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Essays about Misplaced Pages

Essays on building, editing, and deleting content

Philosophy	Articles must be written Avoid vague introductions Be a reliable source Cohesion Concede lost arguments 8 simple rules for editing our encyclopedia Explanationism Here to build an encyclopedia Not editing because of Misplaced Pages restriction Paradoxes Paraphrasing POV and OR from editors, sources, and fields Product, process, policy Purpose Ten Simple Rules for Editing Misplaced Pages Tendentious editing The role of policies in collaborative anarchy The rules are principles Trifecta Misplaced Pages in brief Misplaced Pages is an encyclopedia Misplaced Pages is a community
Construction	100K featured articles A navbox on every page Acronym Overkill Advanced article editing Advanced table formatting Advanced template coding Advanced text formatting Alternatives to the "Expand" template Amnesia test An unfinished house is a real problem Autosizing images Avoid mission statements Bare URLs Be neutral in form Beef up that first revision Cherrypicking Children's lit, adult new readers, & large print books Citation overkill Concept cloud Creating controversial content Dictionaries as sources Don't demolish the house while it's still being built Don't hope the house will build itself Don't leave giant breaks between sections Don't panic Editing on mobile devices Editors are not mindreaders Encourage the newcomers Endorsements (commercial) Featured articles may have problems Give an article a chance How to run an edit-a-thon Inaccuracies in Misplaced Pages namespace Inaccuracy Link rot Minors and persons judged incompetent "Murder of" articles Not every story/event/disaster needs a biography Not everything needs a navbox Not everything needs a WikiProject Nothing is in stone Permastub Potential, not just current state Put a little effort into it Pruning article revisions Publicists Restoring part of a reverted edit Robotic editing Sham consensus Temporary versions of articles The world will not end tomorrow There is a deadline There is no deadline The deadline is now What an article should not include Misplaced Pages is a volunteer service Misplaced Pages is a work in progress Misplaced Pages is not being written in an organized fashion Write the article first Writing better articles
Deletion	Adjectives in your recommendations AfD is not a war zone Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions Arguments to avoid in deletion reviews Arguments to avoid in image deletion discussions Arguments to make in deletion discussions Avoid repeated arguments Before commenting in a deletion discussion Content removal Delete the junk Does deletion help Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument Follow the leader How to save an article proposed for deletion I just don't like it Immunity Liar Liar Pants on Fire Nothing Overzealous deletion Relisting can be abusive Misplaced Pages is not Whack-A-Mole Why was the page I created deleted? What to do if your article gets tagged for speedy deletion

Essays on civility

The basics	How to be civil Compromise Accepting other users Enjoy yourself Thank you Apologizing Truce Divisiveness Encouraging newcomers Relationships with academic editors High-functioning autism and Aspergers editors
Philosophy	An uncivil environment is a poor environment Be the glue Civility warnings Deletion as revenge Failure Forgive and forget It's not the end of the world Nobody cares Most people who disagree with you on content are not vandals Shadowless Fists of Death! Staying cool when the editing gets hot The grey zone The last word The rules of polite discourse There is no common sense Misplaced Pages is not about winning Writing for the opponent
Dos	Assume good faith Assume the assumption of good faith Assume no clue Assume clue Avoid personal remarks Avoid the word "vandal" Call a spade a spade Candor Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass Deny recognition Encourage full discussions Get over it How to lose Just drop it Mind your own business Discussing cruft Keep it down to earth
Don'ts	Don't give a fuck Don't be inconsiderate Don't call a spade a spade Don't call the kettle black Don't take the bait Do not insult the vandals Don't come down like a ton of bricks Don't be ashamed Don't drink the consensus Kool-Aid Don't spite your face Don't call things cruft No angry mastodons No, you can't have a pony Don't be an ostrich Don't eat the troll's food Don't template the regulars Don't be a fanatic Don't accuse someone of a personal attack for accusing of a personal attack Don't fight fire with fire Don't be prejudiced Don't remind others of past misdeeds Don't throw your toys out of the pram Don't help too much Don't misuse the Current Events template Passive Aggressive
Wiki relations	WikiLove WikiHate WikiCrime WikiBullying WikiPeace WikiLawyering WikiHarassment POV Railroading

Essays on notability

Notability

Humorous essays

Humorous material

Inactive historical references

Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Unblock Emails

About essays

Related subjects: About policies and guidelines • Policies • Guidelines

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Usage

Opening a single subsection

How to manage this template's collapsible groups/sections option

This template includes collapsible groups/sections. When it first appears, one of these groups/sections may be set to be visible ("expanded") while the others remain hidden ("collapsed") apart from their titlebars. To achieve this, include the parameter |name where name is one of the following words that identify the groups/sections (omit any speech or quotation marks):
building civility notability humour

Example of the syntax to show (uncollapse) any of the subsections:

