Wikipedia:Alphabet soup
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This is a directory of all the abbreviations used on Wikipedia for various pages, processes, policies, and proposals.
For more details, see WP:Glossary.
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| 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
[edit] #
- 3RR (WP:3RR) - Three-revert rule
[edit] A
- AA (WP:AA) - Article alerts
- AB (WP:AB) - Autobiography
- AC (WP:AC) - Arbitration Committee
- AD (WP:AD) - Accuracy dispute
- AE (WP:AE) - Administrators' noticeboard/Arbitration enforcement
- AF (WP:AF) - Abuse filter
- AfD (WP:AfD - Articles for deletion
- AGF (WP:AGF) - Assume good faith
- AI (WP:AI) - Article inclusion
- AIV (WP:AIV) - Administrator intervention against vandalism
- AN (WP:AN) - Administrators' noticeboard
- AO (WP:AO) - As of
- AP (WP:AP) - Arbitration policy
- AS (WP:AS) - Article size
[edit] B
- B (WP:B) - Bots
- BA (WP:BA) - List of bad article ideas
- BAD (WP:BAD) - Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense
- BB (WP:BB) - Be bold
- BEANS (WP:BEANS) - Don't stuff beans up your nose
- BF (WP:BF) - Assume good faith#Dealing_with_bad_faith
- BK (WP:BK) - Notability (books)
- BITE (WP:BITE) - Don't bite the newcomers
- BJAODN (WP:BJAODN) - Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense
- BLP (WP:BLP) - Biographies on living persons
- BM (WP:BM) - Blank maps
- BN (WP:BN) - Bureaucrats' noticeboard
- BOLD (WP:BOLD) - Be bold
- BP (WP:BP) - Blocking policy
- BS (WP:BS) - Barnstars
- BTW (WP:BTW) - Build the web
- BU (WP:BU) - List of banned users
- BURO (WP:BURO) - Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy
[edit] C
- C (WP:C) - Copyrights
- CAT (WP:CAT) - Categories
- CB (WP:CB) - Complete bollocks
- CBALL (WP:CBALL) - Wikipedia is not a crystal ball
- CC (WP:CC) - Commons categories
- CD (WP:CD) - Centralized discussion
- CDT (WP:CDT) - Current date and time
- CfD (WP:CfD) - Category for deletion
- CfM (WP:CfM)- Category for merging
- CfR (WP:CfR )- Category for renaming
- CI (WP:CI) - Category intersection
- CIV (WP:CIV) - Civility
- CIVIL (WP:CIVIL) - Civility
- CK (WP:CK) - Common knowledge
- CLS (WP:CLS) - Cats, lists and navboxes
- COI (WP:COI) - Conflict of interest
- CON (WP:CON) - Consensus
- CP (WP:CP) - Copyright problems
- CR (WP:CR) - Cleanup resources
- CS (WP:CS) - Citing sources
- CU (WP:CU) - Cleanup
- CU (In general) - CheckUser
- CV (WP:CV) - Copyright problems
- CW (WP:CW) - Citing Wikipedia
[edit] D
- D (WP:D) - Disambiguation
- DC (WP:DC) - WikimediaDC
- DD (WP:DD) - Database download
- DE (WP:DE) - Disruptive editing
- DEL (WP:DEL) - Deletion policy
- DELREV (WP:DELREV) - Deletion review
- DF (WP:DF) - Department of Fun
- DG (WP:DG) - Username policy#Using_multiple_accounts
- DI (WP:DI) - Introduction to deletion process
- DP (WP:DP) - Deletion policy
- DR (WP:DR) - Resolving disputes
- DRV (WP:DRV) - Deletion review
- DT (WP:DT) - Dispute templates
[edit] E
- EA (WP:EA) - Editor assistance
- EC (WP:EC) - Edit count
- EC (WP:EDC) - Edit conflict
- ED (WP:ED) - Experimental Deletion
- EG (WP:EG) - Editing policy
- EI (WP:EI) - Editing the interface
- EL (WP:EL) - External links
- EM (WP:EM) - Editors matter
- EN (WP:EN) - Naming conventions (use English)
- EP (WP:EP) - Editing policy
- EQ (WP:EQ) - Etiquette
- ER (WP:ER) - Editor review
- ES (WP:ES) - Help:Edit summary
- ET (WP:ET) - Editor tags
- EW (WP:EW) - Edit war
- EX (WP:EX) - Expert editors
- EXP (WP:EXP) - Requests for expansion
[edit] F
- FA (WP:FA) - Featured articles
