User:Vassyana/exercise

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This is an essay; it contains the advice and/or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors. It is not a policy or guideline, and editors are not obliged to follow it.

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.

Contents 1 Content 1.1 The Sacred Five* 1.2 The Unholy Three 2 Conduct 3 Weird

[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.