Wikipedia:Overlapping policies and guidelines

Wikipedia has a lot of policies and guidelines. Several of these overlap or are partially or wholly redundant with one another; this page serves as a list of those. It may be desirable to merge some of the pages listed here, although the community has rather strongly objected to merging policies in the past.

You are welcome to add to this list. Please do not simply remove items from the list just because you believe they Should Not Be Merged, but instead discuss this on the talk page.

Possible candidates for merging: policies

• Wikipedia:Appealing a block, Wikipedia:Blocking policy and Wikipedia:Banning policy
• Wikipedia:Copyright violations and Wikipedia:Copyrights
• Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary & Wikipedia:Not Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Libel and Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons
• Wikipedia:No personal attacks, Wikipedia:Civility and Wikipedia:No legal threats
• Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines with Wikipedia:How to create policy
• Wikipedia:Patent nonsense and Wikipedia:Attack page to Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion

Merge draft in progress

• Wikipedia:Sock puppetry, Wikipedia:Username policy, Wikipedia:Doppelganger account and Wikipedia:Single purpose account to User:Steve block/X3
• Wikipedia:Deletion policy, Wikipedia:Undeletion policy and Wikipedia:Category deletion policy to Wikipedia:Deletion_policy/Draft
• Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators to Wikipedia:Deletion process

Merge completed

• Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:Reliable sources and Wikipedia:No original research merged to Wikipedia:Attribution
• Wikipedia:Semi-protection policy merged into Wikipedia:Protection policy (see draft)