User:Marc Kupper/Wikipedia

Articles

As I read them I'm collecting articles on WP editing here as a reference sheet. Usually what happens is I remember something about an article but not the exact article. This page helps me track down the article while also organizing them.

Policy

Core Wikipedia policy

Official English Wikipedia policy

Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines (WP:PG, WP:POL, WP:POLICY, WP:GUIDE)
Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:LIVE, WP:BOLP, WP:BLP)
- Wikipedia:BLPSTYLE#Writing style (WP:BLPSTYLE)
- Presumption in favor of privacy
Wikipedia:Consensus (WP:CON, WP:CONS)
Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion (WP:CSD, WP:SD, WP:SPEEDY)
- Non-criteria (WP:NOTCSD)
Wikipedia:Naming conventions (WP:NAME, WP:NC, WP:TITLE)
- Use common names of persons and things (WP:NCCN, WP:COMMONNAME)
Wikipedia:No legal threats (WP:NLT, WP:LEGAL, WP:THREAT, WP:LAWSUIT)
- Perceived legal threats (WP:NPLT)
Wikipedia:Sock puppetry (WP:SOCK, WP:SOCKS)
Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT)
Wikipedia:Vandalism (WP:VAN, WP:VAND, WP:VANDAL)
- Tracing IP addresses (WP:WHOIS)
- What is not vandalism (WP:VAND#NOT, WP:NOTVAND)

Guidelines

English Wikipedia content guidelines

English Wikipedia editing guidelines

Wikipedia notability guidelines

Wikipedia style guidelines

Category:Wikipedia style guidelines
Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N, WP:NN, WP:NOTE)
Wikipedia:Citing sources (WP:CS, WP:CITE, WP:REF)

Wikipedia essays

Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines#Essays (WP:ESSAYS) - Official policy on essays.
Wikipedia:Wikipedia essays - Essay about Wikipedia essays.
meta:Category:Essays - similar essays, at the Meta-Wiki
Category:Wikipedia essays (WP:ESSAY, CAT:E) - List of the Wikipedia essays.

User essays

Wikipedia essays mostly written by a single person, and not frequently referenced, may be userfied. At present there are well over 700 user essays.
Category:User essays - List of the user space essays.

Wikipedia:Recentism (WP:RECENT, WP:RECENTISM)

Proposed Guidelines

Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point (WP:POINT, WP:DISRUPTPOINT)

General

These articles are not as organized as policy and guidelines. For example, there do not seem to be any categories related to them and it's not clear where they fall in the scheme of things.

Wikipedia:Article creation (WP:ACR, WP:ACRE, WP:NEW)
Wikipedia:Starting an article ([[summarized in Wikipedia:Your first article) (WP:SAA)
Wikipedia:Your first article ([[summary of Wikipedia:Starting an article) (WP:YFA, WP:FIRST, WP:1ST)
Wikipedia:Wikipedians (WP:EDIANS, WP:USERS, WP:EDITORS)

Help

These articles are not as organized as policy and guidelines. For example, there do not seem to be any categories related to them and it's not clear where they fall in the scheme of things.

Help:Starting a new page

Deleting articles

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:AFD)
Wikipedia:Deletion review (WP:DRV, WP:DELREV)
- Before nominating an article for deletion (WP:BEFORE)
  - {{Notability}} Hatting template for notability to be applied per WP:BEFORE. Use with |date={{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
- How to list pages for deletion (WP:AFDHOWTO)
- How to list multiple related pages for deletion (WP:BUNDLE)
Special:Log (used to view previous deletions). Note that articles created before mid-2007 do not have an "N" record at the beginning.
Wikipedia:Proposed deletion (WP:PROD)
- Wikipedia:Proposed deletion#Objecting (WP:CONTESTED)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting (WP:DELSORT, WP:DS)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Authors
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Science fiction
Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:AADD, WP:ATA)
Wikipedia:How to save an article proposed for deletion (WP:SAVE)

Afd Survival guide

If you have something in mind that can establish that someone or something is notable then simply state the evidence on the AfD page. Most wikipedians want to keep the articles, but only if the subject is notable per WP:N. For example How To Be Bad being optioned is a good in that it's at least something though is not the sort of thing that will slam-dunk an article into the "keep" category. You may be interested in Wikipedia:How to save an article proposed for deletion and Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions.

