User:Emerman

Emerman text contributions licensing statement.

Current wikipedia talk page discussion of note in the wake of recent vandalism of pages like the Siegenthaler article: Semi-protection policy

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Also if you are new to wikipedia and found your way here from an article I edited, please note that the text looks jammed together unless you get a free account and set up your monobook.css file page (if you're using monobook) to help space things better --


 * here is the info, given to me at the Help Desk --


 * Basically (insert your own username where you see Emerman in this example), just go to the monobook.css page or create it and modify it the way mine is modified in order to see the proper spacing if you are using monobook in your preferences: User:Emerman/monobook.css


 * I modified mine this way: p { margin: 1.5em 0em }
 * It works pretty well on how I am able to see the spacing. I do not know what the above means; an admin told me once. I just know my browser doesn't space the words right when I look at wikipedia without logging in (every time I log in, the above monobook.css kicks in for how my browser displays the page).

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I'm making a list of some Wikipedia style and editing links below that I have found useful:

Editing and edit style
 * Introduction to Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page
 * Tutorial
 * How to use the Wiki markup, including pipe | symbol links
 * The Wikipedia STYLE GUIDE
 * No original research - Wikipedia is source-based research
 * Cite your sources
 * Policy on using links
 * Summary style
 * Avoid weasel terms
 * Use a NEUTRAL point of view
 * Verifiability Policy - Articles should contain info only from reliable outside sources and new info added to article should cite a source or may be challenged
 * Reliable sources
 * Biographies of living persons: libel and malice issues

Help lists of info links
 * Utilities page -- great list of help links!
 * Help directory of info
 * Where to find answers
 * Place to ask others for Help

Things not to do
 * What Wikipedia is not
 * Do not post original research or personal theories &mdash; cite sources from reliable outside sources

Images
 * Copyrights
 * Image copyright tags
 * How to use images in articles
 * Possibly unfree images
 * A model for writing a licensing permission request
 * Image guidelines
 * Copyright - Images
 * GNU Free Documentation License
 * Fair Use Policy
 * Preparing images for upload - use PNG and SVG for diagrams
 * Quadell's fair use image replacement discussion
 * Chowbok's info page on fair use replacement
 * Multi-licensing
 * Creative Commons License
 * Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
 * Copyleft
 * American Society of Media Photographers - Model Release info

Deletion of pages
 * Images for deletion
 * Categories for deletion
 * Survey guidelines

Categories
 * Categories, lists, and series boxes
 * Categorization
 * Categorization of people
 * Category renaming

Miscellaneous tips
 * Making two things with the same name clear (disambiguating a name)
 * How to make a Redirect from a common secondary name for a subject
 * Editing policy
 * Article naming rules
 * How to revert a page to an earlier version
 * Rule about not reverting the same page 3 times in one day
 * Timelines
 * Albums project
 * Perfect stub article
 * Boilerplate text
 * How to archive a talk page

Policies
 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia
 * Policies and guidelines
 * Civility required
 * Be nice to new people!
 * No personal attacks or insults
 * Resolving disputes
 * Conflict resolution
 * Wiki communities are meant for barn raising and building something together, not walling people out

Writing models
 * Peer review of nearly complete articles
 * How to write a great article
 * Your brilliant prose
 * Forum for encyclopedic standards
 * Unofficial view: a topic should have importance
 * Topic notability
 * Eloquence
 * Featured article