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Really important things See Vandalism in progress to report persistent vandalism. If it's serious, maybe 3RR violation or request for Administrator intervention, or if it's really, really serious: WP:ANI. See Third opinion or requests for comment or edit dispute for help resolving an editing dispute. See Resolving disputes to resolve issues between/among users or for making a user conduct dispute complaint. Remember, Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point! See Peer review for incisive, constructive criticisms from others on a finished article.    Do Not Attempt to Rename, Move, or Copy a Page Simply by Copying Its Contents; See Renaming, moving, copying a page. Links for newcomers Welcoming committee | Contact us FAQs Common mistakes Resolving disputes Collaborative writing | Consensus Simplified ruleset | Don't be a fanatic Writing a great article | Better | Best Community Portal | WikiProjects | Proposals Links for contributors About WikiProject Best Practices Categorization | FAQ | Category schemes Cleanup | Templates & tags | Fix-ups Contributing outside your native language Deletion policy | Undeletion policy Editing pages | Copy-edit External links | (when?) Footnotes (Proposal) Glossary of Wiki terms ⇒Lists-1 ⇒Lists-2 Guide to layout "   structure content in Wiki articles "   write a great article | Improve it InfoBoxes JavaScript in Wikipedia monobook.js Greasemonkey user scripts Library of user scripts Script Techniques Script Tutorials Scripts WikiProject User scripts Logs Mailing lists Manual of style MediaWiki HTML extensions Merging and moving pages | (Rename) Meta Most wanted articles Naming conventions | Category Peer review Redirect | Double redirect Reusable text (boilerplate text) Reverting a page | Three-revert rule (3RR) Special pages ⇒List Speedy deletions Stub | Types Syntax conversion utilities System Messages Tables intro | Guide Templates Templates, intro Templates Template messages | User talk namespace Template namespace Template substitution Transclusion Advanced templates Tools ⇒List Utilities If you've exhausted Toolset! Troubleshooting User boxes ⇒List Wikipedia categories Wikipedia style guidelines | (non-Wiki); ...for specific projects/disciplines Style guidelines Abundance and redundancy Avoid neologisms Avoid peacock terms Avoid self-references Avoid statements that date quickly Avoid weasel terms Bad article ideas Brilliant prose Build the web vs. Make links relevant to the context only Check your facts Cite sources | Example Don't include copies of primary sources Lyrics and poetry Featured articles Fiction Follow highlighting conventions Future event History (article style) Lists | Stand-alone | Embedded | Pro & con Long article layout | Size Make articles useful for readers Make technical articles accessible Explain (necessary) jargon Technical terms and definitions Proper names Rhetoric Section | Lead section | Subheadings Stay on topic; don't wander Timeline standards Words to avoid Formatting: See Help:Editing <!-- and --> (For hidden inserted comments.) Indenting by one space causes this box to form and suppresses certain codes. Formatting ISBN simply typing ISBN 3-540-60521-5 produces the special reference display ISBN 3-540-60521-5 Images To insert an image into an article, edit the article and insert File:Wiki Fairy.gif A Wiki fairy in the wild. [[Image:FILENAME.jpg| -- | -- | -- |Caption]] To have an image deleted, edit its description page and put {{deletebecause|redundant to image FOO.jpg}} (but of course you would insert the name of the FOO.jpg image. Everything to the right of the | is comment. ) Images and Copyrights Fair use Featured pictures Image copyright tags Image help Image help category Image use policy Images Image (description) page Images and media for deletion Picture tutorial Public domain image resources Uploading images Redirects Help on Redirect Wikipedia Redirect (formatting) Avoid the dreaded Double redirect and self-reference. #REDIRECT [[NAME OF REDIRECT TARGET]] To go (back) to a Redirect Page itself (e.g., to change or delete the redirect), use the link in the (Redirected from Redirect Page) line, which appears at the top of the target page, just below the line 'From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.' (For this line to appear, you must first Go to the Redirect Page.) Tables and boxes Date rank - name main space edits edits last 30 days rank change Month 27, 200x 000 Ms. Citizen 0000 000 ↑ 000