Wikipedia:Wikipedia abbreviations
This is a directory of abbreviations used on Wikipedia for various pages, processes, policies, and proposals. For the guideline on the use of abbreviations in articles, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Abbreviations.
0–9
edit- 3D (WP:3D) – No 3D illustrations
- 3RR (WP:3RR) – Three-revert rule
- 5P (WP:5P) – Five pillars of Wikipedia. If there is a number after the P, e.g. 5P1, then it refers to that pillar.
- 5C (WP:5C) – The "five C's" of copyediting.
A
edit- A (WP:A) – Attribution
- AA (WP:AA) – Article alerts
- AB (WP:AB) – Autobiography
- ABC (WP:ABC) – Wikipedia abbreviations
- AC (WP:AC) – Arbitration Committee
- AD (WP:AD) – Accuracy dispute
- AE (WP:AE) – Administrators' noticeboard/Arbitration enforcement
- AFC (WP:AFC) – Articles for creation
- AfD (WP:AfD) – Articles for deletion
- AGF (WP:AGF) – Assume good faith
- AI (WP:AI) – Artificial intelligence
- AIV (WP:AIV) – Administrator intervention against vandalism
- AN (WP:AN) – Administrators' noticeboard
- ANI, AN/I (WP:ANI) – Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
- ANRFC, AN/RFC – Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure
- AO (WP:AO) – As of
- AP (WP:AP) – Arbitration policy
- AP2 (WP:AP2) – American politics 2, post-1992 American politics. Topic area subject to discretionary sanctions.
- ARBCOM (WP:ARBCOM) – Arbitration Committee
- AS (WP:AS) – Article size
- ATP – Article talk page
- ATT (WP:ATT) – Attribution
B
edit- 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 of living persons
- BM (WP:BM) – Blank maps
- BN (WP:BN) – Bureaucrats' noticeboard
- BNA (WP:BNA) – British Newspaper Archive
- BOLD (WP:BOLD) – Be bold
- BOTREQ (WP:BOTREQ) – Bot requests
- BP (WP:BP) – Blocking policy
- BRD (WP:BRD) – BOLD, revert, discuss cycle
- BRFA (WP:BRFA) – Bots/Requests for approval
- BS (WP:BS) – Barnstars
- BTW (WP:BTW) – Build the web
- BURO (WP:BURO) – Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy
C
edit- 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) – Course coordinator, instructor, online and campus volunteer
- CCC (WP:CCC) – Consensus can change
- CCI (WP:CCI) – Contributor copyright investigations
- CD (WP:CD) – Centralized discussion
- CDT (WP:CDT) – Current date and time
- CE (WP:CE) – Copyediting
- CfD (WP:CfD) – Category for deletion
- CfM (WP:CfM) – Category for merging
- CfR (WP:CfR) – Category for renaming
- CHK (WP:CHK) – CheckUser
- CI (WP:CI) – Category intersection
- CIR (WP:CIR) – Competence is required
- CIV (WP:CIV) – Civility
- CIVIL (WP:CIVIL) – Civility
- CK (WP:CK) – Common knowledge
- CLS (WP:CLS) – Categories, lists, and navboxes
- Cmt. – Comment; often used in edit summaries for comments at RfCs, etc.
