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Wikipedia is the product of millions of editors' contributions, each one bringing something different to the table, whether it be: researching skills, technical expertise, writing prowess or tidbits of information, but most importantly, a willingness to help.
This page includes a listing of policies and guidelines for English Wikipedia. Policy and guideline pages describe Wikipedia's principles and best-agreed practices. Policies are standards that all users should normally follow, while guidelines are meant to be best practices for following those standards in specific contexts.
Wikipedia is not the place to host your blog or personal web page, or to promote yourself, your company, your band, etc. If you are here to do only one thing and that one thing is prohibited by policy, guideline, and/or consensus, then this is not the project for you.
Wikipedia's policies and guidelines are developed by the community to describe best practices, clarify principles, resolve conflicts, and otherwise further our goal of creating a free, reliable encyclopedia. There is no need to read any policy or guideline pages to start editing. The five pillars are a popular summary of the most pertinent ...
Editing guidelines usually provide non-content advice about categorization, navigation or other how-to-edit advice. Naming conventions detail the correct ways to name articles on particular topics. Notability guidelines outline the criteria that a subject must meet to merit a Wikipedia article.
After several comments (see edit history of Sanger's draft at Meta) the version by Larry Sanger et al. was incorporated into the Wikipedia policy some time within the next few days (some edits from around that time are lost). The policy was further edited (see edit history of the NPOV policy), resulting in the current version.
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.
Edit filter helper is a user group that allows non-administrators to view the details, code, and logs of private edit filters, but not to edit them. Event coordinator The event coordinator user group allows users to create new accounts without limits, and to temporarily add the confirmed user right to new accounts.