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class="vector-toc-numb">2.1</span> <span>Good definitions</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Good_definitions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Wikipedia_is_not_a_usage_guide" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Wikipedia_is_not_a_usage_guide"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2</span> <span>Wikipedia is not a usage guide</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Wikipedia_is_not_a_usage_guide-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Wikipedia_is_not_a_genealogical_dictionary" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Wikipedia_is_not_a_genealogical_dictionary"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span> <span>Wikipedia is not a genealogical dictionary</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Wikipedia_is_not_a_genealogical_dictionary-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Neologisms" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Neologisms"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4</span> <span>Neologisms</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Neologisms-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-When_a_word_or_phrase_may_be_an_encyclopedic_subject" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#When_a_word_or_phrase_may_be_an_encyclopedic_subject"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5</span> <span>When a word or phrase may be an encyclopedic subject</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-When_a_word_or_phrase_may_be_an_encyclopedic_subject-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Handling_problems" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Handling_problems"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Handling problems</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Handling_problems-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Handling problems subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Handling_problems-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Fixing_the_introductory_sentence:_removing_"refers_to"" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Fixing_the_introductory_sentence:_removing_"refers_to""> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Fixing the introductory sentence: removing "refers to"</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Fixing_the_introductory_sentence:_removing_"refers_to"-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Misplaced_dictionary_entries" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Misplaced_dictionary_entries"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>Misplaced dictionary entries</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Misplaced_dictionary_entries-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Pointers_to_Wiktionary" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Pointers_to_Wiktionary"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>Pointers to Wiktionary</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Pointers_to_Wiktionary-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" title="Table of Contents" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" 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Available in 40 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-40" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-language-progressive mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-language-progressive"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">40 languages</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%A7" title="ويكيبيديا:ويكيبيديا ليست قاموسا – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="ويكيبيديا:ويكيبيديا ليست قاموسا" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-as mw-list-item"><a href="https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE:%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%96%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A7%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC" title="ৱিকিপিডিয়া:ৱিকিপিডিয়া এখন অভিধান নহয় – Assamese" lang="as" hreflang="as" data-title="ৱিকিপিডিয়া:ৱিকিপিডিয়া এখন অভিধান নহয়" data-language-autonym="অসমীয়া" data-language-local-name="Assamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>অসমীয়া</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipediya:Vikipediya_l%C3%BC%C4%9F%C9%99t_deyil" title="Vikipediya:Vikipediya lüğət deyil – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Vikipediya:Vikipediya lüğət deyil" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D8%A4%D8%B2%D9%84%D9%88%DA%A9_%D8%AF%D8%A6%D9%8A%DB%8C%D9%84" title="ویکی‌پدیا:ویکی‌پدیا سؤزلوک دئيیل – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="ویکی‌پدیا:ویکی‌پدیا سؤزلوک دئيیل" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE:%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8B_%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A7%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC" title="উইকিপিডিয়া:উইকিপিডিয়া কোনো অভিধান নয় – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="উইকিপিডিয়া:উইকিপিডিয়া কোনো অভিধান নয়" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:N%27eo_ket_wikipedia_ur_geriadur" title="Wikipedia:N'eo ket wikipedia ur geriadur – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Wikipedia:N'eo ket wikipedia ur geriadur" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_ist_kein_W%C3%B6rterbuch" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia ist kein Wörterbuch – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia ist kein Wörterbuch" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B9%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1:%CE%97_%CE%92%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B9%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1_%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%BD_%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%B1%CE%B9_%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%BE%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C" title="Βικιπαίδεια:Η Βικιπαίδεια δεν είναι λεξικό – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Βικιπαίδεια:Η Βικιπαίδεια δεν είναι λεξικό" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_no_es_un_diccionario" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia no es un diccionario – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia no es un diccionario" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D9%88%D8%A7%DA%98%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%87_%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA" title="ویکی‌پدیا:ویکی‌پدیا واژه‌نامه نیست – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ویکی‌پدیا:ویکی‌پدیا واژه‌نامه نیست" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Wikip%C3%A9dia_n%27est_pas_un_dictionnaire" title="Wikipédia:Wikipédia n'est pas un dictionnaire – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Wikipédia:Wikipédia n'est pas un dictionnaire" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9C%84%ED%82%A4%EB%B0%B1%EA%B3%BC:%EC%9C%84%ED%82%A4%EB%B0%B1%EA%B3%BC%EB%8A%94_%EB%8B%A8%EC%96%B4_%EC%82%AC%EC%A0%84%EC%9D%B4_%EC%95%84%EB%8B%99%EB%8B%88%EB%8B%A4" title="위키백과:위키백과는 단어 사전이 아닙니다 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="위키백과:위키백과는 단어 사전이 아닙니다" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_bukanlah_kamus" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia bukanlah kamus – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia bukanlah kamus" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_non_es_un_dictionario" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia non es un dictionario – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia non es un dictionario" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_non_%C3%A8_un_dizionario" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia non è un dizionario – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia non è un dizionario" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF:%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF_%E0%B2%A8%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%98%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%9F%E0%B3%81_%E0%B2%85%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B2" title="ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ನಿಘಂಟು