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- See Vandalism in progress to report persistent vandalism. If it's serious, maybe 3RR violation or request for Administrator intervention, or if it's really, really serious: WP:ANI.
- See Help desk for questions about editing on Wikipedia.
- See Reference desk for factual questions (about everything but Wikimedia— e.g., "Who is the current Pope?") not yet answered by Wikipedia.
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- See Third opinion or requests for comment or edit dispute for help resolving an editing dispute.
- See Resolving disputes to resolve issues between/among users or for making a user conduct dispute complaint. Remember, Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point!
- See Wikimedia Meta-wiki to view other Wikimedia projects.
- See Peer review for incisive, constructive criticisms from others on a finished article.
- See [http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/ MediaZilla] to make wiki software bug reports and feature requests.
- See Alternate Sites For When The Main Wikipedia Server Is Down You should bookmark the sites noted because once Wikipedia is down, you won't be able to access this page.
- IF YOU HAVE REALLY MESSED UP A PAGE, and accidentally saved it, simply click on the history tab (at the top) and then click on the date immediately preceding that of your change, then click on edit this page, then save the resulting page. This will revert the change.
- Do Not Attempt to Rename, Move, or Copy a Page Simply by Copying Its Contents; See Renaming, moving, copying a page.
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- Help:Contents
- Edit conflict Must read before you get one!
- Major edit in progress! Avoiding conflict.
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