Wikipedia:Teahouse/Host lounge/How-to guides

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This collection of easy how-to talking points are here to help hosts easily explain editing tasks to new users. It is divided into thematic editing areas. Please share your how-to's as well!

Article creation and editing

;Categories

:How to add categories and why we use them.

;Links

:Policies around adding Wikipedia links, inter-wiki links and external links, and how to add them.

;Redirects & moving articles

:A brief examination of why redirects are created and how to create them, and how to move articles.

;References and sources

:What type of sources we use and how to add them.

;Sandbox

:Why to use and how to create sandboxes. This shares its space with the userspace guide.

;Watchlist

:Explains how to watch and remove articles from one's watchlist.

Images

;Images

:Discusses how to upload images, how to use images in Wikipedia and how to share images on Commons.

Policy

;Conflict of interest (COI)

:Examines policy around conflict of interest and provides information how to edit BLP's, etc to avoid COI.

Userspace

;Userspace guide

:Explores how users can improve and use their userspaces, make username changes, use talk pages, etc.

Other areas

;Facebook & Wikipedia

:Discusses why Facebook pages don't update instantly after updates are made to the Wikipedia page.

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