ಅಲ್ಲ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ನಿಘಂಟು ಅಲ್ಲ" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%95%E1%83%98%E1%83%99%E1%83%98%E1%83%9E%E1%83%94%E1%83%93%E1%83%98%E1%83%90:%E1%83%95%E1%83%98%E1%83%99%E1%83%98%E1%83%9E%E1%83%94%E1%83%93%E1%83%98%E1%83%90_%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0_%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94%E1%83%A5%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98%E1%83%99%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98" title="ვიკიპედია:ვიკიპედია არ არის ლექსიკონი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ვიკიპედია:ვიკიპედია არ არის ლექსიკონი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:A_Wikip%C3%A9dia_nem_sz%C3%B3t%C3%A1r" title="Wikipédia:A Wikipédia nem szótár – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Wikipédia:A Wikipédia nem szótár" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" 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lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="Wikipedia:ウィキペディアは辞書ではありません" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipediya:Vikipediya_%E2%80%94_lug%CA%BBat_emas" title="Vikipediya:Vikipediya — lugʻat emas – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Vikipediya:Vikipediya — lugʻat emas" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:A_Wikip%C3%A9dia_n%C3%A3o_%C3%A9_um_dicion%C3%A1rio" title="Wikipédia:A Wikipédia não é um dicionário – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Wikipédia:A Wikipédia não é um dicionário" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" 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data-file-height="739" /></a><figcaption>The goal of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> is to create an <a href="/wiki/Encyclopedia" title="Encyclopedia">encyclopedia</a>, not a <a href="/wiki/Dictionary" title="Dictionary">dictionary</a>. (The two shelves contain a copy of the 2002 edition of the <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica" title="Encyclopædia Britannica">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>.)</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Wikipedia is not a <a href="/wiki/Dictionary" title="Dictionary">dictionary</a>, phrasebook, or a slang, jargon, or usage guide.</b> Instead, the goal of this project is to create an <a href="/wiki/Encyclopedia" title="Encyclopedia">encyclopedia</a>. Our sister project <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Main_Page" class="extiw" title="wikt:Main Page">Wiktionary</a> has the goal of creating a dictionary. It is the "<a href="/wiki/Lexicon" title="Lexicon">lexical</a> companion to Wikipedia", and the two often link to each other. Wiktionary welcomes all editors who wish to write a dictionary. </p><p>Both dictionary entries at Wiktionary and encyclopedia articles at Wikipedia may start out as <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Stub" title="Wikipedia:Stub">stubs</a>, but they are works in progress, to be expanded. Wikipedia articles should begin with a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GOODDEF" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GOODDEF">good definition</a>, but they should provide other types of information about that topic as well. The full articles that Wikipedia's stubs grow into are very different from dictionary entries. </p><p>Each article in an encyclopedia is about a person, a people, a concept, a place, an event, a thing, etc., whereas a dictionary entry is primarily about a word, an idiom, or a term and its meaning(s), usage and history. In some cases, a word or phrase itself <a href="#WORDISSUBJECT">may be an encyclopedic subject</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Macedonia_(terminology)" title="Macedonia (terminology)"><i>Macedonia</i> (terminology)</a> or <i><a href="/wiki/Truthiness" title="Truthiness">truthiness</a></i>. Such articles rarely contain more than one <em>distinct</em> definition or usage of the article's title. </p><p>One perennial source of confusion is that a stub encyclopedia article looks very much like a dictionary entry, and stubs are often poorly written; another is that some <em>paper</em> dictionaries, such as "pocket" dictionaries, lead users to the mistaken belief that dictionary entries are short, and that <i>short article</i> and <i>dictionary entry</i> are therefore equivalent. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Overview:_encyclopedia_vs_dictionary" data-mw-thread-id="h-Overview:_encyclopedia_vs_dictionary"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Overview:_encyclopedia_vs_dictionary"></span>Overview: encyclopedia vs dictionary<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Overview:_encyclopedia_vs_dictionary"></span></h2></div> <p>In this section we compare Wikipedia and Wiktionary (as a concrete example of a dictionary), but the principle is that Wikipedia is not a dictionary, not simply that it is not Wiktionary. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Major_differences" data-mw-thread-id="h-Major_differences-Overview:_encyclopedia_vs_dictionary"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Major_differences-Overview:_encyclopedia_vs_dictionary"></span>Major differences<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Major_differences-Overview:_encyclopedia_vs_dictionary"></span></h3></div> <table class="wikitable" style="width:100%"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" style="width:20%">Criteria </th> <th scope="col" style="width:40%">Wikipedia </th> <th scope="col" style="width:40%">Wiktionary </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Article contents </th> <td><em>about <u>referents</u></em>: a person, a people, an idea, a concept, a place, an event, or a thing that the title of the article can <em>denote</em>. The article <a href="/wiki/Octopus" title="Octopus">octopus</a> is primarily about the animal: its physiology, its use as food, its scientific classification, and so forth. </td> <td><em>about <u>references</u></em>: the words, symbols, and language used to denote those <em>referents</em>—which includes the <em>linguistic aspects</em> of names used as article titles. The entry <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octopus" class="extiw" title="wikt:octopus">octopus</a> is about the word "octopus": its part of speech, its pluralizations, its usage, its etymology, its translations into other languages, and so forth. </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Articles whose titles are different words for the same thing (<a href="/wiki/Synonym" title="Synonym">synonyms</a>) </th> <td>are <em><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CFORK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CFORK">duplicate articles</a> that should be <a href="/wiki/Help:Merging" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Merging">merged</a></em>. For example: <a href="/wiki/Petrol" class="mw-redirect" title="Petrol">petrol</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gasoline" title="Gasoline">gasoline</a>. </td> <td>warrant different entries (for example, <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/petrol" class="extiw" title="wikt:petrol">petrol</a> and <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gasoline" class="extiw" title="wikt:gasoline">gasoline</a>). </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Articles whose titles are different spellings of the same word or lexeme </th> <td>are <em><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CFORK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CFORK">duplicate articles</a> that should be <a href="/wiki/Help:Merging" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Merging">merged</a></em>. For example: <a href="/wiki/Colour" class="mw-redirect" title="Colour">colour</a> and <a href="/wiki/Color" title="Color">color</a>. </td> <td>warrant different entries (such as <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/colour" class="extiw" title="wikt:colour">colour</a> and <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/color" class="extiw" title="wikt:color">color</a>). </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">The same title for different things (<a href="/wiki/Homograph" title="Homograph">homographs</a>) </th> <td><em>are found in different articles</em>. For example: a <a href="/wiki/Rocket" title="Rocket">rocket</a> vehicle, <a href="/wiki/Salad_rocket" class="mw-redirect" title="Salad rocket">salad rocket</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Rocket_engine" title="Rocket engine">rocket engine</a>. The articles may all be found in a disambiguation page such as <a href="/wiki/Rocket_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Rocket (disambiguation)">Rocket (disambiguation)</a>. </td> <td>are to be found in one entry (such as <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rocket" class="extiw" title="wikt:rocket">rocket</a>). </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>One test is that an encyclopedia article's name can usually easily take many different equivalent forms, whereas a dictionary as a <i>linguistic work is about the words in the title</i>, and cannot usually be easily translated.