User:Sbmeirow/Help

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Useful Help

 * Manual of Style
 * Help: Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
 * List of policies and guidelines for Wikipedia
 * New Contributor's Help Page; Questions;  Editing Tutorial
 * List of policies and guidelines
 * How to cite sources by adding references?
 * How to add External Links?
 * What Wikipedia is Not?
 * What is Verifiability?
 * What is Notability?
 * How to Create a New Wiki Article
 * Article Wizard
 * How to validate ALL internet links on a Wikipedia article
 * Use this City Layout Guideline
 * Uploading a photo found on Flickr to Wikimedia Commons
 * Free Image Search Tool (FIST)
 * How to move an article
 * Where to Report Vandalism
 * Where to Request Page Protection
 * WikiProject Resource Exchange - Resource Request
 * Reliable sources/Perennial sources and External links/Perennial websites
 * Criticism of college and university rankings (North America)

Useful tips

 * Graphs and charts
 * MOS:NUM - Wikipedia Manual of Style for Dates and Numbers, which has numerous templates, examples, and recommended uses.
 * MOS:CREDENTIAL - remove "Dr." & "Professor" titles, unless widely known.
 * WP:OBVIOUS - to keep United States as a USA location.
 * Deletion is not cleanup
 * USD 341 - fix automated tools that convert United School District into currency.
 * SVG help

WYSIWYG editors for Wikipedia

 * Wikipedia Visual Editor - First opt-in user-facing production usage by December 2011, and first small wiki default deployment by June 2012.
 * Gwennel Web - WYSIWYG editor for Wikipedia and MediaWiki sites that runs on Windows XP / Vista / 7. It allows you to easily edit pages without knowing the tedious wiki syntax.
 * CKEditor - WYSIWYG editor used inside web pages.
 * Microsoft Office Word Add-in For MediaWiki - Allows you to save your Microsoft Office Word 2007 and 2010 documents straight into MediaWiki.

Useful City Article Tips

 * All small towns needs to create a city-owned web site, so the link can be added to the Wikipedia article about your city!
 * Your city needs to add detailed history to your city-owned web site, so it can be referenced by Wikipedia articles!
 * How was the city named? What year was the city founded? Interesting facts and info about about your city.
 * List of cool points of interest and landmarks that you want to share with the world?
 * Upload old historical photos / post cards / new photos of buildings / attractions of your city to Wikimedia, so we can use in Wikipedia articles!
 * Enter grave information for your local cemeteries into http://www.findagrave.com so relatives and researchers can easily find them.
 * Flags should NOT be in the infobox, per WP:INFOBOXUSE.