User:JayWhitney/Wikipedia Resources
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Useful templates
[edit]- {{pov}} (for articles or sections with significant point of view problems)
- {{original research}} (for articles or sections with significant amounts of original research)
- {{philosophy}} (for philosophy articles! Add to talk pages, not the articles themselves.)
- {{subst:spam}} (for spammers)
- {{talkheader}} (for the more troublesome talk pages)
- {{unsigned}} (for unsigned comments on talk pages)
- {{unreferenced}} (for articles or sections with significant deficits of reliable sources)
- {{expand-section}} (to note that more content is needed)
Wikipedia Editing Guidelines and Resources
[edit]- Wikipedia:Tutorial (WP:T)
- Wikipedia:Help desk (WP:HEP)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (WP:MOS)
- Wikipedia:Cheatsheet
- Wikipedia:List of common misspellings
- Wikipedia:Words to avoid (WP:WTA)
- Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words (WP:AWW)
- American and British English differences
- Wikipedia:Redirects (WP:R)
- Picture tutorial (WP:PIC)
- Formula tutorial
- Wikipedia:Boilerplate text (WP:BPT) Some copy-paste text for common uses
- Help:Edit summary (WP:ES) Everything you ever wanted to know about the Edit Summary
- Wikipedia:Edit summary legend (WP:ESL) All of the Edit Summary Abbreviations and their use
- Wikipedia:Categorization (WP:CAT) All about using Wikipedia Categorization
- Wikipedia:Categorisation FAQ
- Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes (WP:CLS)
- Wikipedia:Contents (WP:E) Category schemes, Lists of Lists, Glossaries, Indices, Portals, Timelines, etc.
- Wikipedia:Disambiguation (WP:D)
- Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links (WP:DPL)
Wikipedia Policy and Rules
[edit]- Wikipedia:Policy Library
- Wikipedia:Cite your sources
- Wikipedia:Wikiquette
- Wikipedia:Civility
- Wikipedia:Assume good faith (WP:AGF)
- Wikipedia:Be bold in updating pages (WP:BOLD)
- Wikipedia:Citing sources (WP:CITE}
- Wikipedia:Ignore all rules (WP:IAR)
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (WP:NPOV)
- Wikipedia:No original research (WP:NOR)
- Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers (WP:BITE)
- Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS)
- Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V)
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT)
- Wikipedia:No personal attacks (WP:NPA)
- wikipedia:Notability (people) (WP:BIO)
- Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP)
- Wikipedia:Call a spade a spade (WP:DUCK)
- Wikipedia:Civil POV pushing (WP:PUSH)
Wikipedia Tools and Resources
[edit]- Wikipedia Tools (WP:TOOLS)
- Wikipedia:IRC channel (WP:IRC) For Wiki Chats
- Wikipedia:Mailing lists (WP:ML) Wiki EMail lists you can get on.
- Special:Upload How to upload files, pics, etc.
- Wikipedia:Database download (WP:DUMP) Want your own copy of Wikipedia?
- The Python Wikipedia Robot Framework
- Fantastic set of tools from User:Transhumanist
- The List of the New Pages
- Generates code for a cite given an isbn
- How to archive your User Talk page
Wikipedia Processes
[edit]- Wikipedia:Resolving disputes (WP:DR)
- Wikipedia:Current polls (WP:RFC) Making a Request for Comments
- Wikipedia:Mediation (WP:M)
- Wikipedia:Arbitration policy (WP:AP)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:AFD) To Discuss deleting an Article
- Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Log/Today Today's log of Articles for deletion
- Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Log/Yesterday Yesterday's log of articles for deletion
- Wikipedia:Snowball clause (WP:SNOW) Don't start a process that doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding.
- Wikipedia:Peer review (WP:PR) Starting an article down the path to Featured Article
- Wikipedia:Scientific peer review (WP:SPR) Scientific Peer Review Process
Admin Requests
[edit]- WP:DRV To report improper deletion of an article, or request undeletion of an article to the Administrators
- WP:RFPP To report improper protection or request unprotection from the Administrators
- WP:RFC/NAME To report improper usernames to the Administrators
- WP:AN/3RR To report Three-revert rule violations to the Administrators
- WP:AIV To report persistent vandalism to the Administrators
- WP:AN/I Administrator's Noticeboard - Incidents needing Admin attention but don't fit the admin requests above.
Wikipedia Special Areas
[edit]- Wikipedia:Categorical index Like a Table of Contents
- Wikipedia:Featured articles (WP:FA)
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures (WP:FP)
- Special:Log/Delete
- Wikipedia:Pages needing attention (WP:PNA) List of pages that need attention
- Announcements (WP:A) Announcements/Milestones/news - summarized - only on English Wikipedia or Foundation
- Current events World news today - about 1 Week of headline links and links into the archive
- Signpost English Wikipedia's Newspaper
- Wikipedia statistics
- Wikipedia glossary
- Wikipediology
- Wikipedia school and university projects
- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team (WP:1.0) About project to release a version on CD or DVD
- Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) (WP:VPR) Where to go to suggest changes to Wikipedia
- M:Foundation issues Some of the foundation-level issues people have with wikipedia