Wikipedia key policies and guidelines |
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- Verifiability
- No original research
- Neutral point of view
- What Wikipedia is not
- Biographies of living persons
- Copyright (Copyright violations)
- Image use
- Article titles
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- Notability
- Autobiography
- Citing sources
- Reliable sources
- Do not include copies of lengthy primary sources
- Plagiarism
- Don't create hoaxes
- Fringe theories
- Patent nonsense
- External links
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| Conduct | | P |
- Civility
- Consensus
- Harassment
- Vandalism
- Ignore all rules
- No personal attacks
- Ownership of content
- Edit warring
- Dispute resolution
- Sockpuppetry
- No legal threats
- Child protection
- Paid-contribution disclosure
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| G |
- Assume good faith
- Conflict of interest
- Disruptive editing
- Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point
- Etiquette
- Gaming the system
- Please do not bite the newcomers
- Courtesy vanishing
- Responding to threats of harm
- Talk page guidelines
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| Deletion | | P |
- Deletion policy
- Proposed deletion
- Criteria for speedy deletion
- Attack page
- Oversight
- Revision deletion
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| Enforcement | | P |
- Administrators
- Banning
- Blocking
- Page protection
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| Editing | | P | |
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| G |
- Article size
- Be bold
- Disambiguation
- Hatnotes
- Broad-concept article
- Understandability
| | Style |
- Manual of Style
- Accessibility
- Dates and numbers
- Images
- Layout
- Lead section
- Linking
- Lists
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| Classification |
- Categories, lists, and navigation templates
- Categorization
- Template namespace
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| Project content | | G |
- Project namespace
- User pages
- Shortcuts
- Subpages
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| WMF (?) | | P |
- Terms of Use
- List of policies
- Friendly space policy
- Licensing and copyright
- Privacy policy
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- List of all policies and guidelines
- P: List of policies
- G: List of guidelines
- Summaries of values and principles
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Manual of Style |
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| | Content |
- Accessibility
- Biography
- Disambiguation pages
- Organizing by subject area
- Gender identity
- Hidden text
- Infoboxes
- Linking
- Self-references
- Words to watch
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| Formatting |
- Abbreviations
- Capitalization
- Dates and numbers
- Pronunciation
- Spelling
- Text formatting
- Titles of works
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| Images |
- Captions
- Image placement
- Icons
- Images
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| Layout |
- Layout
- Lead section
- Tables
- Trivia sections
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| Lists |
- Lists
- Lists of works
- Road junctions
- Stand-alone lists
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| Legal | |
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| Arts |
- Anime and manga
- Comics
- Blazons
- Film
- Lyrics and poetry
- Novels
- Philosophy
- Television
- Video games
- Visual arts
- Writing about fiction
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| Music |
- Music
- Music samples
- Record charts
- Stringed instruments
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| Regional |
- Specific naming conventions
- Canada
- China (and Chinese)
- France (and French)
- Egypt
- Hawaii
- India
- Indonesia
- Ireland
- Japan
- Korea
- Malaysia
- Macedonia
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Poland
- Singapore
- Trinidad and Tobago
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| Religion | |
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| Science |
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- Chemistry
- Compound classes
- Chemicals
- References and external links
- Safety
- Structure drawing
- Taxonomy
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| Sports | |
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| Related |
- Article size
- Article titles
- Categories, lists, and navigation templates
- Categorization
- Citing sources
- Contents
- Hatnotes
- Military history
- Notability
- Signatures
- Overview
- Subpages
- Talk page guidelines
- Template namespace
- Tips
- Understandability
- User pages
- Wikimedia sister projects
- WikiProjects
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| Search | |
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 Category
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Wikipedia accounts and governance |
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| Unregistered (IP) users |
- Why create an account?
