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navigation-not-searchable">For the policy, see <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_policy#Wikipedia_is_a_work_in_progress:_perfection_is_not_required" title="Wikipedia:Editing policy">Wikipedia:Editing policy § Wikipedia is a work in progress: perfection is not required</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"/><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Work_in_progress_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Wikipedia:Work in progress (disambiguation)">Wikipedia:Work in progress (disambiguation)</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211013181608/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eventualism" class="extiw" title="meta:Eventualism">meta:Eventualism</a></div> <table class="plainlinks ombox ombox-notice" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Essay.svg" class="image"><img alt="Essay.svg" src="//web.archive.org/web/20211013181608im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Essay.svg/30px-Essay.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="36" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20211013181608im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Essay.svg/45px-Essay.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20211013181608im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Essay.svg/60px-Essay.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="35" data-file-height="42"/></a></td><td class="mbox-text"><div style="padding-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 5px;"><b>This is an <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Essays" title="Wikipedia:Essays">essay</a>.</b><br/><div style="font-size: 90%;">It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors. This page is not an encyclopedia article, nor is it one of <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines">Wikipedia's policies or guidelines</a>, as it has not been <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus#Levels_of_consensus" title="Wikipedia:Consensus">thoroughly vetted by the community</a>. Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints.</div></div></td><td class="mbox-imageright"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1007196855">.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxplain{float:right;margin:0 0 0 1em;border:1px solid #aaa;background:#fff;padding:0.3em 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;text-align:center;font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxleft{float:left;margin:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutlist{display:inline-block;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;margin-bottom:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxplain>ul{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutanchordiv{position:relative;top:-3em}.mw-parser-output li .module-shortcutanchordiv{float:right}.mw-parser-output .mbox-imageright .module-shortcutboxplain{padding:0.4em 1em 0.4em 1em;line-height:1.3}</style><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:WIP"></span><span id="WP:WNF"></span><span id="WP:NOTDONE"></span><span id="WP:NOTFINISHED"></span><span id="WP:WORKINPROGRESS"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain plainlist noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WIP&redirect=no">WP:WIP</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WNF&redirect=no">WP:WNF</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NOTDONE&redirect=no">WP:NOTDONE</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NOTFINISHED&redirect=no">WP:NOTFINISHED</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WORKINPROGRESS&redirect=no">WP:WORKINPROGRESS</a></span></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="plainlinks ombox ombox-notice nutshell" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20211013181608im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Walnut.png/30px-Walnut.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="30" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20211013181608im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Walnut.png/45px-Walnut.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20211013181608im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Walnut.png/60px-Walnut.png 2x" data-file-width="192" data-file-height="192"/></td><td class="mbox-text"><b>This page in a nutshell:</b> Wikipedia is constantly being improved and expanded, and it will never be finished.</td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia-logo.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20211013181608im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Wikipedia-logo.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="200" class="thumbimage" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia-logo.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>The unfinished puzzle in the Wikipedia logo reflects the fact that Wikipedia is unfinished; it's "a constant work in progress."</div></div></div> <p><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> is, by number of articles, the largest <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia" title="Encyclopedia">encyclopedia</a> ever to have existed. It contains a lot of information, and has been edited and viewed by millions of people, many of whom have found it useful. Unfortunately, much of it could be a lot better. Many people have eagerly pointed this out—often failing to give weight to the notion that it has been created entirely by volunteers, from nothing, in just two decades—and some have even suggested that the Web would be better off without it. However, in airing their complaints, they frequently miss out one crucial detail: <b>Wikipedia is not finished</b>. Not even close. In fact, we're barely getting started. </p><p>In its very early days, Wikipedia went through several major software changes. Existing wiki software was not designed for writing encyclopedias, and developing the first version of <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki" title="MediaWiki">MediaWiki</a> took time. As a result, much of the earliest page histories have been lost, and while the history of <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:UuU&dir=prev&action=history">some pages</a> is preserved right back to January 2001, other pages which are equally old have no information from before 2002. It is possible to see Wikipedia as it looked in its entirety in December 2001, as a read-only copy of the pages at that time is hosted at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211013181608/https://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/" class="extiw" title="nost:">nostalgia.wikipedia.org</a>. To really demonstrate the point, though, it is necessary to go back even further. </p><p>Imagine you're <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nupedia" title="Nupedia">Nupedia</a> contributor <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RoseParks" title="User:RoseParks">RoseParks</a>. It's mid-afternoon on Tuesday, 30 January 2001. You heard about Wikipedia being set up through your work on Nupedia, and you've created a couple of pages over the past week or so. The project seems to be going pretty well; there are nearly six hundred articles—more than Nupedia has—although they are all rather short and most lack information in important areas. You notice that one thing Wikipedia doesn't have an article about is the mathematical concept of <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set" class="mw-disambig" title="Set">sets</a>. So you <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SeT&&action=edit&oldid=279694">create a page</a>, titled "<b>SeT</b>" (as the rather elementary <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki" title="Wiki">wiki</a> <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki_software" title="List of wiki software">software</a> forces you to use <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelCase" class="mw-redirect" title="CamelCase">CamelCase</a> titles), and write the following: </p> <blockquote> <div style="border: solid 1px #AAAAAA"> <p>A SeT is a collection of objects. For example, one can define the set <b>S</b> = {Sn: Sn is a sibling of the Larry M. Sanger, who is the Editor-in-Chief of Nupedia}. </p><p>We require that sets be well-defined. Given an object Sn, we must be able to determine if </p><p>Sn belongs to <b>S</b>.---- </p><p><b>What, there are no recursively enumerable sets?