User:Sbmeirow/Help

Useful Help

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style
• Help: Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
• List of policies and guidelines for Wikipedia
• New Contributor's Help Page; Questions; Editing Tutorial
• List of policies and guidelines
• How to cite sources by adding references?
• How to add External Links?
• What Wikipedia is Not?
• What is Verifiability?
• What is Notability?
• How to Create a New Wiki Article
• Article Wizard
• How to validate ALL internet links on a Wikipedia article
• Use this City Layout Guideline
• Uploading a photo found on Flickr to Wikimedia Commons
• Free Image Search Tool (FIST)
• How to move an article
• Where to Report Vandalism
• Where to Request Page Protection
• WikiProject Resource Exchange - Resource Request
• Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources and Wikipedia:External links/Perennial websites
• Criticism of college and university rankings (North America)

Useful Templates

Name	Usage	Comments
WP:NOWIKI	<nowiki> and </nowiki>
Clear Content Flow	{{ Clear |left }}
No Wrap	{{ Nowrap |text }}
Hilite Text	{{ Hilite |text |color (optional) |expiration (optional) }}
Measurement Conversions	{{ Convert |original_value |original_unit |conversion_unit |round_to (optional) |... }}
Columns Total	{{ Columns-list |number of columns |text }}
Columns by Units	{{ Div col |colwidth=45em }} {{ Div col end }}
Stack Photos	{{ Stack |<objects> |float=left/right (optional) |clear=true/false (optional) }}
Quote	{{ Quote |quote= |author= |title= |source= |character= |multiline= |style= }}	easier to type and more wiki-like than equivalent HTML <blockquote>...</blockquote> tag
Reference Pages	{{ Rp |page number(s) }}	append after a book reference, see Bonner Springs, Kansas intro
Reflist for Talk sections	{{ Reflist-talk }}
Multiple Message Boxes	{{ Multiple issues |name=? |message=? |cat=? |cat-date=? |id=? }}	see Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup
NRISref	{{ NRISref |2013a |dateform=mdy |accessdate=date |refnum=NRIS ID# |name=title }}	For National Register of Historic Places references. See example at Memorial Hall (Kansas City, Kansas).
Mono	{{ mono | text }}	Render in monospaced text.

Useful tips

• Wikipedia:Graphs and charts
• MOS:NUM - Wikipedia Manual of Style for Dates and Numbers, which has numerous templates, examples, and recommended uses.
• MOS:CREDENTIAL - remove "Dr." & "Professor" titles, unless widely known.
• WP:OBVIOUS - to keep United States as a USA location.
• Wikipedia:Deletion is not cleanup
• {{not a typo|USD 341}} - fix automated tools that convert United School District into currency.
• Wikipedia:SVG help

WYSIWYG editors for Wikipedia

• Wikipedia Visual Editor - First opt-in user-facing production usage by December 2011, and first small wiki default deployment by June 2012.
• Gwennel Web - WYSIWYG editor for Wikipedia and MediaWiki sites that runs on Windows XP / Vista / 7. It allows you to easily edit pages without knowing the tedious wiki syntax.
• CKEditor - WYSIWYG editor used inside web pages.
• Microsoft Office Word Add-in For MediaWiki - Allows you to save your Microsoft Office Word 2007 and 2010 documents straight into MediaWiki.

Useful City Article Tips

• All small towns needs to create a city-owned web site, so the link can be added to the Wikipedia article about your city!
• Your city needs to add detailed history to your city-owned web site, so it can be referenced by Wikipedia articles!
  • How was the city named? What year was the city founded? Interesting facts and info about about your city.
  • List of cool points of interest and landmarks that you want to share with the world?
• Upload old historical photos / post cards / new photos of buildings / attractions of your city to Wikimedia, so we can use in Wikipedia articles!
• Enter grave information for your local cemeteries into http://www.findagrave.com so relatives and researchers can easily find them.
• Flags should NOT be in the infobox, per WP:INFOBOXUSE.

Warnings