User:Speeda psx/Notes

Above menu code nicked from Stwalkerster, who in turn borrowed it from Ck_lostsword.

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

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

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

Citing

WP:CITE for how to cite
- Wikipedia:Citation templates for helpful citation templates
  - {{Cite book}}
  - {{Cite web}}
  - {{Cite DVD-notes}}
  - Category:Attribution 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

<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

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

WP:PUNC
Wikipedia:Manual of Style - the big manual of style

Project Related Stuff

Anime

Television

Films

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

Article feedback, review, promotion

Copyediting

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

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

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

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

Here I will save my notes, commonly used snippets,...

List entries

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