 Getting Started
- Introduction to Misplaced Pages
- Sandbox
- About Misplaced Pages
- How to log in
- Why create an account?
- Choosing a username
- Sign the new-user log - introduce yourself!
- The Help Desk - post questions, receive answers
- Boot Camp - learn about how Misplaced Pages works without all that military training
- Helping Hand Group - request a tutorial or help page be improved or created
- Glossary of Misplaced Pages terms
 Browsing Misplaced Pages
Who writes Misplaced Pages (essential information for new readers)
 Browsing - how to:
- Search for an article (including "Go" button)
- Explore Misplaced Pages
- Use the what links here browsing tool
- Use talk pages (discussion pages) ( full policy)
- archiving talk pages to separate subpages.
- Use the Recent Changes page
- Patrolling the recent changes
- Do research using Misplaced Pages
- (See also Category of resources for researchers).
- Play media files in Misplaced Pages
- Other Misplaced Pages languages
- PDA version
- Text only
- Links only
- Simple
- Blue boy
- Classic
- Executive
- Italian-style
- Misty breeze
- Regal
- Shades of blue
- Edit me
 Navigation System
- Basic topics
- Navigation browse bar (see very top of this page)
- Almanac
- Categories
- FAQs
- Glossaries
- Lists
- Portals
- Overviews
- Site news
- Index
 Featured content
- Featured articles
- Featured pictures
- Featured lists
- Featured portals
 Account settings and maintenance
 Your Misplaced Pages account - how to:
- Customize your Misplaced Pages experience
- Change your preferences
- Change your signature
- Change your username
- Delete your account
- Log in (troubleshooting)
- Customizing your display with CSS (advanced programming knowledge required)
- Wikipedians
- List of Wikipedians
- WikiProjects: groups of Wikipedians creating standards on specific subjects
- List of WikiProjects
- Collaborations: Wikipedians focusing on one article for a set amount of time
- List of collaborations
- Wikipedian humor
- Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
- Wikipediholism
- Unusual articles
- Editcountitis
- The edit counter
- Wikipedian games
- Awards
- Reverting a page to undo vandalism (and the Three-revert rule)
- Reporting vandalism to administrators (urgent cases only)
- Persistent vandals
- Current vandalism
- The Counter Vandalism Unit
- Most vandalized pages
- Don't provoke the vandals!
Feedback by editors, to editors.
- Featuring an article
- Featuring pictures
- Featuring lists
- Peer review
- Administrator nominations
You can also ask the Misplaced Pages community to consider...
- ...deleting an article (full policy)
- ...moving a page or merging it with another (and how to actually do it)
- ...protecting a page (full policy)
- ...deleting, merging, or renaming a category
- ...deleting a template (or a stub type)
- ...deleting images and other media
- Stay cool!
- Be nice to newcomers
- Alert others
- Request assistance from a members' advocate
- Dispute resolution
- Arbitration policy
 More about Misplaced Pages
Welcome!
Overview of Misplaced Pages (All about Misplaced Pages)
- Category:Misplaced Pages
What Misplaced Pages is not
Press Kit resources for press enquiries
About Wikipedians
- Category-based access to pages about Misplaced Pages
- Glossary of common Misplaced Pages terms
- What Misplaced Pages is not
- Another way to browse help topics
- Category:Misplaced Pages how-to (a full list of help topics)
- The Simplified Ruleset: Misplaced Pages in a nutshell
- The Five Pillars that define what Misplaced Pages is...
- ...and is not
- Misplaced Pages in eight words
- Misplaced Pages etiquette
- Be bold!
- Neutral point of view (NPOV)
- Misplaced Pages:Verifiability
- Copyright
- Editing policy
- Image use policy
- Citing Misplaced Pages
- Libel
- Page protection policy
- Deletion policy
- Policy on permanent deletion of pages
- Privacy policy
- List of policies and guidelines
- List of official policies
- List of guidelines
 Communication
 Getting in touch
- Contact us
- Discussion pages
- User pages
- Babel - multi-lingual Wikipedians
- Misplaced Pages mailing lists
- Chat with other users on IRC
- Get involved at the Community Portal
- Village pump
- News
- Policy
- Technical
- Proposals
- Assistance
- Miscellaneous
- Bug reports and feature requests
- Wikipedians
- Surveys
- Meta Misplaced Pages, a site that works alongside the main Misplaced Pages project. Here you can post essays and discussions about topics related to Misplaced Pages.
