Because there are a large number of guideline pages (over 200), they are subcategorized (using the template) according to their purpose. * :Wikipedia behavioral guidelines, Behavioral guidelines outline ways for editors to behave and interact with each other on talk pages and elsewhere at Wikipedia. * :Wikipedia content guidelines, Content guidelines apply only to the article namespace (unless otherwise specified in the guideline), and offer advice on identifying and including encyclopedic information in articles. * :Wikipedia deletion guidelines, Deletion guidelines explain criteria and procedures for deleting unwanted pages. * :Wikipedia editing guidelines, Editing guidelines usually provide non-content advice about categorization, navigation or other how-to-edit advice. * :Wikipedia naming conventions, Naming conventions detail the correct ways to name articles on particular topics. * :Wikipedia notability guidelines, Notability guidelines outline the criteria that a subject must meet to merit a Wikipedia article. * :Wikipedia style guidelines, Style guidelines contain extensive advice on writing style, formatting, grammar, and more. To search key words or terms on this page with your browser press or , or on a Apple Mac, Mac.

Behavioral

Behavioral guidelines expand on the twelve Wikipedia:List_of_policies#Conduct, conduct policies. Please read these first. ; Wikipedia:Assume good faith, Assume good faith: Unless there is strong evidence to the contrary, assume that people who work on the project are trying to help it, not hurt it. ; Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, Conflict of interest : Do not use Wikipedia to promote yourself, your website, your mixtape, or your organization. ; Wikipedia:Disruptive editing, Disruptive editing: Participants with a pattern of edits that has the effect of disrupting progress toward improving an article or the fundamental project of building an encyclopedia may be blocked or banned indefinitely. ; Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point, Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point: State your point. However, do not spam Wikipedia, disingenuously nominate articles for deletion, push rules to their limits, or otherwise create work for other people just to prove your point. ; Wikipedia:Etiquette, Etiquette: Editors have different views, perspectives, and backgrounds, sometimes varying widely. Treating others with respect is key to collaborating effectively in building an encyclopedia. ; Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers, Please do not bite the newcomers: Many new contributors lack knowledge about Wikipedia policies. Nevertheless, always understand that new contributors are prospective "members" and are therefore our most valuable resource. ; Wikipedia:Signatures, Signatures: Sign all of your posts on Wikipedia talk pages by typing ~~~~ to be accountable and to help others understand the conversation, but do not sign in articles. ; Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines, Talk page guidelines: Talk pages are for polite discussion serving to improve the encyclopedia, and should not be used to express personal opinions on a subject. ; Wikipedia:User pages, User pages: You can use your user page to add a little information about yourself or to help you to use Wikipedia more effectively. However, remember that WP:NOTBLOG, Wikipedia is not a blog, webspace provider, or social networking site.

Other behavioural guidelines

; Wikipedia:Appealing a block, Appealing a block: A block is not a punishment but a way to prevent disruption. Blocked users should understand the reasons for the block and convince administrators that they won't disrupt the project if they are unblocked. ; Wikipedia:Canvassing, Canvassing: When notifying other editors of discussions, keep the number of notifications small, keep the message text neutral, and don't preselect recipients according to their established opinions. Be open! ; Wikipedia:Changing username/Guidelines, Changing username: How m:Global renamers, global renamers and m:stewards, stewards approach rename requests. ; Wikipedia:Courtesy vanishing, Courtesy vanishing: Courtesy vanishing means any user in good standing—upon leaving Wikipedia forever—may request renaming of their account; deletion or blanking of user pages; and possibly the deletion or blanking of discussions related to their conduct. ; Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians/Guidelines, Deceased Wikipedians guidelines: An organized procedure for dealing with the accounts, userpages, and user rights of deceased Wikipedians as established by community consensus. ; Wikipedia:Gaming the system, Gaming the system: Playing games with policies and guidelines in order to avoid the spirit of consensus, or thwart the intent and spirit of policy, is strictly forbidden. ; Wikipedia:Linking to external harassment, Linking to external harassment: Links that contain privacy violations or malicious harassment should be avoided. Links in articles are a matter for sound editorial judgement. ; Wikipedia:Responding to threats of harm, Responding to threats of harm: Threats of harm (including self-harm) should be treated seriously and reported to the Wikimedia Foundation and to administrators. ; Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes, Reviewing pending changes: Reviewing consists of determining whether a new revision is broadly acceptable for public view, and if not, editing the article to obtain an acceptable revision. ; Wikipedia:Rollback, Rollback: Rollback is available to all administrators, and can be given to other users upon request, subject to the approval. It allows the last user's consecutive edits on a given page to be undone with a single mouse click. ; Wikipedia:Spam blacklist, Spam blacklist: The Spam blacklist is a control mechanism that prevents an external link from being added to an English Wikipedia page when the URL matches one listed at MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist.