{{Misplaced Pages essays|building}}
{{Misplaced Pages essays|civility}}
{{Misplaced Pages essays|notability}}
{{Misplaced Pages essays|humour}}

For example, {{Misplaced Pages essays|notability}} will produce:

Essays about Misplaced Pages

Essays on building, editing, and deleting content

Philosophy	Articles must be written Avoid vague introductions Be a reliable source Cohesion Concede lost arguments 8 simple rules for editing our encyclopedia Explanationism Here to build an encyclopedia Not editing because of Misplaced Pages restriction Paradoxes Paraphrasing POV and OR from editors, sources, and fields Product, process, policy Purpose Ten Simple Rules for Editing Misplaced Pages Tendentious editing The role of policies in collaborative anarchy The rules are principles Trifecta Misplaced Pages in brief Misplaced Pages is an encyclopedia Misplaced Pages is a community
Construction	100K featured articles A navbox on every page Acronym Overkill Advanced article editing Advanced table formatting Advanced template coding Advanced text formatting Alternatives to the "Expand" template Amnesia test An unfinished house is a real problem Autosizing images Avoid mission statements Bare URLs Be neutral in form Beef up that first revision Cherrypicking Children's lit, adult new readers, & large print books Citation overkill Concept cloud Creating controversial content Dictionaries as sources Don't demolish the house while it's still being built Don't hope the house will build itself Don't leave giant breaks between sections Don't panic Editing on mobile devices Editors are not mindreaders Encourage the newcomers Endorsements (commercial) Featured articles may have problems Give an article a chance How to run an edit-a-thon Inaccuracies in Misplaced Pages namespace Inaccuracy Link rot Minors and persons judged incompetent "Murder of" articles Not every story/event/disaster needs a biography Not everything needs a navbox Not everything needs a WikiProject Nothing is in stone Permastub Potential, not just current state Put a little effort into it Pruning article revisions Publicists Restoring part of a reverted edit Robotic editing Sham consensus Temporary versions of articles The world will not end tomorrow There is a deadline There is no deadline The deadline is now What an article should not include Misplaced Pages is a volunteer service Misplaced Pages is a work in progress Misplaced Pages is not being written in an organized fashion Write the article first Writing better articles
Deletion	Adjectives in your recommendations AfD is not a war zone Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions Arguments to avoid in deletion reviews Arguments to avoid in image deletion discussions Arguments to make in deletion discussions Avoid repeated arguments Before commenting in a deletion discussion Content removal Delete the junk Does deletion help Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument Follow the leader How to save an article proposed for deletion I just don't like it Immunity Liar Liar Pants on Fire Nothing Overzealous deletion Relisting can be abusive Misplaced Pages is not Whack-A-Mole Why was the page I created deleted? What to do if your article gets tagged for speedy deletion

Essays on civility

The basics	How to be civil Compromise Accepting other users Enjoy yourself Thank you Apologizing Truce Divisiveness Encouraging newcomers Relationships with academic editors High-functioning autism and Aspergers editors
Philosophy	An uncivil environment is a poor environment Be the glue Civility warnings Deletion as revenge Failure Forgive and forget It's not the end of the world Nobody cares Most people who disagree with you on content are not vandals Shadowless Fists of Death! Staying cool when the editing gets hot The grey zone The last word The rules of polite discourse There is no common sense Misplaced Pages is not about winning Writing for the opponent
Dos	Assume good faith Assume the assumption of good faith Assume no clue Assume clue Avoid personal remarks Avoid the word "vandal" Call a spade a spade Candor Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass Deny recognition Encourage full discussions Get over it How to lose Just drop it Mind your own business Discussing cruft Keep it down to earth
Don'ts	Don't give a fuck Don't be inconsiderate Don't call a spade a spade Don't call the kettle black Don't take the bait Do not insult the vandals Don't come down like a ton of bricks Don't be ashamed Don't drink the consensus Kool-Aid Don't spite your face Don't call things cruft No angry mastodons No, you can't have a pony Don't be an ostrich Don't eat the troll's food Don't template the regulars Don't be a fanatic Don't accuse someone of a personal attack for accusing of a personal attack Don't fight fire with fire Don't be prejudiced Don't remind others of past misdeeds Don't throw your toys out of the pram Don't help too much Don't misuse the Current Events template Passive Aggressive
Wiki relations	WikiLove WikiHate WikiCrime WikiBullying WikiPeace WikiLawyering WikiHarassment POV Railroading

Essays on notability

Notability

Humorous essays

Humorous material

Inactive historical references

Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Unblock Emails

About essays

Related subjects: About policies and guidelines • Policies • Guidelines

Opening multiple subsections

To show multiple, or all of, the subsections at once, use state_n, e.g.:

{{Misplaced Pages essays|state=expanded|state1=collapsed|state2=collapsed|state3=expanded|state4=collapsed|state5=collapsed}}

