User:Jeff Bedford/HelpfulLinks

Writing guides / content assessment

 * Guide to writing better articles - This page sets out advice on how to write an effective article, including information on layout, style, and how to make an article clear, precise and relevant to the reader.
 * Short checklist: components of a perfect article
 * Detailed assessment checklist for a well-written article
 * WP:GA/ALL - list of all Good Articles
 * WP:CCPOL - Core content policies

Reliable sources + Referencing

 * WP:REFB - Referencing how-to for beginners
 * WP:INDY - Importance of sources that are independent of the subject of the article
 * WP:CORPDEPTH - Evaluating which types of sources are considered reliable for establishing notability of a company/product. Also covers examples of routine mentions or passing references that are not suitable for Wikipedia.
 * Identifying reliable sources
 * WP:PUS - Potentially unreliable sources

Topic-specific Style Guides

 * MOS:C - list of specialized manual of style pages.
 * College and university: WP:UNIGUIDE and WP:Avoid academic boosterism
 * Film: WP:MOSFILM and User:Coder_Dan/How_to_write_a_GOOD_plot_summary
 * TV: WP:MOSTV
 * Companies: Companies,_corporations_and_economic_information (composition guidelines) WP:NCCORP (naming conventions)

Notability

 * General Notability Guideline: WP:N
 * for Films: WP:NOTFILM
 * for Organizations and companies: WP:ORG
 * for Individuals / People: WP:PEOPLE
 * for Sports / Athletes: WP:ATHLETE
 * for Web content: WP:NWEB

Collaborating with other editors

 * WP:CONS - Establishing consensus
 * WP:OWN - No one owns an article or any page on Wikipedia.
 * WP:EDITING - Editing policy, discussion approach
 * Contact_us FAQ; also see Tip_of_the_day/June_8,_2006

COI

 * Ocaasi Training Deck
 * CIPR PR Best Practices Draft
 * Conflict of interest editing on Wikipedia (overview of the state of affairs)


 * User:Jimbo_Wales/Paid_Advocacy_FAQ
 * User:Eclipsed/A_very_specific_list_of_non-controversial_edits_in_mainspace
 * WP:BRIGHTLINE
 * WikiProject_Cooperation
 * WikiProject_Cooperation/Paid_Editor_Help
 * User:Jmabel/PR
 * WP:PANDSCOI
 * WP:COI
 * WP:COIN
 * WP:NPOV
 * WP:WRW - Wikipedia is in the real world
 * WP:Advice for the cultural sector - outstanding overview and introduction on account policies/neutrality tips/COI considerations for cultural sector
 * Closely connected to subject of an article - a part of the WP:YFA guide; includes table of things to be aware about

Introductions/presentations

 * Help:PG - Visual introduction to policies and guidelines (content and conduct)
 * WP:INBRIEF - Wikipedia explained, in brief.
 * WP:SIMPLE - Simplified ruleset and concise explanation of Wikipedia core conduct principles

Broad directories

 * WP:EIW - Editor's index to Wikipedia
 * WP:TMM - The Missing Manual (full book on Wikipedia)
 * List of policies and guidelines
 * List of policies
 * List of guidelines

Markup and formatting

 * Cheatsheet
 * <--how to put refs into 2 columns

How to collapse a ton of junk

Images

 * Picture tutorial

Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
 * ArticleInfo tool - Generates overall editing history and frequency stats
 * - provides month-by-month article traffic stats

Other

 * Signpost - The Signpost, a community-written and community-edited newspaper, covering stories, events and reports related to Wikipedia

Tutorials and skills-improvement

 * Help:TALK - intro to Talk pages
 * Tutorial - Broad tutorial
 * WP:YFA - Your first article guide
 * WP:NPOVT - Tutorial on how to write from a Neutral Point of View