User:Vassyana/exercise
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Wikipedia Principles for Normal People by a random collection of malcontents.
Just a sandbox attempt to make a set of concise, cheeky and relatively simple expressions of the principles of Wikipedia.
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[edit] Content
Wikipedia has a collection of rules that express how we should handle the content in our articles.
[edit] The Sacred Five*
--* Or Sacred Four and One Half. Reliable sources is a guideline (like a semi-policy), often contentious, but a central principle.
- WP:V (Wikipedia:Verifiability).
- WP:NOR (Wikipedia:No original research).
- WP:NPOV (Wikipedia:Neutral point of view).
- WP:BLP (Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons).
- WP:RS (Wikipedia:Reliable sources).
[edit] The Unholy Three
- WP:N (Wikipedia:Notability}.
- WP:NOT (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not).
- WP:MOS (Wikipedia:Manual of Style).
[edit] Conduct
Wikipedia has a set of policies and guidelines that explain what kind of behavior is expected.
[edit] Weird
Wikipedia has some rules that do not cleanly fall under the above categories, making them a bit weird.
