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I copied this page from User:John Broughton/Editor's Index to Wikipedia for my own personal use. I mainly have it here so I can make my own additions/subtractions without screwing up John's great work.

User:John Broughton/Editor's Index to Wikipedia/About - Notes on maintaining consistency

User:John Broughton/Editor's Index to Wikipedia/Credits and further work

This index is for editors. Those just reading Wikipedia should see Wikipedia:Contents, Wikipedia:About, and Wikipedia:Readers' FAQ

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Abuse: see Vandalism
Access (limiting):
- China:
  - Blocking of Wikipedia in mainland China
  - Wikipedia:Advice to users using Tor to bypass the Great Firewall
- Open proxies:
Accessibility:
- Wikipedia:Accessibility
- Wikipedia:Using JAWS (JAWS is a screen reader)
Account: see User account and username
Admin coaching: Wikipedia:Admin coaching - a one-on-one coaching program (formerly by the Wikipedia:Esperanza association of editors but now standalone)
Administration: (see also Enforcement)
- Wikipedia:Administration FAQ
- Category:Wikipedia administration
- User:NoSeptember/Functionaries
Administrator (see also Enforcement)
- General information:
- Contacting an administrator: (see also specific topics such as Vandalism)
  - Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention - a directory of places to request administrator help
  - Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard - message board for coordinating and discussing administrative tasks on Wikipedia (not supposed to be for incidents; see that page or elsewhere in this index for other pages on which to report incidents (WP:AN)
  - Wikipedia:List of administrators
- Becoming an administrator:
  - Wikipedia:Miniguide to requests for adminship (unofficial)
  - Wikipedia:Guide to requests for adminship
  - Category:Wikipedia administrator hopefuls
  - Wikipedia:Requests for adminship - nominations of individuals seeking/willing to become an administrator (WP:RFA)
  - Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in adminship discussions - essay
  - User:Dragons flight/RFA summary - bot-generated summary of the current RfAs
  - User:Durin/Withdraw policy - when can a valid RfA be withdrawn by other than the candidate
- Results of RfAs:
  - Wikipedia:Successful adminship candidacies
  - Wikipedia:Unsuccessful adminship candidacies
  - User:Durin/Admin charts - charts of RfAs from June 2005 through March 2006
  - User:NoSeptember/Admin stats
- After becoming an administrator:
  - Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list
  - b:A Wikimedia Administrator's Handbook
  - b:MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook
  - Wikipedia:Wheel war (WP:WW) (policy) - Do not repeat an administrative action when another administrator opposes it
  - User:NoSeptember/Subpages about adminship
  - Problems with admins:
    - Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct#Use of administrator privileges
    - User:Werdna/Sysop Accountability Proposal - a proposed secondary forum for complaints
    - Wikipedia:Administrator's noticeboard
    - Wikipedia:Requests for de-adminship
- Other:
  - Wikipedia:Adminship in other languages - French, German, Dutch, Japanese (etc.) versions of Wikipedia
  - User:NoSeptember/The NoSeptember Admin Project
  - Wikipedia:Adminitis - essay
  - Wikipedia:WikiProject on Adminship - discussion of new approaches for granting adminship (inactive as of October 2006)
Adoption: Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User
Advertisements:
- For Wikipedia:
  - Template:Qxz-ads/All - animated gifs, for WikiProjects and other good causes
  - m:Wikimedia urban postering campaign
- By outside groups and individuals: see Spam
Advice: see Help, Learning, New editors, Questions
Anchor: see Navigation (on a page)
AfD (Articles for Deletion): see Deletion of articles
Algorithms: Wikipedia:Algorithms on Wikipedia
Anchors:
- Help:Anchors
- Help:HTML in wikitext#Span - using "span id=" for hidden anchors
Anonymous users (see also Vandalism)
- Disadvantages: Wikipedia:Why create an account?
- MediaWiki:Anoneditwarning
- Wikipedia:Welcome anonymous editing - essay
- Wikipedia:No open proxies
- Who Writes Wikipedia - asserts that anons add the bulk of new text
- User:ONUnicorn/Sandbox - proposed study (1/2007) of 500 edits - do anonys really contribute that much?
Arabic:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Arabic)
- Category:Wikipedia Arabic templates
Arbitration:
- Wikipedia:Arbitration policy (WP:AP)
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee
- Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Arbitration enforcement (WP:AE)
- Wikipedia:Arbitration rationale (unofficial)
Archiving:
- Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page
- User:The Halo/How to Archive
- User:Werdnabot/Archiver/Howto - setting up a page for automated archival
Articles: see also Content disputes, Editing (in general), History, Importing, Layout and sections, New articles, Quality of articles, Series boxes, Style (articles)
- Wikipedia:What is an article
- Wikipedia:Article development - stages in the life of an article
- Wikipedia:Editorial oversight and control
- Wikipedia:Article size (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:Summary style - when articles get too long
- Wikipedia:Content forking (guideline) - includes POV forking
- User:R. fiend/How many articles does Wikipedia really have?
- Wikipedia:Unusual articles
As of: see Current events
Assessment: see Quality of articles
Assistance (disputes): (see also Content disputes, Personal attacks)
- Wikipedia:Editor assistance
- Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct
- Wikipedia:Administrator's noticeboard/Incidents (urgent/severe cases only)
Association of Members' Advocates (AMA): inactive as of May 2007
Assuming good faith: Wikipedia:Assume good faith (WP:AGF) (guideline)
Attacks: see: Content disputes, Personal attacks
Attribution: see Sources
Audio: see Media
Autobiographies: see Biographies
Autograph books: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Autograph books - allowed for active editors
Automation: see Bots, Tools, User scripts
Awards:
- Wikipedia:Awards
- Wikipedia:Personal user awards
- Wikipedia:WikiProject awards
- Wikipedia:Other awards
- Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals (WP:BAP)
- Wikipedia:Kindness Campaign
- Wikipedia:Award templates
- Wikipedia:Ribbons (for organizing multiple awards)
- Wikipedia:Great editing in progress

