Help:Contents/Advanced Help Draft

Help-related material from Wikipedia:Community Portal has been merged with Help:Contents to create the Wikipedia:Help portal. This page is a proposed subpage of Wikipedia:Help portal for more advanced / esoteric help, but is still under construction.

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Welcome to the Advanced Help Portal!

This is a subpage of Wikipedia:Help portal for more advanced / esoteric help. If you are looking for new ways to contribute to Wikipedia, please visit the Community Portal, which contains information about things to do, collaborations, ongoing projects etc.

Resources 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 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) Image list List of templates How to... 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 Links Lists Table format Quick guide to templates Templates Redirect Mathmatical markup in TeX Infobox EasyTimeline syntax WikiHiero syntax — warning: lots of images! (for Egyptian hieroglyphs) Special characters Turkish characters Romanian characters

Policies & guidelines Overview of policies List of policies and guidelines List of official policies List of guidelines Policy on permanent deletion of pages Images and multimedia Manual Of Style 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 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 How to resolve conflicts Stay cool! Be nice to newcomers Alert others Request assistance from a members' advocate Resolving disputes Arbitration policy For administrators Administrator nominations Administrators page List of administrators Administration FAQ Administrator's reading list Bureaucrats Elections Meta Purge Fix cut & paste moves Page protection Misc MediaWiki user's guide Meta-Wiki (For essays and discussions about topics related to Wikipedia.) Customizing your display with CSS Edit with an external editor Category of Wikipedia related articles Contingency page for when the main Wikipedia server is down Technical information The MediaWiki software Bug reports and feature requests Browser notes Bots Database download Export page(s) in XML Problems editing long articles