You may be interested in WP:SAVE and WP:ATA.

Also, even if an article is deleted all is not lost. If you later run across solid evidence of notability then post the evidence on your user page so that the admins can see it and and ask that the article be undeleted citing the new evidence. See Wikipedia:Viewing and restoring deleted pages and Wikipedia:Undeletion policy. Note that you don't need to first post that solid evidence of notability but it will increase the odds greatly plus it means you'll have the material already set up to instantly drop into the restored article. Good luck.

Comment: I'm concerned that WP:BEFORE was not followed. The editor who created this page needs to be made aware of WP:BURDEN and WP:PEOPLE. It's a new editor, no need to WP:BITE him or her. Nominating editor, I would strongly encourage you to immediately withdraw the AfD and to give the editor creating this article a couple of weeks to say something. If he or she ignores you then WP:PROD.

Manually setting up an AfD

To add the xyzzy article to the AFD queue you would

Hat xyzzy.
Create Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/xyzzy or Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/xyzzy (2nd nomination).
Update WP:AFD/t by adding a line to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2024 November 18.
Post user warnings.

In more detail this is
1. Hat xyzzy

<-- For administrator use only: {{oldafdfull|page=xyzzy|date=18 November 2024|result=keep}} -->

<-- End of AfD message, feel free to edit beyond this point -->

Alternative hats are:

2. Create Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/xyzzy or Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/xyzzy (2nd nomination)

Add this to the page

{{subst:afd2|pg={{subst:SUBPAGENAME}}|cat=P|text=Explain the nomination}}

Or you can add

===[[xyzzy]]===

:{{la|xyzzy}} – <includeonly>([[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/xyzzy|View AfD]])</includeonly><noinclude>([[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2009 September 9{{anchorencode:xyzzy}}|View log]])</noinclude>

:({{findsources|xyzzy}})

Explain the nomination ~~~~

3. Update WP:AFD/t by adding a line to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2024 November 18

4. Post user warnings

AfD nomination of [[xyzzy]]

<div class="floatleft" style="margin-bottom:0">[[File:Ambox warning pn.svg|42px]]</div>An article that you have been involved in editing, [[xyzzy]], has been listed for [[Wikipedia:Deletion policy|deletion]]. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/xyzzy]]. Thank you.{{-}}Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. --~~~~

or for a 2nd nomination it would be

<div class="floatleft" style="margin-bottom:0">[[File:Ambox warning pn.svg|42px]]</div>An article that you have been involved in editing, [[xyzzy]], has been listed for [[Wikipedia:Deletion policy|deletion]]. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/xyzzy (2nd nomination)]]. Thank you.{{-}}Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. --~~~~

Wikipedia Dispute Resolution

Wikipedia:Requests for comment (WP:RFC)
Wikipedia:Requests for mediation (WP:RFM)
Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests (WP:RFAR, WP:RFARB, WP:ArbReq, WP:A/R, [[formerly Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration)

Inline Templates

[Wikipedia:WikiProject Inline Templates]
{{ec}} Used on talk pages and adds (edit conflict)

Dealing with other editors

{{Welcome}} - Use as {{subst:welcome}} ~~~~ or {{subst:w}} ~~~~
{{Welcome-anon}} - Use as {{subst:welcome-anon}} ~~~~

Researching web sites

Special:LinkSearch generates a list of links to the specified external web site. Think of it as a What links there.
Google for site:en.wikipedia.org link:external-site.com though this is not as reliable as Special:LinkSearch.
http://www.alexa.com/ can be used to get rank numbers to see if a site may be "notable".

