- Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia
- Advanced tips:
- Exercises in weeding out fluff from article text
- Exercises in avoiding the "noun plus -ing" construction
- Advanced editing exercises by Tony1
- Copy-editing essentials, courtesy of the Military History Academy
- General advice on how to improve your prose from Tony1
- Exercises in paragraphing and sentence structure from Tony1
- Military History WikiProject A-class and FAC checklist
- The best professional-level copy editing guide is the Chicago Manual of Style.
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The Ten Commandments of Rational Debate (borrowed without notice from Antidiskriminator)
edit1. Thou shall not attack a person's character but the argument itself. ("Ad hominem")
2. Thou shall not misrepresent or exaggerate a person's argument in order to make it easier to attack. ("Straw Man Fallacy)
3. Thou shall not use small numbers to represent the whole. ("Hasty Generalization")
4. Thou shall not argue thy position by assuming one of its premises is true. ("Begging the Question")
5. Thou shall not claim that because something occurred before something else, it must be the cause. ("Post Hoc/False Claim")
6. Thou shall not reduce the argument down to two possibilities. ("Fake Dichotomy")
7. Thou shall not argue that because of our ignorance that the claim must be true or false. ("Ad Ignorantiam")
8. Thou shall not lay the burden of proof onto him who is questioning the claim. ("Burden of Proof Reversal")
9. Thou shall not assume "this" follows "that" when "it" has no logical connection. ("Non Sequitur")
10. Thou shall not claim that because a premise is popular, therefore, it must be true. ("Bandwagon Fallacy")