Help:Menu/Editing Wikipedia
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Editing Wikipedia
Basic editing
- If you can't find what you're looking for on this page, you can ask questions at the Help desk or at the Teahouse . Volunteers will respond as soon as possible.
- Be bold!
- Introductory tutorial
- Contributing to Wikipedia
- Experiment in the sandbox
- Show preview to review your edits before you save
- Editing sections
- Creating links
- Making categories
Saving your edits
- "Show preview" — always use this to avoid errors
- Edit summary — please explain your edits
- Minor edits — check this for typos and small corrections
- Edit conflict — what to do when another editor changes the page while you're editing it
How to write an article
- Starting an article
- Article development (advanced editing)
- Special page types
Style and formatting
- Article components
- Lists
- Tables
- Redirects
- Infoboxes
- Using templates
- Creating templates
- List of templates
- Modules, an advanced form of templates
- Pictures and videos
- Mathematical formulas
- Hatnotes
- Footnotes and references
Article standards
- Biographies of living persons
- Citing sources
- Copyrights
- Editing
- External links
- Image use
- Using redirects
- Include only verifiable information
- Deletion
- Manual of Style
- Neutral point of view
- What Wikipedia is not
Article maintenance
- Use talk pages (discussion pages)
- Tagging pages for problems
- Merge two or more pages
- Move or rename a page
- Delete pages/images/categories
- Stub articles
- Revert a page to an earlier version
- Dealing with vandalism
- Protect and unprotect pages (Administrators only)
- Link together Wikipedia articles in different languages
- Link words in articles to Wikimedia sister projects
- Use page names
- Use namespaces
- Use headings as anchors to link to
- Do a purge
- Test edits and other things
See also
- Tips on editing
- Simplified ruleset — Essential information to understand when editing articles (for new editors)
- Category:Wikipedia information pages and Category:Wikipedia how-to