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4 September 2024 |
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The most important link: First and foremost WIKIPEDIA IS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA!
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Notability
[edit]- Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability
- Wikipedia:Bare notability
- Wikipedia:Inherent notability
- Wikipedia:What notability is not
- Wikipedia:Notability/RFC:compromise
- Wikipedia:Notability/RFC:Reevaluation
- Wikipedia:Existence ≠ Notability
- Wikipedia:Generally notable people
- Wikipedia:Notable person survival kit
- Wikipedia:Red flags of non-notability
- Wikipedia:Run-of-the-mill
- Wikipedia:Other stuff exists
- Wikipedia:Too soon
- Wikipedia:Why should I care?
- Wikipedia:No one cares about your garage band
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia doesn't care how many friends you have
- Wikipedia:I wouldn't know him from a hole in the ground
Verifiability
[edit]- Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup#Verifiability and sources
- Wikipedia:Citing sources/Further considerations
- Wikipedia:Attribution/FAQ
- Wikipedia:Improving referencing efforts
- Wikipedia:Handling primary, secondary and tertiary sources
- Wikipedia:Otto Middleton (or why newspapers are dubious sources)
- Wikipedia:Reliable sources may be non-neutral
- Wikipedia:Reliable source examples
- Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources
- Wikipedia:Third-party sources
- Wikipedia:Party and person
- Wikipedia:Citation templates
- Wikipedia:When to cite
- User essay: On sources and content
- WebCite form
Useful or interesting links
[edit]- Wikipedia:Labels
- Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
- Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License
- Wikipedia:Language recognition chart
- Wikipedia:Requesting free content
- Wikipedia:Errors in the Encyclopædia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Researching Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:We aren't Citizendium
- Wikipedia:Expert retention
- Wikipedia:Scientific standards
- Wikipedia:Specialized-style fallacy
- Wikipedia:Quality control
- Wikipedia:Buy one, get one free
- Wikipedia:Be the glue
- Wikipedia:Somebody else's problem
- Wikipedia:Getting to Philosophy
- Wikipedia:Administration
- Wikipedia:What adminship is not
- Wikipedia:Life of an article
- Wikipedia:Readers first
- Wikipedia:Enjoy yourself
- Wikipedia:Practical process
- Wikipedia:Edit this proposal
- Wikipedia:Beef up that first revision
- Wikipedia:Permastub
- Wikipedia:Don't feed the divas
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not therapy
- Wikipedia:Free speech
- Wikipedia:Criticisms
- Wikipedia:Recentism
- Wikipedia:Recent additions
- Wikipedia:Good article nominations
- Wikipedia:Vital articles
- Wikipedia:DYKSTATS
- Wikipedia:Featured topics
- Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates
- Wikipedia:Graphic Lab
- Wikipedia:Finding images tutorial
- Wikipedia:Extended image syntax
- Wikipedia:Publicgirluk photo debate
- Wikipedia:Sound/list
- Wikipedia:Wikivoices
- Wikipedia:Books
- Wikipedia:Avoid Parkinson's Bicycle Shed Effect
- Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in adminship discussions
- Wikipedia:Words to avoid
- Wikipedia:Advocacy
- Wikipedia:Avoiding POV funnels
- Wikipedia:Civil POV pushing
- Wikipedia:NPOV tutorial
- Wikipedia:Describing points of view
- Wikipedia:Kindness Campaign
- Wikipedia:Reward board
- Wikipedia:Dashboard
- Wikipedia:Issues
- Wikipedia:Local Embassy
- Wikipedia:Wikiquette assistance
- Wikipedia:Requests for feedback
- Wikipedia:Controversial articles
- Wikipedia:Editing frequency
- Wikipedia:Editing policy
- Wikipedia:Editor assistance
- Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Every edit must stand on its own feet
- Wikipedia:List of online reference desks
- Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:List of base pages in the Wikipedia namespace
Arbitration Committee proceedings
- recent changes
- purge this page
- view or discuss this template
Currently, there are no requests for arbitration.
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Open cases
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Recently closed cases (Past cases)
No cases have recently been closed (view all closed cases).
Request name | Motions | Case | Posted |
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Amendment request: Definition of the "area of conflict" Clause 4 (b) | Motion | none | 26 July 2024 |
Amendment request: Palestine-Israel articles (AE referral) | none | none | 17 August 2024 |
No arbitrator motions are currently open.
