Wikimedian, Librivoxer and photographer; retired patent attorney.
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Useful Wiki pages
Policies and Guidelines
- Wikipedia:Policy Library
- Wikipedia:List of policies
- Wikipedia:List of guidelines
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
- Wikipedia:Verifiability
- Wikipedia:Reliable sources
- Wikipedia:Shortcuts
- Wikipedia:Three-revert rule
Writing articles
- Wikipedia:The perfect article
- Wikipedia:Lead section
- Wikipedia:Guide to layout
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- Wikipedia:Footnotes
- Wikipedia:Citing sources
- Wikipedia:Citing sources/example style
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Novels
Images
- Wikipedia:Image use policy
- Wikipedia:Image copyright tags
- Wikipedia:Image description page
- Wikipedia:Non-free content
Other
Vandalism
Essays
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not for things made up one day
- Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
Templates
Citation
- Help:Citation Style 1
- Template:Cite web
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite journal
- Template:Cite conference
- Template:Cite magazine
- Template:Cite news
- Template:Cite report
- Template:Cite techreport - manual only
- Template:Sfn
- Template:Citation
- Template:Cite legislation UK
- Template:Cite OED {{Cite OED | xxxwordxxx | access-date= xxx }}
- Template:lang-en-emodeng Early modern En {{lang-en-emodeng | label=none | xxxxx }}
External sources
- Template:Internet Archive {{Internet Archive|id= |name= }}
- Template:Internet Archive author {{Internet Archive author | sname= }} Best results using full name as sname
- Template:Gutenberg book {{Gutenberg | no= | name= }}
- Template:Gutenberg author {{Gutenberg author | id= | name= }}
- Template:Librivox book {{Librivox book | title= | author= }}
- Template:Librivox author {{Librivox author | id= | title= }} Title is author name; get id from URL
Other
Articles for deletion
Pending changes review
- Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes
- Pages with edits awaiting review
Tools
Other resources
Projects
- Wikipedia:Wikiproject Short description
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Photography
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels