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Policies and guidelines The principles upon which the policies and guidelines are based on Five pillars   —   statement of our principles Jimbo's statement   —   historic principles Simplified ruleset   —   synopsis of our conventions Wikimedia principles   —   common to all projects Principles   —   other essays on Wikipedia's principles Tutorials on policies Introduction to policies and guidelines   —   a quick introduction to the major policies and guidelines for very new users. Keep in mind   —   a quick introduction on how to apply policies and guidelines as you go about editing. General policies Consensus Dispute resolution Editing policy Ignore all rules What Wikipedia is not Procedural policies Policies & guidelines   —   how policies and guidelines should be developed and maintained. Mediation Bot policy Content policies and guidelines Core content policies Neutral point of view No original research Verifiability Other content policies Article titles Biographies of living persons Deletion Image use Content guidelines Citing sources Disambiguation Do not create hoaxes Do not include copies of primary sources Identifying reliable sources Notability Patent nonsense Behavioural policies and guidelines Behavioural policies Child protection Civility Incivility is not tolerated Edit warring Harassment Legal threats Personal attacks Ownership of articles Sock puppetry Behavioural guidelines Assume good faith Conflict of interest Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point Etiquette Gaming the system Please do not bite the newcomers Editing guidelines Article size Be bold Hatnotes Signatures Subpages Talk page guidelines User pages Vandalism WikiProjects Style and formatting conventions Manual of Style Contents Accessibility Dates and numbers Images Layout Lead section Linking Lists Classification guidelines Categories, lists, and navigation templates Categorization Template namespace See also List of policies and guidelines  —   a list of principle policies and guidelines. List of policies   —   a comprehensive descriptive directory of policies. List of guidelines   —   a comprehensive descriptive directory of guidelines. Manual of Style contents   —   a comprehensive descriptive directory of the pages which make up the Manual of Style. Related essays Simplified rule-set  —   some basic aspect of Wikipedia norms and practices. Eight rules for editing   —   if you start out by following these simple rules, the rest should come naturally. Ten rules for editing   —   Wikipedia can be daunting, but here we provide tips to make editing smoother. Trifecta  —   ultra fast overview of foundational principles related to policies and guidelines. The rules are principles  —   policies and guidelines exist as rough approximations of their underlying principles. Wikimedia Foundation policies List of policies Licensing and copyright Privacy Values