Content guide

Content guidelines expand on the eight Wikipedia:List_of_policies#Content, content policies. Please read those first. ; Wikipedia:Autobiography, Autobiography: Avoid writing or editing an article about yourself, other than to correct unambiguous errors of fact. ; Wikipedia:Citing sources, Citing sources and Wikipedia:Scientific citation guidelines, Scientific citation guidelines: For writing and formatting references using different citation styles. ; Wikipedia:Content forks, Content forks: A content fork is a piece of content (such as an inter-wiki object, a page, or a page section) that has the same scope as another piece of content that predated it, essentially covering the same topic. There are acceptable and unacceptable content forks. This guideline explains them all. ; Wikipedia:External links, External links: External links should be kept minimal, meritable, and directly relevant to the article. Wikipedia is not an advertising opportunity. ; Wikipedia:Fringe theories, Fringe theories: Care must be taken when writing content about fringe theories. Fringe theories should be covered only where their influence has been recognized by independent reliable sources; otherwise, they should be removed. ; Wikipedia:No disclaimers, No disclaimers in articles: Wikipedia contains spoilers, potentially objectionable material, and more. There is generally no need to warn readers of this. ; Wikipedia:Non-free content, Non-free content and Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline, Non-free use rationale guideline: Non-free content—including all copyrighted content—can only be used in specific cases, and must be employed judiciously. Its usage must be considered fair use under US copyright law, and comply with the Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria, non-free content criteria policy. ; Wikipedia:Plagiarism, Plagiarism: Duplicating the work of others without proper attribution is unethical and can bring the project into disrepute. Give credit where it's due. ; Wikipedia:Reliable sources, Reliable sources and Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine), Reliable sources for medicine: Information about identifying and using appropriate sources to comply with Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia's Verifiability policy. ; Wikipedia:Spoiler, Spoiler: It is not acceptable to delete information on the basis that it might "spoil" a reader's experience of a narrative work. ; Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not for things made up one day, Wikipedia is not for things made up one day: Resist the temptation to write about the new, great thing you or your friends just thought up.

Deletion

Deletion guidelines expand on the eight Wikipedia:List_of_policies#Deletion, deletion policies. Please read these first. ; Wikipedia:Deletion process, Deletion process: An overview of the processes by which articles get deleted. ; Wikipedia:Speedy keep, Speedy keep: Closing debates at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, and related pages, with a result of "speedy keep". ; Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators, Deletion guidelines for administrators: Administrators should mostly use the Wikipedia:Proposed deletion, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, and Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion pages when they think a page should be deleted. There are a few limited exceptions, which are given at Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion.