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Minor_differences" data-mw-thread-id="h-Minor_differences-Overview:_encyclopedia_vs_dictionary"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Minor_differences-Overview:_encyclopedia_vs_dictionary"></span>Minor differences<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Minor_differences-Overview:_encyclopedia_vs_dictionary"></span></h3></div> <table class="wikitable" style="width:100%"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" style="width:20%">Criteria </th> <th scope="col" style="width:40%">Wikipedia </th> <th scope="col" style="width:40%">Wiktionary </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Inflections </th> <td>Per the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(verbs)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (verbs)">Wikipedia:Naming conventions (verbs)</a>, single-word article titles are usually <a href="/wiki/Noun" title="Noun">nouns</a> or verbal nouns (<a href="/wiki/Participle" title="Participle">participles</a> or <a href="/wiki/Gerund" title="Gerund">gerunds</a>), such as <a href="/wiki/Greengrocer" title="Greengrocer">greengrocer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Camping" title="Camping">camping</a>. Per the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(plurals)" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (plurals)">Wikipedia:Naming conventions (plurals)</a>, article titles are singular. Other inflections, if they exist at all, are <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect" title="Wikipedia:Redirect">redirects</a>. </td> <td>Every inflection of a word is an entry in its own right, potentially with its own illustrative quotations. For examples: <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/walk" class="extiw" title="wikt:walk">walk</a>, <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/walks" class="extiw" title="wikt:walks">walks</a>, <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/walked" class="extiw" title="wikt:walked">walked</a>, and <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/walking" class="extiw" title="wikt:walking">walking</a> are all separate entries. The <a href="/wiki/Suffix" title="Suffix">suffixes</a> for the inflections are also entries: <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ed" class="extiw" title="wikt:-ed">-ed</a>, <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ing" class="extiw" title="wikt:-ing">-ing</a> etc. </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Adjectives </th> <td>Per <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_titles#adjective" title="Wikipedia:Article titles">Wikipedia:Article titles § Use nouns</a> adjectives are usually redirected to nouns or are disambiguation pages or simply do not exist. </td> <td>Every adjective is a word/entry in its own right. </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Language used </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(use_English)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English)">Article titles are in the English language, with some exceptions</a>. </td> <td><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Criteria_for_inclusion" class="extiw" title="wikt:Wiktionary:Criteria for inclusion">All words from all languages are accepted</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Proper nouns </th> <td>An article with a <a href="/wiki/Proper_noun" title="Proper noun">proper noun</a> as its title is usually a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation" title="Wikipedia:Disambiguation">disambiguation article</a>, which links to all of the places or things commonly known by that name. For examples: <a href="/wiki/Hastings_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Hastings (disambiguation)">Hastings (disambiguation)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Benedict" class="mw-disambig" title="Benedict">Benedict</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bush" class="mw-disambig" title="Bush">Bush</a>. The article will use <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Wiktionary" title="Template:Wiktionary">wiktionary</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> to link to the Wiktionary entries on the proper noun and any common nouns that have the same spelling. <p>An article about a <a href="/wiki/Given_name" title="Given name">given name</a> or a <a href="/wiki/Surname" title="Surname">surname</a> is an <a href="/w/index.php?title=MOS:APO&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="MOS:APO (page does not exist)">anthroponymy article</a> that contains a list of people with this name as well as encyclopedic content about the meaning, etymology and history of the name. </p> </td> <td>An entry with the title of a <a href="/wiki/Proper_noun" title="Proper noun">proper noun</a> gives the etymology, meanings, translations, pronunciation, and so forth of that proper noun. For examples: <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hastings" class="extiw" title="wikt:Hastings">Hastings</a>, <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Benedict" class="extiw" title="wikt:Benedict">Benedict</a> <p>The entry will use {{<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Template:Wikipedia" class="extiw" title="wikt:Template:Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a>}} or <a href="/wiki/Help:Interwiki_linking" title="Help:Interwiki linking">interwiki links</a> to link to the Wikipedia articles. </p><p>Wiktionary is also case sensitive, so entries for (English) proper nouns are separate from entries for (English) common nouns. For example: <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bush" class="extiw" title="wikt:Bush">Bush</a>, <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bush" class="extiw" title="wikt:bush">bush</a> </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Not_size" data-mw-thread-id="h-Not_size-Overview:_encyclopedia_vs_dictionary"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Not_size-Overview:_encyclopedia_vs_dictionary"></span>Not size<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Not_size-Overview:_encyclopedia_vs_dictionary"></span></h3></div> <p>Dictionary entries and encyclopedia articles do not differ simply on grounds of <em>length</em>. An entry in a comprehensive dictionary (or a topical <a href="/wiki/Encyclopedic_dictionary" title="Encyclopedic dictionary">encyclopedic dictionary</a>) would probably contain illustrative quotations for each listed meaning; etymologies; translations; inflections; links to related and derived terms; links to synonyms, antonyms, and homophones; a pronunciation guide in various dialects, including links to sound files; and usage notes; it could be very long indeed. Short dictionary articles are artifacts of paper dictionaries being space-limited, and some dictionaries being intentionally concise. Not all dictionaries are limited by the size of the paper; <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:What_Wiktionary_is_not" class="extiw" title="wikt:Wiktionary:What Wiktionary is not">Wiktionary is not paper</a> either. