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* [[Help:Cleanup resources]]: Using the templates and categories provided to organize pages requiring cleanup and improvement. | * [[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: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: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:Structure of person articles]] - Explains what you see when you edit an article whose subject is a person, and where to put information | ||
Revision as of 19:34, 12 December 2009
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
- 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
- Linking to people - Adding links to people who may or may not be in the encyclopedia
- Adding a page for a person - How and when to create a page for a person not represented in the Encyclopedia
- Editing biographical information - How and when to update biographical information
- How to use discussion pages - What to put there, why to put it there, how to put it.
- Categorizing - How to place pages into categories for organization.
- 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
- 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
- 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: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.
- Help:Sabr-lightbox-link parser function - How (and why) the custom parser function works
- 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.
- SABR Encyclopedia:Design issues: Conceptual issues arising in designing and organizing the information on hundreds of thousands of pages.