Editing

; Wikipedia:Article size, Article size: discusses the optimal size for articles. ; Wikipedia:Be bold, Be bold: Wikis develop faster when people fix problems, correct grammar, add facts, make sure the language is precise, and so on. We expect everyone to be bold. It is okay. ; Wikipedia:Disambiguation, Disambiguation: Resolving the conflicts that arise when a single term is ambiguity, ambiguous—when it refers to more than one topic covered by Wikipedia. ; Wikipedia:Make technical articles understandable, Technical articles: Strive to make each part of every article as understandable as possible to the widest audience of readers. ; Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates, Categories, lists, and navigation templates: This guideline helps editors choose appropriate grouping techniques. ; Categorization guidelines: Wikipedia:Categorization, Categorization. Wikipedia:Categorization of people, Categorization of people including Wikipedia:People by year, by year or Wikipedia:Categorization/Ethnicity, gender, religion and sexuality, by ethnicity, gender, religion and sexuality. Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects, Redirect categories. Wikipedia:User categories, User categories. ; Wikipedia:Overcategorization, Overcategorization: Overcategorization makes categories more crowded and less useful. ; Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles, Reviewing good articles: Provides advice on how to fairly review WP:Good articles, good articles. ; Wikipedia:Subpages, Subpages: Creation of subpages in Wikipedia:Main namespace, main namespace is not allowed. Subpages may be created in other Wikipedia:Namespace, namespaces using the slash (/) character.

Other editing guidelines

; Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia, Copying within Wikipedia and Wikimedia: When copying content from one article to another, at a minimum provide attribution and a Wikipedia:Linking, link back to the source page in the Help:Edit summary, edit summary at the destination page. ; Wikipedia:Hatnote, Hatnote use: Hatnotes are short notes placed at the top of an article or section, and provide WP:Internal link, links to a possibly sought article, or to a WP:disambiguation page, disambiguation page. ; Wikipedia:High-risk templates, High-risk templates protection: High-risk templates and Lua modules may be fully protected or template protected. Edits to such pages should be infrequent. ; Wikipedia:Page blanking, Page blanking: Don't blank articles; instead, request deletion. ; Wikipedia:Preparing images for upload, Preparing images for upload: When uploading image files to Wikipedia or, preferably, to the Wikimedia Commons, it is important to use the right file format for the content. ; Wikipedia:Recent years, Recent years: This guideline is intended for recent year articles. ; Wikipedia:Red link, Red links: Red links for subjects that should have articles, but do not, are not only acceptable, but needed. ; Wikipedia:Reference desk/Guidelines, Reference desk guidelines and Wikipedia:Reference desk/Guidelines/Medical advice, Reference desk guidelines: medical advice: Keep the Wikipedia:Five pillars, Five pillars in mind when responding on the WP:Reference desk, reference desk, and try to make it useful for our readers, and a benefit to Wikipedia. ; Wikipedia:Substitution, Substitution use: Certain templates should be substituted, while others should be transcluded. ; Wikipedia:Summary style, Summary style: Sections of Wikipedia:Article size, long articles should be spun off into their own articles, leaving summaries in their place. ; Wikipedia:Updating information, Updating articles and Wikipedia:As of, "as of" technique: Guidelines on updating time-sensitive articles. ; Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment, Version 1.0 Editorial Team assessment: Assessment of articles by the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team, Version 1.0 Editorial Team. ; Miscellaneous editing guidelines: Wikipedia:Broad concept article, Broad concept articles. Wikipedia:Recent years, Recent year articles. Wikipedia:Stub, Stubs. Wikipedia:Set index articles, Set index articles. Wikipedia:Redirect, Redirects and Wikipedia:Soft redirect, Soft redirects.

Naming conventions

;Wikipedia:Article titles, Article titles: The main page for naming conventions for article titles. Also has links to topic-specific conventions on article titles. ;Wikipedia:Category names, Category names: Category names should be specific, neutral, inclusive, and follow certain conventions. ;Wikipedia:File names, File names: Image files, and other files, should have readable file names.