</b> </p> </div> </blockquote> <p>It's not <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">Shakespeare</a>. Nor is it a particularly good article, even by January 2001 standards. Someone wishing to learn about sets would be foolish to use this as their only source of information. <i>But it's a start</i>. It's better than nothing. </p><p>You wonder what kind of future Wikipedia has. Six hundred pages are all very well, but proceeding at the current rate it will be decades before the encyclopedia is big enough to be useful. Will it become popular some day, or join the long line of ideas that didn't quite make it (a line <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble" title="Dot-com bubble">recently joined</a> by many commercial Web start-ups)? </p><p>Fast-forward six years and the answer to this question is obvious. Wikipedia is <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211013181608/http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org">one of the most visited</a> websites on the Internet, it has grown to more than 4.3 million articles in English alone, and versions are being written in over two hundred languages. Something else has changed too, though. People have started using Wikipedia as a source of information. There's nothing wrong with that—after all, it would be ridiculous <i>not</i> to make use of such a resource, for all its defects. Furthermore, though, people have started to <i>rely</i> on it as a source of information, often as their <i>only</i> source of information about a particular topic. This issue predates Wikipedia, of course—citation of encyclopedias in academia having long been discouraged—but Wikipedia has brought with it both problems and benefits beyond those of traditional encyclopedias, one of which is its permanent status as a work in progress. Pinning down the time at which this really began to happen would be difficult (probably impossible), but is likely sooner rather than later; 2002 at the latest. </p><p>But wait… nobody said Wikipedia was ready to be used! In the early days, it was clear at a glance that Wikipedia was not an authoritative work—a small number of pages, relative to the average encyclopedia, short articles, filled with to-do notes and empty sections, and an abundance of what we now call "<a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:REDLINK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:REDLINK">red links</a>" (which in the early days appeared as small question marks; this is still available as an option in <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">user preferences</a>). Since then the project has recognized that it has an audience, and tried to make itself more presentable, which is admirable. It has also been forced to take measures to prevent abuse of the wiki system by users uninterested in improving the project, which is unfortunate but inevitable. However, it has also begun to treat itself as a work approaching completion. What? No one ever said that Wikipedia was even good, let alone ready to be finished! Many have suggested that with more than two million articles written, there can't be <i>that</i> many more to write, and have—partly in response to external pressure—turned their attention to the quality of the articles. A shift in focus from quantity to quality has taken place—in itself a good thing, but it has brought problems. The project has stopped looking forward ("<i>Wow, we have a million articles!</i>")—and started looking back ("<i>Oh no, most of our articles are rubbish!</i>"). </p> <div class="thumb tright" style=""><div class="thumbinner" style="width:262px"><div class="thumbimage noresize" style="width:260px;"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1039153519">@media all and (max-width:720px){body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .mw-graph{min-width:100%!important;max-width:100%;overflow-x:auto;overflow-y:visible}}.mw-parser-output .mw-graph-img{width:inherit;height:inherit}</style><div class="mw-graph mw-graph-always mw-graph-nofallback" style="min-width:190px;min-height:150px" data-graph-id="7ccf7dbb11228b3a5b6ece91b14bc1d4d77ef880"></div></div><div class="thumbcaption">Doesn't look like we are done yet!<sup id="cite_ref-Wikimedia_Stats_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wikimedia_Stats-1">[1]</a></sup></div></div></div> <p>Somehow, we have taken what was originally blatant, and always a given—that the encyclopedia is incomplete and lacks consistent quality—and turned it into a problem. Like the inherent drawbacks of the wiki system, this problem cannot be solved without fundamentally altering the nature of the project. If we focus too strongly on how good the existing encyclopedia is, rather than on improving it, the project will become bogged down and the overall rate of improvement will slow. This has already happened to some extent. The solution is to return to the strategy that brought Wikipedia to where it is today. In short, it doesn't matter how terrible and unreliable and inconsistent and trashy Wikipedia is, because we can always make it better. Remember that Wikipedia is <i>a work in progress</i>. <i>Don't waste time measuring that progress</i>, <i>make the progress happen</i>. </p><p>Rather than taking weeks and expending heaps of effort bringing one article that's merely "very good" up to "<a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles" title="Wikipedia:Featured articles">featured</a> status", turn a hundred bad articles into good ones. (This is not a reference to "good" as in "<a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_articles" title="Wikipedia:Good articles">Good Article</a>" status. Thousands of perfectly acceptable articles lack this.) Rather than spending weeks ploughing through article assessment backlogs—which is all some WikiProjects seem to do now—forget about assessment classes and tagging, and actually improve the articles which you're "assessing". The same goes for cleanup and maintenance tags. And most importantly, <i>write the encyclopedia</i>. Don't let the impressive article count figure fool you; there are thousands of <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles" title="Wikipedia:Requested articles">article requests</a> sitting unanswered, and thousands more important, encyclopedic topics that nobody has thought to request. There are also many more thousands of one- or two-sentence <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Stub" title="Wikipedia:Stub">stubs</a>; adding a few more sentences to one won't make it a featured article, or change its "assessment class", but it will <i>vastly improve that article</i>. The project will benefit, in the end, if its original spirit is maintained. </p><p>Recently, people have been <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_failing" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is failing">getting themselves in a panic</a> because the quality of Wikipedia is not as high as they'd like it to be. Now this is a problem, certainly, for anyone who wishes to depend upon Wikipedia as a high-quality, reliable source of information. But to someone who wishes to write a free encyclopedia, it's not a problem. <i>It's an opportunity</i>, and that's what we're here for. Remember, <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:DEADLINE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DEADLINE">there is no due-date</a>. </p><p>So, if you rely on Wikipedia so much in its current state, that's your problem. We're not done with it, and we never said it would be any good—we only said it would be free (<i><b>Wikipedia</b> • The Free Encyclopedia</i>). If you aren't satisfied with it now, help improve it, or come back in another six or seven years and take a look then. It'll be better. We promise. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"/><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Will_it_ever_be_done?"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Will it ever be done?</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#See_what_we're_still_missing!"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">See what we're still missing!</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span id="Will_it_ever_be_done.3F"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Will_it_ever_be_done?" data-mw-comment="{"type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Will_it_ever_be_done?","replies":[],"headingLevel":2,"placeholderHeading":false}"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Will_it_ever_be_done?"></span>Will it ever be done?<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Will_it_ever_be_done?"></span></span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_a_work_in_progress&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Will it ever be done?">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:251000_-_Athletics_track_pentathlon_Don_Elgin_exhausted_-_3b_-_2000_Sydney_race_photo.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20211013181608im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/251000_-_Athletics_track_pentathlon_Don_Elgin_exhausted_-_3b_-_2000_Sydney_race_photo.jpg/220px-251000_-_Athletics_track_pentathlon_Don_Elgin_exhausted_-_3b_-_2000_Sydney_race_photo.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20211013181608im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/251000_-_Athletics_track_pentathlon_Don_Elgin_exhausted_-_3b_-_2000_Sydney_race_photo.jpg/330px-251000_-_Athletics_track_pentathlon_Don_Elgin_exhausted_-_3b_-_2000_Sydney_race_photo.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20211013181608im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/251000_-_Athletics_track_pentathlon_Don_Elgin_exhausted_-_3b_-_2000_Sydney_race_photo.jpg/440px-251000_-_Athletics_track_pentathlon_Don_Elgin_exhausted_-_3b_-_2000_Sydney_race_photo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2001" data-file-height="1312"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:251000_-_Athletics_track_pentathlon_Don_Elgin_exhausted_-_3b_-_2000_Sydney_race_photo.