- COI (WP:COI) – Conflict of interest
- CON (WP:CON) – Consensus
- COPYVIO (WP:COPYVIO) – Copyright violations
- CP (WP:CP) – Copyright problems
- CR (WP:CR) – Cleanup resources
- CRAT (WP:CRAT) – Bureaucrats
- CS (WP:CS) – Citing sources
- CSD (WP:CSD) – Criteria for speedy deletion
- CU (WP:CU) – CheckUser (use WP:CHK or WP:CHECK instead; previously used for Cleanup; sometimes used for Changing username)
- CV (WP:CV) – Copyright problems
- CW (WP:CW) – Citing Wikipedia
D
edit- D (WP:D) – Disambiguation
- DAB (WP:DAB), DISAMBIG – Disambiguation
- DABLINK – Disambiguated link (i.e., fixed a link to a disambiguation page to point to a specific article)
- 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
- DGAF (WP:DGAF) – Don't-give-a-fuckism
- DI (WP:DI) – Criteria for speedy deletion#Files
- DP (WP:DP) – Deletion policy
- DR (WP:DR) – Resolving disputes
- DRN (WP:DRN) – Dispute resolution noticeboard
- DRV (WP:DRV) – Deletion review
- DT (WP:DT) – Dispute templates
- DYK (WP:DYK) – Did you know
E
edit- EA (WP:EA) – Editor assistance
- EC (WP:EC) – Edit count
- EC (WP:EDC) – Edit conflict
- ED (WP:ED) – Experimental deletion
- EF (WP:EF) – Edit filter
- 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) – Edit summary
- ET (WP:ET) – Editor tags
- EW (WP:EW) – Edit war
- EX (WP:EX) – Expert editors
- EXP (WP:EXP) – Requests for expansion
F
edit- FA (WP:FA) – Featured articles
- FAC (WP:FAC) – Featured article candidates
- FAR (WP:FAR) – Featured article review
- FB (WP:FB) – Facebook
- FEED (WP:FEED) – Article feedback
- FfD (WP:FfD) – Files for discussion
- 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
- FPO (WP:FPO) – Featured portals
- FS (WP:FS) – Featured sounds
- FT (WP:FT) – Featured topics
- FUTURE (WP:FUTURE) – Wikipedia is not a crystal ball
G
edit- 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
- GAN (WP:GAN) – Good article nominations
- GAR (WP:GAR) – Wikipedia:Good article reassessment
- GB (WP:GB) – GlobalBlocking
- GD (WP:GD) – Guide to deletion
- GDPR (not specific to Wikipedia) – General Data Protection Regulation – EU regulation on the processing of personal data
- GF (WP:GF) – Assume good faith
- GFDL (WP:GFDL) – GNU Free Documentation License
- GL (WP:GL) – Graphics Lab
- GOCE (WP:GOCE) – Guild of Copy Editors
- GOCER (WP:GOCER) – Guild of Copy Editors request
- GNG (WP:GNG) – General notability guideline
- GT (WP:GT) – Good topics
- GUS (WP:GUS) – German userbox solution
- GW (WP:GW) – Gnome Week
H
edit- HA (WP:HA) – Harassment
- HAT (WP:HAT) – Hatnote
- HAU (WP:HAU) – Highly Active Users
- HD (WP:HD) – Help desk
- HG (WP:HG) – Huggle
- HMB (WP:HMB) – Huge message boxes
- HOAX (WP:HOAX) – Don't create hoaxes
- HS (WP:HS) – High Schools
- HW (WP:HW) – Do your own homework
I
edit- IAR (WP:IAR) – Ignore all rules
- IC (WP:IC) – Inline citation
- IFD (WP:IFD) – Images for deletion (Now called "Files for discussion" (FfD))
- IL (WP:IL) – Interlanguage links
- IGNORE (WP:IGNORE) – Ignore all rules
- IINFO (WP:IINFO) – Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
- IM (WP:IM) – WikiProject Images and Media
- IP (WP:IP) – Anonymous users (IP users)
- IPBE (WP:IPBE) – IP block exemption
- IRC (WP:IRC) – Internet Relay Chat
- IS (WP:IS) – Independent sources
- IT (WP:IT) – Image copyrighttags
- ITN (WP:ITN) – In the news
- IU (WP:IU) – Inappropriate usernames
- IW (WP:IW) – InterWikimedia links
J
editK
edit- KC (WP:KC) – Kindness Campaign
- KS (WP:KS) – Keyboard shortcuts
L
edit- 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
- LTA (WP:LTA) – Long-term abuse
- LW (WP:LW) – Legal warnings
M
edit- M (WP:M) – Mediation
- MC (WP:MC) – Mediation Committee
- ME (WP:ME) – Minor edit
- MEDRS (WP:MEDRS) – Reliable sources for medical articles
- MF (WP:MF) – Mirrors and forks
- MfD (WP:MfD) – Miscellany for deletion
- MH (WP:MH) – Media help
- MI (WP:MI) – Multilingual coordination
- ML (WP:ML) – Mailing lists
- MoS or MOS (WP:MOS) – Manual of Style
- MP (WP:MP) – Mediation Committee/Policy (formerly Million pool)
- MS (WP:MS) – Music samples
- MT (WP:MT) – Template messages
- MU (WP:MU) – Meetup
- MV (WP:MV) – Moving a page
- MW (WP:MW) – Missing Wikipedians
N
edit- N (WP:N) – Notability
- NC (WP:NC) – Naming conventions
- NFCC (WP:NFCC) – Non-free content criteria
- NLT (WP:NLT) – No legal threats
- NOCITE (WP:NOCITE) – No citation given
- 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
- NOTNOW (WP:NOTNOW – Now is not the right time to run for adminship
- 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) – The deadline is now
- NPA (WP:NPA) – No personal attacks
- NPOV (WP:NPOV) – Neutral point of view
- NPS (WP:NPS) – Don't include copies of primary sources
O
edit- OA (WP:OA) – Office actions
- OC (WP:OC) – Overcategorization
- OI (WP:OI) – Original images
- OL (WP:OL) – Overlinking
- OP – Original post, or original poster. The first comment starting a discussion, or the author of that comment.