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Backlogs (administrative actions): see Wikipedia:Watch
Balance and space: see Neutral Point of View
Banners: Wikipedia:Banners and buttons (with the word "Wikipedia" in them)
Banning: see Enforcement
Barnstars: see Awards
Behavior (See also Disruptive editing, Enforcement, Spam, Vandalism)
- Wikipedia:List of policies#Behavioral: standards for behavior of Wikipedia editors
- Wikipedia:Simplified Ruleset#Safe behaviours - twelve guidelines for "safe behaviours"
- m:Don't be a dick
Being bold: Wikipedia:Be bold in updating pages (WP:BOLD or WP:BB) (guideline)
Bias:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias
- Wikipedia:Recentism - an essay on the tendency to overweight recent events when adding information or creating new articles
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Historical information
Biographies:
- In general:
  - Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)
  - Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP) (policy)
- Article names:
  - Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people) (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Naming conventions (names and titles)
- Notability:
  - Wikipedia:Notability (people)
  - Wikipedia:Notability (academics) (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Notability (pornographic actors) (guideline)
- Formatted data (see also Series boxes)
  - Wikipedia:Persondata
  - Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats/hcard
- Categorization:
  - Wikipedia:Categorization of people - guideline
  - Wikipedia:Categorization/Gender, race and sexuality
  - Wikipedia:Naming conventions (identity) (ethnic, national, sexual, etc.)
- Editors and the articles about them: (see also Conflict of interest)
  - Wikipedia:Autobiography (WP:AUTO) (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles
- Problems:
  - Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard (WP:BLP/N)
  - Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Privacy of birthdays
  - Wikipedia:Oversight (policy) and Wikipedia:Requests for oversight - removal of personal or libelous information on older revisions of an article
  - Wikipedia:Blocking policy#Biographies of living persons
  - Wikipedia:Courtesy blanking (WP:CBLANK) (guideline) - following a deletion debate
  - Wikipedia:Living People Patrol (inactive)
  - Libel:
    - Wikipedia:Libel (policy)
    - Wikipedia:Three-revert rule#Reverting potentially libellous material
- Other:
  - Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography
Birthdays: see Biographies
Biting: Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers
Blocks: see Enforcement
Books: (see also Wikibooks)
- Articles on:
- Wikipedia:Notability (books) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (books) (guideline)
- As sources for articles:
  - Wikipedia:Book sources
  - Wikipedia group at LibraryThing.com - to provide a distributed catalogue of books available to editors
  - ISBN:
Bootcamp: see Wikipedia:New contributors' help page
Bots:
- Wikipedia:Bots - summary/directory page
- Wikipedia:Bot policy
- Wikipedia:Types of bots
- Wikipedia:History of Wikipedia bots
- Wikipedia:Creating a bot
- m:Using the python wikipediabot
- Wikipedia:Bot requests - ideas for bots, coding needed
- Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval
- Special:Log/makebot
- Wikipedia:Registered bots
- Category:Wikipedia bots
- Special:Listusers - set to "bots"; if listed, then bot has been properly flagged
- Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard
- Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group
Bounty Board: Wikipedia:Bounty board (see also Wikipedia:Reward board)
Browsers (for Wikipedia editing):
- Wikipedia:Browser notes
- Wikipedia:Tools/Browser tools
- AutoWikiBrowser: (a semi-automated Wikipedia editor (Windows only), typically used for vandal patrol or mass edits)
  - Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser
  - Category:AutoWikiBrowser
- Wikipedia:WikiBrowse
- User:Cacycle/wikEd - wikEd, adds enhanced text processing functions to Wikipedia (Firefox only as of January 2007)
- Wikipedia Explorer (beta as of March 2007)
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Widget - for Mac OS X v10.4
Bugs:
- Wikipedia:Bug report
- Wikipedia:Bugzilla
- mediazilla: - MediaZilla Main Page
- How to Report Bugs Effectively - recommended by MediaZilla
Bureaucrats - folks who handle special, higher-level administrative tasks
- Wikipedia:Bureaucrats
- Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard

