User:JimRenge

Policies and guidelines

Getting started
A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images
Getting help
Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention
Policies and guidelines
Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability

The community
Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists
Writing articles
Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review
Miscellaneous
User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

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Lists of Policies: Five Pillars • List of Policies • Policies and Guidelines • Simplified Ruleset

Wikipedia Guidelines: Verifiability • No original research • Neutral point of view • Copyrights • Resolving disputes

Behavioral Guidelines: Be civil • Assume good faith • Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point • Wikipedia etiquette • Gaming the system • Please do not bite the newcomers

Content Guidelines: Notability • Verifiability • Reliable source • Identifying reliable sources • Burden of evidence • Exceptional claims require exceptional sources • Avoid mission statements • "In popular culture" content • External links normally to be avoided • Fringe theories • Common knowledge

Editing Guidelines: Help editing • Be bold in updating pages • Vandalism

Style Guidelines: Wikipedia Manual of Style • Manual of Style/Lists • Manual of Style/Tables • Manual of Style/Capital letters • Laying out a typical basic article • Writing better articles • Use English • Lead • Standard appendices and footers • Citing sources • Avoid peacock terms • Avoid weasel words

Templates • Template help

Article tags: {{abbreviations}} • {{cleanup}} • {{external links}} • {{No footnotes}} • {{Citations missing}} • {{Citation needed}} • {{Cleanup}} • {{copy edit}} • {{copypaste}} • {{Confusing}} • {{Inappropriate tone}} • {{incoherent}} • {{multiple issues}} • {{Notability}} • {{Not verified}} • {{original research}} • {{overlinked}} • {{peacock}} • {{POV}} • {{primary sources}} • {{puffery}} • {{refimprove}} • {{tone}} • {{Unreferenced}} • {{inline citations}} • {{unreferenced}} • {{verify}} • {{weasel}} • {{Wikify}}

Section tags: {{Disputed-section}} • {{POV-section}} • {{copy edit-section}} • {{expand section}} • {{fictionrefs}} • {{off-topic}} • {{in popular culture}} • {{ref improve section}} • {{unreferenced section}} • {{trivia}}

Inline tags: Category:Inline citation and verifiability dispute templates • {{citation needed}} • {{clarify}} • {{failed verification}} • {{or}} • {{request quotation}} • {{syn}} • {{verify credibility}} • {{who}} • {{whom?}}

By subject

Delete: {{delete}} • {{db-bio}} • {{db-attack}} • {{db|...}} • {{afd}} • {{cfd}} • {{ifd}} • {{tfd}} • {{rfd}} • {{mfd}}

Dispute: {{POV}} • {{disputed}} • {{Disputed-section}}

Bibleverse : {{bibleverse||John|3:16|KJV|}}

Bibleref2 : {{bibleref2|Hebrews|12:24}}

Superscript : {{bibleref2c|Mt|28:19}}

Spelling Style: {{Varieties of English templates}} • {{American English}} • {{British English}}

Citing sources • CiteEx • {{Cite web}} • {{Cite journal}} • {{Cite book}} • CITET

<ref>{{Cite news | first=John | last=Doe | title=News | url=| work= | newspaper=[[Florida Today]] | location=Melbourne, Florida | pages= 1A | date=April 1, 2011 | id= | accessdate=}}</ref>

<ref>{{Cite web |url= |title=News |accessdate= |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=2010-05-01 |year= |month= |work= Florida Today |publisher=Florida Today |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}</ref>

<ref>{{Cite book |first = George |last = Weigel |authorlink = George Weigel |coauthors = |title = The Truth of Catholicism |publisher = [[Harper Collins]] |date = 2001 |location = New York City |pages = |url = |doi = |id = |isbn = 0-06-621330-4 }}</ref>

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