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Dictionary_definition_trap" data-mw-thread-id="h-Dictionary_definition_trap"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Dictionary_definition_trap"></span>Dictionary definition trap<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Dictionary_definition_trap"></span></h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Good_definitions" data-mw-thread-id="h-Good_definitions-Dictionary_definition_trap"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Good_definitions-Dictionary_definition_trap"></span>Good definitions<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Good_definitions-Dictionary_definition_trap"></span></h3></div> <p>Both dictionaries and encyclopedias contain definitions. Encyclopedia articles should begin with a good definition and description of <em>one</em> topic (or a few largely or completely synonymous or otherwise highly related topics<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), but the article should provide other types of information about that topic as well. An encyclopedic definition is more concerned with encyclopedic knowledge (facts) than linguistic concerns.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>See also <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:REFERS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:REFERS">WP:REFERS</a>.</i> </p><p>A good definition is not <a href="/wiki/Circular_definition" title="Circular definition">circular</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Synonym" title="Synonym">synonym</a> or a near synonym, overly broad or narrow, ambiguous, figurative, or obscure. When a descriptive title is self-explanatory, such as <a href="/wiki/History_of_Malta" title="History of Malta">history of Malta</a>, a definition may not be needed. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1033199720">.mw-parser-output div.crossreference{padding-left:0}</style><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference">See also <a href="/wiki/Fallacies_of_definition" title="Fallacies of definition">fallacies of definition</a>.</span> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>A definition aims to describe or delimit the meaning of some term (a word or a phrase) by giving a statement of essential properties or distinguishing characteristics of the concept, entity, or kind of entity, denoted by that term.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a href="/wiki/Definition" title="Definition">Definition</a></cite></div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wikipedia_is_not_a_usage_guide" data-mw-thread-id="h-Wikipedia_is_not_a_usage_guide-Dictionary_definition_trap"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Wikipedia_is_not_a_usage_guide-Dictionary_definition_trap"></span>Wikipedia is not a usage guide<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Wikipedia_is_not_a_usage_guide-Dictionary_definition_trap"></span></h3></div> <p>Wikipedia is not in the business of saying how words, idioms, phrases etc. "should" be used (but it may be important in the context of an encyclopedia article to discuss how a word <em>is</em> used). </p><p>Articles that have been heavily cut to avoid becoming usage guides include <a href="/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun" class="mw-redirect" title="Gender-neutral pronoun">gender-neutral pronoun</a> and <a href="/wiki/Non-sexist_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-sexist language">non-sexist language</a>. Articles with information on how a word is used include <a href="/wiki/Singular_they" title="Singular they">singular <i>they</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/Homophobia" title="Homophobia">homophobia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sexism" title="Sexism">sexism</a>. By a simple extension of the latter, Wikipedia is not a slang and idiom guide. We aren't teaching people how to talk like a hacker or a Cockney chimney-sweep; we're writing an encyclopedia. See <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knocking_her_dead_one_on_the_nose_each_and_every_double_trey" class="extiw" title="meta:Knocking her dead one on the nose each and every double trey">meta:Knocking her dead one on the nose each and every double trey</a> for a historical example. Some articles are <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Stand-alone_lists#Specialized_list_articles" title="Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists">encyclopedic <i>glossaries</i></a> on the jargon of an industry or field; such articles must be informative, not guiding in nature, because <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT#GUIDE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOT">Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook</a>. </p><p>Note that Wiktionary is also primarily a record of how words are (or were) used rather than how they "should" be used, but it does aim to note when usage is slang, informal, archaic, non-standard, derogatory, offensive, etc. and how that status has changed over time. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wikipedia_is_not_a_genealogical_dictionary" data-mw-thread-id="h-Wikipedia_is_not_a_genealogical_dictionary-Dictionary_definition_trap"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Wikipedia_is_not_a_genealogical_dictionary-Dictionary_definition_trap"></span>Wikipedia is not a genealogical dictionary<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Wikipedia_is_not_a_genealogical_dictionary-Dictionary_definition_trap"></span></h3></div> <p>There are reference works known as genealogical dictionaries.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These tend to focus primarily on the immediate family connections (parents, spouses, children and their spouses) of the article subject. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and as such focuses more on the actions and contributions of an article subject. This means that many genealogical details may be omitted, for a better-flowing, more rounded article. </p><p>Biography articles should only be created for people with some sort of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verifiable</a> notability. A good measure of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability" title="Wikipedia:Notability">notability</a> is whether someone has been featured in multiple, independent, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources">reliable sources</a>. Minor figures may be mentioned within other articles (for example, Ronald Gay in <a href="/wiki/Violence_against_LGBT_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Violence against LGBT people">Violence against LGBT people</a>). </p><p><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033199720" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference">See also <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(people)" title="Wikipedia:Notability (people)">Wikipedia:Notability (people)</a>.</span> </p><p><span id="NEO"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Neologisms" data-mw-thread-id="h-Neologisms-Dictionary_definition_trap"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Neologisms-Dictionary_definition_trap"></span><span class="anchor" id="Wikipedia_does_not_document_the_usage_of_neologisms"></span> Neologisms<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Neologisms-Dictionary_definition_trap"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(words_to_watch)#Neologisms_and_new_compounds" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style (words to watch)">Wikipedia:Manual of Style (words to watch) § Neologisms and new compounds</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228" /><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:NEO"></span><span id="WP:NOTNEO"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NEO&redirect=no">WP:NEO</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NOTNEO&redirect=no">WP:NOTNEO</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>Articles on <a href="/wiki/Neologism" title="Neologism">neologisms</a> that have little or no usage in reliable sources are commonly deleted, as these articles are often created in an attempt to use Wikipedia to increase usage of the term. Care should be taken when translating text into English that a term common in the host language does not create an uncommon neologism in English. As <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary" title="Wiktionary">Wiktionary</a>'s <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Criteria_for_inclusion" class="extiw" title="wikt:Wiktionary:Criteria for inclusion">inclusion criteria</a> differ from Wikipedia's, that project may cover neologisms that Wikipedia cannot accept. Editors may wish to contribute an entry for the neologism to Wiktionary instead. </p><p>Some neologisms can be in frequent use, and it may be possible to pull together many facts about a particular term and show evidence of its usage on the Internet or in larger society. To support an article about a particular term or concept, we must cite what reliable <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary,_secondary_and_tertiary_sources" title="Wikipedia:No original research">secondary sources</a> say <em>about</em> the term or concept, not just sources that <em>use</em> the term <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033199720" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference">(see <a href="/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinction" title="Use–mention distinction">use–mention distinction</a>)</span>. An editor's personal observations and research (e.g. finding blogs, books, and articles that use the term rather than are about the term) are insufficient to support articles on neologisms because this may require <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AEIS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AEIS">analysis and synthesis</a> of primary source material to advance a position, which is explicitly prohibited by the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:OR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:OR">original research policy</a>. </p><p>While Wikipedia is a tertiary source, Wiktionary is a secondary source, so welcomes OR of this sort. Neologisms must at least have three independent uses for inclusion there, and additional requirements can be found on their <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/WT:CFI" class="extiw" title="wikt:WT:CFI">Criteria for inclusion</a> page. </p><p>Neologisms that are in wide use but for which there are no treatments in secondary sources are not yet ready for use and coverage in Wikipedia. The term does not need to be in Wikipedia in order to be a "true" term, and when secondary sources become available, it will be appropriate to create an article on the topic, or use the term within other articles. </p><p>In a few cases, there will be notable topics which are well-documented in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources">reliable sources</a>, but for which no accepted short-hand term exists. It can be tempting to employ a neologism in such a case. Instead, it is preferable to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_titles#Non-judgmental_descriptive_titles" title="Wikipedia:Article titles">use a title that is a descriptive phrase</a> in plain English if possible, even if this makes for a somewhat long or awkward title.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AUDIENCE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AUDIENCE"><span title="An editor has requested that an example be provided. (April 2021)">example needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="When_a_word_or_phrase_may_be_an_encyclopedic_subject" data-mw-thread-id="h-When_a_word_or_phrase_may_be_an_encyclopedic_subject-Dictionary_definition_trap"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-When_a_word_or_phrase_may_be_an_encyclopedic_subject-Dictionary_definition_trap"></span><span class="anchor" id="WORDISSUBJECT"></span> When a word or phrase may be an encyclopedic subject<span data-mw-comment-end="h-When_a_word_or_phrase_may_be_an_encyclopedic_subject-Dictionary_definition_trap"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228" /><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:WORDISSUBJECT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WORDISSUBJECT&redirect=no">WP:WORDISSUBJECT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>In some cases, a word or phrase may be an encyclopedic subject. In these cases, the word or phrase in and of itself passes Wikipedia's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTABILITY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTABILITY">notability</a> criteria as the subject of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">verifiable</a> coverage by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">reliable sources</a>. As with any subject, articles on words must contain encyclopedic information. That is, such articles must go beyond what would be found in a dictionary entry (definition, pronunciation, etymology, use information, etc.), and include information on the social or historical significance of the term. </p><p>While published dictionaries may be useful sources for lexical information on a term, the presence of a term in a dictionary does not by itself establish notability. Examples of Wikipedia articles on words and phrases include <a href="/wiki/Macedonia_(terminology)" title="Macedonia (terminology)"><i>Macedonia</i> (terminology)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Orange_(word)" title="Orange (word)"><i>Orange</i> (word)</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Thou" title="Thou">Thou</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/No_worries" title="No worries">No worries</a></i>, and most articles about individual <a href="/wiki/Category:Ethnic_and_religious_slurs" title="Category:Ethnic and religious slurs">racial slurs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Category:Profanity" title="Category:Profanity">profanity</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Category:Obscenity" title="Category:Obscenity">obscene gestures</a>. </p><p>In other cases, a word or phrase is often used as a "lens" or concept through which another topic or closely related set of topics are grouped, seen or renamed. In such cases, coverage about a word, phrase or concept should treat it as such. The main coverage of the topics that were modified, grouped or renamed by the "lens" is typically elsewhere in Wikipedia. <a href="/wiki/World_music" title="World music">World music</a>, <a href="/wiki/Political_correctness" title="Political correctness">Political correctness</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gay_agenda" title="Gay agenda">Gay agenda</a> and <a href="/wiki/Truthiness" title="Truthiness">Truthiness</a> illustrate this. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Handling_problems" data-mw-thread-id="h-Handling_problems"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Handling_problems"></span><span class="anchor" id="REFERS"></span><span class="anchor" id="REFERSTO"></span><span class="anchor" id="ISANAMEFOR"></span><span class="anchor" id="is_a_word_for"></span> Handling problems<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Handling_problems"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228" /><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ISAWORDFOR"></span><span id="WP:ISATERMFOR"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ISAWORDFOR&redirect=no">WP:ISAWORDFOR</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ISATERMFOR&redirect=no">WP:ISATERMFOR</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fixing_the_introductory_sentence:_removing_"refers_to"" data-mw-thread-id="h-Fixing_the_introductory_sentence:_removing_"refers_to"-Handling_problems"><span id="Fixing_the_introductory_sentence:_removing_.22refers_to.22"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Fixing_the_introductory_sentence:_removing_"refers_to"-Handling_problems"></span>Fixing the introductory sentence: removing "refers to"<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Fixing_the_introductory_sentence:_removing_"refers_to"-Handling_problems"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_better_articles#Use_of_"refers_to"" title="Wikipedia:Writing better articles">Wikipedia:Writing better articles § Use of "refers to"</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Lead_section#First_sentence" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section">Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section § First