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Canonicalization - converting links to URLs
Canvassing: Wikipedia:Canvassing - votestacking, campaigning, friendly notice, and forum shopping
Captions: Wikipedia:Captions
Categories (a way of organizing and finding articles):
- Information:
  - Wikipedia:Categorization - (WP:CAT) (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Categorization and subcategories (WP:SUBCAT) (guideline)
  - Help:Category
  - Wikipedia:Categorization FAQ
  - Wikipedia:Build the web (WP:BTW) (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories)
  - Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories
  - Wikipedia:Categorical index
  - Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes - comparing alternative approaches
  - Wikipedia:Overcategorization (guideline) - what types of categories are not good ones to create
  - Wikipedia:Categories are different from articles (essay)
- Listings of categories:
  - Special:Categories - alphabetical category listing
  - Category:Fundamental - fundamental categories
  - Special:CategoryTree - can generate a tree of categories, or categories and articles
  - User:PockBot - produces, for a given category, a table listing all articles within that category (and all subcategories of that category), and the status of those articles
  - CatScan
- Possible problems:
  - Wikipedia:Categories for discussion - page to discuss (and nominate) the deletion, merging, and renaming of categories (WP:CFD)
  - Wikipedia:Category deletion policy
  - Category:Lists that should be categories
  - Category:Underpopulated categories
- Intersection of two categories:
  - m:User:Duesentrieb/CatScan - CatScan is a tool that can do various types of category scans, including intersection (may or may not be using up-to-date version of database)
  - Wikipedia:Category intersection - a feature request
  - m:Help:DPL - a MediaWiki extension supporting intersections and other set operations of pages belonging to several categories
- Other:
  - Template:DEFAULTSORT - specifies how the category will be listed (for example, Smith, F.M., for an article on F.M. Smith)
  - Help:Job queue - why changing a category in a template doesn't instantly change all articles with that template
Censorship:
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not censored
- Wikipedia:No disclaimer templates
- Wikipedia:Profanity (Manual of Style)
- m:Should Wikipedia Use Profanity
- Wikipedia:Pornography - essay
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedians against censorship
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Sexology and sexuality
Characters (special): Help:Special characters
Cheatsheet for editors: Wikipedia:Cheatsheet
Checkuser: see Sock puppets
Children - see Privacy
China:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (China-related articles)
- Wikipedia:History standards for China-related articles
- Help:Multilingual support (East Asian)
Citations:
- Within articles: see Sources
- If others want to cite Wikipedia: Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia
Community portal; Wikipedia:Community Portal (see also Wikipedia as a community)
Civility: see Personal attacks
Classes: see Learning
Cleanup: see Maintenance, Quality of articles
Clerks:
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Clerks
- For usurpations: March 1, 2007 description
Coaching: see Learning
Colon trick: Help:Colon trick
Comics and comic books:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/copyright (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (comics) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Notability (web) (guideline) (includes webcomics)
Common mistakes: Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes - advice for new users
Common sense: (see also Process)
- Wikipedia:Ignore all rules (WP:IAR) (policy)
- Wikipedia:Suggestions on how to ignore all rules (essay)
- Wikipedia:Ignoring all rules - a beginners guide (essay)
- Wikipedia:Interpret all rules (essay)
- m:Don't be a dick
- Wikipedia:Use common sense (essay)
- Wikipedia:There is no common sense (essay) - Base your argument on existing agreements, foundation issues and the interests of the encyclopedia, not your own common sense.
Commons:
- Commons:Welcome - database of over a million media files (photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, etc.) available for use in any Wikimedia (community) project, to which anyone can contribute; recommended place to upload to
- Wikipedia:Commons
- Wikipedia:Commons categories (WP:CC) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons
Community: see Wikipedia as community
Companies and organizations:
- Wikipedia:Companies, corporations and economic information (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (companies) (guideline)
Conflict of interest:
- Wikipedia:Conflict of interest (WP:COI) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard - reporting cases of conflict of interest policy not being followed
- User:Charles Matthews/Conflict of interest - an essay (10/2006)
Congress: edits by Congressional staffers:
- Wikipedia:Congressional Staffer Edits
- U.S. House of Representatives rule against use of government equipment for political purposes
Consensus and voting:
- Wikipedia:Consensus (WP:CON) (policy)
- Wikipedia:Consensus can change (WP:CCC)
- Wikipedia:Elections
- Wikipedia:Requests for comments
- m:Polling is evil
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a democracy
- Wikipedia:Polling is not a substitute for discussion (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Discuss, don't vote - proposed guideline (WP:DDV)
- Wikipedia:Canvassing (WP:CANVAS) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Voting is not evil - an essay
- Wikipedia:Straw polls - proposed guideline
Conservapedia: Wikipedia vs. Conservapedia Bookmarklet
Conservation: Wikipedia:Conservation status (categories) (Manual of Style)
Content (how-to): see Content disputes, Editing, New articles, Style (articles)
Content disclaimer: Wikipedia:Content disclaimer
Content disputes: (see also Disruptive editing, Neutral Point of View, Personal attacks)
- General policies: (in addition to WP:ATT, WP:V, WP:RS, etc.)
  - Wikipedia:Resolving disputes (WP:DR (policy) - overview of the process
  - Wikipedia:Ownership of articles (WP:OWN) (policy) - no editor "owns" the content of an article; the only way that an editor can properly prevent his/her words from being edited is to not put them into a wikipedia article in the first place
  - Wikipedia:Guidelines for controversial articles (Manual of Style)
- Reverts and other disagreements:
  - Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle - Boldly edit, revert once, discuss - an essay on reaching consensus
  - Wikipedia:Disputed statement - guideline
  - Wikipedia:NPOV dispute - how-to guidance
  - Wikipedia:Three-revert rule (WP:3RR) (policy) - repeated edits can get a user blocked (typically, for 24 hours)
  - Wikipedia:Edit war (guideline) - definitions, discussion
  - Wikipedia:Disputed statement
  - Wikipedia:Disruptive editing (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars ever
- Possible solutions:
  - Wikipedia:Staying cool when the editing gets hot - essay
  - Wikipedia:Forgive and forget - essay
  - Wikipedia:No angry mastodons - essay
  - Wikipedia:Don't be a fanatic - essay
  - Wikipedia:Truce - essay
  - Wikipedia:Harmonious editing club
  - m:How to win an argument
  - Wikipedia:A nice cup of tea and a sit down
- Processes for resolving (when informal discussions fail)
  - Wikipedia:Resolving disputes - official policy (overview)
  - Request votes ("survey"): Wikipedia:Current surveys
  - Ask for a third opinion: Wikipedia:Third opinion - for relatively obsure pages (rule: only two parties involved).
  - Request for comment:
    - Wikipedia:Requests for comment
    - Wikipedia:RFC/How to present a case (essay)
  - Mediation:
    - Wikipedia:Mediation
    - Wikipedia:Requests for mediation - formal mediation
    - Wikipedia:Community enforceable mediation - experimental alternative (new as of March 2007)
    - Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal - informal mediation
  - Ask for assistance: Wikipedia:Association of Members' Advocates
Controversial articles: (see also Content disputes)
- Wikipedia:Guidelines for controversial articles
- Wikipedia:List of controversial issues
Converting pages to a different format: see Exporting, Importing
Copyright (see also Legal)
- In general:
  - Wikipedia:Copyright FAQ
  - Wikipedia:Copyrights (policy)
  - Wikipedia:Image use policy
  - Wikipedia:Non-U.S. copyrights (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Media copyright questions - a place to get help and answers
- Fair use and public domain:
  - Wikipedia:Fair use criteria (WP:FUC) (policy)
  - Wikipedia:Fair use (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Public domain (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Non-free content (guideline)
  - m:Avoid Copyright Paranoia - discussions
- Avoiding problems:
- Problems:
  - Wikipedia:Copyright violations (WP:COPYVIO) (policy)
  - Wikipedia:Spotting possible copyright violations
  - Wikipedia:Copyright problems
  - Wikipedia:Copyright violations on history pages - dealing with prior versions of an article that have copyright violations and are accessible via history pages
  - Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Copyright - if an article is using copyrighted content without permission
  - foundation:Designated agent - for notification of claimed infringement
  - User:CopyvioHelperBot - script
  - Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations - where a bot places places pages (and URLs) of suspected problems
- Using Wikipedia content:
  - GFDL - GNU Free Documentation Licence (text at Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License)
  - Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia content (policy)
Creating articles: see New articles
Credentials:
- Wikipedia:Credentials matter - essay
- Wikipedia:Credentials are irrelevant - essay
- Wikipedia:Ignore all credentials - proposal (as of March 2007)
Criticism (of Wikipedia) (for other types of criticism, see Content disputes, Personal attacks)
- Criticism of Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Replies to common objections
- Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is not so great
- User:Ta bu shi da yu/Global Politician - "six sins" of Wikipedia - a rebuttal
- Wikipedia:Evaluating Wikipedia as an encyclopedia - essay
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia is failing - essay
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not failing - essay
Current events:
- Portal:Current events
- Wikipedia:How the Current events page works
- Wikipedia:As of
- Wikipedia:Avoid statements that will date quickly (Manual of Style) (examples: "recently", "is soon to become") (WP:DATED)
- Wikipedia:Current and future event templates
Customization: (see also Signatures, User scripts)
- Special:Preferences
- Help:Preferences
- Help:User style
- m:Gallery of user styles
- m:Help:Cascading style sheets
- Wikipedia:Catalogue of CSS classes
- Help:Mediawiki CSS
- Wikipedia:WikiProject CSS
- Wikipedia:Useful styles
- Wikipedia:Customisation
- Wikipedia:Skin
- m:Customization:Explaining skins
- m:Customize page layout
- User:Wolfgangbeyer/monobook.css - monobook.css optimized for color blindness
- User:The Transhumanist/Virtual classroom#External interfaces - let's compare
Cyrillic: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Cyrillic)

