- Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
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- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- The Missing Credits
- Introduction
- I. Editing, Creating, and Maintaining Articles
- 1. Editing for the First Time
- 2. Documenting Your Sources
- 3. Setting Up Your Account and Personal Workspace
- 4. Creating a New Article
- 5. Who Did What: Page Histories and Reverting
- 6. Monitoring Changes
- The User Contributions Page
- Wikipedia’s Standard Watchlist
- Multiple Watchlists
- Real-Time Monitoring Alternatives
- 7. Dealing with Vandalism and Spam
- II. Collaborating with Other Editors
- 8. Communicating with Your Fellow Editors
- 9. WikiProjects and Other Group Efforts
- 10. Resolving Content Disputes
- 11. Handling Incivility and Personal Attacks
- Enforcing Norms of Conduct
- Dealing with Incivility and Personal Attacks
- Initial Responses
- Don’t respond until you can respond unemotionally
- Don’t attack back
- Decide if you even need to respond
- Don’t comment about problematical behavior on article talk pages
- If you respond, be factual, not emotional
- Your response should depend on the editor
- Don’t argue about warnings
- Read other editors’ essays about civility
- Explore Less Formal Solutions
- Use Formal Processes
- Initial Responses
- When You Get Irritated (or Worse)
- 12. Lending Other Editors a Hand
- III. Formatting and Illustrating Articles
- 13. Article Sections and Tables of Contents
- 14. Creating Lists and Tables
- 15. Adding Images
- IV. Building a Stronger Encyclopedia
- 16. Getting Readers to the Right Article: Naming, Redirects, and Disambiguation
- 17. Categorizing Articles
- 18. Better Articles: A Systematic Approach
- Avoid Surprises
- Don’t Suppress or Separate Controversy
- Reorganize and Edit Existing Content
- Don’t Take Article Scope as a Given
- Improve the Citation of Sources
- Build the Web
- Look for Guidance and Examples
- Add Sourced Content
- Remove Cruft and Duplication
- Get the Wording Right
- Make the Article Look Appealing
- 19. Deleting Existing Articles
- V. Customizing Wikipedia
- VI. Appendixes
- A. A Tour of the Wikipedia Page
- B. Reader’s Guide to Wikipedia
- C. Learning More
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
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Before you start adding sourced content, look for roadmaps to help you decide where to put citations and format text. There are several possibilities:
Check the Manual of Style (shortcut: WP:MOS) for topical guidelines. For example, the guideline Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles) might apply to your article.
Check the relevant WikiProjects (see the box on Build the Web). Sometimes they have guidelines for articles.
Look for a featured article (FA) on a similar topic. You might find a Featured Article or a Good Article close to your topic listed at the WikiProjects you’ve checked for guidelines. Or select one of the two dozen grouping of FAs at the page Wikipedia:Featured articles (WP:FA), and see if it includes a useful article. (If nothing else, you’ll probably get an appropriate listbox template to use.)
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