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Data download: see Technical (hardware and software) (for individual pages, see Exporting (an article))
Database query: see Query (database)
Dates: (see also Current events)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (numbers and dates)
- m:Dynamic dates
- Help:Calendar - code to include the image of a small '"calendar page", including a time display, on a Wikipedia page
Decision-making: see Consensus and voting, Wikimedia Foundation
Deletion: (see also Categories for deletion of categories, Redirect for deletion of redirects, etc.) (for articles, see "Deletion of articles", immediately below)
- Wikipedia:Deletion process (WP:DP)
- Template:deletiontools (for one's user page)
- Wikipedia:Levels of deletion
- Wikipedia:Deletion debates
- Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators (WP:DGFA) (guideline)
- User:Mailer diablo/The Mailer Diablo Deletion Project
- Wikipedia:AFD 100 days - June-September 2005 computer-assisted evaluation
Deletion of articles:
- Policies, general criteria, and examples: (see also Notability)
- Alternatives to deletion:
  - Move to a sister project such as Wiktionary or Wikisource - see Transwiki
  - Wikipedia:Userfication - if article has potential for Wikipedia
  - Wikipedia:Merge
  - Wikipedia:Redirect
- Types of deletion:
  - Blanking a page: see Wikipedia:No blank pages (guideline) (for articles)
  - Speedy deletion:
  - Prod:
    - Wikipedia:Proposed deletion (WP:PROD) (policy) - five-day (countdown) process (no polling of opinions)
    - User:DumbBOT/ProdSummary - articles currently with "prod" templates
    - Category:Proposed deletion
  - Formal deletion process (AfD discussions):
    - Wikipedia:Guide to deletion - the process
    - Wikipedia:AfD categories
    - Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting - AfDs organized into topical lists
    - User:Jayden54Bot - - bot that notifies creator of article that it has been submitted to AfD process (approved January 2007)
    - Current AfDs:
      - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (AfD) - top page for listing AfDs
      - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion#Current discussions - articles proposed for deletion in the past five or so days via the AfD process
    - Tools for participation:
      - Wikipedia:Quicker access to votes for deletion - javascript bookmarklet
      - Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/AutoAFD.js - opens three windows to make process easier (for experienced AfDers?)
      - User:Eagle 101/WikiDiscussion Manager - a Windows-based application that assists editors with participation in AfD discussions
    - Arguments and expectations:
      - User:Mangojuice/Slave (essay) - don't ask administrators to do large amounts of work under the guise of a deletion debate
      - Wikipedia:Help, my article got nominated for deletion! (essay)
      - Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (essay)
      - Wikipedia:Pokémon test (essay) - another argument to avoid
    - Outcomes:
    - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes
    - Wikipedia:Speedy keep - closing a discussion early and keeping the article
- After decision is made to delete article:
  - Wikipedia:Protected deleted pages (WP:SALT) - "padlocking" or "salting the earth" to protect against further re-creation of deleted pages without prior admin approval
  - Wikipedia:Courtesy blanking (WP:CBLANK) (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Why was my page deleted?
  - Discussions (if deletion was by AfD) can be found at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Name of Article, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Name of Article (second nomination), etc. (alternatively, use Special:Prefixindex, in the Wikipedia space, searching on "Articles for deletion/Firstlettersofarticlename")
  - Special:Log/delete - deletion log, searchable by article name or user who created the article
  - Wikipedia:Deletion review - appeals to restore pages that have been deleted or delete pages which were closed as 'keep' in an AfD discussion (WP:DRV)
  - Wikipedia:Viewing and restoring deleted pages by sysops
  - Getting a copy of a deleted article put into one's user space, where it can be improved before going into the article namespace again:
    - Wikipedia:Deletion review#Content review
    - Category:Wikipedia administrators who will provide copies of deleted articles
Deletionist: see m:Deletionism
Diagrams: see Graphics
Dictionary:
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary (policy)
- For wiktionary, see wikt:Main Page
- Another alternative: Urban Dictionary
Directories:
- Wikipedia:Department directory
- Wikipedia:Quick directory
- Special:Specialpages - a list of special pages that are automatically generated and cannot be edited
- User:Thunderhead/Bookmarks
- Wikipedia:TourBusStop
- "Toolsets":
  - Wikipedia:Starter toolset
  - Category:Wikipedia users' toolsets
- For readers more than for editors, but still a userful:
  - Wikipedia:Contents
  - Lists of basic topics
Disambigution (see also Moving a page, Naming an article)
- Information about:
  - Wikipedia:Disambiguation (WP:DAB) (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)
  - Wikipedia:Disambiguation and abbreviations
  - Special:Disambiguations - pages that link to a disambiguation page and (probably) should link to an article instead
  - Wikipedia:Hatnotes - short notes placed at the top of an article before the primary topic, generally to provide disambiguation of closely related terms or to summarize a topic, and explain its boundaries
- List of pages:
  - Wikipedia:Links to (disambiguation) pages - list of page with "(disambiguation)" in title
  - Wikipedia:Links to disambiguating pages - list of pages marked as disambiguation pages
  - Wikipedia:Multiple-place names - index of disambiguation pages involving places
- Problems:
  - Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links
  - Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages maintenance
- Templates:
  - Category:Disambiguation and redirection templates
  - Wikipedia:Otheruses templates (example usage)
  - Template:Disambig-guidance - hidden text that can be added to disambiguation pages
- Other:
  - Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation
  - Disambiguation pages are, in most cases, treated like article pages. This is a bug, not a feature.
