Wikipedia:Overlapping policies and guidelines

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Wikipedia has a lot of policies and guidelines. Several of these overlap or are partially or wholly redundant with one another; this page serves as a list of those. It may be desirable to merge some of the pages listed here, although the community has rather strongly objected to merging policies in the past. This page lists suggested mergings, which are then discussed on the talk page here or the talk page of the involved pages.

You are welcome to add to this list. Please do not simply remove items from the list just because you believe they Should Not Be Merged, but instead discuss this on the talk page.

Contents 1 Possible candidates for merging: policies 2 Possible candidates for merging: guidelines 2.1 Merge draft in progress 2.2 Merge completed 3 See Also

[edit] Possible candidates for merging: policies

• Wikipedia:Appealing a block, Wikipedia:Blocking policy and Wikipedia:Banning policy
• Wikipedia:Copyright violations and Wikipedia:Copyrights
• Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary & Wikipedia:Not Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Libel and Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons
• Wikipedia:No personal attacks, Wikipedia:Civility and Wikipedia:No legal threats
• Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines with Wikipedia:How to create policy
• Wikipedia:Patent nonsense and Wikipedia:Attack page to Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion

[edit] Possible candidates for merging: guidelines

• Wikipedia:Notability and the innumerable sub-guidelines to it (WP:BIO, WP:PORNBIO, WP:PROF, WP:MUSIC, WP:WEB...)
• Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes (guideline) and Wikipedia:Categories vs lists (essay)

[edit] Merge draft in progress

• Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators to Wikipedia:Deletion process

[edit] Merge completed

• Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:Reliable sources and Wikipedia:No original research merged to Wikipedia:Attribution
• Wikipedia:Semi-protection policy merged into Wikipedia:Protection policy (see draft)
• Wikipedia:Undeletion policy merged into Wikipedia:Deletion policy
• Wikipedia:Sock puppetry , Wikipedia:Doppelganger account and Wikipedia:Single purpose account merged into Wikipedia:Username policy

[edit] See Also

• WP:1THING for a counter argument to policy mergers