User:JayWhitney/Wikipedia Resources

Useful templates

• {{pov}} (for articles or sections with significant point of view problems)
• {{original research}} (for articles or sections with significant amounts of original research)
• {{philosophy}} (for philosophy articles! Add to talk pages, not the articles themselves.)
• {{subst:spam}} (for spammers)
• {{talkheader}} (for the more troublesome talk pages)
• {{unsigned}} (for unsigned comments on talk pages)
• {{unreferenced}} (for articles or sections with significant deficits of reliable sources)
• {{expand-section}} (to note that more content is needed)

Wikipedia Editing Guidelines and Resources

• Wikipedia:Tutorial (WP:T)
• Wikipedia:Help desk (WP:HEP)
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (WP:MOS)
• Wikipedia:Cheatsheet
• Wikipedia:List of common misspellings
• Wikipedia:Words to avoid (WP:WTA)
• Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words (WP:AWW)
• American and British English differences
• Wikipedia:Redirects (WP:R)
• Picture tutorial (WP:PIC)
• Formula tutorial
• Wikipedia:Boilerplate text (WP:BPT) Some copy-paste text for common uses
• Help:Edit summary (WP:ES) Everything you ever wanted to know about the Edit Summary
• Wikipedia:Edit summary legend (WP:ESL) All of the Edit Summary Abbreviations and their use
• Wikipedia:Categorization (WP:CAT) All about using Wikipedia Categorization
• Wikipedia:Categorisation FAQ
• Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes (WP:CLS)
• Wikipedia:Contents (WP:E) Category schemes, Lists of Lists, Glossaries, Indices, Portals, Timelines, etc.
• Wikipedia:Disambiguation (WP:D)
• Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links (WP:DPL)

Wikipedia Policy and Rules

• Wikipedia:Policy Library
• Wikipedia:Cite your sources
• Wikipedia:Wikiquette
• Wikipedia:Civility
• Wikipedia:Assume good faith (WP:AGF)
• Wikipedia:Be bold in updating pages (WP:BOLD)
• Wikipedia:Citing sources (WP:CITE}
• Wikipedia:Ignore all rules (WP:IAR)
• Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (WP:NPOV)
• Wikipedia:No original research (WP:NOR)
• Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers (WP:BITE)
• Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS)
• Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V)
• Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT)
• Wikipedia:No personal attacks (WP:NPA)
• wikipedia:Notability (people) (WP:BIO)
• Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP)
• Wikipedia:Call a spade a spade (WP:DUCK)
• Wikipedia:Civil POV pushing (WP:PUSH)

Wikipedia Tools and Resources

• Wikipedia Tools (WP:TOOLS)
• Wikipedia:IRC channel (WP:IRC) For Wiki Chats
• Wikipedia:Mailing lists (WP:ML) Wiki EMail lists you can get on.
• Special:Upload How to upload files, pics, etc.
• Wikipedia:Database download (WP:DUMP) Want your own copy of Wikipedia?
• The Python Wikipedia Robot Framework
• Fantastic set of tools from User:Transhumanist
• The List of the New Pages
• Generates code for a cite given an isbn
• How to archive your User Talk page

Wikipedia Processes

• Wikipedia:Resolving disputes (WP:DR)
• Wikipedia:Current polls (WP:RFC) Making a Request for Comments
• Wikipedia:Mediation (WP:M)
• Wikipedia:Arbitration policy (WP:AP)
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:AFD) To Discuss deleting an Article
• Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Log/Today Today's log of Articles for deletion
• Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Log/Yesterday Yesterday's log of articles for deletion
• Wikipedia:Snowball clause (WP:SNOW) Don't start a process that doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding.
• Wikipedia:Peer review (WP:PR) Starting an article down the path to Featured Article
• Wikipedia:Scientific peer review (WP:SPR) Scientific Peer Review Process

Admin Requests

• WP:DRV To report improper deletion of an article, or request undeletion of an article to the Administrators
• WP:RFPP To report improper protection or request unprotection from the Administrators
• WP:RFC/NAME To report improper usernames to the Administrators
• WP:AN/3RR To report Three-revert rule violations to the Administrators
• WP:AIV To report persistent vandalism to the Administrators
• WP:AN/I Administrator's Noticeboard - Incidents needing Admin attention but don't fit the admin requests above.

Wikipedia Special Areas

• Wikipedia:Categorical index Like a Table of Contents
• Wikipedia:Featured articles (WP:FA)
• Wikipedia:Featured pictures (WP:FP)
• Special:Log/Delete
• Wikipedia:Pages needing attention (WP:PNA) List of pages that need attention
• Announcements (WP:A) Announcements/Milestones/news - summarized - only on English Wikipedia or Foundation
• Current events World news today - about 1 Week of headline links and links into the archive
• Signpost English Wikipedia's Newspaper
• Wikipedia statistics
• Wikipedia glossary
• Wikipediology
• Wikipedia school and university projects
• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team (WP:1.0) About project to release a version on CD or DVD
• Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) (WP:VPR) Where to go to suggest changes to Wikipedia
• M:Foundation issues Some of the foundation-level issues people have with wikipedia

Wikipedia Useful project links

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Philosophy (WP:WPP)