- Specialized automated tools:
  - User:Commander Keane bot - automated bot for disambiguation
  - User:RussBot - automated bot for disambiguation
  - Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/fixer - downloadable program (pseudo-browser)
Disclaimers:
Disputes: see: Content disputes, Personal attacks
Disruptive editing (see also Content dispute, Personal attacks)
- Wikipedia:Disruptive editing
- Wikipedia:Disruption - essay
- Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Harassment (WP:HAR) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct - requires two or more editors to have posted warnings about another editor
Divisiveness: Wikipedia:Divisiveness
Download of data (database): see Technical (hardware and software) (for individual pages, see Exporting (an article))

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Obscenity: see Censorship
One-revert rule: Wikipedia:One-revert rule
"Office" actions - see Wikimedia Foundation
Organizations:
- As subjects of articles: see Companies and organizations
- Within Wikipedia: (see also Wikipedia as community)
  - Category:Wikipedian organizations
  - Wikipedia:Concordia - inactive as of December 2006; efforts to revive in early 2007
  - Wikipedia:Esperanza - defunct as of January 2007
Original research: see Sources
Overcategorization: Wikipedia:Overcategorization (guideline)- what types of categories are not good ones to create (see also Categories)
Ownership: Wikipedia:Ownership of articles (WP:OWN) - about editors who don't like to have their words edited by others (for ownership of Wikipedia, see Wikimedia Foundation)

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Quick index: Wikipedia:Quick index (see also Index of pages)
Quality of articles: (see also Featured article, Good article, Maintenance, Style (articles), Vital articles)
- Guidelines and guidance:
  - Wikipedia:Article development
  - Wikipedia:Simplified Ruleset - includes three guidelines for getting to high-quality articles
  - Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles (Manual of Style)
  - Wikipedia:Guide to improving articles
  - Wikipedia:The perfect article
  - User:AndyZ/Suggestions
- Reviews and assistance:
  - Wikipedia:Requests for expansion
  - Wikipedia:Requests for feedback - a place to get feedback for new articles or for a major edit to an existing article
  - Wikipedia:Peer review - exposes articles to closer scrutiny from a broader group of editors
  - User:AndyZ/peerreviewer - javascript review
  - User talk:Outriggr/metadatatest.js - Javascript tool; allows assessment of an article from the article page (beta as of April 2007)
- Assessment standards:
  - Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Assessment FAQ (guideline)
  - Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment - an assessment scale in use to give "grades" to articles
  - mw:Extension:FlaggedRevs - planned feature; allows for a reviewer class of users to rate articles
- Other:
  - Wikipedia:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards
  - Wikipedia:100,000 feature-quality articles - essay, includes some specific steps
Quality of editing, improving: see Learning
Queries (database) (see also Technical (hardware and software))
- Wikipedia:Database queries
- m:Requests for queries - SQL queries against wiki projects, including Wikipedia
- dbpedia.org - querying Wikipedia like a database
- Query Wikipedia - semantic database extracted from Wikipedia that can be queried
- API to query data directly from the MediaWiki servers
Questions: (see also Help, Learning)
- Wikipedia:Questions
- Specific places to ask questions:
  - Wikipedia:Help desk
  - Wikipedia:New contributors' help page
  - Wikipedia:Media copyright questions
  - Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)
  - Wikipedia:Village pump (assistance)
  - Wikipedia:Reach out - a place to post about one's troubles as a Wikipedia editor
  - Wikipedia:Reference desk - a librarian service; not for help with editing
  - On a user talk page, via Template:Helpme

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Undue weight: see Wikipedia:Neutral Point of View (called "space and balance" in the NPOV tutorial)
Ukrainian: Wikipedia:Romanization of Ukrainian (Manual of Style)
URLs: (see also Sources, Wikilinks)
- Wikipedia:URLs
- Help:URL
- Wikipedia:Internal query string links - how to avoid showing the external link graphic for a URL for a Wikipedia page where the URL has a query string
User account and username: (see also Logging in, Privacy, Signature, User pages)
- Starting out:
  - Wikipedia:Why create an account?
