User:Frankthetankk

Helpful Links

 * Wikimedia Commons
 * Database download
 * Meetup
 * Wikipedia article traffic
 * Article traffic jumps
 * Requests for permissions
 * Edit requests - Edit requests are requests for edits to be made to a page that editors cannot or should not make proposed edits themselves.
 * Counter-Vandalism Unit
 * Counter-Vandalism Unit/Academy - Training program is designed to help new and/or inexperienced users who wish to assist with maintenance tasks to understand the basic principles of countering vandalism on Wikipedia.

Manual

 * Manual of Style
 * Simplified_Manual_of_Style - This Simplified Manual of Style is an overview of commonly used style guidelines.
 * Manual of Style/Layout - This guide presents the typical layout of Wikipedia articles.
 * Manual of Style/Linking
 * Manual of Style/Lead section
 * Manual of Style/Titles
 * Manual of Style/Writing about fiction - Wikipedia articles should describe fiction and fictional elements from the perspective of the real world, not from the perspective of the fiction itself. Jump to conclusions for a more detailed summary of this guideline's contents.
 * Training/Newcomers/Welcome
 * Annotated article
 * Stub - A stub is an article deemed too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject.
 * WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types - a full list of stub messages/templates that are applied to stubs.
 * Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers - Changing dates to dmy/mdy.
 * ISO8601 date and time formats, must have for date based naming of files etc.

Plot

 * How to write a plot summary - An encyclopedia article about a work of fiction frequently includes a concise summary of the plot.
 * Plot-only description of fictional works - Coverage of fictional topics should provide balanced coverage that includes both plot summary and real-world context. The coverage of a fictional work should not be a mere plot summary. A summary should facilitate substantial coverage of the work's real-world development, reception, and significance.

Wiki Markup

 * Wikipedia:Line-break_handling
 * Help:Wiki markup
 * Help:Cheatsheet
 * Help:HTML in wikitext
 * Help:Interwikimedia links
 * Help:Magic links
 * Help:Magic words
 * Help:Sound file markup
 * Help:Entering special characters
 * Help:Musical symbols
 * Tools – various tools and tutorials intended to simplify, make more efficient, or provide additional functionality to Wikipedians.
 * Template messages/Cleanup - Add template messages to inform readers and editors of specific problems with articles or sections.

WikiMedia Commons

 * Category:Source templates - This category contains marker templates that indicate the source of files.
 * Category:Infobox templates: based on Information template - Infobox templates: based on Information template.
 * Commons:Non-copyright_restrictions - Non-copyright restrictions official guideline illustrates standards or behaviors which most editors agree with in principle and generally follow.
 * Commons:Picasa Web Albums files - Google's Picasa Web Albums (link) is a photo sharing site.
 * Commons_talk:Picasa_Web_Albums_files#Creative_Commons_licensing_unavailable_in_Google.2B - Images hosted on Google+ are no longer licensed as such and actually fall under a Google license which technically does not allow Commons to host the pictures without permission.


 * Commons:Flickr files - Flickr allows free hosting of imagery under a variety of licenses, some free and some non-free.
 * Commons:YouTube files -
 * Commons:License review
 * Commons:PD files - Public Domain (PD) means a file is not copyrighted and is freely available for any use.

Image/File

 * Help:Visual file markup
 * Extended image syntax – syntax for displaying an image
 * Help:Gallery tag – Galleries are images formed into rows and columns by use of the ... parser tag.
 * Images
 * Picture tutorial
 * Help:Formatting
 * Upload/Flickr
 * Upload work from Flickr
 * Flinfo tool – to extract the summary information and paste it into the simple upload form
 * Commons:Flickr_files/Appeal_for_license_change
 * Commons:Email_templates


 * Commons:CropTool
 * croptool


 * istockphoto.com
 * morguefile.com

Template

 * Help:A quick guide to templates
 * Wikipedia:Help:Template
 * Help:Template
 * Help:Substitution - Substitution is a function whereby, when an editor saves a page, an item in the wikicode is permanently replaced with its current value.
 * Citation templates
 * Template documentation
 * Template:Cleanup-bare URLs – LinkRot
 * Template:Find sources – produces a series of links to various search interfaces to help find additional reference material for articles.
 * Template:Find sources 4
 * Template:Class/icon
 * Template:Reflist
 * Template:Lead rewrite
 * Template:Multiple issues
 * Template:URL
 * Template:Coord – coordinates
 * Template:Centered pull quote – block quote
 * Template:Marriage
 * Template:Unbulleted list - This template creates unbulleted lists.
 * Template:Help me - If you need help, you can place this template on any talk page, preferably your own user talk page, and write your question below it. Then helpers will be notified.
 * Template:Birth date and age2 - This template displays a person's birth date and age at a specified date. This allows you to show how old a person was at the time they participated in an event or made an achievement.
 * Template:Tl - The template link template is a simple macro template used to display a template name as a link surrounded by braces, thus showing how the template name would be used in code. Its primary use is in instruction and documentation. A short example is that the code:  generates Example
 * Template:Citation - generates a citation for a book, periodical, contribution in a collective work, patent, or a web page.

Sandbox use

 * Template:Query web archive -  automatically creates links to webpage archives at the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, Bibalex Wayback, WebCite, and Wikiwix  from the given   parameter.

Social media
The external links guideline recommends avoiding links to blogs and social media websites unless the website is an an official account "controlled by the subject (organization or individual person) of the Wikipedia article". Multiple hoax and "fan" accounts have been discovered; please make a particular effort to verify the authenticity of any official links. Legitimate social media websites are usually named in reliable sources, such as newspaper stories, about the subject, or linked by other subject-controlled sources.