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Data download: see Technical (hardware and software) (for individual pages, see Exporting (an article))
Database query: see Queries (database)
Dates: (see also Current events)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (numbers and dates)
- m:Dynamic dates
- Help:Calendar - code to include the image of a small '"calendar page", including a time display, on a Wikipedia page
Decision-making: see Consensus and voting, Wikimedia Foundation
Deletion: (see also Categories for deletion of categories, Redirect for deletion of redirects, etc.) (for articles, see "Deletion of articles", immediately below)
- Wikipedia:Deletion process (WP:DP)
- Template:deletiontools (for one's user page)
- Wikipedia:Levels of deletion
- Wikipedia:Deletion debates
- Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators (WP:DGFA) (guideline)
Deletion of articles:
- Policies, general criteria, and examples: (see also Notability)
- Alternatives to deletion:
  - Move to a sister project such as Wiktionary or Wikisource - see Transwiki
  - Wikipedia:Userfication - if article has potential for Wikipedia
  - Wikipedia:Merge
  - Wikipedia:Redirect
- Types of deletion:
  - Blanking a page: see Wikipedia:No blank pages (guideline) (for articles)
  - Speedy deletion:
  - Prod:
    - Wikipedia:Proposed deletion (WP:PROD) (policy) - five-day (countdown) process (no polling of opinions)
    - User:DumbBOT/ProdSummary - articles currently with "prod" templates
    - Category:Proposed deletion
  - Formal deletion process (AfD discussions):
    - Wikipedia:Guide to deletion - the process
    - Wikipedia:AfD categories
    - Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting - AfDs organized into topical lists
    - User:Jayden54Bot - - bot that notifies creator of article that it has been submitted to AfD process (approved January 2007)
    - Current AfDs:
      - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (AfD) - top page for listing AfDs
      - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion#Current discussions - articles proposed for deletion in the past five or so days via the AfD process
    - Tools for participation:
      - Wikipedia:Quicker access to votes for deletion - javascript bookmarklet
      - Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/AutoAFD.js - opens three windows to make process easier (for experienced AfDers?)
      - User:Eagle 101/WikiDiscussion Manager - a Windows-based application that assists editors with participation in AfD discussions
    - Arguments and expectations:
      - User:Mangojuice/Slave (essay) - don't ask administrators to do large amounts of work under the guise of a deletion debate
      - Wikipedia:Help, my article got nominated for deletion! (essay)
      - Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (essay)
      - Wikipedia:Pokémon test (essay) - another argument to avoid
    - Outcomes:
    - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes
    - Wikipedia:Speedy keep - closing a discussion early and keeping the article
- After decision is made to delete article:
  - Wikipedia:Protected deleted pages (WP:SALT) - "padlocking" or "salting the earth" to protect against further re-creation of deleted pages without prior admin approval
  - Wikipedia:Courtesy blanking (WP:CBLANK) (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Why was my page deleted?
  - Discussions (if deletion was by AfD) can be found at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Name of Article, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Name of Article (second nomination), etc. (alternatively, use Special:Prefixindex, in the Wikipedia space, searching on "Articles for deletion/Firstlettersofarticlename")
  - Special:Log/delete - deletion log, searchable by article name or user who created the article
  - Wikipedia:Deletion review - appeals to restore pages that have been deleted or delete pages which were closed as 'keep' in an AfD discussion (WP:DRV)
  - Wikipedia:Viewing and restoring deleted pages by sysops
  - Getting a copy of a deleted article put into one's user space, where it can be improved before going into the article namespace again:
    - Wikipedia:Deletion review#Content review
    - Category:Wikipedia administrators who will provide copies of deleted articles
- Other:
  - User:Mailer diablo/The Mailer Diablo Deletion Project
  - Wikipedia:Transparent deletion (essay)
  - Wikipedia:AFD 100 days - June-September 2005 computer-assisted evaluation
Deletionist: see m:Deletionism
Diagrams: see Graphics
Dictionary:
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary (policy)
- For wiktionary, see wikt:Main Page
- Another alternative: Urban Dictionary
Directories:
- Wikipedia:Department directory
- Wikipedia:Quick directory
- Special:Specialpages - a list of special pages that are automatically generated and cannot be edited
- User:Thunderhead/Bookmarks
- Wikipedia:TourBusStop
- "Toolsets":
  - Wikipedia:Starter toolset
  - Category:Wikipedia users' toolsets
- For readers more than for editors, but still a userful:
  - Wikipedia:Contents
  - Lists of basic topics
Disambigution (see also Moving a page, Naming an article)
- Information about:
  - Wikipedia:Disambiguation (WP:DAB) (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)
  - Wikipedia:Disambiguation and abbreviations
  - Special:Disambiguations - pages that link to a disambiguation page and (probably) should link to an article instead
  - Wikipedia:Hatnotes - short notes placed at the top of an article before the primary topic, generally to provide disambiguation of closely related terms or to summarize a topic, and explain its boundaries
- List of pages:
  - Wikipedia:Links to (disambiguation) pages - list of page with "(disambiguation)" in title
  - Wikipedia:Links to disambiguating pages - list of pages marked as disambiguation pages
  - Wikipedia:Multiple-place names - index of disambiguation pages involving places
- Problems:
  - Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links
  - Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages maintenance
- Templates:
  - Category:Disambiguation and redirection templates
  - Wikipedia:Otheruses templates (example usage)
  - Template:Disambig-guidance - hidden text that can be added to disambiguation pages
- Other:
  - Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation
  - Disambiguation pages are, in most cases, treated like article pages. This is a bug, not a feature.
- Specialized automated tools:
  - User:Commander Keane bot - automated bot for disambiguation
  - User:RussBot - automated bot for disambiguation
  - Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/fixer - downloadable program (pseudo-browser)
Disclaimers:
Disputes: see: Content disputes, Personal attacks
Disruptive editing (see also Content dispute, Personal attacks)
- Wikipedia:Disruptive editing
- Wikipedia:Disruption - essay
- Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Harassment (WP:HAR) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct - requires two or more editors to have posted warnings about another editor
Divisiveness: Wikipedia:Divisiveness
Download of data (database): see Technical (hardware and software) (for individual pages, see Exporting (an article))