  - Wikipedia:Username policy (WP:U)
  - Wikipedia:Tutorial (Registration)
  - Special:Userlogin - to request an account
  - Wikipedia:Request an account - for those who wish to create an account but cannot read the CAPTCHA image that is part of the standard registration process as of February 2007.
- If another user has a (possibly) inappropriate name:
  - Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names
  - Template:UsernameBlocked
- Changing usernames:
  - Special:Listusers - check if a username exists
  - Wikipedia:Changing username
  - Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations - changing a user name to another registered but "unused" (no edits) username
  - Wikipedia:Copying watchlist to new username
- Single signon:
  - m:Help:Unified login and m:Single signon transition - moving to a single username (signon) across all Wikipedia domains
  - Single-user login conflict search
  - Status of feature, at bugzilla
- Multiple accounts:
  - Wikipedia:Sock puppet
  - Wikipedia:Doppelganger account (guideline) - accounts created preemptively to block vandals
- Other:
  - Wikipedia:User access levels
  - Help:User contributions
  - Wikipedia:Single purpose account - acceptable, with cautions
Userboxes (see also User pages)
- Wikipedia:Userboxes
- Wikipedia:Userbox migration - userification of userboxes
- Wikipedia:Userbox Maker
User interface: see Customization
User pages: (see also Galleries, User account and username, Userboxes)
- Wikipedia:User page (WP:USER) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Subpages (guideline)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User Page Help - design help
- User:The Transhumanist/User page design
- Wikipedia:Userfication - moving an article from Wikipedia mainspace to a user subpage, usually because of failure to establish notability of the subject of the article
- Wikipedia:Editor activity indicator - "in", "out", etc.
- Categories:
  - Wikipedia:User categorisation
  - Wikipedia:User categories for discussion
User scripts:
Userification: Wikipedia:Userfication - moving a non-notable or very problematical article to user space as an alternative to deletion

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Warnings:
- Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace - discussion and grid of warnings
- Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace#Grid of warnings
- Wikipedia:Don't template the regulars - essay
- Wikipedia:WikiProject user warnings
- Template:WarningsSmall (for one's user page)
- Category:User warning templates
- Removal is acceptable:
  - Wikipedia:Removing warnings - failed proposal
  - [[Wikipedia talk:User page#Blanking one's own talk page
  - [[Wikipedia talk:User page#User Talk
Watchlist (see also Customization, Recent changes)
- Help:Watching pages - about watchlists
- Wikipedia:Added or removed characters - changing whether the watchlist shows number of characters added or deleted by each edit
- Personalized watchlists: Special:Recentchangeslinked/User:This is just a test lists all changes to any page mentioned in the User:This is just a test page, for example
- User:Lupin/Monitor my watchlist - realtime feed of pages on a watch - requires User:Lupin/Anti-vandal tool (a user script)
- User:Stevage/filterwatchlist.user.js - Removes various namespaces from watchlist display
- User:Crazycomputers/WatchlistBot - Jabber users can have a separate watchlist that is updated in real time via IM
- Wikipedia:Copying watchlist to new username
- MediaWiki:Watcheditlist/Check all - to clear most or all of a checklist
Web content as the subject of an article: Wikipedia:Notability (web) (guideline) - includes webcomics, podcasts, blogs, Internet forums, online magazines and other media, web portals and web hosts
Weight (undue): see Wikipedia:Neutral Point of View
Welcome: see New editors
What: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not - articles and content that are NOT appropriate for Wikipedia
Wikibreaks:
- Wikipedia:Wikibreak - article
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/WikiBreak Enforcer - user script
Wikilawyering: Wikipedia:WikiLawyering
Wikilinks: (see also Red links)
- Wikipedia:How to edit a page#Links and URLs
- Wikipedia:Tutorial (Wikipedia links)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links)
- Wikipedia:Build the web - guideline
- Help:Contents/Links
- Help:Link
- Wikipedia:Self link
- Help:Self link
- Help:What links here - identifying wikilinks that point to an existing page
- Technical:
  - Wikipedia:Canonicalization - how wikilinks work (technical)
  - Wikipedia:Template messages/Links
