User:Werldwayd/Useful Wikipedia Pages


 * This is a User page for User:Werldwayd to help him in creating and editing of articles in Wikipedia.


 * For articles created by Werldwayd, see: User:Werldwayd/Articles-Created


 * For articles greatly contributed to by Werldwayd, see User:Werldwayd/Articles-Great_Contributions


 * For created Categories / Disambiguation Pages / Indices and Lists / Templates and for Photos uploaded, please refer to User:Werldwayd/Articles-Plus

Useful links for Wikipedia editing

 * List of wikis
 * Template:Essays on building Wikipedia
 * Template:Help navigation
 * Alternative outlets
 * Criteria for speedy deletion
 * Manual of Style
 * Requests for page protection
 * Requests for undeletion
 * Why was the page I created deleted?
 * Reliable sources/Perennial sources
 * Template:Quicktemplates
 * Template:Quicktemplates
 * Template:Quicktemplates

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Some useful material for Wikipedia editing (collected here partly so that I can remind myself where to find these):
 * WP:SIGNPOST (Wikipedia news)
 * WP:TWL and WP:TWL/Newsletter (the Wikipedia Library)
 * A cool tool for finding articles created by a particular user (use '+' for spaces, as in this).
 * A way to figure out whether someone is an administrator.
 * WP:5000
 * Help:Diff
 * Help:Pipe trick (formatting tricks using the pipe character)
 * Help:Special page
 * English grammar
 * Comparison of American and British English
 * English relative clauses
 * List of cognitive biases
 * List of fallacies
 * WP:ABOUT general introduction to Wikipedia)
 * WP:AT article titles; within it: WP:COMMONNAME, WP:TITLEFORMAT, WP:CRITERIA, WP:SMALLDETAILS
 * WP:NC (naming conventions for article titles)
 * WP:ENGLISH (naming conventions for using English in article titles; within it: WP:DIACRITICS)
 * WP:DAB (disambiguation; within it: WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, WP:2DAB, WP:TWODABS)
 * WP:HAT (hatnotes)
 * WP:OFFICIALNAMES (naming conventions for official names)
 * WP:NCCORP (naming conventions for companies)
 * WP:NCE (naming conventions for events)
 * WP:NCP (naming conventions for people; within it: WP:STAGENAME and WP:INITS / WP:MIDDLES "Adding middle names, or their abbreviations, merely for disambiguation purposes (if that format of the name is not commonly used to refer to the person) is not advised.")
 * WP:NCROY (naming conventions for royalty and nobility)
 * WP:THE (naming conventions regarding definite and indefinite articles: the, a, an)
 * WP:ATA (arguments to avoid; within it: WP:ILIKEIT and WP:ITSCRUFT)
 * WP:BEANS (don't stuff beans up your nose)
 * WP:BETTER (writing better articles; within it: WP:OFFTOPIC and WP:TONE)
 * WP:BLUDGEON (restrain yourself from constant comment)
 * WP:BOLD
 * WP:BRD
 * WP:BURDEN
 * WP:CON (consensus; within it: WP:CCC, consensus can change)
 * WP:ANI (administrators' noticeboard for incidents, with links to related pages)
 * WP:CANVAS (conduct and misconduct in discussions, with links to relevant other articles and templates)
 * WP:INDENT (indentation for Talk page discussions; with outdent and outdent2)
 * WP:AFD (articles for deletion, how to nominate, etiquette, and related templates)
 * WP:ATA (arguments to avoid in deletion discussions; within it: WP:OTHERSTUFF)
 * WP:SPEEDY (criteria for speedy deletions and related templates)
 * WP:PROD (proposed deletion, how to do it, how to discuss it, and related templates)