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Edit conflict: Help:Edit conflict - when two editors simultaneously edit the same page or section
Edit counts:
- Wikipedia:Edit count
- Wikipedia:Tools#Edit counters
- Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters
- User:Interiot/EditCountOptIn
- Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits
- Wikipedia:Editcountitis - an essay
Edit lock:
- Wikipedia:Edit lock (guideline) - asking other users to let you do major edits undisturbed
- Template:Inuse/doc
Edit summary:
- Help:Edit summary
- Wikipedia:Edit summary legend - commonly used abbreviations
- Wikipedia:Edit summary legend/Quick reference
- Wikipedia:Automatic edit summaries
Edit war: see Content disputes
Editing (in general) (see also Edit summary, Help, New articles, New editors, Quality of articles, Reverts, Sources)
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia in nine words
- Wikipedia:Editing policy - official policy
- Wikipedia:Introduction
- Wikipedia:Tutorial - Editing, policy, conduct, and structure
- Help:Editing
- Standard editing screen:
  - Help:Edit toolbar
  - MediaWiki:Edittools (see talk page for how to tailor these)
- Help:Editing FAQ
- User:Uncle G/Wikipedia triage - a guide to "What to do" with problematical articles (nice categorization)
- Wikipedia:How to edit a page - a pretty comprehensive discussion; best to read other information first
- Wikipedia:How to copy-edit
- Wikipedia:Cheatsheet
- Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts
- Help:Keyboard shortcuts
- Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ
- Wikipedia:Editing FAQ
- Help:Wikitext examples
- Wikipedia:Be bold
- Wikipedia:Annotated article - an annotated article that explains various editing decisions, using a sample article
- Wikipedia:Patent nonsense (guideline) - what to do with ununderstandable content in an article
- m:Help:Dummy edit - generally for the purpose of posting an edit summary
- Editing software:
  - Help:External editors
  - Wikipedia:MozEx tutorial - using the MozEx extension of Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox to change the page editor
  - Wikipedia:Text editor support
  - Wikipedia:Tools/Editing tools
  - Wikipedia:Wikipedia-mode.el - Emacs
- Customization: User:MarkS/Extra edit buttons
Editor: (see also New editor, User account and username)
- Wikipedia:Editor activity indicator - in, around, somewhere, out
- Wikipedia:Editor review - page to request a review of one's editing
Election articles:
- Wikipedia:Articles on elections
- Wikipedia:Candidates and elections (inactive)
Email:
- Help:Email confirmation
- Wikipedia:Emailing users
Embedded citations: see Sources
Encyclopedia: (see also Criticism (of Wikipedia))
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia is an encyclopedia (WP:ENC)
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia (WP:NOT#PAPER)
- Wikipedia:Fancruft (essay)
Endnotes: see Sources
Enforcement (see also Administrator, Arbitration)
- General:
  - Wikipedia:List of policies#Enforcing policies: what action authorized users can take to enforce other policies
  - Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention - a directory of places to request administrator help
  - Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard (WP:AN)
- Blocks:
  - Wikipedia:Blocking policy (WP:BLOCK)
  - Wikipedia:Blocked users can edit their own talk page
  - Wikipedia:Appealing a block (policy)
  - Wikipedia:Autoblock
  - Wikipedia:No open proxies (policy)
  - m:Meta:WikiProject on open proxies
  - Template:Schoolblock
  - Special:Ipblocklist - List of currently blocked IP addresses and usernames (searchable)
- Bans:
  - Wikipedia:Banning policy
  - Wikipedia:Community noticeboard - forum to discuss community bans (new, January 2007)
  - Wikipedia:List of banned users
Esperanza: Wikipedia:Esperanza - a group of Wikipedia editors "dedicated to strengthening Wikipedia's sense of community"
- Created September 2005
- Disbanded January 2007
Essays:
- Wikipedia:Essays (proposal as of April 2007)
- Wikipedia:Essays are not policy - essay
- Wikipedia:Don't cite essays or proposals as if they were policy - essay
- Wikipedia:Don't worry about writing essays - essay
- Category:Wikipedia essays
Ethiopia:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Ethiopia-related articles)
- Wikipedia:Amharic
Etiquette: see Wikiquette
Experts: see Wikipedia:Expert retention (an essay)
Exporting (an article):
- Help:Export
- Special:Export
- Magnus' magic MediaWiki-to-XML-to-stuff converter
- Use printable version; for pdf, is option when printing in Mac OS; for Windows, use PDF Creator
Extensions:
External links: see Sources, URLs

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FAQs - see Help, specific topics
Faux pas: Wikipedia:Faux pas avoidance - some common mistakes
Featured articles: (see also Good articles, Main Page)
- Wikipedia:What is a featured article?
- Wikipedia:Featured articles
- Wikipedia:Today's featured article - history of what have been Main Page articles
- Wikipedia:Stabilizing featured articles
- Wikipedia:Featured article review
- Wikipedia:Featured article statistics
- Wikipedia:Featured article candidates
- Wikipedia:Article Creation and Improvement Drive - a weekly collaboration to improve articles to featured article status
- Wikipedia:Featured Article Help Desk - help for those who would like to see a particular article improved to FA status
- Wikipedia:One featured article per quarter - an informal project
Fiction:
Films: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (films)
Five pillars: Wikipedia:Five pillars
Flags: (as content, not database fields)
- Wikipedia:Don't overuse flags
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template
Formula: see Graphics
Footnotes: see Sources
Form (as input): Help:Inputbox
Forum shopping: see Wikipedia:Spam#Forum shopping
Formatting of text:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (text formatting) - bold, italics, underlines, etc.
- Wikipedia:Tutorial (Formatting)
- User:DarknessLord/EA TUT Thing - guide to basic markup
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (capital letters)
- Wikipedia:Colours (aka "Colors") (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (command-line examples) - for articles on computer science, how to format words that a user would type.
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (titles) - scientific names, titles of books, etc.
Foundation: see Wikimedia Foundation
Frequently asked questions (FAQ): in general, see Help (general); also see specific topics
Fun:

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Galleries (see also Images)
- Wikipedia:Galleries - proposed policy or guideline
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a free web host
- Wikipedia:Gallery tag
Games: see Fun (for games within Wikipedia]], Video games)
General disclaimer: Wikipedia:General disclaimer
Glossary:
- For a glossary related to Wikipedia editing, see Terms/terminology
- For glossaries related to articles (content), see List of glossaries
"Go" button: Help:Go button
Good articles: (see also Featured articles)
- Wikipedia:Good articles
- Wikipedia:Good article statistics
Good faith: see Personal attacks
Google:
- Google Earth: see Maps
- Google test: see Search engine test
- Wikipedia:Google Web Accelerator - not necessarily recommended
Gothic:
- Wikipedia:Gothic Keyboarding
- Wikipedia:Gothic Unicode Fonts
Graphics (see also Images)
- Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials
- Help:Formula - a list of the markup symbols in use
- Help:Displaying a formula
- Wikipedia:ASCII art conversion tool
- Wikipedia:Chemical ASCII-art
- Wikipedia:How to create graphs for Wikipedia articles
- Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Dia
- Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Microsoft Word
- Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with OpenOffice.org Writer
- Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with OpenOffice.org Draw
- Category:Wikipedia requested diagrams
Greek: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Greek) (guideline)
Guestbooks: see Autograph books
Guidelines: see Policies and guidelines