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Tired? There's a long road ahead!</div></div></div> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Tower_of_Babel.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20211013181608im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/The_Tower_of_Babel.jpg/220px-The_Tower_of_Babel.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="274" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20211013181608im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/The_Tower_of_Babel.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="321" data-file-height="400"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Tower_of_Babel.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Nice tower you have there. But it's still a long way up.</div></div></div> <p>Nope. Not in the <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">Sun</a>'s lifetime at least. </p><p>Imagine that a <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:FA">featured article</a> (FA) represents a finished article, one that does not need any further editing (this, of course, is not true, but a featured article is the closest thing Wikipedia has to a "finished" article). Now imagine that all of Wikipedia's editors take all of the world's academic resources, lock themselves in a room that is impenetrable by light, sound, and even <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Falcon" title="Captain Falcon">Captain Falcon</a>, and set about bringing all of Wikipedia's existing articles to FA status. Since the introduction of the featured article system, we have been churning out FAs at a net rate of about 37 per month,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> but we'll assume that the editors are slightly more productive when locked in the editorium and round it up to 50 FAs per month. At the time of this writing, there were 6,132,708 articles in the English Wikipedia and 5,784 FAs. This gives us a total of 6,126,924 non-FAs. Let's assume that the editors also quickly jotted down a list of 26 missing articles on a post-it note. This gives us the convenient numbers of 6,127,950 articles to bring to FA status at a rate of 50 per month. This would take 122,559 months, or approximately 10,213 years. Jeepers! </p><p>In that time, many things will have happened: </p> <ul><li>Lots of stuff will have happened, some of which will need to be documented on Wikipedia. Take a look at <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1990s" title="Category:1990s">Category:1990s</a>. That category has 729 subcategories. Even if each subcategory has but a single article in it (a fairly conservative estimate, to say the least), that's a lot of articles. At the rate of 729 new things per decade, by the end of the 10,213-year editing period, 7,445,277 new things will have happened! And don't forget that many man-made features would have disappeared and have been replaced by new ones.</li> <li>The <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English language</a> will have completely changed, and all of the articles would have to be rewritten to conform to the new standards. Take a look at <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage" title="Phineas Gage">Phineas Gage</a>, which includes quotes from the mid-1800s. See how odd the writing seems when compared with the rest of the article? And that was from less than 200 years ago. Now multiply that language flux by 51 to get the total language flux that would occur in 10,200 years. Yipes.</li></ul> <p>Or maybe it will get almost done: </p><p><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_World_Trade_Center" title="7 World Trade Center">7 World Trade Center</a> has 2553 revisions, blindly assuming that edits are roughly homogeneous, WP has between 100,000 and 200,000 edits per day, this equates to adding between 40 and 80 featurons (a unit of article quality) per day. Since we are getting better at this, and reducing vandalism / fixing with edit filters etc., let's take the higher number (and we could probably improve massively on that) and 4 million articles, each needing a total of 1 featuron total effort. There have been approximately 350 million edits, assume 250 million are to articles, that corresponds to 10,000 featurons of the required 4 million. At that rate we are looking at a mere century. Alternatively suppose every student at <a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_University" title="Indiana University">Indiana University</a> was required to bring one article to featured status every year as part of their degree course, then it would only take 30 years. And that is one university, in one country. So yes, those missing puzzle pieces, we'll always need more people to help fill them in. Always. And yes, we are 99% and we're going to stay that way. 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href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:A_navbox_on_every_page" title="Wikipedia:A navbox on every page">A navbox on every page</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:An_unfinished_house_is_a_real_problem" title="Wikipedia:An unfinished house is a real problem">An unfinished house is a real problem</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_half-life" title="Wikipedia:Article half-life">Articles have a half-life</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Autosizing_images" title="Wikipedia:Autosizing images">Autosizing images</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_mission_statements" title="Wikipedia:Avoid mission statements">Avoid mission statements</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bare_URLs" title="Wikipedia:Bare URLs">Bare URLs</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_neutral_in_form" title="Wikipedia:Be neutral in form">Be neutral in form</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Beef_up_that_first_revision" title="Wikipedia:Beef up that first revision">Beef up that first revision</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blind_men_and_an_elephant" title="Wikipedia:Blind men and an elephant">Blind men and an elephant</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BOLD,_revert,_discuss_cycle" title="Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle">BOLD, revert, discuss cycle</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Build_content_to_endure" title="Wikipedia:Build content to endure">Build content to endure</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cherrypicking" title="Wikipedia:Cherrypicking">Cherrypicking</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence" title="Wikipedia:Chesterton's fence">Chesterton's fence</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Children%27s,_adult_new_reader,_and_large-print_sources_questionable_on_reliability" title="Wikipedia:Children's, adult new reader, and large-print sources questionable on reliability">Children's lit, adult new readers, & large-print books</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_overkill" title="Wikipedia:Citation overkill">Citation overkill</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_underkill" title="Wikipedia:Citation underkill">Citation underkill</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Common-style_fallacy" title="Wikipedia:Common-style fallacy">Common-style fallacy</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Concept_cloud" title="Wikipedia:Concept cloud">Concept cloud</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Creating_controversial_content" title="Wikipedia:Creating controversial content">Creating controversial content</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Criticisms_of_society_may_be_consistent_with_NPOV_and_reliability" title="Wikipedia:Criticisms of society may be consistent with NPOV and reliability">Criticisms of society may be consistent with NPOV and reliability</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deprecated_sources" title="Wikipedia:Deprecated sources">Deprecated sources</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dictionaries_as_sources" title="Wikipedia:Dictionaries as sources">Dictionaries as sources</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_demolish_the_house_while_it%27s_still_being_built" title="Wikipedia:Don't demolish the house while it's still being built">Don't demolish the house while it's still being built</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_Parkinson%27s_Bicycle_Shed_Effect" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Avoid Parkinson's Bicycle Shed Effect">Don't get hung up on minor details</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_hope_the_house_will_build_itself" title="Wikipedia:Don't hope the house will build itself">Don't hope the house will build itself</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_panic" title="Wikipedia:Don't panic">Don't panic</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_revert_due_solely_to_%22no_consensus%22" title="Wikipedia:Don't revert due solely to "no consensus"">Don't revert due solely to "no consensus"</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_teach_the_controversy" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Don't teach the controversy">Don't teach the controversy</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_on_mobile_devices" title="Wikipedia:Editing