- Wikipedia:List of administrators
- Wikipedia:Areas for Reform
- Wikipedia:Governance reform
- Wikipedia:How to contribute to Wikipedia guidance
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Committees
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight
- Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Principles
- Wikipedia:Advisory Council on Project Development
- Wikipedia:IRC/Personal views regarding IRC
- Wikipedia in culture
- Wikipedia:Modelling Wikipedia's growth
- Wikipedia:History of Wikipedian processes and people
- Wikipedia:Historic debates
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals
- Wikipedia:Lost functionalities
- Wikipedia:Alternative outlets
- Wikipedia:Long-term abuse
- Wikipedia:Replies to common objections
- Wikipedia:Quote your own essay
- Wikipedia:About essay searching
- Wikipedia:The value of essays
- Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Adventure
- Wikipedia:GLAM/MonmouthpediA
- Wikipedia:Top 25 Report
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Most-watched users
- Category:User essays
- Category:User essays on style
- Category:Wikipedia failed proposals
- Category:Wikipedia important community decisions
- Category:Wikipedia resources for researchers
User essays
[edit]- User:Filll/AGF Challenge
- User:Ling.Nut/V-challenged
- User:Jimbo Wales/Statement of principles
- User:Redthoreau/Nuggets of Wiki Wisdom
- User:Piotrus/Morsels of wikiwisdom
- User:Only/On retiring
- User:Antandrus/observations on Wikipedia behavior
- User:Tony1/How to improve your writing - Very useful guide on writing articles
- User:Giano/A fool's guide to writing a featured article
- User:Beyond My Ken/thoughts - Excellent essay
- User:Isomorphic/Essays/Deletionism
- User:Art LaPella/Devil's Dictionary of Wikipedia Policy - A great read
- User:Mangojuice/Administrators are not slaves
- User:Larry Sanger/Origins of Wikipedia
- User:Jayen466/Hannibal Fogg Watch
- User:Guy Macon/Wikipedia has Cancer
- meta:User:Larry Sanger - Larry's Columns on meta, some interesting reading
Featured Signpost articles
[edit]- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-03-07/Deletion controversy - Deletion of article about website angers gaming community
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-11-28/In the news - The closed, unfriendly world of Wikipedia, fundraiser fun and games, and chemists vs pornstars
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-10-09/News and notes - Wiki-PR's extensive network of clandestine paid advocacy exposed
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-12-02/Op-ed - Whither Wikidata?
External/Sister
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Policy (new post) |
Technical (new post) |
Proposals (new post) |
Idea lab (new post) |
Miscellaneous (new post) |
- https://wikiedu.org/
- The WikimediaAnnounce-l Archives
- stats.grok.se - Wikipedia article traffic statistics
- dumps.wikimedia.org - Data dumps
- tools.wmflabs.org - Recently Active Users
- meta:Wikimedia Canada
- meta:Wikimedia Research Network
- meta:Merchandise giveaways
- meta:2015 Community Wishlist Survey
- meta:Communication Projects Group/Useful Links
- meta:Rule of diminishing replies - the best way to deal with trolls
- meta:Wikipedia power structure
- meta:Avoid copyright paranoia
- meta:Megalomaniacal point of view
- meta:Steward requests
- meta:WikiLove/Stories
- meta:Research:WikiPride
- meta:Research:Oral Citations
- meta:Wikidata
- meta:Reports
- Citation Hunt
- mw:Manual:MediaWiki feature list
- mw:Article creation workflow
- commons:Commons:Copyright rules by subject matter
- Commons:List of meta category criteria
- wikiversity:Wikimedia Ethics
- wikiversity:Wikiversity:Featured
- wikiversity:Portal:Humanities
- Wikinews:Video 2.0
- outreachwiki:Welcome to Wikipedia (Bookshelf)
- strategy:Questions that need answers
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Battery_Half.png/200px-Battery_Half.png)
- Wikimedia blog
- Wikimedia Quarto newsletter
- The consequences of vandalizing Wikipedia...
- Wiki Experts Paid editing team for hire
- Who runs Wikipedia?