- Opp. – Oppose/opposing (used in edit summaries pertaining to RfCs and the like)
- OM (WP:OM) – Ombudsman
- OR (WP:OR) – Original research
- OS (WP:OS) – Oversight
- OTRS (WP:OTRS) – Open-source Ticket Request System
- OV (WP:OV) – Oversight
- OWN (WP:OWN) – Ownership of articles
P
edit- PA (WP:PA) – No personal attacks
- PAG, PAGs (WP:PAG) – Policies and guidelines
- PAPER (WP:PAPER) – Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia
- PC (WP:PC) – Pending changes
- PD (WP:PD) – Public domain
- PERTINENCE (WP:PERTINENCE) – Pertinence and encyclopedic nature of images
- PF (WP:PF) – Parser functions
- PG (WP:PG, WP:PAG) – 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
- POV (WP:POV) – Describing points of view
- PP (WP:PP) – Protection policy
- PR (WP:PR) – Peer review
- PROD (WP:PROD) – Proposed deletion
- PS (WP:PS) – either Policy shopping or Primary sources
- PT (WP:PT) – Protected titles
- PU (WP:PU) – Protected Userpage
Q
edit- Q (WP:Q) – Questions
- QA (WP:QA) – Quality articles
- QD (WP:QD) – Quick directory
- QP (WP:QP) – Quickpolls
- QS (WP:QS) – Verifiability#Questionable sources
R
edit- R (WP:R) – Redirect; in edit summaries at talk pages and noticeboards it may mean "reply".
- RA (WP:RA) – Requested articles
- RANT (WP:RANT) – Wikipedia is not a soapbox
- RB (WP:RB) – Reward board
- RC (WP:RC) – Recent changes
- RD (WP:RD) – Reference desk
- RE – used on Talk pages for a reply to another post
- RF (WP:RF) – Readers First
- RFA (WP:RFA) – Requests for adminship
- RFAR (WP:RFAR) – Requests for arbitration
- RFB (WP:RFB) – Requests for bureaucratship
- RFC (WP:RFC) – Requests for comment
- RFCU – Now-defunct process for examination of user behavior; merged into WP:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents (WP:ANI)
- RFD (WP:RFD) – Redirects for discussion
- 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
- RP (WP:RP) – Requested pictures
- RQ (WP:RQ) – Requests
- RRFA (WP:RRFA) – Re-request for adminship
- RS (WP:RS) – Reliable sources
- RT (WP:RT) – Requested templates
- RV (WP:RV) – Reverting
- RVV – Reverting vandalism
- RW (WP:RW) – RedWarn (previously Researching Wikipedia)
- RY (WP:RY) – Recent years
S
edit- SA – various meanings, depending on context: "See also" section, WP:Selected anniversaries, WP:Service awards, WP:Spoken articles, WP:Stress alerts, WP:Student assignments, WP:WikiProject Saudi Arabia, WP:WikiProject South Africa, WP:WikiProject South America, WP:WikiProject South Australia
- SB (WP:SB) – Sandbox
- SC (WP:SC) – Shortcut
- SD (WP:SD) – Criteria for speedy deletion
- SI (WP:SI) – Sockpuppet investigations
- 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
- SPA (WP:SPA) – Single-purpose account
- SPI (WP:SPI) – Sockpuppet investigations
- SR (WP:SR) – Simplified ruleset
- SS (WP:SS) – Summary style
- SSF (WP:SSF) – Specialized-style fallacy
- STUPID (WP:STUPID) – List of really stupid article ideas