on mobile devices">Editing on mobile devices</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editors_are_not_mindreaders" title="Wikipedia:Editors are not mindreaders">Editors are not mindreaders</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encourage_the_newcomers" title="Wikipedia:Encourage the newcomers">Encourage the newcomers</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Endorsements" title="Wikipedia:Endorsements">Endorsements (commercial)</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles_may_have_problems" title="Wikipedia:Featured articles may have problems">Featured articles may have problems</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree" title="Wikipedia:Fruit of the poisonous tree">Fruit of the poisonous tree</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Give_an_article_a_chance" title="Wikipedia:Give an article a chance">Give an article a chance</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_and_using_independent_sources" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Identifying and using independent sources">Identifying and using independent sources</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources_(history)" title="Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (history)">History sources</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources_(law)" title="Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (law)">Law sources</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_and_using_independent_sources" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Identifying and using independent sources">Primary sources</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources_(natural_sciences)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (natural sciences)">Science sources</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_and_using_style_guides" title="Wikipedia:Identifying and using style guides">Style guides</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_and_using_tertiary_sources" title="Wikipedia:Identifying and using tertiary sources">Tertiary sources</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_STRONGNAT_for_date_formats" title="Wikipedia:Ignore STRONGNAT for date formats">Ignore STRONGNAT for date formats</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Inaccuracies_in_Wikipedia_namespace" title="Wikipedia:Inaccuracies in Wikipedia namespace">Inaccuracies in Wikipedia namespace</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Inaccuracy" title="Wikipedia:Inaccuracy">Inaccuracy</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Introduction_to_structurism" title="Wikipedia:Introduction to structurism">Introduction to structurism</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot">Link rot</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_mine_a_source" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:How to mine a source">Mine a source</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Merge_Test" title="Wikipedia:Merge Test">Merge Test</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Minors_and_persons_judged_incompetent" title="Wikipedia:Minors and persons judged incompetent">Minors and persons judged incompetent</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%22Murder_of%22_articles" title="Wikipedia:"Murder of" articles">"Murder of" articles</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Not_every_story/event/disaster_needs_a_biography" title="Wikipedia:Not every story/event/disaster needs a biography">Not every story/event/disaster needs a biography</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Not_everything_needs_a_navbox" title="Wikipedia:Not everything needs a navbox">Not everything needs a navbox</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Not_everything_needs_a_WikiProject" title="Wikipedia:Not everything needs a WikiProject">Not everything needs a WikiProject</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Nothing_is_in_stone" title="Wikipedia:Nothing is in stone">Nothing is in stone</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Organizing_disambiguation_pages_by_subject_area" title="Wikipedia:Organizing disambiguation pages by subject area">Organizing disambiguation pages by subject area</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Permastub" title="Wikipedia:Permastub">Permastub</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Potential,_not_just_current_state" title="Wikipedia:Potential, not just current state">Potential, not just current state</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Presentism" title="Wikipedia:Presentism">Presentism</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Principle_of_some_astonishment" title="Wikipedia:Principle of some astonishment">Principle of some astonishment</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Printability" title="Wikipedia:Printability">Printability</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pruning_article_revisions" title="Wikipedia:Pruning article revisions">Pruning article revisions</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:For_publicists_publicizing_a_client%27s_work" title="Wikipedia:For publicists publicizing a client's work">Publicists</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Put_a_little_effort_into_it" title="Wikipedia:Put a little effort into it">Put a little effort into it</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Restoring_part_of_a_reverted_edit" title="Wikipedia:Restoring part of a reverted edit">Restoring part of a reverted edit</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Robotic_editing" title="Wikipedia:Robotic editing">Robotic editing</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sham_consensus" title="Wikipedia:Sham consensus">Sham consensus</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Specialized-style_fallacy" title="Wikipedia:Specialized-style fallacy">Specialized-style fallacy</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Stub_Makers" title="Wikipedia:Stub Makers">Stub Makers</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_run_an_edit-a-thon" title="Wikipedia:How to run an edit-a-thon">Run an edit-a-thon</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Temporary_versions_of_articles" title="Wikipedia:Temporary versions of articles">Temporary versions of articles</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tertiary-source_fallacy" title="Wikipedia:Tertiary-source fallacy">Tertiary-source fallacy</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:There_is_a_deadline" title="Wikipedia:There is a deadline">There is a deadline</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:There_is_no_deadline" title="Wikipedia:There is no deadline">There is no deadline</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_deadline_is_now" title="Wikipedia:The deadline is now">The deadline is now</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Understanding_Wikipedia%27s_content_standards" title="Wikipedia:Understanding Wikipedia's content standards">Understanding Wikipedia's content standards</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Walled_garden" title="Wikipedia:Walled garden">Walled garden</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_an_article_should_not_include" title="Wikipedia:What an article should not include">What an article should not include</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wikipedia is a work in progress</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_a_reliable_source" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a reliable source">Wikipedia is not a reliable source</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_being_written_in_an_organized_fashion" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not being written in an organized fashion">Wikipedia is not being written in an organized fashion</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_world_will_not_end_tomorrow" title="Wikipedia:The world will not end tomorrow">The world will not end tomorrow</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Write_the_article_first" title="Wikipedia:Write the article first">Write the article first</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_better_articles" title="Wikipedia:Writing better articles">Writing better articles</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Essays_in_a_nutshell/Article_writing" title="Wikipedia:Essays in a nutshell/Article writing">Writing article content</a></th><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_thread_mode" title="Wikipedia:Avoid thread mode">Avoid thread mode</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Gender-neutral_language" title="Wikipedia:Gender-neutral language">Gender-neutral language</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proseline" title="Wikipedia:Proseline">Proseline</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Use_feminine_pronouns" title="Wikipedia:Use feminine pronouns">Use feminine pronouns</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Write_the_article_first" title="Wikipedia:Write the article first">Write the article first</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_about_women" title="Wikipedia:Writing about women">Writing