- FB (WP:FB) - Facebook
- FI (WP:FI) - Featured pictures
- FL (WP:FL) - Featured lists
- FN (WP:FN) - Footnotes
- FORUM (WP:FORUM) - Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought
- FP (WP:FP) - Featured pictures
- FT (WP:FT) - Featured topics
- FUTURE (WP:FUTURE) - Wikipedia is not a crystal ball
[edit] G
- GA (WP:GA) - Good articles
- GAME (WP:GAME) - Don't game the system
- GAMEGUIDE (WP:GAMEGUIDE) - NOT:Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook
- GB (WP:GB) - GlobalBlocking
- GD (WP:GD) - Guide to deletion
- GF (WP:GF) - Assume good faith
- GL (WP:GL) - Graphic Lab
- GT (WP:GT) - Good topics
- GUS (WP:GUS) - German userbox solution
- GW (WP:GW) - Gnome Week
[edit] H
- HA (WP:HA) - Harassment
- HAU (WP:HAU) - Highly Active Users
- HD (WP:HD) - Help desk
- HG (WP:HG) - Huggle
- HN (WP:HN) - Hatnote
- HOAX (WP:HOAX) - Don't create hoaxes
- HS (WP:HS) - High Schools
- HT (WP:HT) - Huge message boxes
- HW (WP:HW) - Do your own homework
[edit] I
- IAR (WP:IAR) - Ignore all rules
- IC (WP:IC) - Inline citation
- IL (WP:IL) - Help:Interlanguage links
- IGNORE (WP:IGNORE) - Ignore all rules
- IINFO (WP:IINFO) - Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
- IM (WP:IM) - IRC channels
- INDISCRIMINATE (WP:INDISCRIMINATE) - Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
- IP (WP:IP) - User access levels#Anonymous_users
- IS (WP:IS) - Independent sources
- IT (WP:IT) - Image copyrighttags
- IU (WP:IU) - Username policy#Inappropriate_usernames
- IW (WP:IW) - InterWikimedia links
[edit] J
[edit] K
- KC (WP:KC) - Kindness Campaign
- KS (WP:KS) - Keyboard shortcuts
[edit] L
- L (WP:L) - Lists
- LA (WP:LA) - List of administrators
- LC (WP:LC) - Listcruft
- LD (WP:LD) - Legal disclaimer
- LEGAL (WP:LEGAL) - No legal threats
- LF (WP:LF) - Laissez-faire
- LGL (WP:LGL) - List of guidelines
- LI (WP:LI) - Link intersection
- LOP (WP:LOP) - List of policies
- LQ (WP:LQ) - Logical quotation
- LS (WP:LS) - Lead section
- LW (WP:LW) - Legal warnings
[edit] M
- M (WP:M) - Mediation
- MC (WP:MC) - Mediation Committee
- ME (WP:ME) - Help:Minor edit
- MF (WP:MF) - Mirrors and forks
- MH (WP:MH) - Media help
- MI (WP:MI) - Multilingual coordination
- ML (WP:ML) - Mailing lists
- MM (WP:MM) - Help:Merging and moving pages
- MOS (WP:MOS) - Manual of Style
- MP (WP:MP) - Million pool
- MS (WP:MS) - Music samples
- MT (WP:MT) - Template messages
- MU (WP:MU) - Meetup
- MV (WP:MV) - Help:Moving a page
- MW (WP:MW) - Missing Wikipedians
[edit] N
- N (WP:N) - Notability
- NC (WP:NC) - Naming conventions
- NLT (WP:NLT) - No legal threats
- NOPRICES (WP:NOPRICES) - Wikipedia is not a directory
- NOR (WP:NOR) - No original research
- NOT (WP:NOT) - What Wikipedia is not
- NOT PAPER (WP:NOT PAPER) - Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook
- NOT PAPERS (WP:NOT PAPERS) - Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook
- NOT#CHAT (WP:NOT#CHAT) - Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought
- NOT#DEM (WP:NOT#DEM) - Wikipedia is not a democracy
- NOT#FAQ (WP:NOT#FAQ) - Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
- NOT#HOST (WP:NOT#HOST) - Wikipedia is not your web host
- NOT#JOURNALISM (WP:NOT#JOURNALISM) - Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought
- NOT#LYRICS (WP:NOT#LYRICS) - Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
- NOT#NEWS (WP:NOT#NEWS) - Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
- NOT#OR (WP:NOT#OR) - Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought
- NOT#STATS (WP:NOT#STATS) - Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
- NOT#USER (WP:NOT#USER) - Wikipedia is not your web host
- NOT#WEBHOST (WP:NOT#WEBHOST) - Wikipedia is not your web host
- NOTADVERTISING (WP:NOTADVERTISING) - Wikipedia is not a soapbox
- NOTADVOCATE (WP:NOTADVOCATE) - Wikipedia is not a soapbox
- NOTANARCHY (WP:NOTANARCHY) - Wikipedia is not an anarchy
- NOTBATTLEGROUND (WP:NOTBATTLEGROUND) - Wikipedia is not a battleground
- NOTBLOG (WP:NOTBLOG) - Wikipedia is not a blog, webspace provider, social networking, or memorial site
- NOTBUREAUCRACY (WP:NOTBUREAUCRACY) - Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy
- NOTCASE (WP:NOTCASE) - Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook
- NOTCATALOG (WP:NOTCATALOG) - Wikipedia is not a directory
- NOTCENSORED (WP:NOTCENSORED) - Wikipedia is not censored
- NOTCRYSTAL (WP:NOTCRYSTAL) - Wikipedia is not a crystal ball
- NOTDEMOCRACY (WP:NOTDEMOCRACY) - Wikipedia is not a democracy
- NOTDICDEF (WP:NOTDICDEF) - Wikipedia is not a dictionary
- NOTDIR (WP:NOTDIR) - Wikipedia is not a directory
- NOTDIRECTORY (WP:NOTDIRECTORY) - Wikipedia is not a directory
- NOTFORUM (WP:NOTFORUM) - Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought
- NOTGUIDE (WP:NOTGUIDE) - Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook
- NOTHOWTO (WP:NOTHOWTO) - Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook
- NOTLAW (WP:NOTLAW) - Wikipedia is not governed by statute
- NOTLINK (WP:NOTLINK) - Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files
- NOTMANUAL (WP:NOTMANUAL) - Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook
- NOTMEMORIAL (WP:NOTMEMORIAL) - Wikipedia is not a blog, webspace provider, social networking, or memorial site
- NOTMIRROR (WP:NOTMIRROR) - Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files
- NOTMYSPACE (WP:NOTMYSPACE) - Wikipedia is not a blog, webspace provider, social networking, or memorial site
- NOTOPINION (WP:NOTOPINION) - Wikipedia is not a soapbox
- NOTPAPER (WP:NOTPAPER) - Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia
- NOTREPOSITORY (WP:NOTREPOSITORY) - Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files
- NOTSOAPBOX (WP:NOTSOAPBOX) - Wikipedia is not a soapbox
- NOTSTATUTE (WP:NOTSTATUTE) - Wikipedia is not governed by statute
- NOTSTUPID (WP:NOTSTUPID) - And finally ...
- NOTTEXTBOOK (WP:NOTTEXTBOOK) - Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook
- NOTTRAVEL (WP:NOTTRAVEL) - Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook
- NOTWEBHOST (WP:NOTWEBHOST) - Wikipedia is not a blog, webspace provider, social networking, or memorial site
- NOW (WP:NOW) - Current date and time
- NPA (WP:NPA) - No personal attacks
- NPOV (WP:NPOV) - Neutral point of view
- NPS (WP:NPS) - Don't include copies of primary sources
[edit] O
- OA (WP:OA) - Office actions
- OC (WP:OC) - Overcategorization
- OI (WP:OI) - Original images
- OL (WP:OL) - Overlistification
- OM (WP:OM) - Ombudsman
- OR (WP:OR) - No original research
- OS (WP:OS) - Oversight
- OV (WP:OV) - Oversight
- OWN (WP:OWN) - Ownership of articles
[edit] P
- PA (WP:PA) - No personal attacks
- PAPER (WP:PAPER) - Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia
- PC (WP:PC) - Press coverage
- PD (WP:PD) - Public domain
- PF (WP:PF) - Parser functions
- PG (WP:PG) - Policies and guidelines
- PI (WP:PI) - Process is important
- PL (WP:PL) - Proseline
- PM (WP:PM) - Proposed mergers
- PN (WP:PN) - Patent nonsense
- PLOT (WP:PLOT) - Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
- POINT (WP:POINT) - Don't disrupt Wikipedia to make a point
