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[[1]] Feel free to use the email feature to contact me with any questions: here.

Starting out

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  • The Five Pillars – The absolute basics. Be bold when editing, be civil in discussion, maintain a neutral point of view.
  • Registration – There are a number of benefits to creating an account, most notably that your IP address is hidden, protecting your real-world identity.
  • The Missing Manual – Pretty comprehensive, a great place to start.
  • Manual of Style – The in-house style guide for editing articles, includes one of my personal hobbyhorses, overlinkage.
  • Your watchlist – Generates a list of recent changes to pages you want to keep track of. Mine goes from Qassam rocket, which was prone to vandalism and I really need to find time clean up, to Common roach, where I want to make sure no one re-inserts the unsourced fishing advice I removed. Also, Fucking, Austria, uh, just to make sure it's not vandalized. Really.
  • The Help desk – A great place to go with questions about any aspect of Wikipedia. Answers are prompt and helpful. A goofy example of my own experience with unsourced fishing advice.

Handy tools and advice

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  • Navigation Popups – A tool to show previews of articles when hovering the cursor over a link. I find it extremely useful.
  • Syntax Highlighting – When editing the source of an article, this beta feature highlights different syntax in different colors, massively improving readability. Go to Preferences -> Beta tab -> check 'Wikitext syntax highlighting', and save.
  • Duplinks – A tool to highlight duplicate links in articles. Duplicate links generally make an article less visually appealing, and most of them almost never actually get clicked.
  • What links here – On the toolbar to the left you can see the link under 'Tools', shows what other pages link to this one.
  • Diff guide – Diffs are commonly used in discussions to provide a link to a specific set of edits to a page, highlighting the changes made.
  • Good articles – When editing, it can often be quite helpful to take a look at a similar article that has met the criteria as a good, or even featured article.
  • Some very good points – Observations on behavior on Wikipedia... and maybe behavior in general. A great read.

Projects

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Some interesting articles that could use attention

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  • Emma González – Recently went through a deletion discussion, and the consensus was to keep her article. Good insight into the process here.
  • Ahed Tamimi – Badass Palestinian activist. A minor, tried by a closed door Israeli military court, and currently jailed without bail and awaiting sentencing in March. Her ten year old cousin Janna Tamimi is also a youth activist.
  • Ksenia Sobchak – Russian reality TV star running for President. Really!
  • Articles dealing with ethnic KurdsRadical feminism is actually enshrined in most of their various constitutions. Their armed forces include all-female units.
  • This lady – Won a nobel peace prize but refuses to condemn human rights violations in the country she rules? Uh, less than ideal.
  • Kim Yo-jong – Kim-Jong Un's sister, recently attended the opening ceremonies of the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, marking the first time a member of North Korea's dynasty had visited South Korea since the Korean War.