- Create an account
- Request an account
- IPs are human too
- IP addresses are not people
- IP hopper
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| Registered users |
- New account
- Logging in
- Username policy
- Changing username
- Usernames for administrator attention
- Unified login or SUL
- Alternate account
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| Account security |
- Password strength requirements
- User account security
- Personal security practices
- Two-factor authentication
- Committed identity
- On privacy, confidentiality and discretion
- Compromised accounts
- How to not get outed
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Blocks, bans, sanctions,
global actions |
- Blocking policy
- FAQ
- Admin's guide
- Tools
- Autoblock
- Appealing a block
- Guide to appealing blocks
- UTRS Unblock Ticket Request System
- Blocking IP addresses
- Range blocks
- IPv6
- Open proxies
- Banning policy
- Sanctions
- Personal sanctions
- General sanctions
- Contentious topics and Log
- Essay
- Indef ≠ infinite
- Long-term abuse
- Standard offer
- Global actions
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| Related to accounts |
- Sockpuppetry
- Single-purpose account
- Sleeper account
- Vandalism-only account
- Wikibreak
- Retiring
- Clean start
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User groups
and global user groups |
- Requests for permissions
- Admin instructions
- Admin guide
- Account creator
- (Auto) confirmed
- Autopatrolled
- AutoWikiBrowser
- Bot
- Edit filter helper
- Event coordinator
- Extended confirmed
- File mover
- IP block exempt
- Mass message sender
- New page reviewer
- Page mover
- Pending changes reviewer
- Rollback
- Template editor
- Global rights policy
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| Advanced user groups |
- Administrator
- Bureaucrat
- CheckUser and Oversight
- Edit filter manager
- Interface administrator
- Founder
- Importer
- Researcher
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| Committees and related |
- Arbitration Committee
- Bot approvals group
- Functionaries
- Clerks
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| Governance |
- Administration
- Formal organization
- Editorial oversight and control
- Quality control
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Board
- Founder's seat
- Meta-Wiki
- Proposals
- WikiProjects
- Elections
- Policies and guidelines
- Petitions
- Noticeboards
- Consensus
- Dispute resolution
- Reforms
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Essays on building, editing, and deleting content |
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| Philosophy |
- Article content
- Articles must be written
- All Five Pillars are equally important
- Avoid vague introductions
- Be a reliable source
- Civil POV pushing
- Cohesion
- Competence is required
- Concede lost arguments
- Dissent is not disloyalty
- Don't lie
- Don't search for objections
- Editing Wikipedia is like visiting a foreign country
- Editors will sometimes be wrong
- Eight simple rules for editing our encyclopedia
- Explanationism
- External criticism of Wikipedia
- Here to build an encyclopedia
- Leave it to the experienced
- Levels of competence
- Most ideas are bad
- Need
- Neutrality of sources
- Not editing because of Wikipedia restriction
- The one question
- Oversimplification
- Paradoxes
- Paraphrasing
- POV and OR from editors, sources, and fields
- Process is important
- Product, process, policy
- Purpose
- Reasonability rule
- Systemic bias
- There is no seniority
- Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia
- Tendentious editing
- The role of policies in collaborative anarchy
- The rules are principles
- Trifecta
- Wikipedia in brief
- Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
- Wikipedia is a community
- Wikipedia is not RationalWiki
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| Article construction |
- 100K featured articles
- Abandoned stubs
- Acronym overkill
- Adding images improves the encyclopedia
- Advanced article editing
- Advanced text formatting
- Akin's Laws of Article Writing
- Alternatives to the "Expand" template
- Amnesia test
- A navbox on every page
- An unfinished house is a real problem
- Articles have a half-life
- Autosizing images
- Avoid mission statements
- Be neutral in form
- Beef up that first revision
- Blind men and an elephant
- BOLD, revert, discuss cycle
- Build content to endure
- Cherrypicking
- Chesterton's fence
- Children's lit, adult new readers, & large-print books
- Citation overkill
- Citation underkill
- Common-style fallacy
- Concept cloud
- Creating controversial content
- Criticisms of society may be consistent with NPOV and reliability
- Deprecated sources
- Dictionaries as sources
- Don't demolish the house while it's still being built
- Don't get hung up on minor details
- Don't hope the house will build itself
- Don't panic
- Don't "teach the controversy"
- Editing on mobile devices
- Editors are not mindreaders
- Encourage the newcomers
- Endorsements (commercial)
- Featured articles may have problems
- Formatting bilateral relations articles
- Formatting bilateral relations templates
- Fruit of the poisonous tree
- Give an article a chance
- How to write a featured article
- Identifying and using independent sources
- History sources
- Law sources
- Primary sources
- Science sources
- Style guides
- Tertiary sources
- Ignore STRONGNAT for date formats
- Inaccuracy
- Introduction to structurism
- Mine a source
- Merge Test
- Minors and persons judged incompetent
- "Murder of" articles
- Not every story/event/disaster needs a biography
- Not everything needs a navbox
- Not everything needs a template
- Nothing is in stone
- Obtain peer review comments
- Organizing disambiguation pages by subject area
- Permastub
- Potential, not just current state
- Presentism
- Principle of Some Astonishment
- The problem with elegant variation
- Pro and con lists
- Printability
- Pruning article revisions
- Publicists
- Put a little effort into it
- Restoring part of a reverted edit
- Robotic editing
- Sham consensus
- Source your plot summaries
- Specialized-style fallacy
- Stub Makers
- Run an edit-a-thon
- Temporary versions of articles
- Tertiary-source fallacy
- There are no shortcuts to neutrality
- There is no deadline
- There is a deadline
- The deadline is now
- Try not to leave it a stub
- Understanding Wikipedia's content standards
- Walled garden
- What an article should not include
- Wikipedia is a work in progress
- Wikipedia is not a reliable source
- Wikipedia is not being written in an organized fashion
- The world will not end tomorrow
- Write the article first
- Writing better articles
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| Writing article content |
- Avoid thread mode
- Copyediting reception sections
- Coup
- Don't throw more litter onto the pile
- Gender-neutral language
- Myth vs fiction
- Proseline
- Use our own words
- We shouldn't be able to figure out your opinions
- Write the article first
- Writing about women
- Writing better articles
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Removing or
deleting content |
- Adjectives in your recommendations
- AfD is not a war zone
- Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
- Arguments to avoid in deletion reviews
- Arguments to avoid in image deletion discussions
- Arguments to make in deletion discussions
- Avoid repeated arguments
- Before commenting in a deletion discussion
- But there must be sources!