  - Wikipedia:Internal query string links - how to make URL for a Wikipedia page, where the URL has a query string, look like a wikilink
- Piped links:
  - Wikipedia:Piped link - changing the visible text for a wikilink
  - Help:Piped link
  - Help:Pipe trick - avoiding some typing when shortening a page title that has a colon or parentheses in it
- Problems:
  - Wikipedia:Only make links that are relevant to the context - don't overlink
  - Special:Lonelypages - pages with no incoming wikilinks ("orphan" pages)
- Other:
  - Special:Mostlinked - pages with the most links pointing to them
Wikimedia Foundation - the parent organization of Wikipedia and numerous other collaborative projects such as Wiktionary and Wikibooks
- foundation:Home
- Wikimedia Foundation - Wikipedia article
- Wikipedia:Projects of Wikimedia
- Wikipedia:Sister projects (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:Office Actions (WP:OFFICE) (policy) - immediate editing actions to deal with potential legal issues
- Open ticket request system (OTRS):
  - Wikipedia:OTRS
  - m:Info-en mission - incoming emails in English
  - m:OTRS
  - m:OTRS/Info-en recruiting - information on volunteering ("experienced admins" only, in theory)
  - m:OTRS/volunteering - page for volunteers to list their names
- m:Wikimedia Embassy - central place for resources to help with cross-language issues that affect everyone
Wikipedia 1.0: (see also Stable versions)
- Wikipedia:Pushing to 1.0
- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team
Wikipedia as a community (see also News (about Wikipedia), Organizations, WikiProjects)
- Participants:
- Philosophies:
  - m:Conflicting Wikipedia philosophies
  - User:Raul654/Raul's laws
- Forums:
  - Wikipedia:Community Portal - "the central place to find out what's happening on Wikipedia."
  - Wikipedia:Village pump - discussion of technical issues, policies, and operations of Wikipedia
- Academic studies:
  - Wikipedia:Wikipedia in academic studies
  - "Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia", 2007 research paper based on October 2005 database
- Other:
  - Wikipedia:Meetup - face-to-face meetings of Wikipedians in cities around the world
  - Wikipedia:Wikipediology - a WikiProject for "a serious study of the dynamics and problems of the Wikipedia community and providing resources about the Wikipedia community that currently do not exist" (inactive)
WikiProjects:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject - projects within the English Wikimedia (community) project
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Council - unoffical group to encourage/assist with wikiprojects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Turnkey Project
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide (guideline) - best practices
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory - main directory of WikiProjects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject reform - proposal (as of March 2007)
- User:WatchlistBot - tagging pages to create project watchlists
- User:AlexNewArtBot - bot to identify new articles related to a WikiProject
- Template:WikiProject
- Category:WikiProjects - pages categorized as WikiProjects
Wikipedia basic information:
- Wikipedia - what it is, history, hardware and software, funding, authorship and management, and much more
- Wikipedia:About
- Wikipedia:10 things you did not know about Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is so great - essay
Wikiquette: (see also Personal attacks)
- Wikipedia:Etiquette (WP:EQ) (guideline) - how to work with others on Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts
Wisdom: Wikipedia:Words of wisdom
Words and wording: (see also 'Spelling
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (abbreviations)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (abbreviations) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Avoid peacock terms (Manual of Style) - show, don't tell
- Wikipedia:Explain jargon
- Wikipedia:Avoid neologisms (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Proper names
- Wikipedia:Rhetoric (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:Avoid self-references - "this website", "this Wikipedia article" (okay on talk pages, but not articles)
- Wikipedia:Technical terms and definitions
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (trademarks)
- Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words (WP:AWW) - "critics/some (many) people/research says/feel/believe ..."
- Wikipedia:Words to avoid - "claim", "however", "extremist", "linked", "cult", etc.

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