User:Skittleys/infopg

A batch of templates, etc., to help me do my wiki-work!

Anything denoted "(template)" is updated elsewhere, so check these often!

Disambiguation (a.k.a. "Hi, I'm a DAB, and this is what I do!")
This article contains all info relating to what a DAB is and usage conventions.

Process

 * 1) Find an article to work on. Find an article to wikify at Category:Articles that need to be wikified. Many editors choose to work on the oldest articles first, so that none of them sit around for too long waiting for attention. It should be relatively easy to wikify an article even if you are not familiar with the subject.
 * 2) Check if the article is a copyright violation. There are a few red flags that indicate text was probably illegally copied into Wikipedia. User:Kjkolb/Copyvio has a quick guide. Instructions for reporting violations are at Copyright problems.
 * 3) Check if another article already exists on this subject. Use the search button at the left of the screen to check for duplicate articles, and create a redirect if necessary.
 * 4) Add wikilinks. Where appropriate, make links to other articles by putting "" and "" on either side of relevant words.  Read the Wikipedia guidelines on this, Build the web and Make only links relevant to the context, for guidance on when it is and is not appropriate. A helpful tool for adding links is Can We Link It?, although its suggestions should be applied judiciously in the light of current advise in the styleguides. Note that full-date autoformatting is no longer encouraged.
 * 5) Format the lead. Create or improve the lead paragraph.
 * 6) Arrange section headers. Arrange section headers as described at Guide to layout.
 * 7) Add an infobox if applicable. Add an Infobox if it is appropriate for the article.
 * 8) Remove the wikify tag. This will remove it from the list.
 * 9) Add other maintenance tags. If the article needs any other work, add the corresponding tag(s) from Template messages/Cleanup.
 * 10) Enhance your edit summary. You can encourage others to help with the wikification backlog by using something like the following as your edit summary when you save your changes:
 *  Wikified as part of the Wikification wikiproject! 

Dead-end Pages
"This is a list of dead-end pages (see the listing for the date it was last updated). The pages on this list contain no internal links to other Wikipedia articles. Most of these pages need an editor to wikify them. The links' purpose is to build the web, but one must remember to only make links that are relevant to the context. Useful tools to help adding internal links are the wikifyer (look out for the allwiki effect), and Nickj's Can We link it? tool." -- Dead-end pages

Categorization
Lists that should be categories

Special Pages (contains template)
Other useful special pages:
 * Available to all
 * Special:MostLinkedCategories
 * Special:Statistics
 * Special:CategoryTree
 * Special:Allpages
 * Special:Fewestrevisions
 * Special:Mostcategories
 * Special:Categories (can help find stupid cats, like ones beginning with !!!!)
 * Special:Disambiguations
 * Special:Log
 * Special:Mostlinked
 * Special:RecentChanges
 * Special:RecentChangesLinked
 * Special:UnusedCategories
 * Special:SpecialPages -- THE LIST
 * Special:Randompage