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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
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Getting started
Browsing Atkinspedia
Editing Atkinspedia
To learn how to keep track of your (or other people's) edits, see Keeping track of changes.
For lists of stub types, categories, infoboxes etc., see Resources and lists.
For image use, see Images and media.
To learn the rules of Atkinspedia, see policies and guidelines.
- Contributing to Atkinspedia a guide on ways to get involved in editing.
- Introduction to editing.
- Tutorial
- Quick guide, an editing cheat sheet.
- Simplified ruleset, essential information to understand when editing articles (for new editors).
- The Glossary can help you understand Atkinspedia jargon.
Editing - how to:
- Edit a page, including markup details.
- Experiment with editing pages in the sandbox
- You can also carry out editing experiments "in situ" by editing the page itself and using the Show Preview button. Be careful not to accidentally save the page though! If you do, then Revert your changes.
- Help:Editing (extended cheat sheet - keep this open in another window)
- Use sections in an article
- Use categories
- Insert a picture
- Use redirect pages
Saving - how to:
- Report your change in the edit summary
- Handle an edit conflict
- Use minor edits
- Use the preview button
Creating links - how to:
- Link Atkinspedia articles
- Change the title of a link (the piped link)
- Create links to external pages
Creating pages - how to:
- Start a new page
- Name a page
- Create pages for topics with several different definitions (disambiguation)
- Naming conventions in general (full list of specific naming conventions)
Article maintenance - how to:
- Merge two or more pages or move (rename) a page (Requested moves)
- Delete pages/images/categories
- Categorize
- Use talk pages (discussion pages)
- Archive a talk page
- Revert a page to an earlier version
- Deal with vandalism
- Protect and unprotect pages (Administrators only)
- Link words in articles to articles on sister projects
- Use page names
- Use namespaces
- Use headings as anchors to link to
- Create subpages
- Do a purge
- Edit with an external editor
- Test edits, and other things
Formatting - how to:
- Use Wiki markup codes
- HTML codes in wikitext
- Create lists
- Use footnotes
- Use tables
Templates
- A quick guide to templates
- Templates
- Boilerplate text
- List of available templates
The Atkinspedia syntax
- Tables
- Redirect
- Infobox
- "Magic words" allow you to change default behaviour or automate text eg. you can disable a Table of Contents or move its position, or insert & automatically update the current date, month etc. See also: Variables.
- Use easy timeline syntax
Life cycle of an article
- Article development Lists the stages in an article's development and ways to help improve articles.
- Perfect articles Checklist of components required to make a "perfect" article.
- Start a new page
- Write your first article
- Write better articles Advice on how to write Atkinspedia articles.
Style
- List of style guidelines
- Layout How to structure Wikipedia articles.
- Naming conventions
- Disambiguation (pages which resolve ambiguity for articles with similar titles)
- Captions
- Image use
- Use Proper names
- Creating an article series
- Using Symmary style on the overview page
Manual of Style
The Manual of Style is a comprehensive style guide for Wikipedia articles.
- Main Manual of Style
- Abbreviations
- Biographies
- Command-line examples
- Dashes
- Dates & numbers
- Disambiguation
- Headings
- Links
- Mathematics
- Pronunciation
- Titles
- Trademarks
- Sister projects
The Atkinspedia interface
Find your way around the screen.
- Editing toolbar
- Using Page History
- Using User Contributions pages
- Using Talk pages
- Using the Recent Changes page
- Using the Related Changes page
- Using Diff pages
- Edit conflicts
Sources
- Cite the sources: How | Why | What is a reliable source?
- Sources for articles
- List of Resources for researchers
- Public domain resources
- Newspapers and magazines request service
- Standard letters requesting permission to use copyright works
Links
Images and media
Keeping track of changes
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Policies and guidelines
Communication methods
The Atkinspedia community
Resources and lists
Account settings and maintenance
Technical information
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