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- Style guide, the Wikipedia entry on style guides. Contains links to the online style guides of some magazines and newspapers.
- Wiki markup explains the mechanics of what codes are available to you when editing a page, to do things like titles, links, external links, and so on.
- Wikipedia:Annotated article is a well-constructed article, with annotations that explain why.
- Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes gives a list of common mistakes and how to avoid them.
- Wikipedia:Be bold in updating pages should define your attitude toward page updates.
- Wikipedia:Citing sources explains process and standards for citing references in articles.
- Wikipedia:Editing policy explains Wikipedia's general philosophy of editing.
- Wikipedia:Footnotes describes footnote usage and style; parts of it are contested.
- Wikipedia:Guide to layout is an example of how to lay out an article.
- Wikipedia:How to copy-edit gives helpful how-to advice on copy-editing.
- Wikipedia:How to edit a page is a short primer on editing pages.
- Wikipedia:Introduction is a gentle introduction to the world of Wikipedia.
- Wikipedia:Perfect stub article shows what you should aim for at a minimum when starting a new article.
- Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines is the main stop for policies and, well, guidelines.
- Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Jguk was an Arbitration Committee case on style edit warring.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject sets out boilerplates for certain areas of knowledge.
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- If a reference is reused in more than one footnote, it is preferable to use the format "Smith, Short Title, 182" rather than "Ibid, 182", so as to avoid these problems, or use named references if appropriate.