User:LinguistAtLarge/Cheatsheet

Deletion, moving, renaming, protection

• Delete article templates
• Merging and moving pages
• Speedy Deletion
• Protection policy (WP:PROTECT)
• Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
• Speedy keep
• There is no deadline
• Non-admin closure
• Oversight
• Criteria for speedy deletion
• Deletion guidelines for administrators
• Keep listing until it gets deleted

Debate and discussion

• Arguments to avoid

Content

• Biographies of living persons
• Notability (WP:N)
• Original research
• Patent nonsense
• Verifiability

Images

• Image placeholders
• Image use policy
• Wikipedia:Layout#Images
• MOS:IMAGES
• Copyright (Images & Media) (WP:MCQ)
• Commons: Problematic sources (Flickr - changed license)

Good articles

• Featured article criteria
• Peer review
• The perfect article (WP:TPA)
• User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a
• User:AndyZ/Suggestions
• Wikipedia:Summary style
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors

Technical and formatting stuff

• Article size
• Categorization
• Categories
• Date and number formatting
• Disambiguation
• Edit summary
• Overlinking

Behavior

• Be bold
• Assume good faith, Assume the assumption of good faith
• Civility
• Gaming the system
• Harassment
• Hoaxes
• Ignore all rules
• Neutral point of view
• Ownership
• Newcomers
• Etiquette

Disputes

• Dispute resolution
• Disrupting Wikipedia
• No legal threats
• Personal attacks

Citing and references

• Wikipedia:Do not include copies of primary sources
• Wikipedia:Citing Sources#Citation creation tools

Spam

• Wikipedia:Single-purpose account
• Sock puppetry (WP:SOCK)
• Spam (Grief)

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More

• Policies and Guidelines (WP:POL), Full list of policies (WP:LOP), List of guidelines (WP:GUIDELINES)
• Blocking policy
• Build the web
• Conflict of interest
• Consensus
• Lists
• Manual of Style
• Reliable sources
• Sign on talk pages
• Stub sorting
• Subpages (WP:SP)
• Subpages
• Talk pages
• User page
• What Wikipedia is not
• Wikipedia:WikiSpeak

• Category:Wikipedia naming conventions for article titles

Technical

• Editing overview (WP:EDIT)
• Predefined constants and variables (WP:VAR)
• Wikimarkup Syntax (WP:CHEAT)
  • List, Table, Piped link, Pipe trick
• Deleting an article
• Templates (m:WM:TEMP)
  • Transclusion (WP:TRANS)
  • Other uses. "This article is about x, for y, see x" {{otheruses1|SOME TEXT HERE}}

Style

• Page names, Wrong title template, Naming conventions

Misc

• Coord errors (toolserver)