- Contingency page for when the main Misplaced Pages server is down
- Instant Messaging
- In person meetings
 Keeping informed: News
- The Signpost - Misplaced Pages's newspaper
- Misplaced Pages in the media
- Goings-on
- Announcements
- Press releases
- Stats
- Milestones
- Regional notice boards
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 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- FAQ list
- Overview FAQ
- Administration FAQ
- Contributing FAQ
- Editing FAQ
- Schools FAQ
- Misc FAQ
- Problems FAQ
- Readers' FAQ
- Technical FAQ
- Tutorial
- Simplified ruleset, essential information to understand when editing articles (for new editors).
- For more advanced policies and guidelines, see that section on this page.
 Editing - how to:
- Edit a page, including markup details.
- Experiment with editing pages in the sandbox
- You can also carry out editing experiments "in situ" by editing the page itself and using the Show Preview button. Be careful not to accidentally save the page though! If you do, then Revert your changes.
- Cheat! (editor's cheat sheet - keep this open in another window)
- Use sections in an article
- Test edits, and other things
- Revert a page to an earlier version
- Use categories
- Use redirect pages
- Do a purge
- Edit an article so long that you can't edit
- edit with an external editor
- See also Advanced editing below
- Report your change in the edit summary
- Handle an edit conflict
- Use minor edits
 Creating links - how to:
- Link Misplaced Pages articles
- Use an alternate link descriptor (the piped link)
- Link together Misplaced Pages articles in different languages
- Link words in articles to articles on sister projects
- Link to related articles on sister projects
- Create links to external pages
- Use page names
- Use namespaces
- Use headings as anchors' to link to
 Creating pages - how to:
- Start a new page
- Naming conventions in general (full list of specific naming conventions)
- Create pages for topics with several different definitions
- Create subpages
- Stub articles (List of Stub Styles)
 Lifecycle of an article - how to:
- Start a new page
- Name and rename a page
- Improve an article
- Write your first article
- Write a better article
- Write a great article
- Write the perfect article
- Translate articles
- Find out where your help is needed at the Community Portal
 Style
- List of style guidelines
- Layout
- Naming conventions
- Disambiguation (pages which resolve ambiguity for articles with similar titles)
- Captions
- Image use
- Manual of Style
- Biographies
- Command-line examples
- Dashes
- Dates & numbers
- Disambiguation
- Headings
- Links
- Mathematics
- Pronunciation
- Titles
- Trademarks
- How to link to Wikimedia projects
 Sources
- Cite the sources: How | Why | What is a reliable source?
- Sources for articles
- List of Resources for researchers
- Public domain resources
- Newspapers and magazines request service
 Advanced editing
 File management - how to:
- Start a new page
- Move and merge a page
- Delete pages/images/categories
- Protect and unprotect pages (sysops only)
 Formatting - how to:
- Use Wiki markup codes
- HTML codes in wikitext
- Use tables
- Use special characters
- Use easy timeline syntax
- Edit mathematical formulae using TeX
 Templates
- A quick guide to templates
- Templates
- Boilerplate text
- List of available templates
- Place images into articles
- How to upload files to Misplaced Pages (and the actual form)
- Understand the image description page
- Create graphics for pages
- Image use policy
- Images and multimedia
- Image list
 Administrator privileges
- Administrator nominations
- Administrators page
- List of administrators
- Administration FAQ
- Administrator's reading list
- Bureaucrats
- Elections
- Meta
- Purge
- Fix cut & paste moves
- Page protection
 The Misplaced Pages syntax
 Super-advanced editing
- Help:Editing shortcuts
- Tools
- Editing toolbar
- "Magic words"
- Variables
 Tracking changes
- Special pages
- Recent changes (and the recent changes patrol)
- Enhanced recent changes
- Related changes
- Watching pages
- Public watchlists
- Page history
- Diff
- User contributions
- Edit summary
- Minor edit
 Technical information
- About Wikimedia
- The MediaWiki software
- MediaWiki User's Guide (links to another website) For those who have installed the MediaWiki software that runs this site, and need help using it.
- Requests and bug reports
- Browser notes
- Bots
- How to Download Misplaced Pages content
- Database download
- Export page(s) in XML
 Fun stuff
- Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
- Department of Fun
- Misplaced Pages:List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create
- Misplaced Pages:Talk page highlights
- m:Really Reformed Church of Misplaced Pages
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