- Tricky questions to expect
- How Wikipedia Works (Old URL dead) (Signpost book review)
- Ask Jimmy! (dead link)
- http://wikiverse.io/
- Wikipedia news stories from BayNewser
- EN Wikizine
- English Wikipedia mailing list archive
- The Wikipedian
- Wikilivres The Canadian Wikisource
- WikiTrust
- Listen to Wikipedia
- Criticism
- Criticism of Wikipedia Gotta maintain a neutral point of view...
- Wikipediocracy
- Wikipedia Review
- Wikipedia Controversies
- Zombie Drama Queens from Wikipedia
- Examples of Bias in Wikipedia - Lol
- I'm on Wikipedia, get me out of here
- Class war! Wikipedia's workers revolt again: Bourgeois paper-shufflers have 'suspended democracy', sniff unpaid proles
- This is not Wikipedia
- A Brief History of Usenet: What went wrong? A great essay to read and compare with Wikipedia's growth
- The Missing Wikipedians - On the current and future state of Wikipedia, very interesting reading
- The Hive - On the history of Wikipedia and its processes, by Marshall Poe
Last updated by cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online at 03:08, 6 September 2024 (UTC) |
- Wikipedia Merchandise
- Wikipedia 10th Anniversary wiki
- Wikipedia Maze
- Wikipedia Game
- Wikipedia Story
- Wikipedia Studies
- Wikipedia Redefined
- Wikipedia Toolbar
- WikipediaVision
- WikiLove
- WikiStics
- WikiReader
- WikiInstant
- WikiMissing
- WikiButcher
- Snapshots of Wikipedia
- The Wikipedia Dispute Index
- The State of Wikipedia
- I love Wikipedia
- WikipediaVision
- DBpedia: Querying Wikipedia like a Database
- Twitter WikiSignpost
- Twitter WikipediaNews
Technical and Advanced
[edit]- Wikimedia Technical Blog
- Wikipedia:Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Wikipedia:Catalogue of CSS classes
- Wikipedia:Database queries
- Wikipedia:Lua/Modules
- Wikipedia:FAQ/Technical
- Wikipedia:Advanced footnote formatting
- Wikipedia:Advanced table formatting
- Wikipedia:Advanced text formatting
- Help:Books/for experts
- Help:WikiHiero syntax
- Help:Wiki markup
- meta:Help:Advanced templates
- mw:API:Query
- mw:Lua/Tutorial
- mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions
- mw:Help:Range blocks
- mw:Project:Support desk
- Secure login
- http://status.wikimedia.org/
- http://torrus.wikimedia.org
- http://nagios.wikimedia.org/
- http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/
- http://gdash.wikimedia.org/
Maintenance and tools
[edit]- Maintenance
- Wikipedia:Alert
- Wikipedia:Labels
- Wikipedia:Update
- Wikipedia:Maintenance
- Wikipedia:Dusty articles
- Wikipedia:Starter toolset
- Wikipedia:Database reports
- Wikipedia:Article Incubator
- Wikipedia:Neglected articles
- Wikipedia:Responsible tagging
- Wikipedia:Open proxy detection
- Wikipedia:Cleaning up vandalism
- Wikipedia:List of progress boxes
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Laundromat
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Community portal/Opentask
- Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Maintenance
- Wikipedia:Purging Google search results
- Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links
- Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than a year
- Wikipedia:Alleviate negative unsourced statements
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Wikipedia style and naming
- Wikipedia:Otheruses templates (example usage) Hatnotes
- Wikipedia:Template messages/WikiProject banners WikiProject banners
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Talk namespace Talk page templates
- Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace User warnings, etc.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types For stub sorting
- Category:All redirect templates For redirect sorting
- Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard
- Category:Wikipedia cleanup
- Category:Wikipedia feedback pages
- Category:Wikipedians looking for help
- Category:Wikipedia backlog
- Special:UncategorizedPages
- Special:UnwatchedPages
- Template:Deleted
- Template:Backlog status
- Template:Cbignore Tells Cyberbot to stop fiddling with your added links
- Template:Fix For custom inline templates
- Template:Italic title For italicizing article titles
- WP:FLAG-/templates Flagging problematic articles
- Template:HD Answers for Help Desk questions
- User:WolterBot/Cleanup statistics
- User:EsquivalienceBot/Backlog
- Citation Hunt
- Tools
- Wikipedia:Tools
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts
- Special:Gadgets
- Special:Nuke
- Special:Specialpages
- Abuse filter log
- Special:AbuseFilter/examine
- User:WebCiteBOT
- User:AmiDaniel/WhodunitQuery
- User:Ale jrb/Scripts
- User:Kephir/gadgets/unclutter
- User:Svick/CW, Category Watcher
- WikiScanner
- meta:Interwiki map
- mw:Help:Magic words
- X!'s Tools
- Magnus' tools on wmflabs
- Wikimedia Tool Labs list of tools
- Toolserver table of contents
- Snottywong's tools
- Pathoschild's stewardry
- Magnus' toys'n'tools
- Random featured article
- Page hit counter
- WikiTodo tool
- Can we link it? tool
- Find link tool
- CatScan
- Watcher - how many are watchlisting your page?
