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Resources

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Public domain resources
Sources for articles (template)
Cleanup resources
Image help category
Page protection
Standard letters requesting permission to use copryright works
Standard letters for dealing with violations of Wikipedia's license
Standard greetings for new users
Software tools to help editing Wikipedia

Lists

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Category of Wikipedia related articles
Special pages
List of WikiProjects (where people interested in specific topics work together)
List of stub types (stubs are very short articles that need expanding)
List of templates

How to...

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How-to articles category
How to start a new page
How to edit a page (Wiki markup)
How to write a great article
How to categorise
Redirect
How to create an article series
Contributing
Improving articles
Picture tutorial (Image use policy)
Graphics tutorials
How to reduce colors for saving a JPEG as PNG
Upload files to Wikipedia
Requested moves
Merging & moving pages
How to archive a talk page
How to archive Current Events
Linking Wikipedia articles in different languages
Link words in articles to articles on sister projects
Link to related articles on sister projects

Syntax help

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Links
Lists
Table format
Quick guide to templates
Templates
Redirect
Mathematical markup in TeX
Infobox
EasyTimeline syntax
WikiHiero syntax — warning: lots of images! (for Egyptian hieroglyphs)
Turkish characters
Romanian characters

Policies & guidelines

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Overview of policies
List of policies and guidelines
List of official policies
List of guidelines
Policy on permanent deletion of pages
Images and multimedia
Biographies
China related articles
Command-line examples
Dashes
Dates & numbers
Disambiguation
Headings
Ireland related articles
Japan related articles
Links
Mathematics
Pronunciation
Titles
Trademarks
How to link to Wikimedia projects

Other guidance

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Naming conventions
Disambiguation (pages which resolve ambiguity for articles with similar titles)
Captions
Categorisation
Categorisation of people
Footnotes
Explaining jargon
Lists
Tables
Pictures
Proper names
Creating Sections
WikiProjects (writing and style guidelines for specific disciplines)
Contributing to articles outside your native language
Technical terms & definitions

Other

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