Editing Encyclopedia:Glossary (section)

==G==

;{{Vanchor|GA}}
: [[WP:Good articles|Good article]]. Hence '''{{Vanchor|GAN}}''' [[Wikipedia:Good article nominations|Good article nomination]] and '''{{Vanchor|GAR}}''' [[Wikipedia:Good article reassessment|Good article reassessment]].
;{{Vanchor|gadget}}
: A [[WP:Gadget|gadget]] is a JavaScript tool that can be enabled from your Wikipedia preferences.
;{{Vanchor|Gdanzig}}
: An edit war over which of several possible names should be used for a place. The word is a portmanteau of [[Gdańsk]] and [[Danzig]], the two names about which a venerable edit war ensued. See [[Talk:Gdansk/Vote]].
;{{Vanchor|geostub}}
: A [[WP:stub]] article about a geographical location
;{{Vanchor|GF}}
: See {{slink||AGF}}.
;{{Vanchor|GFDL}}
: [[GNU Free Documentation License]]. Many of Wikipedia's articles are released under this license. ''See also [[Wikipedia:Copyrights]].''
;{{Vanchor|GFE}}
: 1. A [[WP:Assume good faith|good faith]] edit.
: 2. A good faith editor.
;{{Anchor|Ghits|G-hits|GHits}}Ghits, G-hits, GHits
: "Google hits" – the number of results returned on searches for a particular word or phrase using the [[Google]] search engine. Sometimes used as a very rough assessment of notability on {{slink||AFD}}. See also {{slink||Google test}}.
;{{Vanchor|glock|Glock|Glocked|glocked}}
:Short for [[wp:global lock|global lock]], a block where the user is banned from every WikiMedia site
;{{Vanchor|gloss}}, glosses, glossing
: In editing, a [[WP:GLOSSING|gloss]] is brief explanation that accompanies a text. It can also refer to the addition, modification, or deletion of [[WP:LINK|hyperlinks like this one]].
;{{Anchor|Gnome|Gnoming}} [[WP:WikiGnome|gnome]]
: A wikipedia editor who primarily engages in ''gnoming'': making minor, but helpful edits.
;{{Anchor|Godwin's Law|Godwin's law|Godwin’s Law|Godwin’s law}}Godwin's Law
: [[Godwin's Law]] is concerned with [[logical fallacies]] such as ''[[reductio ad Hitlerum]]'', wherein an idea is unduly dismissed or rejected on the ground of it being associated with persons generally considered "evil".
: Godwin's Law states, "As an online discussion grows longer, the [[Probability#Mathematical treatment|probability]] of a comparison involving [[Nazis]] or [[Hitler]] approaches 1." It is often cited as soon as it occurs as a flag that discussions have gone on too long or gotten out of hand on a particular topic.
;{{Vanchor|good hand, bad hand}}
: Using one resource only for good things and a second, similar resource only for bad things, thereby deflecting any criticism from the first resource by attracting it with the second. In short, keeping one hand clean by using only the other hand for all dirty things.
: On Wikipedia, used in phrasing such as, "A good hand, bad hand situation," usually referring to the behavior made under two editor accounts. See [[WP:Sock puppetry#Inappropriate uses of alternative accounts|Wikipedia:Sock puppetry § Inappropriate uses of alternative accounts]], in particular the bullet point with direct shortcuts [[WP:GHBH]] & [[WP:HAND]].
;{{Vanchor|Google test}}
: Running sections or titles of articles through the [[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 notable to warrant an article and to check whether a questionable and obscure topic is real (as opposed to the idiosyncratic invention of a particular individual). ''See also {{slink||Ghits}} and [[WP:Search engine test|Wikipedia:Google test]].''
;{{Vanchor|GPL}}
: [[GNU General Public License]]. [[MediaWiki|Wikipedia's software]] is released under this license.
;{{Vanchor|gr}}
: Grammar. Used in [[WP:Edit summaries|edit summaries]] to indicate that a grammar problem is being corrected.
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