about women</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_better_articles" title="Wikipedia:Writing better articles">Writing better articles</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Essays_in_a_nutshell/Removal_or_deletion_of_content" title="Wikipedia:Essays in a nutshell/Removal or deletion of content">Removing or deleting content</a></th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adjectives_in_your_recommendations" title="Wikipedia:Adjectives in your recommendations">Adjectives in your recommendations</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion_is_not_a_war_zone" title="Wikipedia:Articles for deletion is not a war zone">AfD is not a war zone</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions">Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_reviews" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion reviews">Arguments to avoid in deletion reviews</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_image_deletion_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in image deletion discussions">Arguments to avoid in image deletion discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_make_in_deletion_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to make in deletion discussions">Arguments to make in deletion discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_repeated_arguments" title="Wikipedia:Avoid repeated arguments">Avoid repeated arguments</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Before_commenting_in_a_deletion_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Before commenting in a deletion discussion">Before commenting in a deletion discussion</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:But_there_must_be_sources!" title="Wikipedia:But there must be sources!">But there must be sources!</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Confusing_arguments_mean_nothing" title="Wikipedia:Confusing arguments mean nothing">Confusing arguments mean nothing</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Content_removal" title="Wikipedia:Content removal">Content removal</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Counting_and_sorting_are_not_original_research" title="Wikipedia:Counting and sorting are not original research">Counting and sorting are not original research</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Delete_the_junk" title="Wikipedia:Delete the junk">Delete the junk</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Does_deletion_help%3F" title="Wikipedia:Does deletion help?">Does deletion help?</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_attack_the_nominator" title="Wikipedia:Don't attack the nominator">Don't attack the nominator</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Do_not_confuse_stub_status_with_non-notability" title="Wikipedia:Do not confuse stub status with non-notability">Don't confuse stub status with non-notability</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_overuse_shortcuts_to_policy_and_guidelines_to_win_your_argument" title="Wikipedia:Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument">Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Follow_the_leader" title="Wikipedia:Follow the leader">Follow the leader</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_save_an_article_proposed_for_deletion" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:How to save an article proposed for deletion">How to save an article proposed for deletion</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:I_just_don%27t_like_it" title="Wikipedia:I just don't like it">I just don't like it</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_blatant_advertising" title="Wikipedia:Identifying blatant advertising">Identifying blatant advertising</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_test_edits" title="Wikipedia:Identifying test edits">Identifying test edits</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Immunity" title="Wikipedia:Immunity">Immunity</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Keep_it_concise" title="Wikipedia:Keep it concise">Keep it concise</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Liar_liar_pants_on_fire" title="Wikipedia:Liar liar pants on fire">Liar liar pants on fire</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Nothing" title="Wikipedia:Nothing">Nothing</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Nothing_is_clear" title="Wikipedia:Nothing is clear">Nothing is clear</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Overzealous_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Overzealous deletion">Overzealous deletion</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Relisting_can_be_abusive" title="Wikipedia:Relisting can be abusive">Relisting can be abusive</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Relist_bias" title="Wikipedia:Relist bias">Relist bias</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Heymann_Standard" title="Wikipedia:The Heymann Standard">The Heymann Standard</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unopposed_AFD_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Unopposed AFD discussion">Unopposed AFD discussion</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_Whac-A-Mole" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not Whac-A-Mole">Wikipedia is not Whack-A-Mole</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_was_the_page_I_created_deleted%3F" title="Wikipedia:Why was the page I created deleted?">Why was the page I created deleted?</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_to_do_if_your_article_gets_tagged_for_speedy_deletion" title="Wikipedia:What to do if your article gets tagged for speedy deletion">What to do if your article gets tagged for speedy deletion</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:When_in_doubt,_hide_it_in_the_woodwork" title="Wikipedia:When in doubt, hide it in the woodwork">When in doubt, hide it in the woodwork</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_Encyclopedic_Use" title="Wikipedia:No Encyclopedic Use">No Encyclopedic Use</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Essays_on_civility" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Essay_directory#Wikipedia's_code_of_conduct" title="Wikipedia:Essay directory">Essays on civility</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Essays_in_a_nutshell/Civility" title="Wikipedia:Essays in a nutshell/Civility">The basics</a></th><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Accepting_other_users" title="Wikipedia:Accepting other users">Accepting other users</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Apology" title="Wikipedia:Apology">Apology</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributing_to_complicated_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Contributing to complicated discussions">Contributing to complicated discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Divisiveness" title="Wikipedia:Divisiveness">Divisiveness</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_at_your_own_pace" title="Wikipedia:Edit at your own pace">Edit at your own pace</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encourage_the_newcomers" title="Wikipedia:Encourage the newcomers">Encouraging the newcomers</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Enjoy_yourself" title="Wikipedia:Enjoy yourself">Enjoy yourself</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Expect_no_thanks" title="Wikipedia:Expect no thanks">Expect no thanks</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:High-functioning_autism_and_Asperger%27s_editors" title="Wikipedia:High-functioning autism and Asperger's editors">High-functioning autism and Asperger's editors</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_be_civil" title="Wikipedia:How to be civil">How to be civil</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Maintaining_a_friendly_space" title="Wikipedia:Maintaining a friendly space">Maintaining a friendly space</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Negotiation" title="Wikipedia:Negotiation">Negotiation</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_disorder_editors" title="Wikipedia:Obsessive–compulsive disorder editors">Obsessive–compulsive disorder editors</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Relationships_with_academic_editors" title="Wikipedia:Relationships with academic editors">Relationships with academic editors</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Thank_you" title="Wikipedia:Thank you">Thank you</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Too_long;_didn%27t_read" title="Wikipedia:Too long; didn't read">Too long; didn't read</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Truce" title="Wikipedia:Truce">Truce</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unblock_perspectives" title="Wikipedia:Unblock perspectives">Unblock perspectives</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:We_are_all_Wikipedians_here" title="Wikipedia:We are all Wikipedians here">We are all Wikipedians here</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Philosophy</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:A_weak_personal_attack_is_still_wrong" title="Wikipedia:A weak personal attack is still wrong">A weak personal attack is still wrong</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advice_for_hotheads" title="Wikipedia:Advice for hotheads">Advice for hotheads</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:An_uncivil_environment_is_a_poor_environment" title="Wikipedia:An uncivil environment is a poor environment">An uncivil environment is a poor environment</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_the_glue" title="Wikipedia:Be the glue">Be the glue</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Beware_of_the_tigers" title="Wikipedia:Beware of the tigers">Beware of the tigers!