User:Useight/Helps

Speedy Deletion Tags

• {{db-bio}} is for bio about non-notable person, group, etc
• {{db-nocontext}} is for no encyclopedic context
• {{db-spam}} is for blatant advertising
• {{db-inc}} is for a non-notable company
• {{db-nonsense}} is for pages about nothing; gibberish
• {{db|any}} text
• {{db-attack}} is for libel
• {{db-vandalism}} is for pure vandalism
• {{db-test}} is for a test pages
• {{db-nocontent}} is for blank pages
• {{db-copyvio|url=url of source}} is for copyright violations
• subst:prod|reason is for other possible deletions

Useful Templates

• {{Subst:uw-block1|sig=~~~~}} temporary vandalism block
• {{Subst:uw-block3|sig=~~~~}} indefinite vandalism block
• {{Subst:UsernameBlocked|sig=~~~~}} blocked username
• {{subst:uw-vandalism1|Article}}
• {{pp-protected|small=yes}} protected page
• <!--text here-->
• {{welcomeg}} ~~~~

Bureaucratic

Discussion	Header	Footer
Successful RfA	{{subst:rfap}}	{{subst:rfab}}
Unsuccessful RfA	{{subst:rfaf}}	{{subst:rfab}}
Successful RfB	{{subst:rfbp}}	{{subst:rfbb}}
Unsuccessful RfB	{{subst:rfbf}}	{{subst:rfbb}}
Bureaucrat discussions	{{subst:bdtop|a|p}} (passed RfA) {{subst:bdtop|a|f}} (failed RfA) {{subst:bdtop|b|p}} (passed RfB) {{subst:bdtop|b|f}} (failed RfB)	{{subst:bdbot}}
On hold RfA	{{subst:rfah}}	{{subst:rfab}}
On hold RfB	{{subst:rfbh}}	{{subst:rfbb}}
Successful BAG	{{subst:rfbagp}}	{{subst:rfbagb}}
Unsuccessful BAG	{{subst:rfbagf}}	{{subst:rfbagb}}

Important Pages

Important Pages

• List of Guidelines
• List of Policies
• Policy Changes

Tools

• Administrative Backlog
• Articles For Creation
• Backlog
• Categorical Index
• Deletion Debates
• Frequently Asked Questions

• Glossary
• Help Desk
• Help Needed
• List of Administrators
• Move a Page
• Proposed Deletions

• Report Vandals
• Reference Desk
• Requested Articles
• Unblock Requests
• Village Pump
• WikiProject Council

Usage Policies

• Appealing a Block
• Arbitration Policy
• Arguments to Avoid
• Article Ownership
• Assume Good Faith
• Banning Policy
• Be Bold
• Blocking Policy
• Bot Policy
• Canvassing
• Civility
• Consensus
• Content Forking

• Criteria for Speedy Deletion
• Deletion Policy
• Don't Bite the Newcomers
• Don't Interrupt to Make a Point
• Editing Policy
• Etiquette
• External Links
• Five Pillars
• Ignore All Rules
• No Legal Threats
• No Open Proxies
• No Personal Attacks
• Office Actions
• Other Stuff Exists

• Piping
• Protection Policy
• Request for Protected Page
• Resolving Disputes
• Signatures
• Sock Puppets
• Spam
• Spoilers
• Three Revert Rule
• Troll Definition
• User Pages
• Usernames
• Vandalism
• Wheel War

Article Policies

• Bands
• Biographies
• Biographies of Living People
• Citing Sources
• Conflict of Interest
• Five Pillars
• Listcruft
• Lists
• Manual of Style
• Naming Conventions
• Neologism
• Neutral Point of View
• Notability (Academics, Books, Fiction, Films, Companies, Websites)
• Original Research
• Ownership
• Reliable Sources
• Snowball's Chance
• Verifiability

• What Wikipedia is Not:
  • Battleground, Anarchy, Democracy, Bureaucracy
  • Blog, Webspace Provider, or Social Network
  • Censored
  • Collection of Trivia
  • Crystal Ball
  • Dictionary
  • Directory (Loosely-associated list, genealogical or phonebook entries, directories, sales catalog, yellow pages, price guide)
  • For Things Made up in School One Day
  • Indiscrimate Collection of Information (FAQ, Plot Summary, Lyrics Database, Statistics, News Reports)

• • Manual, Guidebook, or Textbook (How To Guide, Travel Guide, Internet Guide, Textbook)
  • Mirror (Collections of External Links, Internal Links, Public Domain, Photographs)
  • Publisher of Original Thought (Original Research, Original Inventions, Personal Essays, Discussion Forums, Journalism)
  • Soapbox (Propaganda, Advocacy, Opinion Pieces, Self-Promotion, Advertising)

Useful Links

• Most Vandalized Pages
• New Pages
• Recent Changes
• Contested Candidates For Speedy Deletion
• All Pages
• Warning Templates
• Logs
• Articles Created
• Edit Counter
• Detailed Edit Counter
• Another edit counter
• Template:Sockpuppet
• Traffic Counter
• Special:PrefixIndex
• Page Statistics
• User List
• Help:Special page
• Pages in common
• SUL Utility
• What links here
• Milestone finder
• WikiChecker
• Userrights checker
• RFA comments
• Last 500 edits breakdown
• How many are watching a page
• Recent change filter

Work Areas

• CAT:CSD
• WP:AIV
• WP:UAA
• WP:ANI
• WP:AN
• WP:AFD

• WP:PER
• WP:XFD
• WP:RFPP
• WP:COIN
• CAT:UNBLOCK
• WP:RFR
• WP:NEEDCAT
• Special:Userrights

Procedures

RfA closure

• {{subst:rfaf}}
• Remove talk link, double-check final tally, mark close time with ~~~~~
• {{subst:rfab}}
• Remove from WP:RFA listing.
• Add to:
  • Wikipedia:Unsuccessful adminship candidacies
  • User:NoSeptember/List of failed RfAs (Chronological)
• Contact editor

AfD closure

• {{subst:at}} '''RESULT'''. ~~~~
• {{subst:ab}}
• Reminder: remove the "REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE" template
• Tag talk page with {{Oldafdfull}}