Category:Articles containing how-to sections

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This category contains articles tagged with {{howto}} that contain how-to sections which may need to be edited to comply to the official policy Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook point 1, quoted here:

1. Instruction manuals. While Wikipedia has descriptions of people, places, and things, Wikipedia articles should not include instructions, advice (legal, medical, or otherwise) or suggestions, or contain "how-to"s. This includes tutorials, walk-throughs, instruction manuals, video game guides, and recipes. These content types can sometimes be identified by the use of explicit or implicit first person communication to the reader. All factual content can be used as HOWTO content, by a sufficiently intelligent individual. Where factual content is presented in a sequence or context that implies the reader do something, such as knitting, it falls into HOWTO. In other words: An article about knitting ought not sequence the factual information, suchwise that a reader could derive from it how to perform knitting. Note the how-to restriction does not apply to the Wikipedia: namespace, where "how-to"s relevant to editing Wikipedia itself are appropriate, such as Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Dia. If you're interested in a how-to style manual, you may want to look at our sister project Wikibooks.

[edit] External links

• How-tos bookshelf at Wikibooks
• Wikihow, a wiki dedicated to how-to articles
• StrategyWiki hosts video-game guides