User:bahamut0013/essays

This is where I collect essays I have an interest in, agree with, or reference often. Humorous essays or joke articles are marked with:

• User:Bahamut0013/CSIOR: Common Sense Isn't Origional Research
• User:Bahamut0013/Secret pages‎: hidden user page challenges
• User:Bahamut0013/editors are not the enemy‎: cooperation amongst editors
• User:bahamut0013/right: who is always right

• Wikipedia:Crash Course in Wikipedianism
• Wikipedia:Fun

Internal Wiki-Affairs

• Wikipedia:Arbitration policy/Past decisions shows some of the precedents set by the Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee
• Wikipedia:Snowball clause
• Wikipedia:Avoid instruction creep
• Wikipedia:The world will not end tomorrow
• Wikipedia:Practical process
• Wikipedia:If it ain't broke, don't fix it
• Wikipedia:Product, process, policy
• Wikipedia:Don't be officious
• Wikipedia:Dig
• User:John Reid/Metastasis
• Wikipedia:Anti-Wikipedianism
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia is failing
• Wikipedia:Don't just ignore the process
• Wikipedia:Terminal Event Management Policy

Writing articles

• Wikipedia:Can't break it
• Wikipedia:Avoid template creep
• Wikipedia:Categories vs lists
• Wikipedia:Tagging pages for problems
• Wikipedia:Defending article quality
• Wikipedia:Do not write articles using categories
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia doesn't use Allwiki
• Wikipedia:Fact stuffing
• Wikipedia:Huge message boxes

Deleting content

• Wikipedia:Deletion and deletionism
• Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
• Wikipedia:List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create
• Wikipedia:Deleted articles with freaky titles
• Wikipedia:Content authoritarianism
• Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion (Human Readable Version)
• Wikipedia:Discriminate vs indiscriminate information
• Wikipedia:Do not call things cruft
• Wikipedia:Don't be an ostrich
• Wikipedia:Why do you care?
• Wikipedia:Editors matter but...
• Wikipedia:Existence does not prove notability
• Wikipedia:Arguments to use in deletion discussions

Experts

• Wikipedia:Expert editors
• Wikipedia:Expert retention
• Wikipedia:Credentials matter
• Wikipedia:Credentials are irrelevant
• Wikipedia:Ignore all credentials
• Wikipedia:Competence is required
• Wikipedia:Contribute where qualified
• Wikipedia:Contribute what you know or are willing to learn more about

Behavior

• User:Antandrus/observations on Wikipedia behavior
• Wikipedia:Levels of competence
• Wikipedia:Honesty
• Wikipedia:Don't call the kettle black
• Wikipedia:BRD misuse
• Wikipedia:Call a spade a spade
• Wikipedia:Don't call a spade a spade
• Wikipedia:You can't squeeze blood from a turnip
• Wikipedia:Reasonability Rule
• Wikipedia:Don't stuff beans up your nose
• Wikipedia:Divisiveness
• Wikipedia:Don't be a dork
• Wikipedia:Don't accuse someone of a personal attack for accusing of a personal attack
• Wikipedia:Assume that everyone's assuming good faith, assuming that you are assuming good faith
• Wikipedia:Wikipedians aren't islands
• Wikipedia:Don't go out of your way to be diplomatic
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia is in the real world
• Wikipedia:Assume bad faith
• Wikipedia:The Last Word
• Wikipedia:The Most Important Thing Possible
• Wikipedia:Newcomers are delicious, so go ahead and bite them

Troublesome editors

• Wikipedia:Deny recognition
• Wikipedia:Shouting things loudly does not make them true
• Wikipedia:Don't be a dork
• Wikipedia:No vested contributors
• Wikipedia:Don't spite your face
• Wikipedia:Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you

Wikidrama

• Wikipedia:Drama
• Wikipedia:Ignore all dramas
• Wikipedia:Avoid Parkinson's Bicycle Shed Effect
• Wikipedia:Don't Feed the Divas
• Wikipedia:Don't edit war over the colour of templates
• Wikipedia:Don't smother conflict
• Wikipedia:No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man
• Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia is an MMORPG

Wikilawyering/essays

• Wikipedia:Wikilawyering
• Wikipedia:Policy shopping
• Wikipedia:Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument
• Wikipedia:WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG!
• Wikipedia:Don't cite essays or proposals as if they were policy
• Wikipedia:Essays are not policy
• Wikipedia:Common sense and decision making

POV

• Wikipedia:Civil POV pushing
• Wikipedia:Tendentious editing
• Wikipedia:Describing points of view

Tools

• Wikipedia:Edit summary legend