- RFC posting script
- WikiBlame
- Poor Man's Checkuser
- Username search
- WikiProject popular pages list
- Free image search tool
- Countervandalism.net, WPCVN.com
- Check TOR
- RfA vote count
- Odd links
- IBM's Chromogram - Visualize your edit history
- Java-based Wikipedia Library - An application programming interface for Wikipedia
- Wikidata Reasonator
- Wikipedia GapFinder
- Deletion
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Articles |
Templates and modules |
Files |
Categories |
Redirects |
Miscellany |
Speedy deletion |
Proposed deletion |
It's all fun and games until...
[edit]- Wikipedia:Terminal Event Management Policy
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Magic 8 Ball
- Wikipedia:April fools
- Wikipedia:Department of Fun
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia is an MMORPG - I love this page..
- Wikipedia:Wikipediholism test
- Wikipedia:WikiSpeak
- Wikipedia:WikiGoon
- Wikipedia:Unusual articles
- Wikipedia:Unusual requests
- Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia/humour
- Wikipedia:Hyperion Frobnosticating Endoswitch
- Wikipedia:FANCLUB
- Wikipedia:WAREHOUSE
- User:I dream of horses/Funny stuff
- User:KnowledgeOfSelf/Funny things
- User:Hans Dunkelberg/Denis Diderot and Jimmy Wales
- User:NawlinWiki/List of things that will get speedily deleted
- User:Yomangan/A bastard's guide to writing a featured article
- User:GlassCobra/Essays/Hotties are always notable
- User:GlassCobra/Editor for deletion
- User:Radiant!/Classification of admins
- User:Tony1/Silliest wikilink of the month award
- User:Bishonen/European toilet paper holder - A great hoax article
- User:Thesevenseas - This user had an impressive image on his userpage that looks like it was created from only ASCII characters
- User:Wasbeer - Another interesting piece of userpage ASCII art
- User talk:Romulus32 - Our beloved one millionth registered user, his selfless dedication to Wikipedia and tireless contributing will live on...
- Wacky Wikinews
- Wiktionary's collection of penis names
- A place on Wiktionary to add all your made-up words
- Wiktionary:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
- meta:Poles are evil!
- meta:Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles - "The last and most active group of vandals is, unfortunately, overly proud friends and acquaintances of gays and lesbians."
- meta:Redirect arrow contest - check out the first one
- [1], [2], [3] - funny edit summaries
- Just a bit too informal..
- the stay puft marshmellow man apparently he's a violent racist
- the Canadarm commits Seppuku
- This guy seriously needs help
- Main Page vandalism
- Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense! Dedicated site
- How to be a sock-puppet
- The High Priests of Wikipedia
- Wickerpedia
- The last page on Wikipedia.
- User:MC10/Funny stuff - a collection of funny diffs and links from other Wikipedians
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Interesting user names
[edit]-- Some of these use extended characters; if your browser or OS isn't setup to see these I've included descriptions.
- ▄▄█▀▀ █▬█ █ ▀█▀ (talk · contribs) -- This one spells something out that doesn't quite conform to Wikipedia:Username policy.
- ಠ ಠ (talk · contribs) -- A pair of eyes with eyebrows.
- ☮ (talk · contribs) -- A peace sign.
- º¡º (talk · contribs) -- Can be either a pair of eyes with a nose, or a penis and testicles depending on your frame of mind.