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, please add a note to the discussion page (see tab at top).
Basic editing
These topics are directed at anyone who wishes to edit the Encyclopedia - they contain basic information on how to make edits and understand the Encyclopedia.
- How to edit a page - Basics on syntax, editing, and saving.
- Citing sources - Help on including citations from different sources, and how to create footnotes
- Structure of non-person articles
- People
- Adding a page for a person - How and when to create a page for a person not represented in the Encyclopedia
- Editing demographic information - How and when to update biographical information
- Linking to people - Adding links to people who may or may not be in the encyclopedia
- Help:Categories for people: Categories organizing people by roles inside and outside of baseball, and templates for placing person articles in those categories.
- How to use discussion pages - What to put there, why to put it there, how to put it.
- Math formulas - How to insert math formulas into articles on statistics.
- Discussion pages - Why there are "Talk" pages for articles, and how to use them.
Projects
These topics describe specific projects in the Encyclopedia. They are good reading for anyone interested in these projects.
- Writing about a person - Writing short biographies and summaries of players is a non-technical research project good for those who know some players well.
- Formatting collegiate baseball articles - A technical project of organization good for those comfortable with wikitext.
- Adding pictures to articles - A mildly technical project good for those who do pictorial research.
Advanced Topics
These topics are primarily of interest to people who are interested in the Encyclopedia as a project. These articles all go beyond the process of doing research into topics like moderating submissions, standards, and policies.
- Help:Cleanup resources: Using the templates and categories provided to organize pages requiring cleanup and improvement.
- Help:Disagreement: How to deal with unresolved disagreements when sources provide conflicting information.
- Help:Reviewing revisions: Guidelines for reviewers evaluating contributed edits.
- 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:Brief biographical outlines: Recommendations for structuring the content of articles on people, when all you have is miscellaneous information from individual newspaper articles or media guides.
- 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.
- Help:Naming conventions - Very technical guidelines on names of pages, templates, variables, etc.
- SABR Encyclopedia:Job Jar: Looking for ways to help move the project forward in your spare time, without a long-term commitment? The Job Jar lists helpful tasks which can be accomplished in seconds or minutes.
- SABR Encyclopedia:Projects: Larger projects in progress, or in need of someone to launch or take over.