Wikipedia:WikiProject Józef Piłsudski Institute of America/Tools and Help

Beginners Resources

 * GLAM Wikipedia Editor Beginners Guide

Good Practice Guidelines

 * Disclose your affiliation with the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America on your Wikipedia user page before editing. (The user page can be found in the top right corner of any Wikipedia page and can be edited like a regular article).
 * If you edit articles about Józef Piłsudski Institute of America as an institution, other Wikipedia users may perceive a Conflict of Interest. Simple factual changes (e.g.: personnel updates or outdated statistics) may likely be made without raising eyebrows, but more substantive changes should be proposed with a critical eye towards a potential Conflict of Interest. Such articles should be edited using appropriate discussion pages, and encouraging feedback from other Wikipedia editors.
 * Additions to articles must be verifiable. This means that independent media or academic secondary sources should be cited whenever possible. Where Józef Piłsudski Institute of America published literature or web pages represent original scholarship, they may be cited, but they must go along with an additional verifiable source to back up this information.
 * When editing articles, always maintain the impartial voice. You are writing an encyclopedia, not speaking for Józef Piłsudski Institute of America.

Images
Code for images:




 * Position: left, center, right
 * Frame type: frame, thumb
 * Size: A number followed by px (i.e. 200px)
 * Caption: any words that are not keywords are used as the caption.

Infoboxes (people)
Infoboxes give structure (tags) to the information entered in the article. The data in infoboxes and other structured elements are collected in DBPedia. Adding infoboxes is a simple, but very important task.

The popular infoboxes to use are Template:Infobox person, Template:Infobox military person and Template:Infobox organization. The full list of all is at List of infoboxes

'''Copy the code of the infobox you need and paste it into the edit section of your article. Replace and/or fill in the relevant information.'''


 * Inividuals fulfilling functions at the Institute (president and/or executive director) are given the officeholder infobox. Example:


 * Activists of and persons who did not fulfill any functions but were associated with the Institute are given the person infobox. Example:


 * Soldiers, politicians and other countless individuals and historic figures about whom the Institute has information are given other appropriate infoboxes. Example:

Categories
Categories are added at the end of an article using the following code (shown with examples):

Polish:

Please add the category Individuals associated with the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America to all articles about people associated with the Institute, including presidents, executive directors and members of the board.