- POL (WP:POL) - Policies and guidelines
- PP (WP:PP) - Protection policy
- PR (WP:PR) - Peer review
- PS (WP:PS) - Policy shopping
- PT (WP:PT) - Protected titles
- PU (WP:PU) - Protected Userpage
[edit] Q
- Q (WP:Q) - Questions
- QA (WP:QA) - Quality articles
- QD (WP:QD) - Quick directory
- QP (WP:QP) - Quickpolls
- QS (WP:QS) - Verifiability#Questionable sources
[edit] R
- R (WP:R) - Redirect
- RA (WP:RA) - Requested articles
- RANT (WP:RANT) - Wikipedia is not a soapbox
- RB (WP:RB) - Reward board
- RC (WP:RC) - Help:Recent changes
- RD (WP:RD) - Reference desk
- RF (WP:RF) - Readers First
- RFA (WP:RFA) - Requests for adminship
- RFB (WP:RFB) - Requests for bureaucratship
- RFC (WP:RFC) - Requests for comment
- RFE (WP:RFE) - Requests for expansion
- RFI (WP:RFI} - Requests for investigation
- RFX (WP:RFX) - Requests for expansion
- RM (WP:RM) - Requested moves
- RN (WP:RN) - Regional notice boards
- RO (WP:RO) - Reach out
- RP (WP:RP) - Requested pictures
- RQ (WP:RQ) - Requests
- RS (WP:RS) - Reliable sources
- RT (WP:RT) - Requested templates
- RV (WP:RV) - Help:Reverting
- RW (WP:RW) - Researching Wikipedia
- RY (WP:RY) - Recent years
[edit] S
- SA (WP:SA) - Selected anniversaries
- SB (WP:SB) - Sandbox
- SC (WP:SC) - Shortcut
- SD (WP:SD) - Criteria for speedy deletion
- SI (WP:SI) - Sockpuppetinvestigations
- SIG (WP:SIG) - Sign on talk pages
- SILLY (WP:SILLY) - Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense
- SIZE (WP:SIZE) - Article size
- SK (WP:SK) - Speedy keep
- SL (WP:SL) - Spotlight
- SN (WP:SN) - Survey notification
- SO (WP:SO) - Standard offer
- SOAP (WP:SOAP) - Wikipedia is not a soapbox
- SOCK (WP:SOCK Sock-puppetry
- SP (WP:SP) - Subpages
- SR (WP:SR) - Simplified ruleset
- SS (WP:SS) - Summary style
- STUPID (WP:STUPID) List of really
- STYLE (WP:STYLE) - Manual of Style
- SUS (WP:SUS) - Simple userbox solution
- SV (WP:SV) - Stable versions
[edit] T
- T (WP:T) - Tutorial
- TALK (WP:TALK) - Talk page guidelines
- TD (WP:TD) - Templates for deletion
- TE (WP:TE) - Tendentious editing
- TMP (WP:TMP) - Templates
- TfD (WP:TfD) - Templates for deletion
- TG (WP:TG) - Template guidelines
- TL (WP:TL) - Transwiki log
- TM (WP:TM) - Template messages
- TP (WP:TP) - Talk page
- TR (WP:TR) - Requested templates
- TS (WP:TS) - Template standardisation
- TW (WP:TW) - Twinkle
[edit] U
- UA (WP:UA) - Unusual articles
- UD (WP:UD) - Usage of diacritics
- UG (WP:UG) - User access levels
- UI (WP:UI) - Untagged images
- UM (WP:UM) - Userbox migration
- UN (WP:UN) - Username policy
- UP (WP:UP) - User page
- UR (WP:UR) - Unusual requests
- USER (WP:USER) - User page
[edit] V
- V (WP:V) - Verifiability
- VA (WP:VA) - Vital articles
- VD (WP:VD) - Village pump
- VI (WP:VI) - Vested interest
- VIP (WP:VIP) - Vandalism in progress
- VL (WP:VL) - Victim Lists
- VP (WP:VP) - Village pump
- VT (WP:VT) - Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions#Vandal_target
- VU (WP:VU) - Indef blocked userpages
[edit] W
- W (WP:W) - Watch
- WB (WP:WB) - Wikibreak
- WC (WP:WC) - Welcoming committee
- WF (WP:WF) - Wikifun
- WG (WP:WG) - Walled garden
- WI (WP:WI) - What Wikipedia is not
- WIN (WP:WIN) - What Wikipedia is not
- WL (WP:WL) - Wikilawyering
- WM (WP:WM) - Maintenance
- WOTTA (WP:WOTTA) - WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG!
- WP - Wikipedia or Wikipedia name space
- WQ (WP:WQ) - Etiquette
- WR (WP:WR) - WikiReader
- WW (WP:WW) - Wheel war
[edit] X
- XD (WP:XD) - Experimental Deletion
- XfD (WP:XfD) - Deletion discussions

