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This page includes a listing of policies and guidelines for English Wikipedia. Policy and guideline pages describe Wikipedia's principles and best-agreed practices. Policies are standards that all users should normally follow, while guidelines are meant to be best practices for following those standards in specific contexts.
Protection is a technical restriction applied only by administrators, although any user may request protection. Protection can be indefinite or expire after a specified time. The various levels of protection are detailed below, and they can be applied to the page edit, page move, page create, and file upload actions.
This template creates an inline icon-sized image. Please refer to 'Template:Icon/doc' for the list of supported values. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Icon 1 class The identifier or name of the icon to be displayed. Default Line optional size size The size of the icon to display, e.g. "30px". Default 16x16px Line optional The above documentation is ...
If an image of that name existed in Wikipedia, you'd see it. But since the image is no longer on Wikipedia, all you see is a link to the location where the image used to be. In short, Wikipedia's copies of old versions of pages are not photographic copies, they're text stored in a database. 2. At the top of the page, click the "edit this page" tab.
Splitting is the procedure by which the contents of a page are split into several pages. The two reasons for splitting are page size and content relevance. For uncontroversial splits, no permission is needed to split; just do it. If unsure, use one of the tags/templates below, and start a discussion on the talkpage.
Contents. Wikipedia:Article Layout Template. This is a dummy article to help you get started with creating pages in the wiki. The first paragraph is usually a short dictionary-style definition of the subject matter. The gives the reader a quick answer, which may be all they required, and reassures them that they have come to the right page.
Avoid making blanket requests, as in: " need pictures for all women in the Lists of women ". Request images only for existing articles, i.e., if there is no article yet, then please write one first before requesting. There are two methods for requesting an image: Add the { { photo requested }} template to the talk page of the article that needs ...
