User:Mscitizen/Toolkit

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Really important things

 * See Vandalism in progress to report persistent vandalism. If it's serious, maybe 3RR violation or request for Administrator intervention, or if it's really, really serious: WP:ANI.
 * See Third opinion or requests for comment or edit dispute for help resolving an editing dispute.
 * See Resolving disputes to resolve issues between/among users or for making a user conduct dispute complaint. Remember, Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point!
 * See Peer review for incisive, constructive criticisms from others on a finished article.
 * Do Not Attempt to Rename, Move, or Copy a Page Simply by Copying Its Contents; See Renaming, moving, copying a page.

Links for newcomers

 * Welcoming committee | Contact us
 * FAQs
 * Common mistakes
 * Resolving disputes


 * Collaborative writing | Consensus
 * Simplified ruleset | Don't be a fanatic
 * Writing a great article | Better | Best
 * Community Portal | WikiProjects | Proposals

Links for contributors

 * About WikiProject Best Practices
 * Categorization | FAQ | Category schemes
 * Cleanup | Templates & tags | Fix-ups
 * Contributing outside your native language
 * Deletion policy | Undeletion policy
 * Editing pages | Copy-edit
 * External links | (when?)
 * Footnotes (Proposal)
 * Glossary of Wiki terms ⇒ Lists-1  ⇒ Lists-2
 * Guide to layout
 * "  structure content in Wiki articles
 * "  write a great article | Improve it
 * InfoBoxes
 * JavaScript in Wikipedia
 * monobook.js
 * Greasemonkey user scripts
 * Library of user scripts
 * Script Techniques
 * Script Tutorials
 * Scripts
 * WikiProject User scripts
 * Logs
 * Mailing lists
 * Manual of style
 * MediaWiki HTML extensions
 * Merging and moving pages | (Rename)


 * Meta
 * Most wanted articles
 * Naming conventions | Category
 * Peer review
 * Redirect | Double redirect
 * Reusable text (boilerplate text)
 * Reverting a page | Three-revert rule (3RR)
 * Special pages ⇒ List
 * Speedy deletions
 * Stub | Types
 * Syntax conversion utilities
 * System Messages
 * Tables intro | Guide
 * Templates
 * Templates, intro
 * Templates
 * Template messages | User talk namespace
 * Template namespace
 * Template substitution
 * Transclusion
 * Advanced templates
 * Tools ⇒ List
 * Utilities If you've exhausted Toolset!
 * Troubleshooting
 * User boxes ⇒ List
 * Wikipedia categories
 * Wikipedia style guidelines | (non-Wiki); ...for specific projects/disciplines

Style guidelines

 * Abundance and redundancy
 * Avoid neologisms
 * Avoid peacock terms
 * Avoid self-references
 * Avoid statements that date quickly
 * Avoid weasel terms
 * Bad article ideas
 * Brilliant prose
 * Build the web vs. Make links relevant to the context only
 * Check your facts
 * Cite sources | Example
 * Don't include copies of primary sources
 * Lyrics and poetry
 * Featured articles
 * Fiction


 * Follow highlighting conventions
 * Future event
 * History (article style)
 * Lists | Stand-alone | Embedded | Pro & con
 * Long article layout | Size
 * Make articles useful for readers
 * Make technical articles accessible
 * Explain (necessary) jargon
 * Technical terms and definitions
 * Proper names
 * Rhetoric
 * Section | Lead section | Subheadings
 * Stay on topic; don't wander
 * Timeline standards
 * Words to avoid

Formatting:

 * See Help:Editing

(For hidden inserted comments.)

Indenting by one space causes this box to form and suppresses certain codes.

Formatting ISBN

 * simply typing ISBN 3-540-60521-5  produces the special reference display   ISBN 3-540-60521-5

Images
To insert an image into an article, edit the article and insert



To have an image deleted, edit its description page and put (but of course you would insert the name of the FOO.jpg image. Everything to the right of the | is comment.  )


 * Images and Copyrights
 * Fair use
 * Featured pictures
 * Image copyright tags
 * Image help
 * Image help category
 * Image use policy
 * Images
 * Image (description) page
 * Images and media for deletion
 * Picture tutorial
 * Public domain image resources
 * Uploading images

Redirects

 * Help on Redirect
 * Wikipedia Redirect (formatting)
 * Avoid the dreaded Double redirect and self-reference.


 * 1) REDIRECT NAME OF REDIRECT TARGET

To go (back) to a Redirect Page itself (e.g., to change or delete the redirect), use the link in the (Redirected from Redirect Page) line, which appears at the top of the target page, just below the line 'From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.' (For this line to appear, you must first Go to the Redirect Page.)