Wikipedia:Eight simple rules for editing our encyclopedia

Even though there is a huge number of policy and guideline pages, you can get a good sense of how to edit Wikipedia by following these eight simple rules.

To some, Wikipedia can seem very bureaucratic. There are hundreds of policy and guideline pages, a virtual "alphabet soup" such as WP:V, WP:OR, WP:NPOV, WP:RS, WP:THIS, and WP:THAT (not to mention over 1600 like this one). However, if you start out by following these eight simple rules, the rest should come naturally.


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