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This is a '''glossary of terms commonly used on OrthodoxWiki''' and some other like sites. For more help, see [[OrthodoxWiki:Help]], [[Help:Contents]], [[OrthodoxWiki:FAQs]], and [[OrthodoxWiki:Trapeza]].
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==A==
;<div id=admin Admin style="font-weight: bold">Admin</div>
:: Short for [[OrthodoxWiki:Administrators|Administrator]]. A user with extra technical privileges who does housework.
:: An encyclopedia entry. All articles are pages, but not all pages are articles.
:: ''See also [[OrthodoxWikiHelp:What is an How to write a great article]].''
==B==
;<div id=Ban style="font-weight: bold">Ban</div>
:: Banning is the extreme, last resort action by which someone is prevented from editing Wikipedia for a prolonged or indeterminate length of time. Reason for banning is usually a long history of biased edits, persistent adding of incorrect or doubtful material, refusal to cooperate with others, or extreme incivility and threats. If someone is banned, their username is blocked, and any username or IP identified as being the same person that is with great likelihood identified as being the same person can be blocked without any further reason. See also: [[#Block|block]]
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:: ''See also [[OrthodoxWiki:Boilerplate textTemplates]].''
;<div id=Bot style="font-weight: bold">Bot</div>
:: A Wikipedia Admininistrator who has been entrusted with promoting users to sysops.
:: ''See also [[OrthodoxWikiSpecial:BureaucratsListusers%26group%3Dbureaucrat%26username%3D|List of bureaucrats]].''
==C==
;<div id=Cleanup style="font-weight: bold">Cleanup</div>
:: The process of repairing articles that are ungrammatical, are poorly formatted, etc. Cleanup generally requires only editing skills, as opposed to the specialized knowledge that is more often called for by articles needing [[OrthodoxWiki:Pages Category:Articles for reorganization|reorganization]], [[:Category:Articles needing attentionEnglish standardization|pages needing attentionEnglish standardization]]. , [[:Category: ''See also: Articles needing Orthodoxization|orthodoxization]], or [[OrthodoxWiki:Cleanup processCategory:Articles needing expert help|expert help]].''
;<div id=Copyvio style="font-weight: bold">Copyvio</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=Data dump style="font-weight: bold">Data dump</div>
:: To import material from outside sources into OrthodoxWiki without editing, formatting and linking. This is frowned upon by most [[#WikipediansWikipedian|Wikipedians]].
:: ''See also '''[[#Wikify|Wikify]]'''.''
:: Take away someone's sysop status. Used very rarely, in cases where someone has misused their sysop powers.
;<div id=Developer style="font-weight: bold">Developer</div>
:: The process of resolving the conflict that occurs when articles about two or more different topics have the same natural title.
;<div id=Disambiguation_page style="font-weight: bold">Disambiguation page</div>
==F==
;<div id=FAC style="font-weight: bold">FAC</div>
:: [[OrthodoxWikiCategory:Featured article candidatesArticles|Featured article candidate]], an article that has been proposed for consideration to be [[OrthodoxWiki:Featured articles|featured]] as one of the best in WikipediaOrthodoxWiki.
;<div id=Fancruft style="font-weight: bold">Fancruft</div>
::A [[w:neologism|neologism]] most often seen on [[w:WP:VFD|WP:VFD]], meaning a trivia article of interest only to hardcore fans of a specific film, television series, book, game, etc. Where the line is drawn is highly subjective and can be controversial. Often seen as an insult to those who've contributed that information, and to others interested in the subject.
;<div id=Forest_fire style="font-weight: bold">Forest fire</div>