</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Civility_warnings" title="Wikipedia:Civility warnings">Civility warnings</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Overzealous_deletion#Dislike_of_the_creator" title="Wikipedia:Overzealous deletion">Deletion as revenge</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Failure" title="Wikipedia:Failure">Failure</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Forgive_and_forget" title="Wikipedia:Forgive and forget">Forgive and forget</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:It%27s_not_the_end_of_the_world" title="Wikipedia:It's not the end of the world">It's not the end of the world</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Nobody_cares" title="Wikipedia:Nobody cares">Nobody cares</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Most_people_who_disagree_with_you_on_content_are_not_vandals" title="Wikipedia:Most people who disagree with you on content are not vandals">Most people who disagree with you on content are not vandals</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Old-fashioned_Wikipedian_values" title="Wikipedia:Old-fashioned Wikipedian values">Old-fashioned Wikipedian values</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Profanity,_civility,_and_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Profanity, civility, and discussions">Profanity, civility, and discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Revert_notification_opt-out" title="Wikipedia:Revert notification opt-out">Revert notification opt-out</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Shadowless_Fists_of_Death!" title="Wikipedia:Shadowless Fists of Death!">Shadowless Fists of Death!</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Staying_cool_when_the_editing_gets_hot" title="Wikipedia:Staying cool when the editing gets hot">Staying cool when the editing gets hot</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_grey_zone" title="Wikipedia:The grey zone">The grey zone</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Last_Word" title="Wikipedia:The Last Word">The last word</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:There_is_no_Divine_Right_Of_Editors" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:There is no Divine Right Of Editors">There is no Divine Right Of Editors</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Most_ideas_are_bad" title="Wikipedia:Most ideas are bad">Most ideas are bad</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Nothing_is_clear" title="Wikipedia:Nothing is clear">Nothing is clear</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Rules_of_Polite_Discourse" title="Wikipedia:The Rules of Polite Discourse">The rules of polite discourse</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_%22Ignore_all_rules%22_means#There_is_no_common_sense" title="Wikipedia:What "Ignore all rules" means">There is no common sense</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Two_wrongs_don%27t_make_a_right" title="Wikipedia:Two wrongs don't make a right">Two wrongs don't make a right</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_about_winning" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not about winning">Wikipedia is not about winning</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_for_the_opponent" title="Wikipedia:Writing for the opponent">Writing for the opponent</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reader" title="Wikipedia:Reader">Reader</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Dos</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Beyond_civility" title="Wikipedia:Beyond civility">Argue better</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith" title="Wikipedia:Assume good faith">Assume good faith</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_the_assumption_of_good_faith" title="Wikipedia:Assume the assumption of good faith">Assume the assumption of good faith</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_no_clue" title="Wikipedia:Assume no clue">Assume no clue</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_personal_remarks" title="Wikipedia:Avoid personal remarks">Avoid personal remarks</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_the_word_%22vandal%22" title="Wikipedia:Avoid the word "vandal"">Avoid the word "vandal"</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_excellent_to_one_another" title="Wikipedia:Be excellent to one another">Be excellent to one another</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Beyond_civility" title="Wikipedia:Beyond civility">Beyond civility</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Call_a_spade_a_spade" title="Wikipedia:Call a spade a spade">Call a spade a spade</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Candor" title="Wikipedia:Candor">Candor</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deny_recognition" title="Wikipedia:Deny recognition">Deny recognition</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Desist" title="Wikipedia:Desist">Desist</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Discussing_cruft" title="Wikipedia:Discussing cruft">Discussing cruft</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Drop_the_stick_and_back_slowly_away_from_the_horse_carcass" title="Wikipedia:Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass">Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encourage_full_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Encourage full discussions">Encourage full discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Get_over_it" title="Wikipedia:Get over it">Get over it</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_lose" title="Wikipedia:How to lose">How to lose</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Imagine_others_complexly" title="Wikipedia:Imagine others complexly">Imagine others complexly</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Just_drop_it" title="Wikipedia:Just drop it">Just drop it</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Keep_it_down_to_earth" title="Wikipedia:Keep it down to earth">Keep it down to earth</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mind_your_own_business" title="Wikipedia:Mind your own business">Mind your own business</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MOBY" title="Wikipedia:MOBY">Say "MOBY"</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Read_before_commenting" title="Wikipedia:Read before commenting">Read before commenting</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Settle_the_process_first" title="Wikipedia:Settle the process first">Settle the process first</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Don'ts</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ALPHABETTISPAGHETTI" title="Wikipedia:ALPHABETTISPAGHETTI">ALPHABETTISPAGHETTI</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Civil_POV_pushing" title="Wikipedia:Civil POV pushing">Civil POV pushing</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cyberbullying" title="Wikipedia:Cyberbullying">Cyberbullying</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_accuse_someone_of_a_personal_attack_for_accusing_of_a_personal_attack" title="Wikipedia:Don't accuse someone of a personal attack for accusing of a personal attack">Don't accuse someone of a personal attack for accusing of a personal attack</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_be_a_fanatic" title="Wikipedia:Don't be a fanatic">Don't be a fanatic</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211013181608/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_a_jerk" class="extiw" title="meta:Don't be a jerk">Don't be a jerk</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_be_an_ostrich" title="Wikipedia:Don't be an ostrich">Don't be an ostrich</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_be_ashamed" title="Wikipedia:Don't be ashamed">Don't be ashamed</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_be_a_WikiBigot" title="Wikipedia:Don't be a WikiBigot">Don't be a WikiBigot</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_be_high-maintenance" title="Wikipedia:Don't be high-maintenance">Don't be high-maintenance</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_be_inconsiderate" title="Wikipedia:Don't be inconsiderate">Don't be inconsiderate</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_be_obnoxious" title="Wikipedia:Don't be obnoxious">Don't be obnoxious</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_be_prejudiced" title="Wikipedia:Don't be prejudiced">Don't be prejudiced</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_be_rude" title="Wikipedia:Don't be