- STYLE (WP:STYLE) – Manual of Style
- Supp. – Support/supporting (used in edit summaries pertaining to RfCs and the like)
- SUL – Single user login (Unified login)
- SUS (WP:SUS) – Simple userbox solution
- SV (WP:SV) – Stable versions
T
edit- T (WP:T) – Tutorial
- TALK (WP:TALK) – Talk page guidelines
- TD (WP:TD) – Templates for deletion
- TE (WP:TE) – Tendentious editing
- TFA (WP:TFA) – Today's featured article
- TFAR (WP:TFAR) – Today's featured article/requests
- TfD (WP:TfD) – Templates for discussion
- TG (WP:TG) – Template guidelines
- TH (WP:TH) – Teahouse
- TL (WP:TL) – Transwiki log
- TM (WP:TM) – Template messages
- TMP (WP:TMP) – Templates
- TODAY (WP:TODAY) – Current date and time
- TP (WP:TP) – Talk page
- TPG (WP:TPG) – Talk page guidelines
- TR (WP:TR) – Requested templates
- TS (WP:TS) – Template standardisation
- TW (WP:TW) – Twinkle
- TWWPK (WP:TWWPK) – That's why we preview, kids
U
edit- UA (WP:UA) – Unusual articles
- UAA (WP:UAA) – Usernames for Administrator Attention
- UCR (WP:UCR) – Unexplained content removal
- UD (WP:UD) – Usage of diacritics
- UF (WP:UF) – WikiProject Microformats
- 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
- UTP (WP:UTP) – User talk page
- UV (WP:UV) - Ultraviolet
V
edit- V (WP:V) – Verifiability
- VA (WP:VA) – Vital articles
- VD (WP:VD) – Vandalism
- VI (WP:VI) – Vested interest
- VIP (WP:VIP) – Vandalism in progress
- VL (WP:VL) – Victim Lists
- VOA (WP:VOA) - Vandalism-only account
- VP (WP:VP) – Village pump
- VRT (WP:VRT) – Volunteer Response Team
- VS (WP:VS) – Visiting Scholars
- VT (WP:VT) – Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions#Vandal target
- VU (WP:VU) – Indef blocked userpages
W
edit- W (WP:W) – Watchlist help
- WAWH (WP:WAWH) - Wikipedia:We're all Wikipedians here
- WB (WP:WB) – Wikibreak
- WC (WP:WC) – Welcoming committee
- WF (WP:WF) – Wikifun
- WG (WP:WG) – Walled garden
- WIN (WP:WIN) – What Wikipedia is not
- WL (WP:WL) – Wikilawyering
- WM (WP:WM) – Maintenance
- WMF (WP:WMF) – Wikimedia Foundation
- WOTTA (WP:WOTTA) – WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG!
- WP – either Wikipedia, Wikipedia namespace, or WikiProject
- WQ (WP:WQ) – Etiquette
- WQA (WP:WQA) – Wikiquette alerts
- WR (WP:WR) – WikiReader
- WW (WP:WW) – Wheel war
X
edit- XD (WP:XD) – Experimental deletion
- XfD (WP:XfD) – Deletion discussions
- XRV (WP:XRV) – Administrative action review
Y
edit- YRS (WP:YRS) – WikiProject Years
- YT (WP:YT) – YouTube
Z
edit- Z (WP:Z) – WikiProject Zoo
Two-letter tables
editWikipedia namespace
editTemplate namespace
editSee also
edit- Wikipedia:Glossary – the main (not just abbreviations) index of Wikipedia-internal jargon
- Wikipedia:Edit summary legend – supplemental glossary of formulaic edit summaries
- Wikipedia:Guide to deletion § Shorthands – jargon specific to page-deletion discussions
- Wikipedia:WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG!