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Policies and guidelines Main principles 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 Overviews Policies & guidelines  - describes how policies and guidelines should normally be developed and maintained. 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. Tutorials 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. Project-wide principles Consensus Dispute resolution Editing policy Ignore all rules What Wikipedia is not 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 Child protection Civility Edit warring Harassment No legal threats No 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 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 Wikimedia Foundation List of policies Licensing and copyright Privacy Values 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.