sentence</a></div> <p>A <em>good</em> encyclopedia article should begin with a relatively short but discrete explanation of the subject of the article (the person, place, concept, event, or 'thing' of the title). Sometimes, articles (particularly stubs) have poorly written dictionary-style introductory sentences, such as "<b>Dog</b> is a term for an animal with the binomial name <i>Canis lupus</i>" or "<b>Dog</b> is a word that refers to a domesticated canine". </p><p>Most Wikipedia articles are <em>not</em> dictionary entries, and opening sentences like the above ought to be cleaned up in accordance with our <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:REFERS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:REFERS">Guide to writing better articles</a>. Editors should <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BOLD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BOLD">boldly</a> replace these cumbersome phrasings ("is a term for", "is a word that means", "refers to") with the more direct "is" construction, for example: "A <b>dog</b> is an animal of the species <i>Canis lupus</i>" or "A <b>dog</b> is a domesticated canine". (See: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:REFERS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:REFERS">Writing better articles: Avoid using "refers to"</a>) </p><p>Sometimes a Wikipedia article will also be <em><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:TITLE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:TITLE">poorly titled</a></em>: its title will be an adjective or an adverb, or an inflection of a verb that isn't a noun. Such articles are dictionary articles only if they discuss the word or phrase <i><a href="/wiki/MOS:WAW" class="mw-redirect" title="MOS:WAW">as a word or phrase</a></i>, rather than what the word or phrase denotes. If such articles should explain what the word or phrase denotes, then they should be <a href="/wiki/Help:Renaming_(moving)_a_page" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Renaming (moving) a page">renamed</a> or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Merge" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Merge">merged</a> to a title that adheres to our <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions">Wikipedia:Naming conventions</a>. For example: the adjective "supermassive" doesn't by itself denote a subject. "<a href="/wiki/Supermassive_black_hole" title="Supermassive black hole">Supermassive black hole</a>", on the other hand, is a subject. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Misplaced_dictionary_entries" data-mw-thread-id="h-Misplaced_dictionary_entries-Handling_problems"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Misplaced_dictionary_entries-Handling_problems"></span>Misplaced dictionary entries<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Misplaced_dictionary_entries-Handling_problems"></span></h3></div> <p>Sometimes an article really is a mis-placed stub dictionary entry, that discusses the etymology, translations, usage, inflections, multiple <em>distinct</em> meanings, synonyms, antonyms, homophones, spelling, pronunciation, and so forth of <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Criteria_for_inclusion" class="extiw" title="wikt:Wiktionary:Criteria for inclusion">a word or an idiomatic phrase</a>. </p><p>If Wiktionary doesn't already have an entry for the word or idiom (which is unlikely), one can be created. Previously it could be copied to Wiktionary using the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Transwiki" class="extiw" title="m:Help:Transwiki">transwiki</a> system by marking the article with the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template:Copy_to_Wiktionary&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template:Copy to Wiktionary (page does not exist)">Copy to Wiktionary</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template, but that template <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2021_September_24#Template:Copy_to_Wiktionary" title="Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2021 September 24">was deleted by a 2021 TfD</a>. </p><p>After copying, the final disposition of the article here is up to Wikipedia. If the article cannot be <a href="/wiki/Help:Renaming_(moving)_a_page" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Renaming (moving) a page">renamed</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Merge" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Merge">merged</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Help:Editing" title="Help:Editing">rewritten</a> into a stub encyclopedia article about a subject, denoted by its title, then it should be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Guide to deletion">deleted</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pointers_to_Wiktionary" data-mw-thread-id="h-Pointers_to_Wiktionary-Handling_problems"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Pointers_to_Wiktionary-Handling_problems"></span>Pointers to Wiktionary<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Pointers_to_Wiktionary-Handling_problems"></span></h3></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/40px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/60px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/80px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></a></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Look up <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dictionary" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:dictionary">dictionary</a></b></i> in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.</div></div> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228" /><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:POINTWIKT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:POINTWIKT&redirect=no">WP:POINTWIKT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>A template can be used to point to a Wiktionary entry from a Wikipedia article which has encyclopedic content; for example, the code <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Wiktionary" title="Template:Wiktionary">Wiktionary</a>|dictionary}}</code> produces a pointer to the Wiktionary definition of <a href="/wiki/Dictionary" title="Dictionary">dictionary</a> as illustrated here. For Wikipedia articles which could only ever be dictionary definitions and keep being re-created and re-deleted, or which could potentially be proper articles but are dictionary-like stubs at the moment, it is possible to effectively "<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SALT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SALT">salt</a>" them with a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Soft_redirect" title="Wikipedia:Soft redirect">soft redirect</a> to Wiktionary using code such as <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Wiktionary_redirect" title="Template:Wiktionary redirect">Wiktionary redirect</a>|dictionary}}</code>. The general guidelines for what is acceptable as a soft redirect to Wiktionary are enumerated in that template's documentation. