User:Donner60/Wikipedia article links

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Purpose, evolution, use of this page
In June 2013, I moved much of what was on this page to a collapsible section on my user page. I put a long version of the welcome template on this page in May 2014 as an example welcome template and to provide another convenient list of basic Wikipedia editing, policy and guideline article links. As of July 2015, my user page is beginning to use a somewhat large amount of bytes but perhaps is still ok as a user page since the collapsible sections make the initial view of the page rather compact. I may move some of the lists in those sections to a sub-page in the future.

I deleted links to categories because this page appeared on the main Wikipedia pages for the categories that were listed on this page. I now realize that adding nowiki tags or simply not bracketing the categories should prevent that. Links to articles only show up on the "What links here" page. Many editors link to Wikipedia project pages and although that produces long lists of links, it seems to be both acceptable and necessary if the links are to be of most help. Links to templates also seem to cause inappropriate inclusion so to the extent I have kept the page names, I have removed the brackets.

My bibliography/library sub-pages have been most useful to me. They provide citations in full form. I usually can quickly find the books I own or have downloaded that may have information on a certain topic which I wish to edit or to which I want to provide a citation. I think a reference page for editing can still be useful if it provides a quick way to find links to pages on editing, style, policy and guidelines, so I am revising this page again to be my single sub-page for those references and some miscellaneous matters. These pages can be useful in explaining reversions and other edits to new users or others who are unaware of a policy, guideline or required or preferred style. In those cases, finding the useful information quickly can be helpful in preparing a better message.

Questia, High Beam, JSTOR
I intended to keep a list of articles to which I added citations from Questia, High Beam and JSTOR but failed to keep it up. I think it would be very difficult to track down all of these pages after a few years of editing, especially with many counter-vandalism edits on my contributions list. Still I may try to track down some of these past edits and to start adding them here or to an offline list which I would use to update the lists here occasionally.

References from High Beam added


 * Jane Currie Blaikie Hoge

References from Questia added


 * Historical polling for U.S. Presidential elections
 * Jeptha Vining Harris (Mississippi general)

Guidelines, policies
In general, see:


 * List of guidelines
 * List of policies
 * Five pillars
 * Core content policies
 * Wikipedia's content is governed by three principal core content policies: neutral point of view, verifiability, and no original research. Editors should familiarize themselves with all three, jointly interpreted:


 * 1) Neutral point of view (WP:NPOV) – All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view, representing significant views fairly, proportionately and without bias.
 * 2) Verifiability (WP:VER) – Material challenged or likely to be challenged, and all quotations, must be attributed to a reliable, published source. In Wikipedia, verifiability means that people reading and editing the encyclopedia can check that information comes from a reliable source.
 * No original research (WP:NOR) – Wikipedia does not publish original thought: all material in Wikipedia must be attributable to a reliable, published source. Articles may not contain any new analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to advance a position not clearly advanced by the sources.
 * "No original research" (NOR) has its origins in the "neutral point of view" (NPOV) policy and the problem of dealing with undue weight and fringe theories. The core policy of Wikipedia, NPOV, is meant to provide a framework whereby editors with diverse, often conflicting, even opposing points of view can collaborate on the creation of an encyclopedia. It does so through the principle that while it is often hard for people to agree as to what is the truth, it is much easier for people to agree as to what they and others believe to be the truth. Therefore, Wikipedia does not use "truth" as a criterion for inclusion. Instead, it aims to account for different, notable views of the truth. First codified in February 2001, the objective of the NPOV policy is to produce an unbiased encyclopedia.

