Help:Contents
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This page will link to all help pages, as they are created. If there is a topic that you think should be covered, just edit the page and add a link to it (with a description if needed).
Basic editing
- Help:How to edit a page - Links to the basics on wiki syntax
- Help:Citing sources - Help on including citations from different sources, and how to create footnotes
- Help:Structure of non-person articles
- Help:Structure of college articles - How to edit a raw college article to make it conform to encyclopedia standards
- Help:Linking to people - Adding links to people who may or may not be in the encyclopedia
- Help:Writing about a person - How to add facts or narrative about a person
- Help:Adding a page for a person - How and when to create a page for a person not represented in the Encyclopedia
- Help:Editing biographical information - How and when to update biographical information
- Help:How to use discussion pages - What to put there, why to put it there, how to put it.
Advanced Topics
- Help:People: General guidelines and information about pages referring to people.
- Help:Structure of person articles - Explains what you see when you edit an article whose subject is a person, and where to put information
- Help:Editing People Pages: Some how-tos for common situations that arise when doing biographical research.
- Help:Naming conventions (people): Naming conventions for pages referring to people.
- Help:College names: Standard names for colleges and universities for use in infoboxes for people.
- Help:Ballparks: General guidelines and information about pages referring to ballparks.
- Help:External links: The Encyclopedia aims to organize existing information as well as provide an authoritative resource. Here are some guidelines for external linking.