User:Oh Snap

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My Shortcuts

• Wikipedia:Notability
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup
• Wikipedia:Citation templates

• Wikipedia:Deletion policy
• Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion
• Wikipedia:Images
• Category:Better category needed

Infobox templates

• Biography infobox templates
  
• CAT:INFOBOX
• Template:Other
• Wp:imdb
• Wikipedia:Current and future event templates
• Wikipedia:Templates for deletion

Really, Really Important things

• See Vandalism in progress to report persistent vandalism. If it's serious, maybe 3RR violation or request for Administrator intervention, or if it's really, really serious: WP:ANI.
• See Help desk for questions about editing on Wikipedia.
• See Reference desk for factual questions (about everything but Wikimedia— e.g., "Who is the current Pope?") not yet answered by Wikipedia.
• See Village pump (all) to browse all village pump topics at once.
• See Village pump (proposals) or (perennial proposals) to discuss things that could be fixed or made better.
• See Third opinion or requests for comment or edit dispute for help resolving an editing dispute.
• See Resolving disputes to resolve issues between/among users or for making a user conduct dispute complaint. Remember, Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point!
• See Wikimedia Meta-wiki to view other Wikimedia projects.
• See Peer review for incisive, constructive criticisms from others on a finished article.
• See MediaZilla to make wiki software bug reports and feature requests.
• See Alternate Sites For When The Main Wikipedia Server Is Down You should bookmark the sites noted because once Wikipedia is down, you won't be able to access this page.
•    IF YOU HAVE REALLY MESSED UP A PAGE, and accidentally saved it, simply click on the history tab (at the top) and then click on the date immediately preceding that of your change, then click on edit this page, then save the resulting page. This will revert the change.
•    Do Not Attempt to Rename, Move, or Copy a Page Simply by Copying Its Contents; See Renaming, moving, copying a page.

Information & Resources for Contributors & Editors

• Help:Contents
• Edit conflict  Must read before you get one!
• Major edit in progress! Avoiding conflict.

• Help Desk | FAQs
• Help Forums Category
• How-To

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• About series articles in Wikipedia
• About Wikipedia | Wikipedia
• About Wikiportals
• About WikiProjects
• About WikiProject Best Practices
• Administrative Categories
• Avoid self-references
• Barnstars
• Bookmarklets
• Bots Category
• Categorization | FAQ | Category schemes
• Cleanup | Templates & tags | Fix-ups
• Commons Main page
• Contributing outside your native language
• Deletion policy | Undeletion policy
• Editing pages | Help | inPage edits | Copy-edit
• External links | (when?)
• Footnotes (Proposal)
• Fundamental category
• Glossary of Wiki terms ⇒Lists-1 ⇒Lists-2
• Guide to layout
• How to archive a talk page
• "   structure content in Wiki articles
• "   write a great article | Improve it
• Images and Copyrights
  • Fair use
  • Featured pictures
  • Image copyright tags
  • Image help category
  • Image use policy
  • Images
  • Image (description) page
  • Images and media for deletion
  • Picture tutorial
  • Public domain image resources
  • Uploading images, intro
  • Uploading images
• InfoBoxes
• JavaScript in Wikipedia
  • monobook.js
  • Greasemonkey user scripts
  • Library of user scripts
  • Script Techniques
  • Script Tutorials
  • Scripts
  • WikiProject User scripts
• Logs
• Mailing lists
• Manual of style
• MediaWiki HTML extensions
• Merging and moving pages | (Rename)

• Meta
• common Mispellings
• Most linked to Categories
• Most linked to Pages
• Naming conventions | Category
• Page name | Section | Namespace | History
• Peer review
• Policies and guidelines | Proposals Category
• Preferences
• Project namespace
• Redirect | Double redirect
• Reference Desk
• Reusable text (boilerplate text)
• Reverting a page | Three-revert rule (3RR)
• Searching | Google [omit Afd] [All Langs] | Yahoo! [All Langs]
• Shortcuts
• Simplified ruleset, essential info for new editors
• Special pages ⇒List
• Speedy deletions
• Stub | Types
• Surveys of the Readers
• Syntax conversion utilities
• System Messages
• Tables intro | Guide
• Talk page guidelines
• Templates
  • Templates, intro
  • Templates
  • Template messages | User talk namespace
  • Template namespace
  • Template substitution
  • Transclusion
  • Advanced templates
• Tools ⇒List
• Tutorials
• User boxes ⇒List
• User page(s) | Styles (js/css)
• Utilities If you've exhausted Toolset!
• Verifiability | No original research | Hoaxes
• Watchlist
• What Wikipedia is not
• Where to ask a ??
• Who writes for Wikipedia, for new 'readers'
• Wikify
• Wikipedia categories
• Wikipedia:IRC channel
• Wikipedia features
• Wikipedia style guidelines | (non-Wiki);
  "    for specific projects/disciplines,

More Style Stuff:

• Abundance and redundancy
• Avoid neologisms
• Bad article ideas
• Build the web vs. Make links relevant to the context only
• Check your facts
  • Cite sources | Example
  • Don't include copies of primary sources
    • Lyrics and poetry
• Featured articles
• Fiction

• Follow highlighting conventions
• Future event
• History (article style)
• Lists | Stand-alone | Embedded | Pro & con
• Long article layout | Size
• Make articles useful for readers
• Make technical articles accessible
  • Explain (necessary) jargon
  • Technical terms and definitions
• Proper names
• Rhetoric
• Section | Lead section | Subheadings
• Stay on topic; don't wander
• Timeline standards
• Words to avoid

See also

Other Links:

• Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
• Browse-1 | Browse-2 | Quick index
• Clichés (To be abhorred!)
• Clipart (free)
• Computer help desk
• Conflict resolution
• Department of Fun
• Internet encyclopedia project
• Keyboard shortcuts
• List of Wikiprojects | Proposed
• Main Meta wiki
• Maintenance | Templates
• Most wanted articles
• MediaWiki namespace

• Patent nonsense
• Press Kit resources for inquiries
• Regional notice boards for collaboration in particular geographical areas
• Resources for researchers ⇒List
• Semi-protection policy
• Troubleshooting
• User contributions
• Vanishing edits For problems with apparently disappearing edits or other strange display behavior.
• Village pump
• Wikipedia assigned variables
• Wikipedia Signpost
• Young Jacobins | Consensus

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