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This category contains articles tagged with {{tl|howto}} that contain how-to sections which may need to be edited to comply to the official policy [[WP:NOT#HOWTO|Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook]] point 1, quoted here: |
This category contains articles tagged with {{tl|howto}} that contain how-to sections which may need to be edited to comply to the official policy [[WP:NOT#HOWTO|Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook]] point 1, quoted here: |
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# <span id="HOWTO" />'''Instruction manuals.''' While Wikipedia has descriptions of people, places, and things, Wikipedia articles should not include instructions, advice ([[Wikipedia:Legal disclaimer|legal]], [[Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer|medical]], or otherwise) or suggestions, or contain "how-to"s. This includes tutorials, walk-throughs, instruction manuals, video game guides, and recipes. These content types can sometimes be identified by the use of explicit or implicit first person communication to the reader. All factual content can be used as HOWTO content, by a sufficiently intelligent individual. Where factual content is presented in a sequence or context that implies the reader do something, such as knitting, it falls into HOWTO. In other words: An article about knitting ought not sequence the factual information, suchwise that a reader could derive from it how to perform knitting. Similarly, an article on black pepper ought not mention that ground black pepper is used as food seasoning, or even that the use of black pepper is for it to be ground into food seasoning. Note the how-to restriction does not apply to the Wikipedia: namespace, where "how-to"s relevant to editing Wikipedia itself are appropriate, such as [[Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Dia]]. If you're interested in a how-to style manual, you may want to look at our sister project [[Wikibooks]].</span> |
# <span id="HOWTO" />'''Instruction manuals.''' While Wikipedia has descriptions of people, places, and things, Wikipedia articles should not include instructions, advice ([[Wikipedia:Legal disclaimer|legal]], [[Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer|medical]], or otherwise) or suggestions, or contain "how-to"s. This includes tutorials, walk-throughs, instruction manuals, video game guides, and recipes. These content types can sometimes be identified by the use of explicit or implicit first person communication to the reader. All factual content can be used as HOWTO content, by a sufficiently intelligent individual. Where factual content is presented in a sequence or context that implies the reader do something, such as knitting, it falls into HOWTO. '''In other words: An article about knitting ought not sequence the factual information, suchwise that a reader could derive from it how to perform knitting. Similarly, an article on black pepper ought not mention that ground black pepper is used as food seasoning, or even that the use of black pepper is for it to be ground into food seasoning.''' ''(If you are looking for evidence that Wikipedia has gone completely nuts, the preceding two bolded sentences should surely suffice, although this sentence itself should not be construed as part of an instruction on "how to jump the shark".)'' Note the how-to restriction does not apply to the Wikipedia: namespace, where "how-to"s relevant to editing Wikipedia itself are appropriate, such as [[Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Dia]]. If you're interested in a how-to style manual, you may want to look at our sister project [[Wikibooks]].</span> |
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==External links== |
==External links== |
Revision as of 12:25, 6 February 2011
This category contains articles tagged with {{howto}} that contain how-to sections which may need to be edited to comply to the official policy Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook point 1, quoted here:
- Instruction manuals. While Wikipedia has descriptions of people, places, and things, Wikipedia articles should not include instructions, advice (legal, medical, or otherwise) or suggestions, or contain "how-to"s. This includes tutorials, walk-throughs, instruction manuals, video game guides, and recipes. These content types can sometimes be identified by the use of explicit or implicit first person communication to the reader. All factual content can be used as HOWTO content, by a sufficiently intelligent individual. Where factual content is presented in a sequence or context that implies the reader do something, such as knitting, it falls into HOWTO. In other words: An article about knitting ought not sequence the factual information, suchwise that a reader could derive from it how to perform knitting. Similarly, an article on black pepper ought not mention that ground black pepper is used as food seasoning, or even that the use of black pepper is for it to be ground into food seasoning. (If you are looking for evidence that Wikipedia has gone completely nuts, the preceding two bolded sentences should surely suffice, although this sentence itself should not be construed as part of an instruction on "how to jump the shark".) Note the how-to restriction does not apply to the Wikipedia: namespace, where "how-to"s relevant to editing Wikipedia itself are appropriate, such as Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Dia. If you're interested in a how-to style manual, you may want to look at our sister project Wikibooks.
External links
- How-tos bookshelf at Wikibooks
- Wikihow, a wiki dedicated to how-to articles
- StrategyWiki hosts video-game guides
Pages in category "Articles containing how-to sections"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 275 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- ABVD
- Adaptation to extrauterine life
- Adding machine
- Aging in cats
- Anchored Instruction
- Andersen Library (University of Wisconsin Whitewater)
- Animal styles in Chinese martial arts
- Anonymous function
- Ant-keeping
- Anti-spam techniques
- Apache Felix
- Apistogramma panduro
- Artist's portfolio
- Audiovisual education
B
C
- Calendar spread
- Camping
- Canna indica
- Caregiver stress
- Carrier IQ
- Casualty lifting
- Chaining
- Chainsaw
- Changquan
- Chemical waste
- Child discipline
- Childproofing
- Chinese calligraphy
- Choking
- Chowka bhara
- Christie Islet Migratory Bird Sanctuary
- Circuit breaker design pattern
- Clare Lancers Set
- Classpath
- Clutch control
- Collaborative method
- College admissions in the United States
- Compass
- Congressional Debate
- Conservation and restoration of road vehicles
- Continuous delivery
- Continuous integration
- Cordwood construction
- Counterintelligence
- Courtship
- Covert hypnosis
- Cranial nerve examination
- Crisis
- Cylinder head porting
D
E
- Eagle Claw
- Electric vehicle conversion
- Employee offboarding
- End-user computing
- Entomological evidence collection
- Environment Modules (software)
- ERuby
- Etiquette in Asia
- Etiquette in Australia and New Zealand
- Etiquette in North America
- Etiquette in Pakistan
- Event Viewer
- Exam invigilator
- Examples of groups
- Exhaust heat management
F
G
H
I
L
M
- Mail-order bride
- Maize milling
- Man overboard
- Managing up and managing down
- Marine salvage
- Maxillaria tenuifolia
- Mechanic's lien
- Media relations
- Medical school in Canada
- Mental calculation
- Menuconfig
- Methanizer
- Microsoft Office Mix
- Miniature conversion
- Mission-based learning
- Monitor (synchronization)
- Mooney viscometer
- Mousetrap car
- Mtrace
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P
- Pallet racking
- Parallel adoption
- Passing (association football)
- Password strength
- Pattern day trader
- Peripheral vascular examination
- Personal archiving
- Pet passport
- Petro-piracy in the Gulf of Guinea
- Peyote stitch
- Pipe recovery operations
- Plasterwork
- Pre-boot authentication
- Prevention of viral hemorrhagic fever
- Privacy concerns with social networking services
- Program evaluation
- Projection augmented model