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="See_also" data-mw-thread-id="h-See_also"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-See_also"></span>See also<span data-mw-comment-end="h-See_also"></span></h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_in_languages_other_than_English" title="Wikipedia:Redirects in languages other than English">Wikipedia:Redirects in languages other than English</a> (essay; essentially, <i>Wikipedia is not a translation dictionary</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Dictionaries_as_sources" title="Wikipedia:Dictionaries as sources">Wikipedia:Dictionaries as sources</a> (essay)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:You_are_probably_not_a_lexicologist_or_a_lexicographer" title="Wikipedia:You are probably not a lexicologist or a lexicographer">Wikipedia:You are probably not a lexicologist or a lexicographer</a> (essay)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Dealing_with_dictionary_definitions" title="Wikipedia:Dealing with dictionary definitions">Wikipedia:Dealing with dictionary definitions</a> (essay)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Stand-alone_lists" title="Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists">Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not" title="Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not">Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Phrases" title="Category:Phrases">Category:Phrases</a> – many phrase-related articles can be found in Wikipedia</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Vocabulary_and_usage_stubs" title="Category:Vocabulary and usage stubs">Category:Vocabulary and usage stubs</a> – many of these short articles may be suitable for inclusion in Wiktionary</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="References" data-mw-thread-id="h-References"><span data-mw-comment-start="" 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Hartmann, Gregory James</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ancestry Magazine, Nov–Dec 1999, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NTsY_7IA0yQC&pg=PA43">p 43</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="External_links" data-mw-thread-id="h-External_links"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-External_links"></span>External links<span data-mw-comment-end="h-External_links"></span></h2></div> <ul><li><a href="http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/ShallowPage" class="extiw" title="meatball:ShallowPage">"Shallow Page" on the MeatballWiki</a></li> <li>There is one exception to this rule – the <a href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/" class="extiw" title="als:">Alemannic German Wikipedia</a> is both an encyclopedia and a dictionary.</li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236075235">.mw-parser-output .navbox{box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;width:100%;clear:both;font-size:88%;text-align:center;padding:1px;margin:1em auto 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbox{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox,.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox-styles+.navbox{margin-top:-1px}.mw-parser-output .navbox-inner,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-title,.mw-parser-output .navbox-abovebelow{padding:0.25em 1em;line-height:1.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .navbox-group{white-space:nowrap;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .navbox,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup{background-color:#fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-list{line-height:1.5em;border-color:#fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-list-with-group{text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid}.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-group,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-image,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-list{border-top:2px solid #fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-title{background-color:#ccf}.mw-parser-output .navbox-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-title{background-color:#ddf}.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-abovebelow{background-color:#e6e6ff}.mw-parser-output .navbox-even{background-color:#f7f7f7}.mw-parser-output .navbox-odd{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td dl,.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td ol,.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td ul,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist ul{padding:0.125em 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbar{display:block;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .navbox-title .navbar{float:left;text-align:left;margin-right:0.5em}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .navbox-image img{max-width:none!important}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .navbox{display:none!important}}</style></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Wikipedia_principles45" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231" /><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Wikipedia_principles" title="Template:Wikipedia principles"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Wikipedia_principles" title="Template talk:Wikipedia principles"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Wikipedia_principles" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Wikipedia principles"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Wikipedia_principles45" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Principles" title="Wikipedia:Principles">Wikipedia principles</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;background:transparent;color:inherit;"><div style="padding:0px"><table class="navbox-columns-table" style="border-spacing: 0px; 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font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#118811;"><abbr title="Policies"><span style="font-size:120%">P</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">Verifiability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research" title="Wikipedia:No original research">No original research</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view">Neutral point of view</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not" title="Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not">What Wikipedia is not</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons" title="Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons">Biographies of living persons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights" title="Wikipedia:Copyrights">Copyright</a> (<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_violations" title="Wikipedia:Copyright violations">Copyright violations</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_use_policy" title="Wikipedia:Image use policy">Image use</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_titles" title="Wikipedia:Article titles">Article titles</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#0077A4;"><abbr title="Guidelines"><span style="font-size:120%">G</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability" title="Wikipedia:Notability">Notability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Autobiography" title="Wikipedia:Autobiography">Autobiography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">Citing sources</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources">Reliable sources</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources_(medicine)" title="Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine)">Medicine</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Do_not_include_the_full_text_of_lengthy_primary_sources" title="Wikipedia:Do not include the full text of lengthy primary sources">Do not include copies of lengthy primary sources</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Plagiarism" title="Wikipedia:Plagiarism">Plagiarism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Do_not_create_hoaxes" title="Wikipedia:Do not create hoaxes">Don't create hoaxes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Fringe_theories" title="Wikipedia:Fringe theories">Fringe theories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Patent_nonsense" title="Wikipedia:Patent nonsense">Patent nonsense</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links" title="Wikipedia:External links">External links</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:6.9em;text-align:left;">Conduct <span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="describes how editors can successfully collaborate and what behavior is acceptable">(?)