 * WP:DEADHORSE (time to stop; within it, links to related essays)
 * WP:HARASS (harassment; within it: WP:OUTING / WP:PRIVACY)
 * WP:RFC (requests for comment)
 * WP:CHEAP (redirects are cheap)
 * WP:CUTPASTE (how to fix cut-and-paste moves)
 * WP:DAB (within it, WP:PDAB is particularly interesting; WP:PTM on partial title matches is also interesting)
 * WP:DISCLAIM (no disclaimers in articles, and exceptions)
 * WP:DRR (dispute resolution requests)
 * WP:ES (edit summary)
 * WP:FIXDABLINKS (with pointer to python tool for link updating)
 * WP:GENDER
 * WP:IGNORE (ignore all rules)
 * WP:LEAD (format and content of the lead section)
 * WP:LINKSTYLE (when and how to use Wikilinking)
 * WP:LISTGAP (don't put blank lines in lists)
 * WP:MARKUP (Wiki markup)
 * WP:MATHSYMBOL (mathematical symbols)
 * WP:MOS (Manual of Style; within it, regarding quotes: MOS:LQ, MOS:QUOTEMARKS, MOS:QUOTE, other: MOS:&, MOS:ENGVAR, MOS:HEAD, MOS:NOTUSA, MOS:REFPUNC, MOS:RETAIN)
 * MOS:ABBR (within it: MOS:SPACEINITS)
 * MOS:BIO (within it: MOS:BIRTHPLACE, MOS:BLPLEAD, MOS:CREDENTIAL, MOS:FULLNAME, MOS:HONORIFIC, MOS:JR, MOS:SURNAME)
 * MOS:CAPS (naming conventions for capitalization; within it: MOS:CT)
 * MOS:ITALPUNCT (don't include the following punctuation within the italics)
 * MOS:LAYOUT
 * MOS:NUM / WP:DATE
 * MOS:SPELLING (within it: MOS:IZE)
 * MOS:TEXT (within it: MOS:BADEMPHASIS, MOS:BOLD)
 * MOS:TM
 * WP:NBOOK (noteworthiness of books)
 * WP:NOT (within in: WP:CRYSTAL, WP:NOTADVOCATE / WP:SOAP, WP:NOTHOWTO)
 * WP:NOTABILITY
 * WP:POINTy
 * WP:PROTECT (protection policy)
 * WP:REDIR (redirects; within it: WP:BLAR)
 * WP:REDLINK (usage and abusage of redlinks)
 * WP:RESEARCH (researching with Wikipedia)
 * WP:RS (identifying reliable sources)
 * WP:OR (within it: WP:PRIMARY)
 * WP:VERIFY (verifiability)
 * WP:RSN (reliable sources noticeboard)
 * WP:SET (search engine tests)
 * WP:SPOILER (Wikipedia includes spoilers and does not provide warnings about that)
 * WP:TITLE (including WP:TITLETM)
 * WP:USER (user page guidelines)
 * WP:Template messages/Cleanup (template messages for article cleanup)
 * WP:Template messages/Redirect pages (template messages for redirect)
 * Template:R template index
 * WP:WES (Wikipedia essays)
 * WP:WORDS (words to watch; within it: WP:PEACOCK, WP:LABEL, WP:WEASEL, WP:ALLEGED, WP:EDITORIAL, WP:SAY, WP:EUPHEMISM, WP:IDIOM, WP:RELTIME)
 * WP:WTAF (write the article first)
 * Special:Preferences (includes your number of edits!)
 * Special:RANDOM (takes you to a random article)
 * or, perhaps better,
 * (results in Text to quote for discussion, similar to, producing Example text – perhaps a bit too similar, as another user once pointed out to me)
 * (for articles that reference Wikipedia as a source)
 * (documentation includes related templates)
 * (documentation includes related templates)
 * (more generally, or )
 * article issues (has "fringe", while multiple issues does not)
 * disputed-inline or
 * (subst)
 * R from incorrect name
 * (subst)
 * (subst) spa
 * (subst), , , , , , (for toggles), , , , , etc. (see Category:Standardised user warning templates)
 * (subst)
 * varserif and related
 * ISO 3166-1 country codes
 * ISO 8601 dates
 * (subst) spa
 * (subst), , , , , , (for toggles), , , , , etc. (see Category:Standardised user warning templates)
 * (subst)
 * varserif and related
 * ISO 3166-1 country codes
 * ISO 8601 dates
 * ISO 3166-1 country codes
 * ISO 8601 dates
 * ISO 3166-1 country codes
 * ISO 8601 dates
 * ISO 8601 dates