Wikipedia:Rules
From the Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can change
Any time that people work together, it is important to make rules that they should agree to follow. Most of the rules written here must be followed by everyone, and some of the rules are still being decided.
Most of the time, if a specific rule does not yet exist here, or if a situation is not covered by the policies and guidelines that exist here, we will look at the policies and guidelines on the main English Wikipedia, other Wikimedia projects, and use common sense.
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[change] Foundation issues
The Wikimedia Foundation has made rules that can never be changed, and all projects must follow them.
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view is the most important editing guideline.
- Anyone can edit articles without registering for a username.
- The "wiki process" as the way to decide what is put on the project.
- All writing is available by copyleft licensing. Wikipedia uses the GFDL license.
- Jimbo Wales, who created Wikipedia, has the final say about what should happen. This is changing; see meta:Board of Trustees.
[change] Other rules
[change] Policies
These are rules about how editors and administrators should act.
- Wikipedia:Blocks and bans
- Wikipedia:Copyrights
- Wikipedia:Deletion policy
- Wikipedia:Image use policy
- Wikipedia:Merging and moving pages
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
- Wikipedia:Protection policy
- Wikipedia:Username
- Wikipedia:Vandalism
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not
[change] Guidelines
[change] Writing guidelines
These are rules for writing articles for the Simple English Wikipedia.
- Wikipedia:Be bold in updating pages
- Wikipedia:Citing sources
- Wikipedia:Core article
- Wikipedia:How to write Simple English articles
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- Wikipedia:Settlements
- Wikipedia:Spam
- Wikipedia:Spelling
- Wikipedia:Template substitution
[change] Behaviour guidelines
These are rules for how to work better in Wikipedia together.