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oject page talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia redirected from wikipedia gaming wikipedia guideline wp game redirects here for other uses see wp game disambiguation this page documents an english wikipedia behavioral guideline editors should generally follow it though exceptions may apply substantive edits to this page should reflect consensus shortcuts wp game wp game wp gaming wp gaming this page in a nutshell playing games with policies and guidelines to avoid the spirit of consensus or thwart the intent and spirit of the policy is strictly forbidden wikipedia guidelines guidelines list policies list behavioral assume good faith conflict of interest disruptive editing don t bite the newcomers don t disrupt to make a point etiquette gaming the system other behavioral guidelines discussions talk page guidelines signatures content citing sources external links reliable sources medicine fringe theories naming conventions non free content offensive material large language models other content guidelines editing article size be bold understandability other editing guidelines categorization categories lists templates categorization disambiguation style manual of style contents lists tables notability and deletion notability deletion process deletion guidelines for administrators project content project pages wikiprojects templates user pages userboxes shortcuts search v t e gaming the system means deliberately misusing wikipedia s policy or process for personal advantage at the expense of other editors or the wikipedia community this may range from bad faith attempts to thwart the aims of wikipedia to simply engineering victory in a content dispute or an untoward result in an rfc or other community discussion gaming the system may represent an abuse of process disruptive editing or otherwise evading the spirit of community consensus editors typically game the system to make a point to further an edit war or to enforce a specific non neutral point of view if an editor finds and uses a loophole or trick that allows them to evade community standards or misuse administrator tools it should not be treated the same as a good faith mistake however wikipedia sanctions are meant to be preventative not punitive a warning from an administrator is usually the best way to prevent gaming because a clear warning should help correct both good faith mistakes and bad faith games if an editor ignores a warning and repeats their behavior or if they find new creative ways to achieve the same disruption the editor is likely gaming the system in bad faith the meaning of gaming the system edit an editor gaming the system is seeking to use policy in bad faith by finding within its wording some apparent justification for disruptive actions and stances that policy is clearly not at all intended to support in doing this the gamester separates policies and guidelines from their rightful place to document community consensus and attempts to use them selectively for a personal agenda an editor is disruptive if they are using a few words of policy to claim support for a viewpoint that clearly contradicts those policies to attack a genuinely policy based stance by willfully misapplying wikipedia policies or to derail wikipedia processes gaming the system may include wikilawyering pettifogging and otherwise using the letter of policy to violate the broader principles of the policy filibustering the consensus building process by reverting another editor for minor errors or trying to enforce a viewpoint that the community has clearly rejected attempting to twist wikipedia s sanctions or processes to harass other editors in each case willfulness or knowing is important misuse of policy guidelines or practice is not gaming if it is based upon a genuine mistake but it may well be if it is deliberate where the editor continues to game policy even when it is clear there is no way they can reasonably claim to be unaware actions that game the system may also overlap with other policies misusing wikipedia processes to be intentionally invidious towards another editor prove a point or muddy the water in a dispute can also be a form of gaming however it is more often categorized as using wikipedia to prove a point or abuse of process using policies and guidelines to build or push a patently false case that some editor is editing in bad faith with the evidence for this itself being an obviously unreasonable bad faith interpretation of that person s action this is more often categorized as a breach of the guideline to assume good faith and in particular repeated unjustified warnings may also be viewed as a breach of civility if gaming is also knowingly used as a basis to impugn another editor or to mischaracterize them as a bad faith editor then this may also violate the policy of no personal attacks disruption of any kind merits being warned or blocked by an administrator violating the principles of wikipedia s behavior guidelines may prejudice the decision of administrators or the arbitration committee examples edit shortcut wp gametype wp gametype there are several types of gaming the system the essence of gaming is the willful and knowing misuse of policies or processes it includes but is not limited to the following list of examples actions that are similar to the ones below where there is no evidence of intent to act improperly are usually not considered gaming gaming the use of policies and guidelines edit shortcuts wp playpolicy wp playpolicy wp spuriousprotect wp spuriousprotect wp forcedinterpret wp forcedinterpret see also policy on changing rules to gain advantage in a content dispute bad faith wikilawyering arguing the word of policy to defeat the principles of policy example posting a neutral notice that does not violate the guideline on canvassing while using a different set of notifications to lure a partisan audience to view that neutral notice playing policies against each other example saying you refuse to remove content that violates the policy on verifiability because that content is protected by the policy that wikipedia is not censored example telling another user that by reverting your vandalism edits they are violating the 3 revert rule vandalism is an exception to the 3 revert rule selectively cherry picking wording from a policy or cherry picking one policy to apply but willfully ignoring others to support a view that does not in fact match or comply with policy example adding content that is restricted under the policy on what wikipedia is not while cherry picking the words that wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia to evade those restrictions spuriously and knowingly claiming protection justification or support under the words of a policy for a viewpoint or stance that actually contradicts policy example saying that content meets the policy on verifiability because it is cited to a source when in fact the source is not reliable or the content twists the source s point of view see wp neutral point of view due and undue weight attempting to force an untoward interpretation of policy or impose your own novel view of standards to apply rather than those of the community example presenting a wikipedia essay that was written by a single editor as though it were a consensus policy