User:Cartakes

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Wikipedia philosophy (source: Template:Wikipedia essays):

• Articles must be written
• Avoid vague introductions
• Be a reliable source
• Cohesion
• Concede lost arguments
• 8 simple rules for editing our encyclopedia
• Explanationism
• External criticism of Wikipedia
• Here to build an encyclopedia
• Not editing because of Wikipedia restriction
• Neutrality of Sources
• Paradoxes
• Paraphrasing
• POV and OR from editors, sources, and fields
• Product, process, policy
• Purpose
• Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia
• Tendentious editing
• The role of policies in collaborative anarchy
• The rules are principles
• Trifecta
• Wikipedia in brief
• Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
• Wikipedia is a community
• An uncivil environment is a poor environment
• Be the glue
• Civility warnings
• Deletion as revenge
• Failure
• Forgive and forget
• It's not the end of the world
• Nobody cares
• Most people who disagree with you on content are not vandals
• Staying cool when the editing gets hot
• The grey zone
• The last word
• The rules of polite discourse
• There is no common sense
• Wikipedia is not about winning
• Writing for the opponent