Other naming conventions

;Wikipedia:Naming conventions (acronyms), Naming conventions (acronyms): Acronyms should be used in a page name if the subject is known primarily by its abbreviation, and that abbreviation is primarily associated with the subject. ;Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization), Naming conventions (capitalization): Always lowercase any words following the first in an article title, unless they are part of a proper noun. ;Wikipedia:Naming conventions (country-specific topics), Naming conventions (country-specific topics): In general, country-specific articles should be named using the form: "(Item) of (Country)". ;Wikipedia:Naming conventions (definite or indefinite article at beginning of name), Naming conventions (definite or indefinite article at beginning of name): There are some situations where they are warranted, but many where they are not. ;Wikipedia:Naming conventions (events), Naming conventions (events): These apply to events and incidents, such as military conflicts, terrorist attacks, transportation accidents, natural disasters, and the like. ;Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names), Naming conventions (geographic names): Conventions for determining the titles of Wikipedia articles on places, and for the use of place names in Wikipedia articles. ;Wikipedia:Naming conventions (numbers and dates), Naming conventions (numbers and dates): How numbers and dates are represented in article titles. ;Wikipedia:Naming conventions (long lists), Naming conventions (long lists): Long Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists, stand-alone list articles are Wikipedia:Splitting, split into subsequent pages (alphabetically, numerically, or subtopically), to adhere to the Wikipedia guidelines on Wikipedia:Article size, article size. ;Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people), Naming conventions (people): Contains conventions on how to name Wikipedia articles about individual people. ;Wikipedia:Naming conventions (plurals), Naming conventions (plurals): In general, Wikipedia articles have singular titles; for example, the article on everyone's favorite canine is located at dog, not dogs. ;Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions), Naming conventions (technical restrictions): Technical restrictions with article titles, category names, file names, and other page names. ;Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English), Naming conventions (use English): The title of an article should generally use the version of the name of the subject that is most common in the English language, as found in reliable sources. This makes it easy to find, and easy to compare information with other sources. ;Miscellaneous naming conventions: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (aircraft), Aircraft. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ancient Romans), Ancient Romans. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Armenian), Armenian. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (astronomical objects), Astronomical objects. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Australian roads), Australian roads. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (baseball players), Baseball players. Wikipedia:WikiProject Belgium/Castle, country house, château and kasteel naming conventions, Belgium: castle, country house, château and kasteel. Wikipedia:WikiProject Belgium/Alternate language names, Belgium: alternate language names. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (books), Books. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (broadcasting), Broadcasting. Wikipedia:WikiProject Belgium/Brussels naming conventions, Brussels. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Burmese), Burmese. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (chemistry), Chemistry. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Chinese), Chinese. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (clergy), Clergy. Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Naming conventions, College football. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (comics), Comics. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (companies), Companies. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ethnicities and tribes), Ethnicities and tribes. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna), Fauna. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (films), Films. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (flora), Flora. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names), Geographic names. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (government and legislation), Government and legislation. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Greek), Greek. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Hebrew), Hebrew. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ice hockey), Ice hockey. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Indic), Indic. Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Ireland Category Norms, Irish categories. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Korean), Korean. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (languages), Languages. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (law enforcement agency categories), Law enforcement agency categories. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Latter Day Saints), Latter Day Saints. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Macedonia), Macedonia. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (manuscripts), Manuscripts. Wikipedia:WikiProject Mining/Style guide, Mining. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Mongolian), Mongolian. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (music), Music. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (New Zealand), New Zealand. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Norse mythology), Norse mythology. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (operas), Operas. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (political parties), Political parties. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (royalty and nobility), Royalty and nobility. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ships), Ships. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (sports teams), Sports teams. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (sportspeople), Sportspeople. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (stations in Poland), Stations in Poland. Wikipedia:WikiProject Swiss municipalities/Article title conventions, Swiss municipalities. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (television), Television. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Tibetan), Tibetan. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (UK Parliament constituencies), UK Parliament constituencies. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (UK stations), UK stations. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (U.S. state and territory highways), US state and territory highways. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (video games), Video games. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (West Bank), West Bank. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (writing systems), Writing systems.

