User:Mark Chung/Links

This page was copy/pasted from User:AnmaFinotera/Links.

These are mostly links I find useful to myself while editing, but of course if anyone else finds them useful, that is cool! They need some better organizing though...

Basics

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Where to ask a question
• Community Portal
• Follow Wikipedia etiquette
• Practice civility
• Help pages
• Other ways to contribute: Wikipedia:Articles for creation, Wikipedia:Did you know, User:SuggestBot, Wikipedia:Requests for feedback, Wikipedia:Reward board, Wikipedia:New pages patrol (Special:NewPages)
• Special:PrefixIndex - for finding user subpages
• Wikipedia:Naming conventions
• Wikipedia:User Page Design Center

Templates

• WP:TEMP - template messages
  • {{Drmmt}} - lesser known template useful for reminding folks not to detag just to detag
  • {{Gamecleanup}} - clean that video game article!
  • Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace
• {{spa}} - to note a single purpose account in a discussion
• Category:Redirect templates - redirect templates
  • {{R from merge}} - use this template when doing merge redirects!
  • {{R to list entry}} - for merging redirects to lists
  • {{CharR to list entry}} - for character redirects to lists
  • {{ER to list entry}} - for episode redirects to lists
• {{Double image}} - for putting two images side by side for comparison (and {{Triple image}} for three)
• {{AutoArchivingNotice}} - giving notice a page is automatically archived
• {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} - collapse lots of banners
• {{Book list}} - for regular book series

Citing

• WP:CITE for how to cite
  • Wikipedia:Citation templates for helpful citation templates
    • {{Cite book}}
    • {{Cite web}}
    • {{Cite DVD-notes}}
    • Category:Attribution templates
  • {{episode}} for noting that an episode citation is needed
• Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard - when questioning a source
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-06-26/Dispatches excellent dispatch discussion on reliable source evaluation

Manuals of Style

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style - the big manual of style
  • WP:LOW - list of works style guide
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
• WP:MOSFILM - WikiProject Films/Style guidelines
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Style guidelines - TV MOS
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities/Article guidelines - university guidelines
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (anime- and manga-related articles)
• MOS for schools
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/Guideline - US City articles
• Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/Style guide - still WIP, but finally something
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)

Writing best practices

• WP:PUNC
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style - the big manual of style

Project Related Stuff

Anime

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (anime- and manga-related articles)
  • Template:Graphic novel list
  • Template:Japanese episode list
  • Template:Infobox animanga
• Template talk:ER to list entry
• Template talk:CharR to list entry
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Anime and manga

Television

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Television
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Style guidelines
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/to do TV Project to do
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Assessment
• Category:Television stubs
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Television
• Template:Episode list
• Template talk:ER to list entry
• Template talk:CharR to list entry

Films

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Films
• Template:Infobox_Film - Infobox Film template
• Template:WikiProject_Films_tasks Film Project Tasks
• BoxOfficeMojo - for getting gross earnings of films
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Film
• WP:MOSFILM - WikiProject Films/Style guidelines

Others

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Texas
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography

Article feedback, review, promotion

• Wikipedia:Peer review
• Wikipedia:Requests for feedback
• Wikipedia:Good article reassessment
• Wikipedia:Featured articles
• Wikipedia:Featured list candidates
• WP:LOTD

Copyediting

• WP:1FAPQ#Project resources - has list of copyeditors
• Wikipedia:Peer review/volunteers
• Wikipedia:WikiProject League of Copyeditors - inactive, but participant list sometimes useful
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/List of participants - I guess a replacement of the League or something, but more active anyway

Policies and Guidelines

• WP:NOR - no original research
• WP:COPYVIO and WP:Copyrights - copyrights must be observed and no linking to violations either
• WP:NPOV - keep it neutral, not just your feelings
• WP:VERIFY - must be verifiable, not some stuff you made up
• WP:IUP - image use policy
• WP:OWN - you may baby it, but you don't own it so don't stop other folks doing legitimate editing
• WP:NOT - what Wikipedia isn't
• WP:VANDAL - stupid vandals
• WP:SIG - when you yap, sign your yaps!
• WP:TALK - talk page etiquette
• H:MW - the magic words
• WP:DP - deletion policy and how to recommend
• WP:CAT-R - categorizing of redirects, when to and when not to
• Wikipedia:Redirect - redirect guideline

Notability guidelines

• WP:N - the main one
• WP:PROF - specifically for professors and others working in the academic field, which are not actually covered in bio
• WP:BIO - general people notability guideline
• WP:FICT - fictional topics
• WP:EPISODE - episodes of series

Dealing with problems

• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents - for complex issues not easily handled via other methods
• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RR
• Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism
• Wikipedia:Requests for page protection
• Wikipedia:Requests for comment
• Wikipedia:Third opinion
• Wikipedia:Help desk - get general help with using or editing Wikipedia