Template:Essays on building WikipediavteEssays on building WikipediaPhilosophy Articles must be written Avoid vague introductions Be a reliable source Cohesion Concede lost arguments Dissent is not disloyalty Editors will sometimes be wrong Eight simple rules for editing our encyclopedia Explanationism Here to build an encyclopedia Not editing because of Wikipedia restriction Paradoxes Paraphrasing POV and OR from editors, sources, and fields Product, process, policy Purpose Systemic bias Reasonability rule The role of policies in collaborative anarchy The rules are principles Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia Tendentious editing Trifecta Wikipedia in brief Wikipedia is a community Wikipedia is an encyclopedia Construction 100K featured articles A navbox on every page Advanced article editing Advanced table formatting Advanced template coding Advanced text formatting Alternatives to the "Expand" template Amnesia test An unfinished house is a real problem Autosizing images Avoid mission statements Bare URLs Be neutral in form Beef up that first revision Cherrypicking Citation overkill Concept cloud Creating controversial content Criticisms of society may be consistent with NPOV and reliability The deadline is now Dictionaries as sources Don't demolish the house while it's still being built Don't get hung up on minor details Don't hope the house will build itself Don't panic Editing on mobile devices Editors are not mindreaders Encourage the newcomers Endorsements (commercial) Featured articles may have problems Give an article a chance How to run an edit-a-thon Inaccuracies in Wikipedia namespace Inaccuracy Law sources Link rot Minors and persons judged incompetent "Murder of" articles Not every story/event/disaster needs a biography Not everything needs a navbox Not everything needs a WikiProject Nothing is in stone Permastub Potential, not just current state Printability Publicists Put a little effort into it Restoring part of a reverted edit Robotic editing Sham consensus Temporary versions of articles There is a deadline Walled garden What an article should not include Wikipedia is a work in progress Wikipedia is not being written in an organized fashion The world will not end tomorrow Writing Gender-neutral language Use feminine pronouns Write the article first Writing about women Writing better articles Deletion Adjectives in your recommendations AfD is not a war zone Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions Arguments to avoid in deletion reviews Arguments to avoid in image deletion discussions Arguments to make in deletion discussions Avoid repeated arguments Before commenting in a deletion discussion Content removal Delete the junk Does deletion help? Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument Follow the leader How to save an article proposed for deletion I just don't like it Immunity Identifying blatant advertising Identifying test edits Liar Liar Pants on Fire Nothing Overzealous deletion Relisting can be abusive What to do if your article gets tagged for speedy deletion Why was the page I created deleted? Wikipedia is not Whack-A-Mole About essays Avoid writing redundant essays Difference between policies, guidelines and essays Don't cite essays as if they were policy Finding an essay Quote your own essay Value of essays Related subjects About policies and guidelines Guidelines Policies Wikipedia is a volunteer service Essay directory 50px Template documentation[create] Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages.Please add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.