Dealing with problem users

Administrator intervention against vandalism (WP:AIV, WP:AIAV, WP:RVAN) Used to deal with vandals in real time.
- Guide to administrator intervention against vandalism (WP:GAIAV, WP:GAIV, WP:GRVAN)
Sockpuppet investigations (WP:SPI, WP:RFCU, WP:SSP)

Talk page templates

Tags for giving visual hints to readers of talk page items, making it easier to spot open, stalled, or resolved issues. It is hoped that the tags will encourage resolution of items on a talk page.

{{y}}	Y
{{n}}	N
{{Resolved}}	Resolved
{{Unresolved}}	Unresolved
{{Stale}}	Stale
{{Stuck}}	Stuck
{{Moved conversation}}	Moved to

See Template:Check_mark/doc for a list of check and cross marks.

Need cleanup

Toolbox

Message me.
Citation templates	Today's AfD log
New Pages	Category:Articles that need to be wikified

Youtube^[1]

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WikiMedia / Wikipedia

After a brief spate of irritation about images for some of the pages I have an interest in being deleted or proposed for deletion I started to appreciate the process as I realized that many of these images and supporting text were unsourced/uncited resulting in a quiet "revision of history through good intentions" in that someone adds text/images to Wikipedia which later gets copied to other sites and then cited. That said - here are some links collected as I develop an interest in the process.

Wikipedia:Bureaucrats
Stewards (it's not clear why this is not Wikipedia:Stewards)
Wikipedia:Administrators
- Wikipedia:Administrators' how-to guide
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion
- Wikipedia:Vandalism
- Wikipedia:Blocking policy
- Wikipedia:Protection policy
- Wikipedia:No personal attacks
- Wikipedia:Requests for CheckUser
- Block Templates
- The deletion log's deletion reason said that it didn't have a fair use rationale. The deletion log can be difficult to find; it's a little easier for admins. Special:Log/delete is the special page where all deletion entries can be found. This is the entry you're looking for. In the undeletion log (only available to admins), it shows that User:Lee M uploaded the image on Dec. 31, 2004. I hope that clarifies the situation. Cheers. --MZMcBride 04:33, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Maintenance tags
- {{Advert|date=April 2008}}
- {{Unencyclopedic|date=April 2008}}
- Template:Prod - Propose an article for deletion - use {{subst:prod|reason}}
- Template:tfd - Propose a template for deletion - use {{tfd|{{subst:PAGENAME}}}}

Wiki things I need to catch up on...

Core Policies

Inline templates

{{Cite quote}}, for "actual quotations" which need citations to make them proper
{{Page number}}, request a page number for an existing citation
{{List fact}}, request a citation of a source which justifies inclusion of a given entry in a list
{{Clarifyme}}, request clarification of wording or interpretation
{{Reference necessary}}, wrapper for a portion of a paragraph to highlight it as needing citation

Incomplete citations

{{Page needed}}, in-line request for the page number or page numbers in a work such as journal for an existing citation.
{{Season needed}}, similar to {{page needed}}, for missing TV season & episode number
{{Volume needed}}, similar to {{page needed}}, for missing journal, newspaper, comic, etc., volume and issue numbers)

Verification

{{Dead link}}, request a fix for a dead external link within a paragraph or a reference citation.
{{Failed verification}}, source was checked, and did not contain the cited material
{{Request quotation}}, request a direct quote from an inaccessible source, for verification purposes
{{Self-citation}}, flag a source that cites another Wikipedia article
{{Verify credibility}}, flag a source as possibly being unreliable and/or unverifiable
{{Verify source}}, request that someone verify the cited source backs up the material in the passage

Content

{{Dubious}} – flag something as suspected of being incorrect
{{or}} – flag something as possibly containing original research
{{POV-statement}} – dispute the neutrality of a passage
{{weasel-inline}} – Avoid weasel words.
{{who}} – for placement after descriptions of a group of persons.
{{whom}} – placement after mention of a vague third party claim that is not sourced.