</span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#118811;"><abbr title="Policies"><span style="font-size:120%">P</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Civility" title="Wikipedia:Civility">Civility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus" title="Wikipedia:Consensus">Consensus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Harassment" title="Wikipedia:Harassment">Harassment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism" title="Wikipedia:Vandalism">Vandalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules" title="Wikipedia:Ignore all rules">Ignore all rules</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_personal_attacks" title="Wikipedia:No personal attacks">No personal attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Ownership_of_content" title="Wikipedia:Ownership of content">Ownership of content</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_warring" title="Wikipedia:Edit warring">Edit warring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution" title="Wikipedia:Dispute resolution">Dispute resolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry" title="Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry">Sockpuppetry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_legal_threats" title="Wikipedia:No legal threats">No legal threats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Child_protection" title="Wikipedia:Child protection">Child protection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Paid-contribution_disclosure" title="Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure">Paid-contribution disclosure</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#0077A4;"><abbr title="Guidelines"><span style="font-size:120%">G</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith" title="Wikipedia:Assume good faith">Assume good faith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest" title="Wikipedia:Conflict of interest">Conflict of interest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Disruptive_editing" title="Wikipedia:Disruptive editing">Disruptive editing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Do_not_disrupt_Wikipedia_to_illustrate_a_point" title="Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point">Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Etiquette" title="Wikipedia:Etiquette">Etiquette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Gaming_the_system" title="Wikipedia:Gaming the system">Gaming the system</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_do_not_bite_the_newcomers" title="Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers">Please do not bite the newcomers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Courtesy_vanishing" title="Wikipedia:Courtesy vanishing">Courtesy vanishing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Responding_to_threats_of_harm" title="Wikipedia:Responding to threats of harm">Responding to threats of harm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Talk_page_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines">Talk page guidelines</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Signatures" title="Wikipedia:Signatures">Signatures</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:6.9em;text-align:left;">Deletion <span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="explains the processes by which pages, revisions, and logs may be deleted">(?)</span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="P529" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#118811;"><abbr title="Policies"><span style="font-size:120%">P</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_policy" title="Wikipedia:Deletion policy">Deletion policy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Proposed deletion">Proposed deletion</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_deletion_of_biographies_of_living_people" title="Wikipedia:Proposed deletion of biographies of living people">Biographies</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Speedy_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Speedy deletion">Speedy deletion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Attack_page" title="Wikipedia:Attack page">Attack page</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Oversight" title="Wikipedia:Oversight">Oversight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Revision_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Revision deletion">Revision deletion</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:6.9em;text-align:left;">Enforcement <span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="explains the various means by which standards may be enforced">(?)</span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="P350" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#118811;"><abbr title="Policies"><span style="font-size:120%">P</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators" title="Wikipedia:Administrators">Administrators</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Banning_policy" title="Wikipedia:Banning policy">Banning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_policy" title="Wikipedia:Blocking policy">Blocking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Protection_policy" title="Wikipedia:Protection policy">Page protection</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:6.9em;text-align:left;">Editing <span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="documents the various protocols about style and grouping">(?)</span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#118811;"><abbr title="Policies"><span style="font-size:120%">P</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_policy" title="Wikipedia:Editing policy">Editing policy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#0077A4;"><abbr title="Guidelines"><span style="font-size:120%">G</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_size" title="Wikipedia:Article size">Article size</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Summary_style" title="Wikipedia:Summary style">Summary style</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_bold" title="Wikipedia:Be bold">Be bold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation" title="Wikipedia:Disambiguation">Disambiguation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Hatnote" title="Wikipedia:Hatnote">Hatnotes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Broad-concept_article" title="Wikipedia:Broad-concept article">Broad-concept article</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Make_technical_articles_understandable" title="Wikipedia:Make technical articles understandable">Understandability</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;">Style</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style">Manual of Style</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Contents" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Contents">Contents</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Accessibility" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility">Accessibility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers">Dates and numbers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Images" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images">Images</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Layout" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout">Layout</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Lead_section" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section">Lead section</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Linking" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking">Linking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Lists" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists">Lists</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; 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font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#0077A4;"><abbr title="Guidelines"><span style="font-size:120%">G</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Project_namespace" title="Wikipedia:Project namespace">Project namespace</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Guide" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide">WikiProjects</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_pages" title="Wikipedia:User pages">User pages</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Userboxes" title="Wikipedia:Userboxes">User boxes</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Subpages" title="Wikipedia:Subpages">Subpages</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:6.9em;text-align:left;;background: #dddddd;color:inherit;"><abbr title="Wikimedia Foundation">WMF</abbr> <abbr title="official policies and statements of the Wikimedia Foundation">(?)</abbr></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="P512" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; 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