Parameter state controls the entire template; state1 controls the building essays; state2 controls the civility essays; state3 controls the notability essays; state4 controls the humour essays; state5 controls the 'About essays' section. These can be set to expanded or collapsed. The above example will produce this:

Essays about Misplaced Pages

Essays on building, editing, and deleting content

Philosophy	Articles must be written Avoid vague introductions Be a reliable source Cohesion Concede lost arguments 8 simple rules for editing our encyclopedia Explanationism Here to build an encyclopedia Not editing because of Misplaced Pages restriction Paradoxes Paraphrasing POV and OR from editors, sources, and fields Product, process, policy Purpose Ten Simple Rules for Editing Misplaced Pages Tendentious editing The role of policies in collaborative anarchy The rules are principles Trifecta Misplaced Pages in brief Misplaced Pages is an encyclopedia Misplaced Pages is a community
Construction	100K featured articles A navbox on every page Acronym Overkill Advanced article editing Advanced table formatting Advanced template coding Advanced text formatting Alternatives to the "Expand" template Amnesia test An unfinished house is a real problem Autosizing images Avoid mission statements Bare URLs Be neutral in form Beef up that first revision Cherrypicking Children's lit, adult new readers, & large print books Citation overkill Concept cloud Creating controversial content Dictionaries as sources Don't demolish the house while it's still being built Don't hope the house will build itself Don't leave giant breaks between sections Don't panic Editing on mobile devices Editors are not mindreaders Encourage the newcomers Endorsements (commercial) Featured articles may have problems Give an article a chance How to run an edit-a-thon Inaccuracies in Misplaced Pages namespace Inaccuracy Link rot Minors and persons judged incompetent "Murder of" articles Not every story/event/disaster needs a biography Not everything needs a navbox Not everything needs a WikiProject Nothing is in stone Permastub Potential, not just current state Put a little effort into it Pruning article revisions Publicists Restoring part of a reverted edit Robotic editing Sham consensus Temporary versions of articles The world will not end tomorrow There is a deadline There is no deadline The deadline is now What an article should not include Misplaced Pages is a volunteer service Misplaced Pages is a work in progress Misplaced Pages is not being written in an organized fashion Write the article first Writing better articles
Deletion	Adjectives in your recommendations AfD is not a war zone Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions Arguments to avoid in deletion reviews Arguments to avoid in image deletion discussions Arguments to make in deletion discussions Avoid repeated arguments Before commenting in a deletion discussion Content removal Delete the junk Does deletion help Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument Follow the leader How to save an article proposed for deletion I just don't like it Immunity Liar Liar Pants on Fire Nothing Overzealous deletion Relisting can be abusive Misplaced Pages is not Whack-A-Mole Why was the page I created deleted? What to do if your article gets tagged for speedy deletion

Essays on civility

The basics	How to be civil Compromise Accepting other users Enjoy yourself Thank you Apologizing Truce Divisiveness Encouraging newcomers Relationships with academic editors High-functioning autism and Aspergers editors
Philosophy	An uncivil environment is a poor environment Be the glue Civility warnings Deletion as revenge Failure Forgive and forget It's not the end of the world Nobody cares Most people who disagree with you on content are not vandals Shadowless Fists of Death! Staying cool when the editing gets hot The grey zone The last word The rules of polite discourse There is no common sense Misplaced Pages is not about winning Writing for the opponent
Dos	Assume good faith Assume the assumption of good faith Assume no clue Assume clue Avoid personal remarks Avoid the word "vandal" Call a spade a spade Candor Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass Deny recognition Encourage full discussions Get over it How to lose Just drop it Mind your own business Discussing cruft Keep it down to earth
Don'ts	Don't give a fuck Don't be inconsiderate Don't call a spade a spade Don't call the kettle black Don't take the bait Do not insult the vandals Don't come down like a ton of bricks Don't be ashamed Don't drink the consensus Kool-Aid Don't spite your face Don't call things cruft No angry mastodons No, you can't have a pony Don't be an ostrich Don't eat the troll's food Don't template the regulars Don't be a fanatic Don't accuse someone of a personal attack for accusing of a personal attack Don't fight fire with fire Don't be prejudiced Don't remind others of past misdeeds Don't throw your toys out of the pram Don't help too much Don't misuse the Current Events template Passive Aggressive
Wiki relations	WikiLove WikiHate WikiCrime WikiBullying WikiPeace WikiLawyering WikiHarassment POV Railroading

Essays on notability

Notability

Humorous essays

Humorous material

Inactive historical references

Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Unblock Emails

About essays

Related subjects: About policies and guidelines • Policies • Guidelines

Background

This template combines the content of the 4 separate templates into one location, for easier watchlisting / updating / organizing / non-duplication / discovery:

It was initially suggested and developed at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Essays § Navbox separation or cohesion.

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Revision as of 17:58, 13 October 2013

Usage

Opening a single subsection

Opening multiple subsections

Background

See also