gaming the consensus building process edit shortcuts wp stonewall wp stonewall wp onehandgives wp onehandgives wp filibuster wp filibuster wp stonewall redirects here for the wikipedia essay on status quo stonewalling see wikipedia status quo stonewalling stonewalling or filibustering repeatedly pushing a viewpoint with which the consensus of the community clearly does not agree effectively preventing a policy based resolution example an editor refuses to accept a change unless some condition is complied with but it is not a condition that has any basis in wikipedia policies or guidelines example editors reach a consensus except one or a tag team insisting that the change sought violates some policy or other principle in a way they cannot clearly demonstrate see also the policy wp disruptive editing especially on refusal to get the point and the essays wp what is consensus not unanimity wp don t bludgeon the process no one is obligated to satisfy you wp status quo stonewalling and wp brd misuse filibusterers shortcuts wp badfaithneg wp badfaithneg wp bfn wp bfn bad faith negotiating luring other editors into a compromise by making a concession only to withhold that concession after the other side has compromised example an editor negotiates a consensus to remove well verified material from one article because it is already covered in a second article afterward the editor deletes the material from the second article example editors reach a consensus the author of the final agreed upon text is supposed to post it but never does weeks later a second editor tires of waiting and posts a modified version which the first editor immediately reverts example an editor withholds agreement to a change unless additional more satisfactory sources are provided but declares all the new sourcing to be unsatisfactory despite the citation work clearly fulfilling the core content policies shortcut wp fixfirst wp fixfirst removing a large addition for a minor error if the error is minor then fix it or at least tag it for clean up perfection is not required and wikipedia is built through incremental improvement example an editor adds a paragraph of verifiable information but it is removed entirely because of a typographical error that could easily be fixed example an editor performs page wide uncontroversial copy editing and code cleanup but another editor thinks some ostensibly minor changes subtly altered the meaning of two sentences and so reverts several hours of work instead of just the two disputed changes shortcuts wp gaslight wp gaslight wp gaslighting wp gaslighting employing gaslighting tactics such as history re writing reality denial misdirection baseless contradiction projection of your own foibles onto others repetition or off topic rambling to destabilize a discussion by sowing doubt and discord examples denying that you posted what you did suggesting someone agreed to something they did not pretending your question has not already been answered misrepresenting what a policy actually says or means prevaricating about the obvious meaning of a claim or refusing to concede when your position has been disproved or rejected by consensus shortcuts wp transactional wp transactional wp titfortat wp titfortat transactional politics or tit for tat asking an editor to take an action e g change their stance in a discussion based on your efforts taken elsewhere on their behalf or suggesting that you will withhold efforts on their behalf unless they take your desired action example an editor asks another to change their vote at rfa based on prior support given or other actions taken on their behalf by the first editor example an editor asks an admin to warn another editor for alleged pov pushing and hints that the first editor s pending gan or fac review of the admin s article may be in jeopardy if action isn t taken by the admin example an editor asks another editor to support their rfc in exchange for their support in another discussion gaming of article titles review processes and deletion processes edit shortcut wp gamename wp gamename using different or variant forms or spellings of an article title example submitting multiple drafts with almost the same title to articles for creation such as draft ralph zwogli draft ralph a zwogli and draft ralph zwogli businessman example submitting a draft or article with almost the same title as a recently deleted article or especially one that was salted use of sockpuppet accounts to conceal a conflict of interest example submitting a biography from a sockpuppet account after a previous submission has been declined because it is seen to be an autobiography gaming the articles for creation process example removing the record of previous reviews which says not to remove it and resubmitting a draft example resubmitting a draft that has been rejected by removing the rejection rather than discussing it with the reviewer note these examples are both logged by edit filters 1370 and 1381 respectively gaming the wikipedia did you know quid pro quo qpq process by using sockpuppet accounts to submit the nomination example creating new accounts just for qpq less nomination each time your current account is about to reach the five article threshold gaming of sanctions for disruptive behavior edit shortcuts wp sanctiongame wp sanctiongame wp sanctiongaming wp sanctiongaming mischaracterizing other editors actions to make them seem unreasonable improper or deserving of sanction example refusing to provide a proper citation to an editor looking to verify your claim and accusing the editor of being disruptive for making repeated requests citations should be accurate so that other editors may verify them walking back a personal attack to make it seem less hostile than it was rather than apologizing example an editor responds to a disagreement by saying you re obviously wrong wrong wrong did you even pass 9th grade history later they defend this statement as a good faith question about the other editor s education borderlining habitually treading the edge of policy breach or engaging in low grade policy breach to make it hard to prove misconduct example an editor never violates the three revert rule but takes several months to repeatedly push the same edits over the objections of multiple editors retribution deliberately reverting an editor s edits in one article in retaliation for a dispute in another example editor a reverts an edit made by editor b because it did not adhere to a neutral point of view and they did not provide a reliable source editor b starts a discussion on the talk page in which editor a participates but the discussion fails to generate consensus later on editor b reverts a well sourced neutral addition that editor a made saying it did not comply with the manual of style playing victim violating a rule and at the same time claiming that others violate the same or a closely related rule also known as hypocrisy example editor a posts uncivil comments while at the same time accusing editor b of uncivil behavior demanding sanctions and citing policies that editor a clearly violates gaming permissions edit shortcut wp pgame wp pgame making unconstructive or trivial edits to raise your user access level the purpose of having these access levels is to help people get and 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