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Five pillars
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Content

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Conduct

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Deletion

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Enforcement

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Editing

Editing policy

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WMF (?)

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List of all policies and guidelines
- P: List of policies
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Summaries of values and principles

Deletion tools
Policy (log)
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Articles (howto · log)
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Templates (howto · log)
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Categories (howto · log)
{{subst:cfd}} · {{subst:cfdnotice}} {{subst:cfm}} · {{subst:cfm-speedy}} {{subst:cfr}} · {{subst:cfr-speedy}} {{cfl}}
Mergers
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Page moves
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Speedy
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Unfree files
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Transwiki (howto · log)
{{Copy to Wikibooks}} {{Copy to Wikimedia Commons}} {{Copy to Wikiquote}} {{Copy to Wikisource}} {{Copy to Wikiversity}} {{Copy to Wikivoyage}} All transwiki templates
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Notability
General notability guideline
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See also
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Vandalism
Dealing with vandalism
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Deletion discussions
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Articles
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Common decisions and arguments
Deletion (XfD)
Arguments to avoid Common outcomes (AfD) Common outcomes (RfD) Common outcomes (TfD) Overcategorisation Perennial deletion review
Adminship (RfA) and Bureaucratship (RfB)
Arguments to avoid
Arbitration (Arbcom)
Guide to arbitration Principles
Proposals and policy
Perennial proposals
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Resources for maintenance and collaboration
Cleanup
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Create an article
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Referencing
Articles lacking sources Need more references Original research
Stubs
Advice Incomplete lists Long stubs Most wanted Short pages Stubs by topic Stubs included directly in stub categories
Deletion
Articles Categories Discussion archives Files Log Misc. pages Redirects Review Speedy Templates
Polishing
Featured candidates Fill a topic list Peer review Popular low quality articles Articles for improvement
Translation into English
Existing pages Wikipedia:Dump reports/Missing articles Spanish trans. of the week Wikipedia:Translation
Images
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Controversy
Article accuracy Neutrality Statement accuracy
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Disambiguation
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