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;<div id=Admin style="font-weight: bold">Admin</div>

:: Short for [[OrthodoxWiki:Administrators|Administrator]]. A user with extra technical privileges who does housework.

;<div id=Anchor style="font-weight: bold">Anchor</div>

;<div id=Archive style="font-weight: bold">Archive</div>

:: ''See also [[Help:How to write a great article]].''

==B==

;<div id=Ban style="font-weight: bold">Ban</div>

:: ''See also [[Special:Listusers/bureaucrat|List of bureaucrats]].''

==C==

;<div id=Cabal style="font-weight: bold">Cabal</div>

;<div id=Cut_and_paste move style="font-weight: bold">Cut and paste move</div>

:: Moving a page by taking the text of the page, and put it into the edit window for the second page. Generally considered worse than the 'move page' option, because it causes the page and its edit history to be in different places. Cut and paste moves can be fixed by administrators.

==D==

;<div id=dab style="font-weight: bold">dab</div>

;<div id=Dupe style="font-weight: bold">Dupe</div>

:: Short for a duplicate article. Often used when identifying a duplicate page that needs to be '''[[#Merge|merged]]''' with another.

==E==

;<div id=Edit_conflict style="font-weight: bold">Edit conflict</div>

:: ''See also [[OrthodoxWiki:External links]].''

==F==

;<div id=FAC style="font-weight: bold">FAC</div>

;<div id=Free_link style="font-weight: bold">Free link</div>

:: A link pointing to another page within OrthodoxWiki or its sister projects by using the wiki markup double square-brackets <nowiki>"[[" and "]]"</nowiki>. Sometimes they are referred to as '''wikilink'''s or '''internal link'''s. These links usually show up as <font color=blue>blue</font> if they are working and you haven't visited them before, <font color=red>red</font> if they are broken, and <font color=purple>purple</font> if they are working and you have visited them before; note that they do not have the arrow symbol characteristic of an external link.

==G==

;<div id=Gallery style="font-weight: bold">Gallery </div>

;<div id=Google test style="font-weight: bold">Google test</div>

:: Running sections or titles of articles through the [[w:Google|Google]] search engine for various purposes. The four most common are to check for copyright violations, to determine which term among several is the most widely used, to decide whether a person is sufficiently famous to warrant an article or is simply engaging in vanity and to check whether a questionable and obscure topic is real (as opposed to the idiosyncratic invention of a particular individual).

;<div id=GPL style="font-weight: bold">GPL</div>

:: General Public License.

==H==

;<div id=History style="font-weight: bold">History</div>

:''See also: '''''[[Help:Page history]]'''

==I==

;<div id=IANAL style="font-weight: bold">IANAL</div>

::An abbreviation for I Am Not A Lawyer, indicating that an editor is about to give their opinion on a legal matter as they understand it, although they are not qualified and probably don't fully understand the law in question.

;<div id=Interwiki style="font-weight: bold">ITN</div>

::An abbreviation for In the news.

==J==

==L==

;<div id=Language_link style="font-weight: bold">Language link</div>

:: ''See '''[[#Interwiki|Interwiki]]'''.''

==M==

;<div id=MCB style="font-weight: bold">MCB </div>

;<div id=Mirror style="font-weight: bold">Mirror</div>

:: A website other than OrthodoxWiki that uses content original to OrthodoxWiki as a source for at least some of its content.

==N==

;<div id=Namespace style="font-weight: bold">n/a</div>

;<div id=NPOV style="font-weight: bold">NPOV</div>

:: '''N'''eutral '''p'''oint '''o'''f '''v'''iew, or the agreement to report subjective opinions objectively, so as not to cause edit wars between opposing sides. As a verb, to remove biased statements or slanted phrasing. As an adjective, it indicates that an article is in compliance with [[OrthodoxWiki:Style Manual (Point of View)|OrthodoxWiki's NPOV policy]].

==O==

;<div id=Orphan style="font-weight: bold">Orphan</div>

:: A page with no links from other pages. You can view lists of [[Special:Lonelypages|orphaned articles]] and [[Special:Unusedimages|images]].

==P==

;<div id=Page style="font-weight: bold">Page</div>

:: A page that cannot be edited except by sysops. Usually this is done to cool down an edit war.

==Q==

==R==

;<div id=rv style="font-weight: bold">rv</div>

:: Revert. An edit summary indicating that the page has been reverted to a previous version, often because of [[OrthodoxWiki:vandalism|vandalism]].

==S==

;<div id=s/word1/word2/ style="font-weight: bold">s/word1/word2/</div>

;<div id=Sysop style="font-weight: bold">Sysop</div>

:: ''See '''[[#Admin|Admin]]'''.''

==T==

;<div id=Talk_page style="font-weight: bold">Talk page</div>

;<div id=Tyop style="font-weight: bold">Tyop</div>

:: A cute misspelling of '''typo'''. Used as an edit summary when correcting typos.

==U==

;<div id=Unencyclopedic style="font-weight: bold">Unencyclopedic</div>

;<div id=User_Profile style="font-weight: bold">User Profile </div>

:: A [[#Special pages|special page]] where [[#Preferences|Preferences]] can be viewed or changed.

==V==

;<div id=Vandalbot style="font-weight: bold">Vandalbot</div>

;<div id=Vanity_page style="font-weight: bold">Vanity page</div>

:: A page in the article [[#Namespace|namespace]] that presents biographical details of a non-famous person favorably and is considered inappropriate and/or [[#Unencyclopedic|unencyclopedic]] by most Wikipedians. Such articles are often suspected to be written by their subjects.

==W==

;<div id=Watchlist style="font-weight: bold">Watchlist</div>

;<div id=Wikistress style="font-weight: bold">Wikistress</div>

:: Personal stress or tension induced by editing Wikipedia, or more often by being involved in minor conflict with another editor. Some users maintain a Wikistress meter on their user page.

==?==

;<div id=en style="font-weight: bold">en: / de: / ja: / etc.</div>