TechInfoDepot:List of policies and guidelines

This page lists TechInfoDepot policies and guidelines. Every TechInfoDepot page with policy status is included. They are shown in bold type; those that take precedence within a given category are italicized, as well. All TechInfoDepot pages with guideline status that are general in scope are included. Where applicable, they are organized in tree fashion to clarify their relationships. Most of the many subject-specific guidelines are not listed here; directions for locating them are provided. For lists of key pages with summaries of their content, see List of policies and List of guidelines.

General

 * Ignore all rules
 * Policies and guidelines
 * What TechInfoDepot is not


 * Privacy policy (Wikimedia Foundation policy)

Article maintenance

 * Article size
 * Stub
 * As of
 * Red link
 * Updating information

Article naming

 * Article titles
 * Naming conventions (capitalization)
 * Naming conventions (definite and indefinite articles at beginning of name)
 * Naming conventions (geographic names)
 * Naming conventions (long lists)
 * Naming conventions (numbers and dates)
 * Naming conventions (people)
 * Naming conventions (plurals)
 * Naming conventions (technical restrictions)
 * Naming conventions (use English)

There are many additional naming convention guidelines that deal with specific topics. See Category:TechInfoDepot naming conventions.

Article style

 * Manual of Style
 * Manual of Style/Abbreviations
 * Manual of Style/Accessibility
 * Manual of Style/Article message boxes
 * Manual of Style/Biographies
 * Manual of Style/Capital letters
 * Manual of Style/Captions
 * Manual of Style/Dates and numbers
 * Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages
 * Manual of Style/Embedded lists
 * Manual of Style/Icons
 * Manual of Style/Infoboxes
 * Manual of Style/Layout
 * Manual of Style/Lead section
 * Manual of Style/Linking
 * Manual of Style/Lists
 * Manual of Style/Lists of works
 * Manual of Style/Pronunciation
 * Manual of Style/Proper names
 * Manual of Style/Self-references to avoid
 * Manual of Style/Spelling
 * Manual of Style/Tables
 * Manual of Style/Text formatting
 * Manual of Style/Titles
 * Manual of Style/Trademarks
 * Manual of Style/Trivia sections
 * Manual of Style/Words to watch

There are many additional style guidelines that deal with specific topics. See Category:Style guidelines of WikiProjects, Category:TechInfoDepot Manual of Style (arts), Category:TechInfoDepot Manual of Style (legal), Category:TechInfoDepot Manual of Style (regional), Category:TechInfoDepot Manual of Style (religion), and Category:TechInfoDepot Manual of Style (science).

Categories, lists, and tables

 * Categories, lists, and navigation templates
 * Categorization
 * Categorization/Ethnicity, gender, religion and sexuality
 * Categorization of people
 * People by year
 * Categorizing redirects
 * Category names
 * Category naming conventions
 * User categories
 * Overcategorization
 * Overcategorization/User categories
 * Manual of Style/Lists
 * Stand-alone lists
 * Manual of Style/Embedded lists
 * Manual of Style/Lists of works
 * Naming conventions (long lists)
 * Manual of Style/Tables

There are additional guidelines that deal with lists or tables concerning specific topics, including record charts and road junction lists.

Content standards

 * Neutral point of view
 * No original research
 * Verifiability
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Libel
 * TechInfoDepot is not a dictionary
 * Autobiography
 * Citing sources
 * Content forking
 * Disputed statement
 * Do not create hoaxes
 * Do not include the full text of lengthy primary sources
 * External links
 * Fringe theories
 * Identifying reliable sources
 * No disclaimers in articles
 * Offensive material
 * Patent nonsense
 * Plagiarism
 * Portal guidelines
 * Spam
 * Spoiler
 * Summary style
 * TechInfoDepot is an encyclopedia
 * TechInfoDepot is not for things made up one day

There are additional content guidelines that deal with specific topics, including anarchism, medicine, science, and video games.

Copyright and licensing

 * Copyrights
 * '''Copyright violations
 * Non-free content criteria
 * Reusing TechInfoDepot content
 * Terms of Use (Wikimedia Foundation policy)
 * Copying within TechInfoDepot
 * Non-free content
 * Non-free use rationale guideline
 * Non-U.S. copyrights
 * Public domain
 * Texts of licenses: CC-BY-SA 3.0 and GFDL

Deletion

 * Deletion policy
 * Attack page
 * Criteria for speedy deletion
 * Proposed deletion
 * Proposed deletion of biographies of living people
 * Proposed deletion (books)
 * Revision deletion
 * Deletion process
 * Deletion guidelines for administrators
 * Speedy keep
 * The usual outcomes of deletion debates

Disambiguation

 * Disambiguation
 * Hatnote
 * Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages

Editing practices

 * Editing policy
 * Be bold
 * Page blanking

Editor behavior

 * Child protection
 * Civility
 * Consensus
 * Edit warring (including the three-revert rule)
 * Harassment
 * No legal threats
 * No personal attacks
 * Ownership of articles
 * Sock puppetry
 * Vandalism
 * Assume good faith
 * Canvassing
 * Conflict of interest
 * Disruptive editing
 * Do not disrupt TechInfoDepot to illustrate a point
 * Etiquette
 * Please do not bite the newcomers
 * Gaming the system
 * Linking to external harassment
 * Polling is not a substitute for discussion
 * Talk page guidelines
 * Signatures

Handling disputes and disruption

 * Arbitration policy
 * Banning policy
 * Blocking policy
 * Dispute resolution
 * GlobalBlocking
 * IP block exemption
 * Mediation policy
 * Office actions
 * Open proxies
 * Protection policy
 * Appealing a block
 * High-risk templates
 * Main Page featured article protection

Images and other media

 * Image use policy
 * Images
 * Extended image syntax
 * Image file names
 * Logos
 * Manual of Style/Captions
 * Manual of Style/Icons
 * No 3D illustrations
 * Preparing images for upload
 * Manual of Style (music samples)

Notability

 * Notability
 * Notability (books)
 * Notability (events)
 * Notability (films)
 * Notability (music)
 * Notability (numbers)
 * Notability (organizations and companies)
 * Notability (people)
 * Notability (academics)
 * Notability (sports) - sports persons and organizations
 * Notability (web)

Project activities

 * In the news/Recurring items
 * Reference desk guidelines
 * Reviewing good articles
 * Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment
 * WikiProjects

Project roles

 * Administrators
 * Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight
 * CheckUser
 * Global rights policy
 * Oversight
 * Volunteer response team

Redirects, shortcuts, and subpages

 * Redirect
 * Shortcut
 * Soft redirect
 * Subpages

Tools and templates

 * Bot policy
 * Edit filter
 * Rollback feature
 * Spam blacklist
 * Spellchecking
 * Template namespace
 * High-risk templates
 * Substitution

User names and pages

 * Username policy
 * Changing username guidelines
 * User pages
 * Right to vanish
 * Userboxes