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Hardware: see Technical (hardware and software)
Harmony: Wikipedia:Harmonious editing club
Hebrew:
- Help:Hebrew
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Hebrew) (guideline)
- Category:Yiddish letters
- Category:Wikipedia Hebrew templates
Help pages: (for help on a specific topic, see that topic); see also Assistance (disputes), Learning, Questions
- Wikipedia:Help
- Help:Contents - help directory
- Wikipedia:Tutorial
- Wikipedia:Tutorial Drive
- Wikipedia:FAQ - includes 11 "general" FAQs, including Wikipedia:Very Frequently Asked Questions
- Categorized pages:
Hieroglyphs: Help:WikiHiero syntax
History (of a page):
- Wikipedia:How to read an article history
- Help:Page history
- Wikipedia:Copyright violations on history pages
- Diffs:
  - Help:Diff
  - bug - "diff views do not wrap text, can be many times wider than browser width"
- Exporting: Special:Export
- Deletions of prior versions:
  - Wikipedia:Selective deletion
  - Wikipedia:Oversight and Wikipedia:Requests for oversight - removal of personal or libelous information on older versions of a page
- Tools:
  - For the problem of diffs being wider than the screen: Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Fix diff width
  - For content:
    - WikiBlame - searches for given text in versions of article
    - User:Stevage/EnhanceHistory.user.js - Collapses consecutive edits from the same person into one, integrates (shows) diffs on the history page
    - MediaWiki talk:Monobook.css#Better rendering for .diffchange in diff's...
  - For counts and major contributor:
    - Revision counter - counts revisions (edits)
    - Contributors - lists edits, similar to page history, but can be sorted by contributor; easy to exclude different groups
    - Page history statistics by user:aka - builds an edit history overview page
    - Article Contribution Counter (beta) - tool that identifies major contributors to an article (a similar feature request is here)
  - Other:
    - History Flow Visualization Application
Hoaxes:
- Wikipedia:Don't create hoaxes (guideline)
- Category:Suspected hoax articles
- User:Ashibaka/Hoaxes - list of notable hoaxes
House of Representatives (edits by staffers): see Congressional staffer edits
How-to: Category:Wikipedia how-to (see also Help (general))
HTML: (see also Exporting (an article))
- Help:HTML in wikitext
- Help:Inputbox

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Images: (see also Censorship, Copyrights, Galleries, Graphics)
- General information:
- Needed pictures:
  - Wikipedia:Fromowner documentation - inserting a request for an image into an article
  - Wikipedia:Requested pictures
  - Wikipedia:Photo Matching Service
  - Category:Wikipedia requested photographs
- Sources: (in addition to images created by you) (see also Commons)
- Before uploading:
  - Wikipedia:Preparing images for upload
  - Wikipedia:How to improve image quality
  - Wikipedia:How to reduce colors for saving a JPEG as PNG
  - Wikipedia:Basic bitmap image editing
  - Wikipedia:How to use the GIMP (the GIMP is a free tool for manipulating images)
- Uploading:
  - MediaWiki:Uploadtext - warnings about the need to specify the source of an upload, and copyright information
  - Wikipedia:Fromowner - uploading an image you created or own
  - Wikipedia:Image file names (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Uploading images
  - Wikipedia:Image copyright tags
  - Special:Upload
- Displaying on a page:
  - Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Images
  - Wikipedia:Captions (Manual of Style)
  - Wikipedia:Extended image syntax - options for displaying an image (size, right/left, etc.)
  - Wikipedia:How to fix bunched up edit links - if section edit links are being pushed down by floated images
  - Wikipedia:Image description page
  - Wikipedia:Alternative text for images
- Featured:
  - Wikipedia:Featured pictures
  - Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates
- Problem images on Wikipedia:
  - Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images
  - Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion
  - Wikipedia:Pictures needing attention
  - Wikipedia:Images for cleanup
  - Categories identifying problems:
  - Automation:
    - User:BJBot - bot that tags orphaned images as such; notifies originator of problem
    - User:Howcheng/quickimgdelete.js - Javascript helper file to make easier the tagging of images and nominating images for deletion
- Other:
  - Wikipedia:WikiProject Illustration
IMDb: Wikipedia:IMDb (templates)
Importing:
- Wikipedia:How to import articles
- Help:WordToWiki
- mw:Word2MediaWikiPlus - convert Microsoft Word tables to wikitables
- HTML to Wiki Converter
Inclusion: Wikipedia:Inclusion is not an indicator of notability (essay)
Index of pages:
- Wikipedia:Quick index - click on a starting point to browse articles
- Special:Allpages - select a starting point for browsing
- m:Help-style indexing - uses keywords
Indian subcontinent:
Indymedia: Wikipedia:Guide for Indymedia authors
Infobox template:
- Wikipedia:Infobox templates
- Help:Infobox
- Wikipedia:Dynamic infobox templates (Manual of Style)
- Category:Infobox templates
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes
- Specialized:
  - User:Zondor/Toolboxes
  - Wikipedia:Chemical infobox
  - Taxonomy:
    - Wikipedia:Taxobox usage (Manual of Style)
    - Wikipedia:How to read a taxobox
Inserting text from one page into another page - see Transclusion
Instruction creep: see Policies and guidelines
Instant messaging and IRC:
- Wikipedia:Instant Messaging Wikipedians
- Wikipedia:IRC channels
- Wikipedia:IRC tutorial
- m:IRC channels
- m:IRC Group Contacts - liaisons between Wikimedia and the staff of the freenode IRC network
- Wikipedia:Scripts#IRC channel scripts
- m:IRC channel cloaks
- Wikipedia IRC help channel - a login page
Interwiki links:
- Wikipedia:Sister projects (Manual of Style) - templates for links; info on moving articles between other projects such as Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikinews, and Wikibooks
- Help:Interwiki linking
- Wikipedia:Interwikimedia link
- Wikipedia:Interlanguage links
- Help:Custom namespaces - prefixes (like :m) that (normally) resolve into an interwiki
- Wikipedia:List of interwiki redirects
IP lookup: see Vandalism
Ireland: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Ireland-related articles)
ISBN: see Books
Islam: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Islam-related articles)

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Keyboard shortcuts: Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts
Keywords: see m:Help-style indexing
Korea:

