User:Sunray/Useful links and stuff

Here are some useful things:

New to Wikipedia?

• Welcome, newcomers
• Greetings

Wikipedia goings-on

• Wikipedia:Goings-on

Wikipedia Policy

• Category:Wikipedia guidelines

Frequently refered to policies/guidelines

• List of policies
• NPOV; NPOV dispute
• Civility
• Consensus
• Talk page guidelines

Editing

How to edit

• Wikipedia:How to edit a page
• Wikipedia:Guide to layout
• Guide to writing better articles
• Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes
• Wikipedia:Make only links relevant to the context

Article standards

Attribution	WP:A - WP:ATT
Be bold!	WP:BB · WP:BOLD
Citing sources	WP:CITE · WP:REF
Copyrights	WP:C
Editing	WP:EP
External links	WP:EL
Image use	WP:IUP
Include only verifiable information	WP:V · WP:VERIFY
Manual of Style	WP:MOS · WP:STYLE
Neutral point of view	WP:NPOV
No original research	WP:NOR
Biographies of living persons	WP:LIVING · WP:BLP
What Wikipedia is not	WP:WWIN · WP:NOT

Working with others

Assume good faith	WP:AGF · WP:FAITH
Civility and etiquette	WP:CIV and WP:EQ
Consensus	WP:CON
Don't bite the newcomers	WP:BITE
Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point	WP:POINT
No personal attacks	WP:NPA · WP:ATTACK
Resolving disputes	WP:DR
Vandalism	WP:VAND

Good articles/featured articles

• Good article criteria, Good articles
• Featured article criteria, Featured articles

Tools

• Wikipedia:Glossary
• Edit count (Kate's tool)
• [1] (Interiot's wannabe_kate)
• Edit count Soxred New and improved edit counter
• Geoff's Google Duel Takes two search terms and shows which is the more popular according to Google.
• (Personal attack removed)
• (Personal comment removed per agreement on this talk page)
• (Derogatory comments removed per WP:RUC)
• (Comments removed per WP:M (privileged))

Templates

• Wikipedia:Template messages
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types
• {{inuse}} For articles undergoing a major edit
• {{deletebecause}} speedy delete
• {{afd-newbies}} who gets to vote
• {{Fact}} citation needed
• {{Unreferencedsect}} citations needed for section
• {{talkheader}} basic talk page guidelines
• {{unsigned}} note for unsigned comments (adjust date for UTC)
• Wikipedia:Cleanup resources
• {{editprotected}}

Reading

• The Book Stops Here Wired 13.03 (March 2005)
• Special Report "Internet encyclopaedias go head to head" by Jim Giles Nature, December 14, 2005. Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds.
• "Encyclopedia Wars Heat Up", CBS News, March 28, 2006
• "Working through Wikipedia's vanity fair" Globe and Mail, May 6, 2006.
• Motivations for contributing to virtual communities
• Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list
• "Why the Internet is good"
• "The Charms of Wikipedia." Nicholson Baker. New York Review of Books, March 20, 2008.
• Fallis, D. (2009). Introduction: The Epistemology of Mass Collaboration. Episteme. The reliability of' Wikipedia.
• Cohen, N. (June 7, 2009). "The Wars of Words on Wikipedia’s Outskirts." New York Times. ArbCom.
• Civility essay by Geogre
• Beware of the tigers essay by William Pietri

Last word

-- Please don't feed the trolls!