User:Yogabear2020/Copy-editing guides

My cheatsheat for CE tips. The official WP cheatsheet. (H:CHEAT)

Wikipedia's three core content policies:
 * Neutral point of view (NPOV)
 * Verifiability (V)
 * No original research (NOR)

Guides for Copyediting
Content Policies (WP:CONPOL) Neutral point of view (WP:NPOV)

Verifiability (WP:VER)
 * What counts as a reliable source (WP:SOURCE)

Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP)


 * What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT)
 * - not a soapbox or means of promotion (WP:SOAPBOX)
 * - not advert or marketing/promo (WP:NOTADVERT)

No original research (WP:NOR)

Writing better articles (WP:BETTER)

User talk page postings
Help:User Talk Page Postings shortcut broken

As noted above, Wikipedia has two types of talk pages—standard talk pages, such as article talk pages, and user talk pages. The two have similar formatting, but very different purposes.

Why post a message on another editor's user talk page? One common reason is to issue a warning for vandalism or spam (see the section about vandalism warnings). But you can also use user talk pages to ask a question ("How did you do that?"), to thank someone, to ask someone for help with an article, to make a suggestion, to point out an interesting page or posting to someone you've worked with before, and so on. The more involved an editor is with Wikipedia, the more likely it is that their user talk page has a lot of different postings.

Examples of Good Editing
GOCE March drive 2024
 * 1)  Shanxi mature vinegar Removed dubious health : claims and puffery (1213) User:Reconrabbit joined c. Nov 2023 = vigorous deletions // Issues: ads, empty claims, Template:Lang-zh, trans-title=