rude">Don't be rude</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_be_the_Fun_Police" title="Wikipedia:Don't be the Fun Police">Don't be the Fun Police</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_bludgeon_the_process" title="Wikipedia:Don't bludgeon the process">Don't bludgeon the process</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_call_a_spade_a_spade" title="Wikipedia:Don't call a spade a spade">Don't call a spade a spade</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_call_the_kettle_black" title="Wikipedia:Don't call the kettle black">Don't call the kettle black</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cruftcruft#Don't_call_things_cruft" title="Wikipedia:Cruftcruft">Don't call things cruft</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_come_down_like_a_ton_of_bricks" title="Wikipedia:Don't come down like a ton of bricks">Don't come down like a ton of bricks</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_cry_COI" title="Wikipedia:Don't cry COI">Don't cry COI</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_demand_that_editors_solve_the_problems_they_identify" title="Wikipedia:Don't demand that editors solve the problems they identify">Don't demand that editors solve the problems they identify</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_drink_the_consensus_Kool-Aid" title="Wikipedia:Don't drink the consensus Kool-Aid">Don't drink the consensus Kool-Aid</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_eat_the_troll%27s_food" title="Wikipedia:Don't eat the troll's food">Don't eat the troll's food</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_fight_fire_with_fire" title="Wikipedia:Don't fight fire with fire">Don't fight fire with fire</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t-give-a-fuckism" title="Wikipedia:Don't-give-a-fuckism">Don't give a fuck</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_help_too_much" title="Wikipedia:Don't help too much">Don't help too much</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_make_a_smarmy_valediction_part_of_your_default_signature" title="Wikipedia:Don't make a smarmy valediction part of your default signature">Don't make a smarmy valediction part of your signature</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_remind_others_of_past_misdeeds" title="Wikipedia:Don't remind others of past misdeeds">Don't remind others of past misdeeds</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_don%27t_shout" title="Wikipedia:Please don't shout">Don't shout</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_spite_your_face" title="Wikipedia:Don't spite your face">Don't spite your face</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_take_the_bait" title="Wikipedia:Don't take the bait">Don't take the bait</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_template_the_regulars" title="Wikipedia:Don't template the regulars">Don't template the regulars</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_throw_your_toys_out_of_the_pram" title="Wikipedia:Don't throw your toys out of the pram">Don't throw your toys out of the pram</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Do_not_insult_the_vandals" title="Wikipedia:Do not insult the vandals">Do not insult the vandals</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Griefing" title="Wikipedia:Griefing">Griefing</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Nationalist_editing" title="Wikipedia:Nationalist editing">Nationalist editing</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_angry_mastodons" title="Wikipedia:No angry mastodons">No angry mastodons</a> <ul><li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_angry_mastodons_just_madmen" title="Wikipedia:No angry mastodons just madmen">just madmen</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_Nazis" title="Wikipedia:No Nazis">No Nazis</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No,_you_can%27t_have_a_pony" title="Wikipedia:No, you can't have a pony">No, you can't have a pony</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Passive_aggression" title="Wikipedia:Passive aggression">Passive aggression</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_do_not_bite_the_newcomers" title="Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers">Please don't bite the newcomers</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:POV_railroad" title="Wikipedia:POV railroad">POV railroad</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:There_are_no_oracles" title="Wikipedia:There are no oracles">There are no oracles</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:You_can%27t_squeeze_blood_from_a_turnip" title="Wikipedia:You can't squeeze blood from a turnip">You can't squeeze blood from a turnip</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">WikiRelations</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiBullying" title="Wikipedia:WikiBullying">WikiBullying</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiCrime" title="Wikipedia:WikiCrime">WikiCrime</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Harassment" title="Wikipedia:Harassment">WikiHarassment</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiHate" title="Wikipedia:WikiHate">WikiHate</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikilawyering" title="Wikipedia:Wikilawyering">WikiLawyering</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiLove" title="Wikipedia:WikiLove">WikiLove</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiPeace" title="Wikipedia:WikiPeace">WikiPeace</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Essays_on_notability" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Essay_directory#Notability" title="Wikipedia:Essay directory">Essays on notability</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advanced_source_searching" title="Wikipedia:Advanced source searching">Advanced source searching</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:All_high_schools_can_be_notable" title="Wikipedia:All high schools can be notable">All high schools can be notable</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Alternative_outlets" title="Wikipedia:Alternative outlets">Alternative outlets</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions">Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_with_a_single_source" title="Wikipedia:Articles with a single source">Articles with a single source</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_template_creep" title="Wikipedia:Avoid template creep">Avoid template creep</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bare_notability" title="Wikipedia:Bare notability">Bare notability</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Big_events_make_key_participants_notable" title="Wikipedia:Big events make key participants notable">Big events make key participants notable</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bombardment" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Bombardment">Bombardment</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Businesses_with_a_single_location" title="Wikipedia:Businesses with a single location">Businesses with a single location</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:But_it%27s_true!" title="Wikipedia:But it's true!">But it's true!</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_overkill" title="Wikipedia:Citation overkill">Citation overkill</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Common_sourcing_mistakes_(notability)" title="Wikipedia:Common sourcing mistakes (notability)">Common sourcing mistakes</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_clones" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia clones">Clones</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Coatrack_articles" title="Wikipedia:Coatrack articles">Coatrack</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Discriminate_vs_indiscriminate_information" title="Wikipedia:Discriminate vs indiscriminate information">Discriminate vs indiscriminate information</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Drafts_are_not_checked_for_notability_or_sanity" title="Wikipedia:Drafts are not checked for notability or sanity">Drafts are not checked for notability or sanity</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Every_snowflake_is_unique" title="Wikipedia:Every snowflake is unique">Every snowflake is unique</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Existence_%E2%89%A0_Notability" title="Wikipedia:Existence ≠ Notability">Existence ≠ Notability</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Existence_does_not_prove_notability" title="Wikipedia:Existence does not prove notability">Existence does not prove notability</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Extracting_the_meaning_of_significant_coverage" title="Wikipedia:Extracting the meaning of significant coverage">Extracting the meaning of significant coverage</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fart" title="Wikipedia:Fart">Fart</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Google_searches_and_numbers" title="Wikipedia:Google searches and numbers">Google searches and numbers</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(high_schools)" title="Wikipedia:Notability (high schools)">High