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- Style guide, the Wikipedia entry on style guides. Contains links to the online style guides of some magazines and newspapers.
- Wiki markup explains the mechanics of what codes are available to you when editing a page, to do things like titles, links, external links, and so on.
- Wikipedia:Annotated article is a well-constructed article, with annotations that explain why.
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- Wikipedia:Be bold should define your attitude toward page updates.
- Wikipedia:Cheatsheet is a quick reference guide for common Wiki markup.
- Wikipedia:Citing sources explains process and standards for citing references in articles.
- Wikipedia:Editing policy explains Wikipedia's general philosophy of editing.
- Wikipedia:Elements of Style improvement project
- Wikipedia:Footnotes describes footnote usage and style; parts of it are contested.
- Wikipedia:Layout is an example of how to lay out an article.
- Wikipedia:How to copy-edit gives helpful how-to advice on copy-editing.
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- Wikipedia:Introduction is a gentle introduction to the world of Wikipedia.
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- Wikipedia:Sandbox is the place to practice what you've learned about Wikipedia without wrecking havoc.
- Wikipedia:Starting an article is a brief guidline for when you want to do more than just edit previously written articles.
- Wikipedia:Stub shows what you should aim for at a minimum when starting a new article.
- Wikipedia:Tools/Editing Tools
- Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines is the main stop for policies and guidelines.
- Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Jguk was an Arbitration Committee case on style edit warring.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject sets out boilerplates for certain areas of knowledge.
- Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Style guide lists variations between the printed encyclopedia and Wikipedia's MoS.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts
- Wikipedia:Writing better articles
- Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
- Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia
Category:DisambiguationEdit
Category:Disambiguation is only suited to pages in a group of 10 to 20 that facilitate the creation and mgmt of Dab pages. For the Dabs themselves, there is a Cat provided thru the {{Disambig}} template (and a few others like {{hndis}}).
Beyond that, if i were building a Dab page in a subpage of my user page, i would probably have it untagged, and reading
- {{Disambig}}
until i moved it to the main ("article") namespace. But then, i'm compulsive, and the state i corrected it to by removing the Cat tag is probably harmless (and even undetectable among the 100k real Dabs) -- even tho not even one of those titles is likely to ever exist, and without two of them having pages to target, there's a CSD that would apply, if the move were done. Thanks,
--Jerzy•t 18:40, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
HouseEdit
Per your query at Template talk:Infobox television episode, see Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2010 June 15#Template:Infobox House (TV series) episode. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:19, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
ArbCom elections are now open!Edit
Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:46, 23 November 2015 (UTC)