Article message box (hatting) templates

{{Unreferenced}}, article/section has no sources/references/citations given at all
{{Refimprove}}, article/section has weak or incomplete sources/references/citations
{{Citecheck}}, article/section may have inappropriate or misinterpreted citations

Category:Neutrality templates)

{{who}}

Templates

{{Creation}} Sometimes people ask something along the lines of "how do you add a new page onto wikipedia?" This template provides the answer.
{{dn}} -> Template:Ambiguous link
{{fact}} (use {{subst:fact-now}}) - this template also says "Unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material about living persons should be removed immediately, not tagged. See this section of WP:BLP."
{{inuse}} Tags that a section or page is being actively edited. Used to avoid edit conflicts.
{{tl}} Template:Tl Used to document Template Links
{{or}} inserts ^{[original research?]}
{{underconstruction}} inserts block about page or section being under construction and also adds the page to Category:Articles actively undergoing a major edit.
{{Unreferenced}} inserts block about that the section contains no references. Usage {{Unreferenced|section|date=September 2007}}
{{AfD footer}} Template:AfD footer Mark an article for deletion

Other

Wiki tools

a Firefox addon: "Resurrect pages" finds dead web pages) or
a "Wayback" bookmarklet from this site: Jesse's Bookmarklets (also for dead web pages)
CommonsHelper - Helps in migrating data to Commons

External Links

There are regular battles over if an external link is appropriate

WP:EL often cited - redirects to Wikipedia:External links - Oddly, External links redirected to Internal Links.
Help:Link - master help page
should I link externally When should I link externally (from Meta) -> External links (from Meta)
WP:EL#What should be linked to there is no such sub-section/
Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines#The differences between policies.2C guidelines.2C essays.2C etc.

Wikipedia Requests

Text formatting

The following do not work inside <nowiki>: * Unordered lists. # Ordered lists. Html <i>italics</i> or <b>bold</b>. Wikitext ''italics'' or '''bold'''. Line break with <br>. The only thing that seems to work are &code; characters.
Some versions of mediawiki do not seem to have a sandbox^[3].
Some versions of MediaWiki do not support footnotes.

Irrationales

The entire Wikipedia rationale thing seems rather bogus with random robots nit picking away and people essentially creating boilerplate rationales to satisfy the robots as the actual instructions about what to do are so crappy. I've spent hours trying to understand the mumbo jumbo and as I upload images so rarely it's deja vue all over again which I try to figure out a rational rationale.

Wikipedia:Fair_use_rationale_guideline
Template:Book rationale - A generic book rationale
Template:Cover rationale - A generic cover rationale (I think this is for product covers?)
Image:Black_medicine.jpg - An image someone uploaded that can be used as a prototype rationale
Image:Tarzan_twins.jpg - another image
Image:The_City_and_the_Stars_hardcover.jpg - The most recent image I've tried to rationalize

Speculative Fiction

Use Google

References

^ King, Stephen (January 01-05). It. Penguin. pp. 15–16. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
^ Randalls, Jane (02-05-08). Yay. Publsiher. pp. 51–56. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
^ See the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox

[1] King, Stephen (January 01-05). It. Penguin. pp. 15–16. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

[2] Randalls, Jane (02-05-08). Yay. Publsiher. pp. 51–56. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

[3] See the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox

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v t e Citations
Book	{{cite book \| last = \| first = \| authorlink = \| coauthors = \| title = \| publisher = \| date = \| location = \| pages = \| url = \| doi = \| id = \| isbn = }}
Journal	{{cite journal \| last = \| first = \| authorlink = \| coauthors = \| title = \| journal = \| volume = \| issue = \| pages = \| publisher = \| location = \| date = \| url = \| doi = \| id = \| accessdate = }}
News Article	{{cite news \| last = \| first = \| coauthors = \| title = \| work = \| pages = \| language = \| publisher = \| date = \| url = \| accessdate = }}
Website	{{cite web \| last = \| first = \| authorlink = \| coauthors = \| title = \| work = \| publisher = \| date = \| url = \| format = \| doi = \| accessdate = }}
Video	{{cite video \| people = \| title = \| medium = \| publisher = \| location = \| year2 = }}
Television or Radio Episode	{{cite episode \| title = \| episodelink = \| series = \| serieslink = \| airdate = \| season = \| number = }}