consider

• Biographies - special considerations
• dispute resolution
• conflict of interest and anonymity
  • paid editing (see User_talk:MyWikiBiz/Archive_2)
• maintaining trust

See also

• Wikinews:Journalists draft code of ethics
• Wikipedia:Assume the assumption of good faith
• Wikipedia:Basic dignity
• Wikipedia:Charitableness
• Wikipedia:Don't be evil
• Wikipedia:Don't call the kettle black
• Wikipedia:Don't hand out panda sandwiches at a PETA convention
• Wikipedia:Don't smother conflict
• Wikipedia:Honesty
• Wikipedia:No Moral Code
• Wikipedia:Use common sense
• Wikimedia:Don't be a dick
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias
• User:Charles Matthews/Conflict of interest

Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines

• Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons
• Wikipedia:Civility
• Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point
• Wikipedia:Etiquette
• Wikipedia:Harassment
• Wikipedia:Libel
• Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
• WP:NOT#What the Wikipedia community is not
• WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not censored
• Wikipedia:Notability
• Wikipedia:No personal attacks
• Wikipedia:Office Actions
• Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers
• Wikipedia:Resolving disputes
• Conflicting Wikipedia philosophies

Applied ethics

• Business ethics
• Information ethics
• Journalism ethics and standards
• Media ethics
• Ethics of technology
• Computer ethics
• Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics
• Internet research ethics

Ethics

• List of ethics topics
• Ethics (philosophy)
• Morality
• Ethical code
• Moral relativism
• Dual loyalty (ethics)
• Ethical decision
• Deontological ethics
• Normative ethics

External

• Tertiary source
• What is a wiki?
• WikiEthic
• The free software definition
• The desire to delete
• ForestFire
• What makes a fuckhead
• Ethics titles in the Stanford Encyclopedia
• CZ:Professionalism
• Wiki lessons learned (CZ:SharedKnowing mailing list; posting by Ben Kovitz)
• Is Anonymity Good Or Bad For Wikipedia?
• How free is the internet; seminar at the Nobel Peace Center
• Wikileaks and Whistleblowing Ivor Tossell's linked article
• Wikipedia and Creative Commons next steps (CC-licenses mailing list; posting by Lawrence Lessig)
• Creative Commons Statement of Intent for Attribution-ShareAlike Licenses
• Erik Möller's posting to Foundation-l on CC Statement of Intent