Help:Menu/Editing Wikipedia

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Editing Wikipedia Edit

Basic editing

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 * Be bold!
 * Introductory tutorial
 * Contributing to Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page
 * Experiment in the sandbox
 * Show preview to review your edits before you save
 * Editing sections
 * Creating links
 * Making categories

Saving your edits

 * "Show preview"  &mdash;   always use this to avoid errors
 * Edit summary  &mdash;   please explain your edits
 * Minor edits  &mdash;   check this for typos and small corrections
 * Edit conflict  &mdash;   what to do when another editor changes the page while you're editing it

How to write an article

 * Starting an article
 * Article Wizard
 * Name a page
 * Naming conventions in general
 * Full list of specific naming conventions
 * Your first article
 * Article development (advanced editing)
 * Layout
 * The perfect article
 * Writing better articles
 * Editing shortcuts
 * Contributing to articles outside your native language
 * Editing with a text editor
 * Special page types
 * Disambiguation pages
 * Creating subpages

Style and formatting

 * Wikipedia's Manual of Style
 * Article size
 * Categorization
 * Citing sources


 * Article components
 * Lists
 * Tables
 * Redirects
 * Infoboxes
 * Using templates
 * Creating templates
 * List of templates
 * Modules, an advanced form of templates
 * Pictures and videos
 * Mathematical formulas
 * Hatnotes
 * Footnotes and references


 * Wiki markup
 * Cheatsheet
 * "Magic words"
 * Variables
 * Valid HTML codes in wikitext
 * Easy timeline syntax

Article standards

 * Biographies of living persons
 * Citing sources
 * Copyrights
 * Editing
 * External links
 * Image use
 * Using redirects
 * Include only verifiable information
 * Deletion
 * Manual of Style
 * Neutral point of view
 * What Wikipedia is not

Article maintenance

 * Use talk pages (discussion pages)
 * Archive a talk page
 * Tagging pages for problems
 * Merge two or more pages
 * Move or rename a page
 * Requested moves
 * Delete pages/images/categories
 * Stub articles
 * List of stub types
 * Revert a page to an earlier version
 * Dealing with vandalism
 * Protect and unprotect pages (Administrators only)
 * Link together Wikipedia articles in different languages
 * Link words in articles to Wikimedia sister projects
 * Use page names
 * Use namespaces
 * Use headings as anchors to link to
 * Do a purge
 * Test edits and other things