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Travel nerd, language nerd, software nerd, systems nerd. Trying to make the world a better place.

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Wikipedia editing cribnotes

Policies & Guidelines

Wikipedia generally

• Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines
  • Notability
    • People
  • WP:NPoV | Verifiability | WP:NOR
  • Citing sources | Help:Referencing for beginners
    • Reliable sources | Perennial sources

• Manual of Style
• Help:Minor edit (aka "what is/isn't a minor edit")
• Redlinks (and when to create them)
• Stubs

Specific topic guidelines

• Wikipedia:Contentious topics (topics which historically have attracted more disruptive edits than usual)
• Wikipedia:List of accidents and incidents on commercial aircraft/Guideline for inclusion criteria and format
• WikiProject Aviation: Style Guide
  • Airports: Accidents & Incidents

Wikipedia Meta

• WP:DNB
• WikiProject Editor Retention
• Who Writes Wikipedia

Templates: Hatnotes

• generally: WP:HN
• section hatnotes for split-out of related articles:
  • {{ Main}}: pointing to the main article on a topic, of which this section is a summary
  • {{ Further}}: for further detail on a narrower topic
  • {{ Broader}}: for broader coverage of the topic, but not a main article
  • {{ See also}}: related topics at roughly the same level of focus

Templates: Cites & Refs

• {{ cite web}} / {{ cite news}}
• {{ cite book}} / {{ cite journal}}

<ref>
{{cite web
	| url = 
	| title = <title of source page on website>
	| last = <lname of author>
	| first = <fname of author>
	| date = 
	| website = <website name, if it has one other than the domain name>
	| publisher = <org/company>
	| access-date = 
	| quote = <context quote if needed>
}}
</ref>

Check {{ cite web}} for extra params if translating/using non-English sources.

Named refs

Use a normal cite for the first occurrence, with the name attribute added to the ref tag. Then use an empty ref tag for subsequent calls:

<ref name="Cite2024">{{cite...}}</ref>

<ref name="Cite2024 />

New refs section if needed

== References ==
{{reflist}}

Miscellaneous Syntax

Interlanguage links

Easiest way is to use the {{ ill}} template, which shows up as a redlink if the current language version doesn't exist, and a blue link if it does.

{{ill|Patrick Norman|fr}}