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Essays on civility
The basics
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Philosophy
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  • Be the glue
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  • Civility warnings
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  • Duty to comply
  • Failure
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  • It's not the end of the world
  • Nobody cares
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  • On Wikipedia no one knows I'm a dog
  • Old-fashioned Wikipedian values
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  • Shadowless Fists of Death!
  • Staying cool when the editing gets hot
  • The grey zone
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  • There is no Divine Right of Editors
  • Most ideas are bad
  • Nothing is clear
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  • There is no common sense
  • Two wrongs don't make a right
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  • Writing for the opponent
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  • Beyond civility
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  • Encourage full discussions
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  • Imagine others complexly
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  • Griefing
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  • Nationalist editing
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  • No, you can't have a pony
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Essays on neutrality
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  • Activist
  • Advocacy
  • Avoid thread mode
  • Be neutral in form
  • Blind men and an elephant
  • Cherrypicking
  • Civil POV pushing
  • Coatrack
  • Controversial articles
  • Creating controversial content
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  • Criticism
  • Describing points of view
  • Don't "teach the controversy"
  • Endorsements
  • Let the reader decide
  • Inaccuracy
  • Myth vs fiction
  • NPOV dispute
  • Neutral and proportionate point of view
  • POV and OR from editors, sources, and fields
  • Partisanship
  • Presentism
  • Pro and con lists
  • Systemic bias
  • Tendentious editing
  • There are no shortcuts to neutrality
  • Wikipedia:Truth
  • We are absolutely here to right great wrongs
  • We shouldn't be able to figure out your opinions
  • What is fringe?
  • Why Wikipedia cannot claim the Earth is not flat
  • Wikipedia is not RationalWiki
Essays on notability
  • Advanced source searching
  • All high schools can be notable
  • Alternative outlets
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  • Articles with a single source
  • Avoid template creep
  • Bare notability
  • Big events make key participants notable
  • Businesses with a single ___location
  • But it's true!
  • Common sourcing mistakes
  • Clones
  • Coatrack
  • Discriminate vs indiscriminate information
  • Don't cite GNG
  • Drafts are not checked for notability or sanity
  • Every snowflake is unique
  • Existence ≠ Notability
  • Existence does not prove notability
  • Extracting the meaning of significant coverage
  • Google searches and numbers
  • How the presumption of notability works
  • High Schools
  • Historical/Policy/Notability/Arguments
  • Inclusion is not an indicator of notability
  • Independent sources
  • Inherent notability
  • Insignificant
  • Masking the lack of notability
  • Make stubs
  • Minimum coverage
  • News coverage does not decrease notability
  • No amount of editing can overcome a lack of notability
  • No big loss
  • No one cares about your garage band
  • No one really cares
  • Notability and tornadoes
  • Notability cannot be purchased
  • Notability comparison test
  • Notability is not a level playing field
  • Notability is not a matter of opinion
  • Notability is not relevance or reliability
  • Notability means impact
  • Notability points
  • Notability sub-pages
  • Notabilitymandering
  • Not every single thing Donald Trump does deserves an article
  • Obscurity ≠ Lack of notability
  • Offline sources
  • One sentence does not an article make
  • Other stuff exists
  • Overreliance upon Google
  • Perennial websites
  • Popularity ≠ Notability
  • Read the source
  • Reducing consensus to an algorithm
  • Run-of-the-mill
  • Solutions are mixtures and nothing else
  • Significance is not a formula
  • Sources must be out-of-universe
  • Subjective importance
  • Third-party sources
  • Trivial mentions
  • Video links
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