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Lame: see Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars ever
Languages: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (languages), individual countries/languages, Translations
Latter Day Saints (Mormons):
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Latter Day Saints)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Latter Day Saints)
Layout and sections:
- Wikipedia:Guide to layout
- Help:Section
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings)
- Wikipedia:Lead section
- Wikipedia:Summary style - when articles or sections get too long (see also Template talk:Details)
- Wikipedia:Discuss and draft graphical layout overhauls (guideline) ("graphical layout" means how a page is organized)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (lists of works)
- User:Barticus88/edit section zero.js - to edit the lead section without editing the entire article
Lead section: see Layout and sections
Learning: (see also Help, Questions)
- Coaching:
- Classes:
  - User:The Transhumanist/Virtual classroom
  - User:Brusselsshrek/Wiki School - dormant
- Other:
  - Wikipedia:Instructional material
  - MediaWiki Administrators’ Tutorial Guide (book; March 2007 publication date)
Legal (see also Copyrights, Disclaimers, Wikipedia:Manual of Style (legal), Wikipedia:WikiLawyering)
- Wikipedia:No legal threats (WP:NLT (policy) - among other things, an editor who makes a legal threat is to refrain from further editing
- Wikipedia:List of policies#Legal and copyright: law-based rules about what material may be used in wikipedia, and remedies for misuse
- Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from subject) - contacting wikipedia when an individual has a problem with an article about that person or about someone that person represents
- Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from enterprise) - similarly, with an enterprise
- Wikipedia:Office Actions (WP:OFFICE) (policy) - sometimes Wikimedia Foundation representatives bypass normal procedures because of legal issues
- Wikipedia:Logos (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Image use policy
- Wikipedia:Privacy policy
- Wikipedia:Libel (WP:LIBEL) (policy)
Links: see Sources (for external links), Wikilinks (for links between wiki articles)
Lists:
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Lists
- Lists as part of an article:
- Lists as the subject of an article:
  - Wikipedia:Lists
  - Wikipedia:List guideline
  - Wikipedia:Lists (stand-alone lists) (Manual of Style)
  - Wikipedia:Naming conventions (long lists) (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes (WP:CLS) (guideline) - comparing alternative approaches
  - Wikipedia:Lists in Wikipedia (essay)
  - Special:Prefixindex/List_of - reportedly about 50,000 articles (lists)
  - Problems:
Lithuania:
- Wikipedia:Simplified phonetic transcription for Lithuanian
- Wikipedia:Translations of Lithuanian administrative divisions
Living people: see Biographies
Logging in:
- Wikipedia:How to log in
- Help:Logging in
- Wikipedia:Contact us/login problems
- Security:
  - Wikipedia:Security (proposal as of May 2007)
  - Wikipedia:Personal security practices (essay)
  - Secure login
  - m:Don't leave your fly open (essay)
  - Preventive action to be permit regaining control of a hijacked account: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-05-14/Committed identity
Logos:
- Wikipedia:Logos - guideline for articles
- Wikipedia:Logos and slogans - pertaining to Wikipedia itself
Lyrics: Wikipedia:Lyrics and poetry (guideline)

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Magic:
- Help:Magic
- Magic words:
  - Help:Magic words
  - Help:Variable
  - Help:Parser function
  - m:ParserFunctions
  - Qif:
    - Wikipedia:Qif conditionals
    - Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Template:Qif (May 2006)
Mailing lists: see News (about Wikipedia)
Main page:
- Main Page
- Wikipedia:Editing the main page (only admins can edit)
- Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors
- Wikipedia:Main Page alternatives
- Wikipedia:Main Page FAQ
- Wikipedia:Main Page featured article protection
- Wikipedia:Main page featured article stability - proposed (as of March 2007)
Maintenance (see also Quality of articles)
- General:
- Problems:
  - Wikipedia:Pages needing attention - sorted by topic
  - Category:Cleanup by month
  - Wikipedia:Community Portal/Opentask - pages that need wikification, cleanup, expansion (of stubs), verification, updates, etc.
  - Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links
  - Special:CrossNamespaceLinks - links from articles to generally inappropriate namespaces such as "User" and "User talk".
  - Special:Uncategorizedcategories
  - Special:Unusedcategories
  - Special:Unusedimages
  - Special:Uncategorizedpages
  - Category:Wikipedia articles in need of updating
  - User:Topbanana/Reports - old reports; useful for ideas
- Projects:
  - Template:Active Wiki Fixup Projects
  - Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce
  - Wikipedia:WikiProject League of Copyeditors
  - Wikipedia:WikiProject Punctuation
  - Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax
  - Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikify
  - Wikipedia:Elements of Style improvement project
  - Wikipedia:Typo - the Wikipedia Typo Department/Typo Team
Manual of Style: Wikipedia:Manual of Style
Maps:
- m:Maps
- m:Wikimaps
- Wikipedia:Blank maps - maps that can be colored and labeled in different languages
- Wikipedia:Obtaining geographic coordinates
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Source materials
- Wikipedia:Producing maps with xplanet
- User:Dschwen/WikiMiniAtlas - Javascript plugin to display a GoogleMaps-like draggable, zoomable, and clickable worldmap in geocoded Wikipedia articles
- Category:Wikipedia requested maps
- Category:Wikipedians who use Google Earth
Markup: see Formatting
Mathematics: (see also Numbers)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (mathematics)
- Help:Calculation - simple mathematical calculations
- mw:Extension:ASCIIMath4Wiki - tag that outputs math expressions written in ASCIIMath as MathML
- Wikipedia:Evaluating how interesting an integer's mathematical property is - essay
Meat puppets: see policy on Sock puppets
Media: (see also Copyright, Images)
- Wikipedia:Media
- Wikipedia:Media help
- Wikipedia:Media help (MIDI)
- Wikipedia:Media help (Ogg)
- Wikipedia:Free sound resources
Mediation Committee: (see also Content disputes)
- Wikipedia:Mediation Committee
- Wikipedia:Mediation Committee/Nominations
- Wikipedia:Mediation Committee/Current Nominations
MediaWiki: (see also Extensions)
- MediaWiki - a web-based wiki software application used by all projects of the Wikimedia Foundation,
- Wikipedia:MediaWiki namespace
- Help:MediaWiki namespace
- Wikipedia talk:MediaWiki namespace text
Medical:
- Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (medicine-related articles) - proposal as of March 2007
Mentorship: Wikipedia:Mentorship - either voluntary (informal) or involuntary (from dispute resolution)
Merging:
- Wikipedia:Merge
- Wikipedia:Merging and moving pages (WP:MM)
- Category:Articles to be merged
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Merging and splitting
Messages: see Wikipedia:Template messages, Wikipedia:Emailing users, Talk pages
Meta: Wikipedia:Meta
Miscellany for deletion: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion - for deleting any page which is not covered by another deletion process (AfD, CfD, TfD, etc.)
Minor edit: Help:Minor edit
Mirrors:
- Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks - sites that use Wikipedia content
- Wikipedia:Standard GFDL violation letter
Missing (needed) articles: see New articles
Moderator: see Administrator
Mongolian: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Mongolian)
Movies: see Films
Moving a page (see also Disambiguation, Naming an article, Redirect)
- Help:Moving a page
- Wikipedia:Merging and moving pages (WP:MM)
- Wikipedia:How to rename (move) a page
- Wikipedia:Requested moves - page for moves that require administrator assistance
- Wikipedia:How to fix cut and paste moves
Music:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (music)
- Wikipedia:Notability (music) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (pieces of music) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Music samples (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Record charts (Manual of Style)

