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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.
Toggle Wikipedia Principles subsection. ... 1.2 Jimbo's Statement. 1.3 Ignore All Rules. 1.4 What Wikipedia is NOT. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other ...
Wikipedia:Pledges: Specific principles individual Wikipedians pledge to uphold; Wikipedia:Product, process, policy: The three Ps; Wikipedia:Here to build an encyclopedia: Behaviors that build, or destroy, the project. Wikipedia:Eight simple rules for editing our encyclopedia; Wikipedia:Ten simple rules for editing Wikipedia
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. Trifecta – ultra-fast overview of foundational principles related to policies and guidelines.
Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons – about how editors must take particular care when adding information about living persons to any Wikipedia page. Wikipedia:Five pillars – the fundamental principles of Wikipedia summarized in five "pillars". Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not – the page outlines certain things that Wikipedia is not.
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The principles, and accompanying rules, on Wikipedia are solely intended towards creating and distributing a free, quality encyclopedia to everyone. The requirements of verifiability, reliable sourcing and other content rules seem the "most obvious" to many contributors. However, all the principles are equally central to this goal.
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.