User:JayWhitney/Wikipedia Resources

Useful templates

 * (for articles or sections with significant point of view problems)
 * (for articles or sections with significant amounts of original research)
 * (for philosophy articles! Add to talk pages, not the articles themselves.)
 * (for spammers)
 * (for the more troublesome talk pages)
 * (for unsigned comments on talk pages)
 * (for articles or sections with significant deficits of reliable sources)
 * (to note that more content is needed)

Wikipedia Editing Guidelines and Resources

 * Tutorial (WP:T)
 * Help desk (WP:HEP)
 * Manual of Style (WP:MOS)
 * Cheatsheet
 * List of common misspellings
 * Words to avoid (WP:WTA)
 * Avoid weasel words (WP:AWW)
 * American and British English differences
 * Redirects (WP:R)
 * Picture tutorial (WP:PIC)
 * Formula tutorial
 * Boilerplate text (WP:BPT) Some copy-paste text for common uses
 * Help:Edit summary (WP:ES) Everything you ever wanted to know about the Edit Summary
 * Edit summary legend (WP:ESL) All of the Edit Summary Abbreviations and their use
 * Categorization (WP:CAT) All about using Wikipedia Categorization
 * Categorisation FAQ
 * Categories, lists, and series boxes (WP:CLS)
 * Contents (WP:E) Category schemes, Lists of Lists, Glossaries, Indices, Portals, Timelines, etc.
 * Disambiguation (WP:D)
 * Disambiguation pages with links (WP:DPL)

Wikipedia Policy and Rules

 * Policy Library
 * Cite your sources
 * Wikiquette
 * Civility
 * Assume good faith (WP:AGF)
 * Be bold in updating pages (WP:BOLD)
 * Citing sources (WP:CITE}
 * Ignore all rules (WP:IAR)
 * Neutral point of view (WP:NPOV)
 * No original research (WP:NOR)
 * Please do not bite the newcomers (WP:BITE)
 * Reliable sources (WP:RS)
 * Verifiability (WP:V)
 * What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT)
 * No personal attacks (WP:NPA)
 * Notability (people) (WP:BIO)
 * Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP)
 * Call a spade a spade (WP:DUCK)
 * Civil POV pushing (WP:PUSH)

Wikipedia Tools and Resources

 * Wikipedia Tools (WP:TOOLS)
 * IRC channel (WP:IRC) For Wiki Chats
 * Mailing lists (WP:ML) Wiki EMail lists you can get on.
 * Special:Upload How to upload files, pics, etc.
 * Database download (WP:DUMP) Want your own copy of Wikipedia?
 * The Python Wikipedia Robot Framework
 * Fantastic set of tools from User:Transhumanist
 * The List of the New Pages
 * Generates code for a cite given an isbn
 * How to archive your User Talk page

Wikipedia Processes

 * Resolving disputes (WP:DR)
 * Current polls (WP:RFC) Making a Request for Comments
 * Mediation (WP:M)
 * Arbitration policy (WP:AP)
 * Articles for deletion (WP:AFD) To Discuss deleting an Article
 * Votes for deletion/Log/Today Today's log of Articles for deletion
 * Votes for deletion/Log/Yesterday Yesterday's log of articles for deletion
 * Snowball clause (WP:SNOW) Don't start a process that doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding.
 * Peer review (WP:PR) Starting an article down the path to Featured Article
 * Scientific peer review (WP:SPR) Scientific Peer Review Process

Admin Requests

 * WP:DRV To report improper deletion of an article, or request undeletion of an article to the Administrators
 * WP:RFPP To report improper protection or request unprotection from the Administrators
 * WP:RFC/NAME To report improper usernames to the Administrators
 * WP:AN/3RR To report Three-revert rule violations to the Administrators
 * WP:AIV To report persistent vandalism to the Administrators
 * WP:AN/I Administrator's Noticeboard - Incidents needing Admin attention but don't fit the admin requests above.

Wikipedia Special Areas

 * Categorical index Like a Table of Contents
 * Featured articles (WP:FA)
 * Featured pictures (WP:FP)
 * Special:Log/Delete
 * Pages needing attention (WP:PNA) List of pages that need attention
 * Announcements (WP:A) Announcements/Milestones/news - summarized - only on English Wikipedia or Foundation
 * Current events World news today - about 1 Week of headline links and links into the archive
 * Signpost English Wikipedia's Newspaper
 * Wikipedia statistics
 * Wikipedia glossary
 * Wikipediology
 * Wikipedia school and university projects
 * Version 1.0 Editorial Team (WP:1.0) About project to release a version on CD or DVD
 * Village pump (proposals) (WP:VPR) Where to go to suggest changes to Wikipedia
 * Foundation issues Some of the foundation-level issues people have with wikipedia

Wikipedia Useful project links

 * WikiProject Philosophy (WP:WPP)