Notability

;Wikipedia:Notability, Notability: Only subjects that have received significant outside attention warrant being included on Wikipedia. ;Other notability guidelines:Wikipedia:Notability (academics), Academics. Wikipedia:Notability (astronomical objects), Astronomical objects. Wikipedia:Notability (books), Books. Wikipedia:Notability (events), Events. Wikipedia:Notability (films), Films. Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features), Geographic features. Wikipedia:Notability (music), Music. Wikipedia:Notability (numbers), Numbers. Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies), Organizations and companies. Wikipedia:Notability (people), People. Wikipedia:Notability (sports), Sports. Wikipedia:Notability (video games), Video games. Wikipedia:Notability (web), Web.

Style

; Wikipedia:Manual of Style, Manual of Style: This is the most important style guideline, and the "parent" of all the other style guidelines. It provides guidance on matters such as spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and formatting. ; Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers, Dates and numbers: Consistent standards in the use and formatting of dates and numbers make articles easier to read, write, and edit. ; Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout, Layout: Common principles guide formatting of large-scale article components in most cases. Complicated articles may be best modeled on the layout of an existing article of appropriate structure. ; Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section, Lead section: The lead should define the topic and summarize the body of the article with appropriate weight. ; Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking, Linking: Provide links that aid navigation and understanding, but avoid cluttering the page with obvious, redundant and useless links. ; Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch, Words to watch: Be cautious with expressions that may introduce bias or can be interpreted in more than one way. Use clear, direct language. ; Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility, Accessibility: Make Wikipedia pages easy to navigate and read for those with accessibility limitations.

Other style guidelines

; Other formatting and layout style guides: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Abbreviations, Abbreviations. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters, Capital letters. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation, Pronunciation. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Proper names, Proper names. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Spelling, Spelling. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting, Text formatting. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles, Titles. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Tables, Tables. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trivia sections, Trivia sections. ;Style guidelines for images: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images, Images. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Captions, Captions. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Icons, Icons. ;List style guidelines: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists, Lists. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Embedded lists, Embedded lists. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists of works, Lists of works. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Road junction lists, Road junction lists. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Stand-alone lists, Stand-alone lists. ; Other content style guidelines: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biographies, Biographies. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Article message boxes, Article message boxes. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages, Disambiguation pages. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Infoboxes, Infoboxes. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Self-references to avoid, Self-references to avoid. ;Arts: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Anime- and manga-related articles, Anime- and manga-related articles. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Comics, Comics. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Film, Film. Wikipedia:Lyrics and poetry, Lyrics and poetry. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Novels, Novels. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Philosophy, Philosophy. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Television, Television. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Visual arts, Visual arts. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Writing about fiction, Writing about fiction. ;Music: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Music, Music. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Music samples, Music samples. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Record charts, Record charts. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Stringed instrument tunings, Stringed instrument tunings. ;Legal: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Legal, Legal. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trademarks, Trademarks. ;Regional: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Canada-related articles, Canada. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/China-related articles, China. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/France and French-related, France. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Hawaii-related articles, Hawaii. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/India-related articles, India. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Ireland-related articles, Ireland. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Japan-related articles, Japan. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Korea-related articles, Korea. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Philippine-related articles, Philippines. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Poland-related articles, Poland. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Singapore-related articles, Singapore. Wikipedia:Trinidad and Tobago Wikipedians' notice board/Style guide, Trinidad and Tobago. ;Religion: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Islam-related articles, Islam-related articles. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Latter Day Saints, Latter Day Saints. ;Science: Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science/Manual of style, WikiProject Computer science. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Computing, Computing. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Chemistry, Chemistry. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Mathematics, Mathematics. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles, Medicine-related articles. Template:Taxobox/doc, Taxobox template. ;Sports: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Cue sports, Cue sports. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Snooker, Snooker.

Other guideline categories

*:Wikipedia template guidelines, Wikipedia template guidelines: guidelines concerning WP:Templates, templates. *:Wikipedia project content guidelines, Wikipedia project content guidelines.

Recent changes

*Special:Recentchangeslinked/Wikipedia guidelines, All recent changes to guideline pages.