User:Jeff Bedford/HelpfulLinks

Writing guides / content assessment

• Guide to writing better articles - This page sets out advice on how to write an effective article, including information on layout, style, and how to make an article clear, precise and relevant to the reader.
• Short checklist: components of a perfect article
• Detailed assessment checklist for a well-written article
• WP:GA/ALL - list of all Good Articles
• WP:CCPOL - Core content policies

Reliable sources + Referencing

• WP:REFB - Referencing how-to for beginners
• WP:INDY - Importance of sources that are independent of the subject of the article
• WP:CORPDEPTH - Evaluating which types of sources are considered reliable for establishing notability of a company/product. Also covers examples of routine mentions or passing references that are not suitable for Wikipedia.
• Identifying reliable sources
• WP:PUS - Potentially unreliable sources

Topic-specific Style Guides

• MOS:C - list of specialized manual of style pages.
• College and university: WP:UNIGUIDE and WP:Avoid academic boosterism
• Film: WP:MOSFILM and User:Coder_Dan/How_to_write_a_GOOD_plot_summary
• TV: WP:MOSTV
• Companies: Wikipedia:Companies,_corporations_and_economic_information (composition guidelines) WP:NCCORP (naming conventions)

Notability

• General Notability Guideline: WP:N
• for Films: WP:NOTFILM
• for Organizations and companies: WP:ORG
• for Individuals / People: WP:PEOPLE
• for Sports / Athletes: WP:ATHLETE
• for Web content: WP:NWEB

Collaborating with other editors

• WP:CONS - Establishing consensus
• WP:OWN - No one owns an article or any page on Wikipedia.
• WP:EDITING - Editing policy, discussion approach
• Wikipedia:Contact_us FAQ; also see Wikipedia:Tip_of_the_day/June_8,_2006

COI

• Ocaasi Training Deck
• CIPR PR Best Practices Draft
• Conflict of interest editing on Wikipedia (overview of the state of affairs)

• User:Jimbo_Wales/Paid_Advocacy_FAQ
• User:Eclipsed/A_very_specific_list_of_non-controversial_edits_in_mainspace
• WP:BRIGHTLINE
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cooperation
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cooperation/Paid_Editor_Help
• User:Jmabel/PR
• WP:PANDSCOI
• WP:COI
• WP:COIN
• WP:NPOV
• WP:WRW - Wikipedia is in the real world
• WP:Advice for the cultural sector - outstanding overview and introduction on account policies/neutrality tips/COI considerations for cultural sector
• Closely connected to subject of an article - a part of the WP:YFA guide; includes table of things to be aware about

Introductions/presentations

• Help:PG - Visual introduction to policies and guidelines (content and conduct)
• WP:INBRIEF - Wikipedia explained, in brief.
• WP:SIMPLE - Simplified ruleset and concise explanation of Wikipedia core conduct principles

Broad directories

• WP:EIW - Editor's index to Wikipedia
• WP:TMM - The Missing Manual (full book on Wikipedia)
• List of policies and guidelines
• List of policies
• List of guidelines

Markup and formatting

• Wikipedia:Cheatsheet
• {{reflist|2}} <--how to put refs into 2 columns

How to collapse a ton of junk

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" ! PUT A HEADING HERE |- | ALL THE STUFF TO COLLAPSE HERE |}

Images

• Wikipedia:Picture tutorial

Imaging instructions

To use a picture on Wikipedia, we need permission from whoever owns it. If it is your OWN picture - then you can just upload it yourself, at "Commons", saying "It is entirely my own work" - at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Upload . If it is NOT YOURS, then the owner can give permission in two ways; A) They could put it on a website (flickr, or their own site) with an appropriate licence, such as "Public Domain" or "Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike" (that is an option in flickr) B) They could email us permission. You could ask them to do that, by sending them an email saying something like "Hi, I've written a page on Wikipedia, and I'd really like to add a picture - but as Wikipedia is FREE, we can only use freely-licenced pictures. If you have any which you can give permission for, please send me an email back with the text below, and the picture(s) attached." -Then add a copy of this: http://enwp.org/user:chzz/help/myboilerplate (having filled the form out) -And send the email (attached picture file + completed form) to: permissions-commons@wikimedia.org Imaging instructions To use a picture on Wikipedia, we need permission from whoever owns it. If it is your OWN picture - then you can just upload it yourself, at "Commons", saying "It is entirely my own work" - at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Upload . If it is NOT YOURS, then the owner can give permission in two ways; A) They could put it on a website (flickr, or their own site) with an appropriate licence, such as "Public Domain" or "Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike" (that is an option in flickr) B) They could email us permission. You could ask them to do that, by sending them an email saying something like: "Hi, I've written a page on Wikipedia, and I'd really like to add a picture - but as Wikipedia is FREE, we can only use freely-licenced pictures. If you have any which you can give permission for, please send me an email back with the text below, and the picture(s) attached." -Then add a copy of this: http://enwp.org/user:chzz/help/myboilerplate (having filled the form out) -And send the email (attached picture file + completed form) to: permissions-commons@wikimedia.org If any of your questions about how to insert images into an article aren't answered in these instructions, please refer to Help:Files and to Help:Contents/Images and media for a master-listing of all pertinent image-use links.

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
• ArticleInfo tool - Generates overall editing history and frequency stats
• [1] - provides month-by-month article traffic stats

Other

• Wikipedia:Signpost - The Signpost, a community-written and community-edited newspaper, covering stories, events and reports related to Wikipedia

Tutorials and skills-improvement

• Help:TALK - intro to Talk pages
• Wikipedia:Tutorial - Broad tutorial
• WP:YFA - Your first article guide
• WP:NPOVT - Tutorial on how to write from a Neutral Point of View

Self-help writing tutorials:

• Exercises in weeding out fluff from article text
• Advanced editing exercises
• Spot the ambiguity
• Build your linking skills
• Using hyphens and dashes
• Copy-editing essentials, part of the Military History Academy

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