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.

• 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 (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-1932 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 (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 (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 (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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• JI (WP:JI) – Join in

• KC (WP:KC) – Kindness Campaign
• KS (WP:KS) – Keyboard shortcuts

• 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 (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 (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

• 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

• 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 (WP:Q) – Questions
• QA (WP:QA) – Quality articles
• QD (WP:QD) – Quick directory
• QP (WP:QP) – Quickpolls
• QS (WP:QS) – Verifiability#Questionable sources

• 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
• 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

• 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 (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

• 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 (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 (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

• XD (WP:XD) – Experimental deletion
• XfD (WP:XfD) – Deletion discussions
• XRV (WP:XRV) – Administrative action review

• YRS (WP:YRS) – WikiProject Years
• YT (WP:YT) – YouTube

• Z (WP:Z) – WikiProject Zoo

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