These are mostly links I find useful to myself while editing, but of course if anyone else finds them useful, that is cool! They need some better organizing though... Originally found at User:Collectonian/Links
Basics
edit- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- Where to ask a question
- Community Portal
- Follow Wikipedia etiquette
- Practice civility
- Help pages
- Other ways to contribute: Wikipedia:Articles for creation, Wikipedia:Did you know, User:SuggestBot, Wikipedia:Requests for feedback, Wikipedia:Reward board, Wikipedia:New pages patrol (Special:NewPages)
- Special:PrefixIndex - for finding user subpages
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions
- Wikipedia:User Page Design Center
Templates
edit- WP:TEMP - template messages
- {{Drmmt}} - lesser known template useful for reminding folks not to detag just to detag
- {{Gamecleanup}} - clean that video game article!
- Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace
- {{spa}} - to note a single purpose account in a discussion
- Category:Redirect templates - redirect templates
- {{R from merge}} - use this template when doing merge redirects!
- {{R to list entry}} - for merging redirects to lists
- {{CharR to list entry}} - for character redirects to lists
- {{ER to list entry}} - for episode redirects to lists
- {{Double image}} - for putting two images side by side for comparison (and {{Triple image}} for three)
- {{AutoArchivingNotice}} - giving notice a page is automatically archived
- {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} - collapse lots of banners
- {{Book list}} - for regular book series
Personal templates/subpages
editCiting
edit- WP:CITE for how to cite
- Wikipedia:Citation templates for helpful citation templates
- {{episode}} for noting that an episode citation is needed
- Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard - when questioning a source
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-06-26/Dispatches excellent dispatch discussion on reliable source evaluation
Some citations I use frequently in my work on various articles
edit- <ref name="AnimeExplosion">{{cite book |last=Drazen |first=Patrick |title=Anime Explosion! The What? Why? & Wow! of Japanese Animation |year=2002 | month=October |publisher=Stone Bridge Press |location=Berkeley, California |isbn=1-880656-72-8 |oclc=50898281 |pages= }}</ref>
- <ref name="AnimeEncyc">{{cite book |last=Clements |first=Jonathan |authorlink=Jonathan Clements |coauthors=[[Helen McCarthy]] |title=The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917 |date=2001-09-01 |publisher=Stone Bridge Press |location=Berkeley, California |isbn=1-880656-64-7 |oclc=47255331 |pages= |edition=1st ed. }}</ref>
Manuals of Style
edit- Wikipedia:Manual of Style - the big manual of style
- WP:LOW - list of works style guide
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
- WP:MOSFILM - WikiProject Films/Style guidelines
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Style guidelines - TV MOS
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities/Article guidelines - university guidelines
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (anime- and manga-related articles)
- MOS for schools
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/Guideline - US City articles
- Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/Style guide - still WIP, but finally something
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)
Writing best practices
edit- WP:PUNC
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style - the big manual of style
Project Related Stuff
editAnime
edit- Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (anime- and manga-related articles)
- Template talk:ER to list entry
- Template talk:CharR to list entry
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Anime and manga
Television
edit- Wikipedia:WikiProject Television
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Style guidelines
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/to do TV Project to do
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Assessment
- Category:Television stubs
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Television
- Template:Episode list
- Template talk:ER to list entry
- Template talk:CharR to list entry
Films
edit- Wikipedia:WikiProject Films
- Template:Infobox_Film - Infobox Film template
- Template:WikiProject_Films_tasks Film Project Tasks
- BoxOfficeMojo - for getting gross earnings of films
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Film
- WP:MOSFILM - WikiProject Films/Style guidelines
Others
editArticle feedback, review, promotion
edit- Wikipedia:Peer review
- Wikipedia:Requests for feedback
- Wikipedia:Good article reassessment
- Wikipedia:Featured articles
- Wikipedia:Featured list candidates
- WP:LOTD
Copyediting
edit- WP:1FAPQ#Project resources - has list of copyeditors
- User talk:Scartol - worked with on Meerkat Manor, Tokyo Mew Mew
- User talk:Keeper76 - did List of Naruto characters
- User talk:Malleus Fatuorum - started Hustler film article in place of Keeper
- Wikipedia:Peer review/volunteers
- Wikipedia:WikiProject League of Copyeditors - inactive, but participant list sometimes useful
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/List of participants - I guess a replacement of the League or something, but more active anyway
Policies and Guidelines
edit- WP:NOR - no original research
- WP:COPYVIO and WP:Copyrights - copyrights must be observed and no linking to violations either
- WP:NPOV - keep it neutral, not just your feelings
- WP:VERIFY - must be verifiable, not some stuff you made up
- WP:IUP - image use policy
- WP:OWN - you may baby it, but you don't own it so don't stop other folks doing legitimate editing
- WP:NOT - what Wikipedia isn't
- WP:VANDAL - stupid vandals
- WP:SIG - when you yap, sign your yaps!
- WP:TALK - talk page etiquette
- H:MW - the magic words
- WP:DP - deletion policy and how to recommend
- WP:CAT-R - categorizing of redirects, when to and when not to
- Wikipedia:Redirect - redirect guideline
Notability guidelines
edit- WP:N - the main one
- WP:PROF - specifically for professors and others working in the academic field, which are not actually covered in bio
- WP:BIO - general people notability guideline
- WP:FICT - fictional topics
- WP:EPISODE - episodes of series
Dealing with problems
edit- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents - for complex issues not easily handled via other methods
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RR
- Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism
- Wikipedia:Requests for page protection
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment
- Wikipedia:Third opinion
- Wikipedia:Help desk - get general help with using or editing Wikipedia
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Notes
editHere I will save my notes, commonly used snippets,...
List entries
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Color Codes
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Table Codes
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Episode List Line
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