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I do not necessarily believe that "Infoboxes must burn in hell", but I appreciate the problem: A box promises to contain, and things that can't be neatly contained can't be put in boxes. A box suggests "this is the real deal," and if the real deal could be put in a box, then there would be no need for articles. A box says, "Here is your PowerPoint bullet point list, so you can find all the world reduced to a reductive summary; please do not strive to understand complexity, for that is for suckers." A box says, "Wikipedia is just like your primary school text book: full of colors and 'bites' of infotainment." A box says, "I, the box maker, have just pissed all over this article and written a counter-article, and it's short, so read it instead." A box may be found useful by some people, indeed. We call those people "non-readers." (Utgard Loki, at Giano's Talkpage, 16:47, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

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Contents 1 Useful templates 2 Wikipedia Editing Guidelines and Resources 3 Wikipedia Policy and Rules 4 Wikipedia Tools and Resources 5 Wikipedia Processes 6 Admin Requests 7 Wikipedia Special Areas 8 Wikipedia Useful project links

[edit] Useful templates

• {{pov}} (for articles or sections with significant point of view problems)
• {{original research}} (for articles or sections withsignificant amounts of original research)
• {{subst:spam}} (for spammers)
• {{talkheader}} (for the more troublesome talk pages)
• {{unsigned}} (for unsigned comments on talk pages)
• {{unreferenced}} (for articles or sections with significantdeficits of reliable sources)

[edit] Wikipedia Editing Guidelines and Resources

• Wikipedia:Tutorial (WP:T)
• Wikipedia:Help desk (WP:HEP)
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (WP:MOS)
• Wikipedia:Cheatsheet
• Wikipedia:List of common misspellings
• Wikipedia:Words to avoid (WP:WTA)
• Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words (WP:AWW)
• American and British English differences
• Wikipedia:Redirects (WP:R)
• Picture tutorial (WP:PIC)
• Formula tutorial
• Wikipedia:Boilerplate text (WP:BPT) Some copy-paste text for common uses
• Help:Edit summary (WP:ES) Everything you ever wanted to know about the Edit Summary
• Wikipedia:Edit summary legend (WP:ESL) All of the Edit Summary Abbreviations and their use
• Wikipedia:Categorization (WP:CAT) All about using Wikipedia Categorization
• Wikipedia:Categorisation FAQ
• Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes (WP:CLS)
• Wikipedia:Contents (WP:E) Category schemes, Lists of Lists, Glossaries, Indices, Portals, Timelines, etc.
• Wikipedia:Disambiguation (WP:D)
• Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links (WP:DPL)

[edit] Wikipedia Policy and Rules

• Wikipedia:Policy Library
• Wikipedia:Cite your sources
• Wikipedia:Wikiquette
• Wikipedia:Civility
• Wikipedia:Assume good faith (WP:AGF)
• Wikipedia:Be bold in updating pages (WP:BOLD)
• Wikipedia:Citing sources (WP:CITE}
• Wikipedia:Ignore all rules (WP:IAR)
• Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (WP:NPOV)
• Wikipedia:No original research (WP:NOR)
• Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers (WP:BITE)
• Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS)
• Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V)
• Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT)
• Wikipedia:No personal attacks (WP:NPA)
• wikipedia:Notability (people) (WP:BIO)
• Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP)
• Wikipedia:Call a spade a spade (WP:DUCK)
• Wikipedia:Civil POV pushing (WP:PUSH)

[edit] Wikipedia Tools and Resources

• Wikipedia Tools (WP:TOOLS)
• Wikipedia:IRC channel (WP:IRC) For Wiki Chats
• Wikipedia:Mailing lists (WP:ML) Wiki EMail lists you can get on.
• Special:Upload How to upload files, pics, etc.
• Wikipedia:Database download (WP:DUMP) Want your own copy of Wikipedia?
• The Python Wikipedia Robot Framework
• Fantastic set of tools from User:Transhumanist
• The List of the New Pages
• Generates code for a cite given an isbn
• How to archive your User Talk page

[edit] Wikipedia Processes

• Wikipedia:Resolving disputes (WP:DR)
• Wikipedia:Current polls (WP:RFC) Making a Request for Comments
• Wikipedia:Mediation (WP:M)
• Wikipedia:Arbitration policy (WP:AP)
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:AFD) To Discuss deleting an Article
• Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Log/Today Today's log of Articles for deletion
• Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Log/Yesterday Yesterday's log of articles for deletion
• Wikipedia:Snowball clause (WP:SNOW) Don't start a process that doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding.
• Wikipedia:Peer review (WP:PR) Starting an article down the path to Featured Article
• Wikipedia:Scientific peer review (WP:SPR) Scientific Peer Review Process

[edit] Admin Requests

• WP:DRV To report improper deletion of an article, or request undeletion of an article to the Administrators
• WP:RFPP To report improper protection or request unprotection from the Administrators
• WP:RFC/NAME To report improper usernames to the Administrators
• WP:AN/3RR To report Three-revert rule violations to the Administrators
• WP:AIV To report persistent vandalism to the Administrators
• WP:AN/I Administrator's Noticeboard - Incidents needing Admin attention but don't fit the admin requests above.

[edit] Wikipedia Special Areas

• Wikipedia:Categorical index Like a Table of Contents
• Wikipedia:Featured articles (WP:FA)
• Wikipedia:Featured pictures (WP:FP)
• Special:Log/Delete
• Wikipedia:Pages needing attention (WP:PNA) List of pages that need attention
• Announcements (WP:A) Announcements/Milestones/news - summarized - only on English Wikipedia or Foundation
• Current events World news today - about 1 Week of headline links and links into the archive
• Signpost English Wikipedia's Newspaper
• Wikipedia statistics
• Wikipedia glossary
• Wikipediology
• Wikipedia school and university projects
• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team (WP:1.0) About project to release a version on CD or DVD
• Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) (WP:VPR) Where to go to suggest changes to Wikipedia
• M:Foundation issues Some of the foundation-level issues people have with wikipedia

[edit] Wikipedia Useful project links

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types (WP:WSS/ST)