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2. Wikipedia:Don't cite essays or proposals as if they were policy

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   In heated debates, users often cite essays, proposals, WikiProject advice pages, information pages and template documentation pages as defence of their own actions, or to make an accusation of wrongdoing against another editor. This is often inappropriate and can lead to the escalation of a conflict.

3. Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia essays/Templates - Wikipedia

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   The following is a draft working towards a proposal for adoption as a Wikipedia policy, guideline, or process. The proposal must not be taken to represent consensus, but is still in development and under discussion, and has not yet reached the process of gathering consensus for adoption. Thus references or links to this page should not describe ...

4. Wikipedia:Wikipedia essays - Wikipedia

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   The various "essay" templates available are: {} – Essays that don't fit into other categories listed below. {{civility essay}} – Essays on the topic of civility. {{essay in development}} - Essay in development {{humorous essay}} - contains comments by one or more Wikipedia contributors and may contain advice

5. Template:Proposal - Wikipedia

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   Over time, many things may happen to a proposal – it may be changed substantially, be moved to a new location, become adopted as a policy or guideline, be rejected by the community, be recast as simply a Wikipedian essay, or fail to sufficiently develop into a viable proposal.

6. Wikipedia:Essays - Wikipedia

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   Some essays at one time were proposed policies or guidelines, but they could not gain consensus overall; as indicated by the template {{Failed proposal}}. Other essays that at one time had consensus, but are no longer relevant, are tagged with the template {{ Historical }} .

7. Wikipedia : Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions

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   This page details arguments that are commonly seen in deletion discussions that have been identified as generally unsound and unconvincing. These are arguments that should generally be avoided – or at the least supplemented with a better-grounded rationale for the position taken, whether that be "keep", "delete" or some other objective.

8. Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines - Wikipedia

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   Essays and information pages may be established by writing them and adding {}, {{Information page}}, {{Wikipedia how-to}}, or a similar template to the page. Current policy and guideline proposals can be found in Category:Wikipedia proposals , and failed ones at Category:Wikipedia failed proposals .

9. Rhetorical modes - Wikipedia

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   When an essay writer's position is not implied but openly and centrally maintained, the essay is argumentative. An argument is simply a reasoned attempt to have one's opinions accepted . The ideal is to present supporting evidence which points so plainly to the correctness of one's stand that one can afford to be civil and even generous toward ...