- Confusing arguments mean nothing
- Content removal
- Counting and sorting are not original research
- Delete or merge
- Delete the junk
- Deletion is not cleanup
- Does deletion help?
- Don't attack the nominator
- Don't confuse stub status with non-notability
- Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument
- Follow the leader
- How to save an article proposed for deletion
- I just don't like it
- Identifying blatant advertising
- Identifying test edits
- Immunity
- Keep it concise
- Liar liar pants on fire
- Nothing
- Nothing is clear
- Overzealous deletion
- Relisting can be abusive
- Relist bias
- The Heymann Standard
- Unopposed AFD discussion
- Wikipedia is not Whack-A-Mole
- Why was the page I created deleted?
- What to do if your article gets tagged for speedy deletion
- When in doubt, hide it in the woodwork
- No Encyclopedic Use
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- Advanced source searching
- All high schools can be notable
- Alternative outlets
- Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
- Articles with a single source
- Avoid template creep
- Bare notability
- Big events make key participants notable
- Businesses with a single location
- But it's true!
- Common sourcing mistakes
- Clones
- Coatrack
- Discriminate vs indiscriminate information
- Don't cite GNG
- Drafts are not checked for notability or sanity
- Every snowflake is unique
- Existence ≠ Notability
- Existence does not prove notability
- Extracting the meaning of significant coverage
- Google searches and numbers
- High Schools
- Inclusion is not an indicator of notability
- Independent sources
- Inherent notability
- Insignificant
- Masking the lack of notability
- Make stubs
- Minimum coverage
- News coverage does not decrease notability
- No amount of editing can overcome a lack of notability
- No big loss
- No one cares about your garage band
- No one really cares
- Notability/Historical/Arguments
- Notability cannot be purchased
- Notability comparison test
- Notability is not a level playing field
- Notability is not a matter of opinion
- Notability is not relevance or reliability
- Notability means impact
- Notability points
- Notability sub-pages
- Notabilitymandering
- Not every single thing Donald Trump does deserves an article
- Obscurity ≠ Lack of notability
- Offline sources
- One hundred words
- One sentence does not an article make
- Other stuff exists
- Overreliance upon Google
- Perennial websites
- Pokémon test
- Read the source
- Reducing consensus to an algorithm
- Run-of-the-mill
- Solutions are mixtures and nothing else
- Subjective importance
- Third-party sources
- Trivial mentions
- Video links
- Vanispamcruftisement
- What BLP1E is not
- What is and is not routine coverage
- What notability is not
- What to include
- Wikipedia is not Crunchbase
- Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause
- Wikipedia is not the place to post your résumé
- Two prongs of merit
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| Humorous essays |
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- Adminitis
- Akin's Laws of Article Writing
- Alternatives to edit warring
- ANI flu
- Anti-Wikipedian
- Anti-Wikipedianism
- Articlecountitis
- Asshole John rule
- Assume bad faith
- Assume faith
- Assume good wraith
- Assume stupidity
- Assume that everyone's assuming good faith, assuming that you are assuming good faith
- Avoid using preview button
- Avoid using wikilinks
- Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense
- Barnstaritis
- Before they were notable
- BOLD, revert, revert, revert
- Boston Tea Party
- Butterfly effect
- CaPiTaLiZaTiOn MuCh?
- Complete bollocks
- Counting forks
- Counting juntas
- Crap
- Don't stuff beans up your nose
- Don't-give-a-fuckism
- Don't abbreviate "Wikipedia" as "Wiki"!