Abbreviation, citation, footnote, referencing, style links

 * Abbreviations - Manual of Style/Abbreviations


 * Citation - also has external links, links to references, style and format books or articles
 * Citation - inline. Inline citation
 * Citation - inline. Inline citation/examples
 * Citation needed. Template:Citation needed
 * Citation templates. Citation templates, which includes Template:Citation.
 * Citing Sources. Citing sources
 * Citing sources. Citing sources/example style


 * Footnotes Footnotes
 * Footnotes Help:Footnotes


 * Referencing. Referencing for beginners; Help:Referencing for beginners
 * Referencing. Referencing for beginners with citation templates
 * Referencing. Referencing for beginners without using templates
 * Reflist-talk. Template:Reflist-talk – for use on talk pages


 * Sources. Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles/Citation quick reference
 * Sources. Identifying reliable sources


 * Verifiability. Verifiability
 * Verifiability
 * Verifiability

Alternate citation form templates
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 * cite article as:
 * cite article as:
 * cite article as:
 * cite article as:
 * cite article as:
 * cite article as:
 * cite article as:
 * cite article as:
 * cite article as:

General: alternate Wikipedia citation templates; some fields in edited templates often also would be omitted:
 * Edited, brief, author:
 * Full:


 * Hal Jespersen recommendations: User:Hlj/CWediting

Some other Manual of Style specifics

 * Manual of Style/Military history


 * Words to watch. Manual of Style/Words to watch

Wikipedia:Tips
Some links and mostly partial quotes from Tips or Tip of the day which seem useful:

Accuracy. We strive to make Wikipedia as accurate and as good as possible. If you see something you know is wrong, be bold and fix it. If you see something that seems wrong, leave a note on the talk page and remove questionable assertions if no supporting evidence is provided. You can also use a verification template to add a "citation needed" tag after the text in question. Tip of the day/December 18.

Vandalism, Conduct links

 * Administrator intervention against vandalism


 * Sockpuppet investigations


 * Category:Wikipedia counter-vandalism tools
 * Vandalism and name space templates. Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace


 * Edit warring
 * Edit warring
 * "Not every revert or controversial edit is regarded as edit warring:
 * "Reverting vandalism is not edit warring. However, editing from a slanted point of view, general insertion or removal of material, or other good-faith changes are not considered vandalism. See and § What is not vandalism.
 * "Reverting to enforce certain overriding policies is not considered edit warring. For example, under the policy on biographies of living persons, where negative unsourced content is being introduced, the risk of harm is such that removal is required.
 * "Reverting edits by banned or blocked users is not edit warring.
 * "Reverting edits in one's own user page is rarely edit warring. Traditionally, Wikipedia offers wide latitude to users to manage their user space as they see fit. For more information, see ."


 * Edit warring
 * "The following actions are not counted as reverts for the purposes of 3RR:
 * Reverting your own actions ("self-reverting").
 *  Reverting edits to pages in your own user space, so long as you are respecting the user page guidelines.
 * Reverting actions performed by banned users, and sockpuppets of banned or blocked users.
 * Reverting obvious vandalism—edits that any well-intentioned user would agree constitute vandalism, such as page blanking and adding offensive language.
 * Removal of clear copyright violations or content that unquestionably violates the non-free content policy (NFCC). What counts as exempt under NFCC can be controversial, and should be established as a violation first. Consider reporting to the Non-free content review noticeboard instead of relying on this exemption.
 * Removal of other content that is clearly illegal under US law, such as child pornography and links to pirated software.
 * Removal of libelous, biased, unsourced, or poorly sourced contentious material that violates the policy on biographies of living persons (BLP). What counts as exempt under BLP can be controversial. Consider reporting to the BLP noticeboard instead of relying on this exemption."

Article references a specific article Article adds text onto the end of the message
 * Template usage:
 * Third opinion
 * Dispute resolution noticeboard
 * Requests for comment
 * Reliable sources/Noticeboard
 * Neutral point of view/Noticeboard
 * Mediation - content disputes
 * Administrators' noticeboard - complaints about behavior
 * Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents - request for administrator assistance
 * Talk page guidelines
 * Arbitration/Requests
 * WikiProject; WikiProject Directory; WikiProject Military history; WikiProject Military history/American Revolutionary War task force; WikiProject Military history/American Civil War task force;

American Civil War
See My Libraries (Bibliographies); Reference Use; And Sandboxes section on user page.

Templates: Indefinitely Blocked, Not Around
(see: [ block log] • contributions • deleted contributions • [ page moves] • current autoblocks)
 * This user has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia.

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