User:Sbmeirow/Help
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Useful Help
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- Help: Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
- List of policies and guidelines for Wikipedia
- New Contributor's Help Page; Questions; Editing Tutorial
- List of policies and guidelines
- How to cite sources by adding references?
- How to add External Links?
- What Wikipedia is Not?
- What is Verifiability?
- What is Notability?
- How to Create a New Wiki Article
- Article Wizard
- [https://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/webchecklinks.py How to validate ALL internet links on a Wikipedia article]
- Use this City Layout Guideline
- Uploading a photo found on Flickr to Wikimedia Commons
- [http://toolserver.org/~magnus/fist.php Free Image Search Tool (FIST)]
- How to move an article
- Where to Report Vandalism
- Where to Request Page Protection
- WikiProject Resource Exchange - Resource Request
- Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources and Wikipedia:External links/Perennial websites
- Criticism of college and university rankings (North America)
- Wikipedia:Graphics Lab
- Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop
- Wikipedia:SVG help
- Wikipedia:Tools
- Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks
Useful Templates
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Name | Usage | Comments |
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WP:NOWIKI | ||
Clear Content Flow | ||
No Wrap | ||
Template:Hilite | ||
Measurement Conversions | ||
Columns Total | ||
Columns by Units | ||
Stack Photos | ||
Quote | easier to type and more wiki-like than equivalent HTML {{tag|blockquote}} tag | |
Reference Pages | append after a book reference, see Bonner Springs, Kansas intro | |
Reflist for Talk sections | ||
Multiple Message Boxes | see Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup | |
NRISref | For National Register of Historic Places references. See example at Memorial Hall (Kansas City, Kansas). | |
Mono | Render in monospaced text. |
Useful tips
- Wikipedia:Graphs and charts
- MOS:NUM - Wikipedia Manual of Style for Dates and Numbers, which has numerous templates, examples, and recommended uses.
- MOS:CREDENTIAL - remove "Dr." & "Professor" titles, unless widely known.
- WP:OBVIOUS - to keep United States as a USA location.
- Wikipedia:Deletion is not cleanup
{{not a typo|USD 341}} - fix automated tools that convert United School District into currency.- Wikipedia:SVG help
WYSIWYG editors for Wikipedia
- Wikipedia Visual Editor - First opt-in user-facing production usage by December 2011, and first small wiki default deployment by June 2012.
- [http://gwennel.com/gwennel-web/ Gwennel Web] - WYSIWYG editor for Wikipedia and MediaWiki sites that runs on Windows XP / Vista / 7. It allows you to easily edit pages without knowing the tedious wiki syntax.
- [http://ckeditor.com/ CKEditor] - WYSIWYG editor used inside web pages.
- [http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=12298 Microsoft Office Word Add-in For MediaWiki] - Allows you to save your Microsoft Office Word 2007 and 2010 documents straight into MediaWiki.
Useful City Article Tips
- All small towns needs to create a city-owned web site, so the link can be added to the Wikipedia article about your city!
- Your city needs to add detailed history to your city-owned web site, so it can be referenced by Wikipedia articles!
- How was the city named? What year was the city founded? Interesting facts and info about about your city.
- List of cool points of interest and landmarks that you want to share with the world?
- Upload old historical photos / post cards / new photos of buildings / attractions of your city to Wikimedia, so we can use in Wikipedia articles!
- Enter grave information for your local cemeteries into http://www.findagrave.com so relatives and researchers can easily find them.
- Flags should NOT be in the infobox, per WP:INFOBOXUSE.
Warnings
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