- Don't delete the main page
- Editcountitis
- Edits Per Day
- Editsummarisis
- Editing Under the Influence
- Embrace Stop Signs
- Emerson
- Fart
- Five Fs of Wikipedia
- Seven Ages of Editor, by Will E. Spear-Shake
- Go ahead, vandalize
- How many Wikipedians does it take to change a lightbulb?
- How to get away with UPE
- How to put up a straight pole by pushing it at an angle
- How to vandalize correctly
- How to win a citation war
- Ignore all essays
- Ignore every single rule
- Is that even an essay?
- Mess with the templates
- My local pond
- Newcomers are delicious, so go ahead and bite them
- Legal vandalism
- List of jokes about Wikipedia
- LTTAUTMAOK
- No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man
- No one cares about your garage band
- No one really cares
- No, really
- No sorcery threats
- Notability is not eternal
- Oops Defense
- Play the game
- Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you
- Please bite the newbies
- Please do not murder the newcomers
- Pledge of Tranquility
- R-e-s-p-e-c-t
- Requests for medication
- Requirements for adminship
- Rouge admin
- Rouge editor
- Sarcasm is really helpful
- Sausages for tasting
- The Night Before Wikimas
- The first rule of Wikipedia
- The Five Pillars of Untruth
- Things that should not be surprising
- The WikiBible
- Watchlistitis
- Wikipedia is an MMORPG
- WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG!
- What Wikipedia is not/Outtakes
- Why not create an account?
- Yes legal threats
- You don't have to be mad to work here, but
- You should not write meaningless lists
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| About essays |
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| About essays |
- Essay guide
- Value of essays
- Difference between policies, guidelines and essays
- Don't cite essays as if they were policy
- Avoid writing redundant essays
- Finding an essay
- Quote your own essay
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| Policies and guidelines |
- About policies and guidelines
- How to contribute to Wikipedia guidance
- Policy writing is hard
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Wikipedia referencing |
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| Policies and guidelines |
- Verifiability
- No original research
- Biographies of living persons
- Reliable sources
- Citing sources
- Scientific citations
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| General advice |
- Citation needed
- Find sources
- Combining sources
- Offline sources
- Referencing styles
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| Citing sources |
- Citation Style 1
- Citation Style 2
- Citation Style Vancouver
- LSA
- Comics
- Citation templates
- Reflist template
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| Inline citations |
- Footnotes
- Punctuation and footnotes
- Shortened footnotes
- Nesting footnotes
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| Help for beginners |
- Reference-tags
- Citations quick reference
- Introduction to referencing
- Referencing with citation templates
- Referencing without using templates
- Referencing dos and don'ts
- Citing Wikipedia
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| Advanced help |
- Cite link labels
- Citation tools
- Cite errors
- Cite messages
- Converting between references formats
- Reference display customization
- References and page numbers
- Guidance on source reviewing at FAC
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| Template documentation |
- {{Edit refs}}
- {{Refref}}
- {{Refref2}}
- {{Refstart}}
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| Tools | |
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| Deprecated |
- Parenthetical referencing
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Wikipedia templates |
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| Main namespace |
- General
- Cleanup
- Verifiability and sources
- Disputes
- Hatnotes
- Infoboxes
- Links
- External link templates
- Linking country articles
- Lists
- Main page
- Section
- Sources of articles
- Standard boxes
- Stub types
- Translation
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| Other namespaces |
- Compact TOC
- Category
- File
- Talk
- Template
- User
- User talk
- Wikipedia
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| All namespaces |
- Deletion
- Formatting
- Maintenance
- Merging
- Moving
- Navigation
- Redirect pages
- Functional index
- Language codes
- Splitting
- Wikimedia sister projects
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Navboxes
with templates |
- Archive
- Articles for deletion
- Birth, death and age
- Button
- Category header
- Citation and verifiability
- Citation Style 1
- Deletion review
- Editnotice
- Hatnotes
- Help desk
- Inline cleanup
- Introduction cleanup
- IPA
- Math
- Notice and warnings
- Organization infoboxes
- Proposed article mergers
- Protection
- Quotation
- Redirects
- Search
- Semantics
- Speedy deletion
- String-handling
- Sup and sub-related
- Top icon
- Transwiki maintenance
- Unicode
- User talk pages
- User noticeboard notices
- Userboxes
- Userspace linking
- Userspace Disclaimers
- Wikibreak
- WikiLove
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| Inline images |
- Wikipedia icons
- Discussion icons
- Comment icons
- Emoji
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| Help pages |
- Template documentation
- Examples of templates
- Maintenance template removal
- Requested templates
- Template help
- Template namespace
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| Related topics |
- WikiProject Templates
- Index
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- Category
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