Wikipedia:Teahouse/Host lounge/How-to guides
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This collection of easy how-to talking points are here to help hosts easily explain editing tasks to new users. It is divided into thematic editing areas. Please share your how-to's as well!
Article creation and editing
[edit]- Categories
- How to add categories and why we use them.
- Links
- Policies around adding Wikipedia links, inter-wiki links and external links, and how to add them.
- Redirects & moving articles
- A brief examination of why redirects are created and how to create them, and how to move articles.
- References and sources
- What type of sources we use and how to add them.
- Sandbox
- Why to use and how to create sandboxes. This shares its space with the userspace guide.
- Watchlist
- Explains how to watch and remove articles from one's watchlist.
Images
[edit]- Images
- Discusses how to upload images, how to use images in Wikipedia and how to share images on Commons.
Policy
[edit]- Conflict of interest (COI)
- Examines policy around conflict of interest and provides information how to edit BLP's, etc to avoid COI.
Userspace
[edit]- Userspace guide
- Explores how users can improve and use their userspaces, make username changes, use talk pages, etc.
Other areas
[edit]- Facebook & Wikipedia
- Discusses why Facebook pages don't update instantly after updates are made to the Wikipedia page.