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=== Basic editing ===

:If you can't find what you're looking for on this page, you can ask questions at the '''[[Wikipedia:Help desk|Help desk]]''' or at the '''[[Wikipedia:Teahouse|Teahouse]]'''. Volunteers will respond as soon as possible.


: [[Wikipedia:Be bold|Be bold!]]
: '''[[Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia|Contributing to Wikipedia]]'''
:: [[Help:Edit|How to edit a page]]
::: [[Wikipedia:Tutorial|Tutorial on how to edit Wikipedia]]
:[[wikipedia:Sandbox|Experiment in the sandbox]]
: [[Help:Show preview|Show preview to review your edits before you save]]
: [[Help:Section|Editing sections]]
: [[Help:Link|Creating links]]
: [[Wikipedia:Categorization|Making categories]]

=== Saving your edits ===

: [[Help:Show preview|"Show preview"]] &nbsp; &mdash; &nbsp; always use this to avoid errors
: [[Help:Edit summary|Edit summary]] &nbsp; &mdash; &nbsp; please explain your edits
: [[Help:Minor edit|Minor edits]] &nbsp; &mdash; &nbsp; check this for typos and small corrections
: [[Help:Edit conflict|Edit conflict]] &nbsp; &mdash; &nbsp; what to do when another editor changes the page while you're editing it

=== How to write an article ===

: [[Wikipedia:Starting an article|Starting an article]]
:: [[Wikipedia:Article wizard|Article Wizard]]
:: [[Help:Page name|Name a page]]
::: [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions|Naming conventions in general]]
:::: [[:Category:Wikipedia naming conventions|Full list of specific naming conventions]]
:: [[Wikipedia:Your first article|Your first article]]
: [[Wikipedia:Article development|Article development]] (advanced editing)
:: [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout|Layout]]
:: [[Wikipedia:The perfect article|The perfect article]]
:: [[Wikipedia:Writing better articles|Writing better articles]]
:: [[Help:Editing shortcuts|Editing shortcuts]]
:: [[Wikipedia:Contributing to articles outside your native language|Contributing to articles outside your native language]]
:: [[Wikipedia:Text editor support|Editing with a text editor]]
: Special page types
:: [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation|Disambiguation pages]]
:: [[Wikipedia:Subpages|Creating subpages]]

=== Style and formatting ===

: [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style|Wikipedia's Manual of Style]]
: [[Wikipedia:Article size|Article size]]
: [[Wikipedia:Categorization|Categorization]]
: [[Wikipedia:Citing sources|Citing sources]]

;;Article components
:: [[Help:List|Lists]]
:: [[Help:Table|Tables]]
:: [[Help:Redirect|Redirects]]
:: [[Help:Infobox|Infoboxes]]
:: [[Help:A quick guide to templates|Using templates]]
::: [[Help:Template|Creating templates]]
::: [[Wikipedia:Template_messages|List of templates]]
::: [[Help:Module|Modules]], an advanced form of templates
:: [[Help:Visual file markup|Pictures and videos]]
:: [[Help:Displaying a formula|Mathematical formulas]]
:: [[Wikipedia:Hatnote|Hatnotes]]
:: [[Help:Footnotes|Footnotes and references]]

;; [[Help:Wiki markup|Wiki markup]]
:: [[Help:Cheatsheet|Cheatsheet]]
:: [[Help:Magic words|"Magic words"]]
::: [[Help:Variable|Variables]]
:: [[Help:HTML in wikitext|Valid HTML codes in wikitext]]
:: [[Help:EasyTimeline syntax|Easy timeline syntax]]

=== Article standards ===

: [[Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons|Biographies of living persons]]
: [[Wikipedia:Citing sources|Citing sources]]
: [[Wikipedia:Copyrights|Copyrights]]
: [[Wikipedia:Editing policy|Editing]]
: [[Wikipedia:External links|External links]]
: [[Wikipedia:Image use policy|Image use]]
: [[Wikipedia:Redirect|Using redirects]]
: [[Wikipedia:PROVEIT|Include only verifiable information]]
: [[Wikipedia:Deletion policy|Deletion]]
: [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style|Manual of Style]]
: [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|Neutral point of view]]
: [[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not|What Wikipedia is not]]

=== Article maintenance ===

: [[Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines|Use talk pages (discussion pages)]]
:: [[Help:Archiving a talk page|Archive a talk page]]
: [[Wikipedia:Tagging pages for problems|Tagging pages for problems]]
: [[Help:Merging|Merge two or more pages]]
: [[Wikipedia:Moving a page|Move or rename a page]]
:: [[Wikipedia:Requested moves|Requested moves]]
: [[Wikipedia:Deletion discussions|Delete pages/images/categories]]
: [[Wikipedia:stub|Stub articles]]
:: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types|List of stub types]]
: [[Help:Reverting|Revert a page]] to an earlier version
: [[Wikipedia:Vandalism|Dealing with vandalism]]
: [[Wikipedia:Protection policy|Protect and unprotect pages]] ([[Wikipedia:Administrators|Administrators]] only)
: [[Help:Interlanguage links|Link together Wikipedia articles in different languages]]
: [[Wikipedia:InterWikimedia links|Link words in articles to Wikimedia sister projects]]
: [[Help:Page name|Use page names]]
: [[Help:Namespace|Use namespaces]]
: [[Help:Anchors|Use headings as anchors to link to]]
: [[Wikipedia:purge|Do a purge]]
: [[Help:Testing|Test edits and other things]]

=== See also ===

: [[Wikipedia:Tips|Tips on editing]]
: '''[[Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset|Simplified ruleset]]''' — Essential information to understand when editing articles (for new editors)
:[[:Category:Wikipedia information pages]] and [[:Category:Wikipedia how-to]]
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