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Name (of a user): see User account and username
Namespace:
- Wikipedia:Namespace
- Help:Namespace
- m:Help:Namespace manager - for a future version of MediaWiki
Naming a page: Help:Page name
Naming an article (see also Disambiguation, Moving a page), Naming a page
- Basics:
  - Wikipedia:Naming conventions (WP:NC) (policy)
  - Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names) (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Naming conflict (guideline)
- In general:
  - Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English) (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization) (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Naming conventions (plurals) (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Naming conventions (precision) (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Naming conventions (abbreviations) (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Articles with slashes in title
  - Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions) (guideline)
- Parts of speech:
  - Wikipedia:Naming conventions (adjectives) (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Naming conventions (verbs) (guideline)
- Specific topics: (see also elsewhere in this index)
  - Wikipedia:Naming conventions (places) (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names) (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Naming conventions (events) (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna) (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life
Navigation:
- On a page: see Anchors
- Between pages:
  - Wikipedia:Basic navigation
  - mw:Extension:ImageMap - "imagemap" tags for linking via clickable imaages (new as of January 2007)
  - Navigational templates: see Series boxes
Neutral point of view (NPOV):
- General policy and guidance:
  - Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (WP:NPOV) (policy)
  - Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/FAQ (policy)
  - Wikipedia:NPOV dispute - how-to guidance
  - Wikipedia:NPOV tutorial
  - Wikipedia:Describing points of view - essay
  - Wikipedia:Writing for the enemy - essay
  - Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Examples
- Balance and space:
  - Wikipedia:NPOV tutorial#Space and balance
  - Wikipedia:Neutral point of view#Undue weight
- Other:
  - Template:Welcomenpov
- Wikipedia:Neutrality Project
- Category:NPOV disputes - pages with an NPOV dispute tag
  - Wikipedia:List of controversial issues
  - Category:Wikipedia neutral point of view
New articles: (see also Deleting an article, Editing (in general), Naming an article, Quality of articles)
- To consider before creating a new article:
  - Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary (policy)
  - Wikipedia:Notability (guideline) - if it's not about something notable, it shouldn't be an article in Wikipedia
  - Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not for things made up in school one day
  - Wikipedia:List of bad article ideas (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create
  - Wikipedia:Fringe theories (guideline)
- How to:
  - Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Wizard-Introduction - a step-by-step, automated process
  - Wikipedia:Your first article
  - Help:Starting a new page - the technical details
  - Wikipedia:Articles for creation - place for anonymous (IP) editors to propose new articles
- Needed new articles: (see also Red links, Stubs)
  - Wikipedia:Drawing board - proposing ideas for new articles
  - Wikipedia:Most wanted articles
  - Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than a year (red links)
  - Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles
  - Wikipedia:Requested articles
  - Wikipedia:Topics where Wikipedia is weak
  - Wikipedia:Redirects with possibilities
- After a new articles is created:
  - Special:Newpages - Lists new articles
  - Wikipedia:New pages patrol
  - User:Martinp23/NPWatcher - Wikipedia tool which helps users perform new page patrol more easily
- Behind the scene:
  - MediaWiki talk:Newarticletext
New contributors: see New editors
New editors (see also Editing (in general), Learning, Questions)
- Welcoming:
  - Wikipedia:Welcoming committee
  - Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Standard user greeting
  - Wikipedia:Welcome templates, includes Template:Welcome
  - Category:WelcomeBotResearch - a project by User:FrummerThanThou
  - Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Welcomebot (request denied December 2006)
  - Template:WelcomeMenu - one of many templates, pretty good (except for the built-in category)
- Standard responses to: Category:Wikipedia standard response templates
- Suggested reading:
  - Wikipedia:Faux pas avoidance - avoiding some common mistakes
  - Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia
  - Wikipedia:Contribute what you know or are willing to learn more about
- Other:
  - Wikipedia:Starter toolset - page to copy and modify
  - Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers (WP:BITE) (guideline)
  - Special:Log/newusers - new accounts
  - Special:Contributions/newbies - edits by new editors
  - User:AlMac/Wiki Start Map - visual organization of Wikipedia pages for editors (incomplete, outdated)
New Zealand: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (New Zealand)
News (about Wikipedia):
- Wikipedia:News
- Announcements:
  - Wikipedia:Goings-on
  - Wikipedia:Village pump (news)
  - Wikipedia:Community Portal - "Notices" section
- Signpost (newsletter):
  - Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/About
  - Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Tools/Spamlist - receiving as a message on a user talk page
  - Template:Signpost-subscription - receiving in a box (transcluded) on a user page or user talk page
- Wikipedia:WikiProject WikipediaWeekly - a weekly (or so) podcast
- Mailing lists:
  - Wikipedia:Mailing lists
  - m:List Summary Service - summarizes of what has been discussed on various mailing lists, with links
  - Wikien-l mailng list - threaded version (also citable)
  - Wikiien-l mailing list - forum format
  - Foundation-l mailing list - threaded version (also citable)
- Blogs:
  - Planet Wikimedia, hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, began March 2007 - blog aggregator
  - Wiki Blog Planet - another aggregator
  - Open Wiki Blog Planet - yet another
  - Wikimetrics
- Other external sources:
  - Wikipedia:Wikipedia in the media
  - Wikipedia:Wikizine - a weekly (or so) independent electronic magazine
Not:
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT) (policy) - it's not a paper encyclopedia, a dictionary, a publisher of original thought, a soapbox, a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media, a blog, webspace provider, or social networking site, a directory, an indiscriminate collection of information, a crystal ball, censored, a battleground, an anarchy, a democracy, a bureaucracy
- Wikipedia:Alternative outlets - wikis and similar sites which do allow various types of content that Wikipedia does not
Notability: (see also specific subject areas)
- Wikipedia:Notability (guideline) - also lists types of articles for which more specific criteria has been created
- Category:Wikipedia notability
- User:Uncle G/On notability - essay
- Wikipedia:Inclusion is not an indicator of notability
- Wikipedia:Search engine test
- Wikipedia:Fringe theories - content guideline
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability
Notes (in articles): see Sources
NPOV: see Neutral point of view
Numbers: (see also Mathematics)

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Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Obscenity: see Censorship
One-revert rule: Wikipedia:One-revert rule
"Office" actions - see Wikimedia Foundation
Organizations:
- As subjects of articles: see Companies and organizations
- Within Wikipedia: (see also Wikipedia as community)
  - Category:Wikipedian organizations
  - Wikipedia:Concordia - inactive as of December 2006; efforts to revive in early 2007
  - Wikipedia:Esperanza - defunct as of January 2007
Original research: see Sources
Overcategorization: Wikipedia:Overcategorization (guideline)- what types of categories are not good ones to create (see also Categories)
Ownership: Wikipedia:Ownership of articles (WP:OWN) - about editors who don't like to have their words edited by others (for ownership of Wikipedia, see Wikimedia Foundation)