Templates external links

 * Template:Facebook - The template name is . It is used to link articles to a particular Facebook account, by the account's URL and title. Usage example:
 * Template:Twitter - The template name is . It is used to link articles to a particular Twitter account, by the account's URL and title. Usage example:
 * Template:Twitter status - This is a template to generate a direct link to a Twitter status message. Usage example:


 * Template:Instagram - Displays a Instagram account link.
 * Template:Google+ - The template name is . It is used to link articles to a particular Google+ account, by the account's URL and title. Usage example:
 * Template:Flickr-inline2 - Displays a Flickr account link.
 * Template:Tumblr - The template name is . It is used to link articles to a particular Tumblr account, by the account's URL and title. Usage example:
 * LinkedIn - Need a template
 * Template:Myspace - Displays a Myspace account link.
 * Template:Pinterest - The template name is . It is used to link articles to a particular Pinterest account, by the account's URL and title. Usage example:
 * Template:IMDb name - The template name is . It is used to link articles to a particular Internet Movie Database account, by the account's URL and title. Usage example:

References/Notes/Sources

 * Citing sources - Citing sources content guideline.
 * Help:Footnotes - This page explains how to create the Footnotes section for Wikipedia articles.
 * Help:References and page numbers - Footnotes. The manner in which a page number is included depends on the citation style.
 * Template:R - Provides a simple wrapper for (up to 9 consecutive) &lt;ref name="foo" /&gt; citation tags that minimizes visual impact on the text, which along with the simpler syntax increases code readability and editability.

Infoboxes

 * WikiProject Biography/Infoboxes
 * Template:Infobox person - Used to summarize information about a particular person, usually at the top of an article.
 * Template:Infobox television - Infobox for television series.
 * Television_program - This is a short list of film and television genres of fiction and entertainment.
 * List_of_genres - This is a detailed list of film and television genres of fiction and entertainment.


 * Template:Infobox journal - Infobox journal can be used to display details about academic journals and similar publications as a right-side infobox. It can be stacked with other infoboxes.

Table

 * Help:Table
 * Help:Table/Introduction to tables
 * Help:Table/Manual tables – Creating tables manually
 * Wikitable – Wikitable
 * Manual of Style/Tables

Categories

 * Category:Articles needing link rot cleanup
 * Category:Wikipedia cleanup
 * Category:Video game critics

HTML

 * w3schools.com – Web development reference site. HTML/CSS/JavaScript/SQL/PHP/JQuery

Script

 * User scripts
 * Twinkle - help them deal with acts of vandalism. It provides users with rollback functions, speedy deletion functions, user warnings and welcomes, maintenance tags, and semi-automatic reporting of vandals.
 * AutoWikiBrowser
 * AutoWikiBrowser/General fixes
 * AutoWikiBrowser/Typos
 * User:John of Reading/Typo fixing with AutoWikiBrowser – How this user fixes typos with AWB
 * User:Anomie/linkclassifier
 * User:Remember_the_dot/Syntax_highlighter#Color_list - Syntax color list variables.
 * User:PleaseStand/References_segregator - an attempt to make editing articles that have many citation templates easier. Usage: Click the green button titled "Segregate refs fir editing" above inside the edit box every time you want to use the script.

Tools

 * Huggle
 * find link – finds links to a page.
 * WPCleaner
 * Link here - Magnus' tools list on wmflabs.
 * Link here - This tool will search through a page's history and return edits made by a particular user on that page.

Television

 * Manual of Style/Television - a style guide for those who edit Television-related articles under WikiProject Television.

Video Games

 * List of electronic sports players
 * WikiProject Video games
 * John Bain (game commentator)
 * Category:Professional StarCraft II players
 * Template:Find video game sources
 * Good article nominations
 * Template:Infobox Pro Gaming player
 * Category:FA-Class video game articles - This category contains articles that have been rated as "FA-Class"  by the Video games WikiProject.

Comics

 * WikiProject Comics - a centralized home for work done on Wikipedia articles about comics and sequential art
 * Manual of Style/Comics - The Comics WikiProject's style guide is intended to apply to all articles related to comics.
 * Template:Cite comic -  To format references to comic books in a consistent and legible manner.
 * Category:FA-Class Comics articles - This category contains articles that have been rated as "FA-Class"  by the WikiProject Comics.
 * Manual_of_Style - Avoid using the # symbol when referring to numbers or rankings. Instead use the word "number", or the abbreviation "No." An exception is issue numbers of comic books, which unlike for other periodicals are given in general text in the form #1, unless a volume is also given, like Volume 2, Number 7 or Vol. 2, No. 7.

Things To Do

 * Persondata
 * User talk:Dr pda/persondata.js - Persondata. you will see a tab show/hide persondata.
 * User talk:Dr pda/templatecheck.js
 * Category:2007 deaths
 * Template:Persondata
 * Category:Persondata templates without name parameter
 * Category:Persondata templates without short description parameter


 * Category:Wikipedia template parameter issues
 * Category:American actor stubs - American actor stubs articles for improvement.
 * Category:People stubs - People stubs articles for improvement.

Currently Working On

 * The Walking Dead (comic book)
 * List of The Walking Dead characters

Examples
Things to view to help with articles I'm working on.
 * Hamlet - Reference templates style

Postal codes

 * List of post towns in the United Kingdom
 * List of postal districts in the United Kingdom
 * BT postcode area

Useful lists

 * Characters of Kingdom Hearts - a good character list example via Manual of Style/Television
 * Missing encyclopedic articles/List of TV shows - a list of television programs that may not be covered in wikipedia.