Schools</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Inclusion_is_not_an_indicator_of_notability" title="Wikipedia:Inclusion is not an indicator of notability">Inclusion is not an indicator of notability</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Independent_sources" title="Wikipedia:Independent sources">Independent sources</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Inherent_notability" title="Wikipedia:Inherent notability">Inherent notability</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Insignificant" title="Wikipedia:Insignificant">Insignificant</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Masking_the_lack_of_notability" title="Wikipedia:Masking the lack of notability">Masking the lack of notability</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Make_stubs" title="Wikipedia:Make stubs">Make stubs</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:News_coverage_does_not_decrease_notability" title="Wikipedia:News coverage does not decrease notability">News coverage does not decrease notability</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_amount_of_editing_can_overcome_a_lack_of_notability" title="Wikipedia:No amount of editing can overcome a lack of notability">No amount of editing can overcome a lack of notability</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_big_loss" title="Wikipedia:No big loss">No big loss</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_one_cares_about_your_garage_band" title="Wikipedia:No one cares about your garage band">No one cares about your garage band</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_one_really_cares" title="Wikipedia:No one really cares">No one really cares</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability/Historical/Arguments" title="Wikipedia:Notability/Historical/Arguments">Notability/Historical/Arguments</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_cannot_be_purchased" title="Wikipedia:Notability cannot be purchased">Notability cannot be purchased</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_comparison_test" title="Wikipedia:Notability comparison test">Notability comparison test</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_is_not_a_level_playing_field" title="Wikipedia:Notability is not a level playing field">Notability is not a level playing field</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_is_not_a_matter_of_opinion" title="Wikipedia:Notability is not a matter of opinion">Notability is not a matter of opinion</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_is_not_relevance_or_reliability" title="Wikipedia:Notability is not relevance or reliability">Notability is not relevance or reliability</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_means_impact" title="Wikipedia:Notability means impact">Notability means impact</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_points" title="Wikipedia:Notability points">Notability points</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_sub-pages" title="Wikipedia:Notability sub-pages">Notability sub-pages</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notabilitymandering" title="Wikipedia:Notabilitymandering">Notabilitymandering</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Not_every_single_thing_Donald_Trump_does_deserves_an_article" title="Wikipedia:Not every single thing Donald Trump does deserves an article">Not every single thing Donald Trump does deserves an article</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Obscure_does_not_mean_not_notable" title="Wikipedia:Obscure does not mean not notable">Obscurity ≠ Lack of notability</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Offline_sources" title="Wikipedia:Offline sources">Offline sources</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:One_hundred_words" title="Wikipedia:One hundred words">One hundred words</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:One_sentence_does_not_an_article_make" title="Wikipedia:One sentence does not an article make">One sentence does not an article make</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Other_stuff_exists" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Other stuff exists">Other stuff exists</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Overreliance_upon_Google" title="Wikipedia:Overreliance upon Google">Overreliance upon Google</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links/Perennial_websites" title="Wikipedia:External links/Perennial websites">Perennial websites</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pok%C3%A9mon_test" title="Wikipedia:Pokémon test">Pokémon test</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Read_the_source" title="Wikipedia:Read the source">Read the source</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reducing_consensus_to_an_algorithm" title="Wikipedia:Reducing consensus to an algorithm">Reducing consensus to an algorithm</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Run-of-the-mill" title="Wikipedia:Run-of-the-mill">Run-of-the-mill</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Significant_coverage_not_required" title="Wikipedia:Significant coverage not required">Significant coverage not required</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:On_Wikipedia,_solutions_are_mixtures_and_nothing_else" title="Wikipedia:On Wikipedia, solutions are mixtures and nothing else">Solutions are mixtures and nothing else</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Subjective_importance" title="Wikipedia:Subjective importance">Subjective importance</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Independent_sources" title="Wikipedia:Independent sources">Third-party sources</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Trivial_mentions" title="Wikipedia:Trivial mentions">Trivial mentions</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Video_links" title="Wikipedia:Video links">Video links</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vanispamcruftisement" title="Wikipedia:Vanispamcruftisement">Vanispamcruftisement</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_BLP1E_is_not" title="Wikipedia:What BLP1E is not">What BLP1E is not</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_is_and_is_not_routine_coverage" title="Wikipedia:What is and is not routine coverage">What is and is not routine coverage</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_notability_is_not" title="Wikipedia:What notability is not">What notability is not</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_to_include" title="Wikipedia:What to include">What to include</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_here_to_tell_the_world_about_your_noble_cause" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause">Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Humorous_essays" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Essay_directory#Humorous_material" title="Wikipedia:Essay directory">Humorous essays</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Anti-Wikipedian" title="Wikipedia:Anti-Wikipedian">Anti-Wikipedian</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Asshole_John_rule" title="Wikipedia:Asshole John rule">Asshole John rule</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_bad_faith" title="Wikipedia:Assume bad faith">Assume bad faith</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_faith" title="Wikipedia:Assume faith">Assume faith</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_wraith" title="Wikipedia:Assume good wraith">Assume good wraith</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_stupidity" title="Wikipedia:Assume stupidity">Assume stupidity</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_that_everyone%27s_assuming_good_faith,_assuming_that_you_are_assuming_good_faith" title="Wikipedia:Assume that everyone's assuming good faith, assuming that you are assuming good faith">Assume that everyone's assuming good faith, assuming that you are assuming good faith</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_using_preview_button" title="Wikipedia:Avoid using preview button">Avoid using preview button</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_using_wikilinks" title="Wikipedia:Avoid using wikilinks">Avoid using wikilinks</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Silly_Things" title="Wikipedia:Silly Things">Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BOLD,_revert,_revert,_revert" title="Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, revert, revert">BOLD, revert, revert, revert</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Boston_Tea_Party" title="Wikipedia:Boston Tea Party">Boston Tea Party</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Barnstaritis" title="Wikipedia:Barnstaritis">Barnstaritis</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_stuff_beans_up_your_nose" title="Wikipedia:Don't stuff beans up your nose">Don't stuff beans up your nose</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t-give-a-fuckism" title="Wikipedia:Don't-give-a-fuckism">Don't-give-a-fuckism</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20211013181608/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editcountitis" 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