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Note: This page will become the main help contents page but it is currently under construction. Currently it contains links to all the existing help, policy and about pages. Many of these pages need to be reworked, combined or updated and the staff editors will try to revamp one a week (look below for notes. Please feel free to improve these articles (especially the ones that have already gotten a once-over by the staff editors), though for official policy articles it is best to make proposals in their talk pages first. Contact Conor Kenny for details
These are the help pages for SourceWatch:
Contents
- 1 Getting started
- 2 Getting started with Congresspedia and TobaccoWiki
- 3 Browsing and finding information
- 4 Images, media and copyrighted material
- 5 How to participate
- 6 Editing help
- 7 Keeping track of changes
- 8 Policies and guidelines
- 9 References and sourcing
- 10 Researching information to add to SourceWatch
- 11 Communication methods
- 12 The SourceWatch community
- 13 Resources and lists
- 14 Account settings and maintenance
- 15 Technical information
- 16 General help
- 17 Technical editing help
- 18 Research guides
- 19 Policies and guidelines
- 20 Obsolete pages
- 21 Wikipedia and Wikimedia help pages
- 22 See also:
Getting started
- SourceWatch:About
- SourceWatch:General disclaimer
- SourceWatch:Purpose
- SourceWatch:A tour
- SourceWatch:FAQ
- SourceWatch:How to log in
Getting started with Congresspedia and TobaccoWiki
- Portal:Congresspedia (this will replace Congresspedia)
- SourceWatch:About Congresspedia
- Help:Getting started with Congresspedia
- Portal:Tobacco
- SourceWatch:About TobaccoWiki
- Help:Getting started with Tobaccowiki
- Help:Congresspedia templates and extensions
Browsing and finding information
- SourceWatch:Searching
- SourceWatch:How to explore SourceWatch
- SourceWatch:Categories
- SourceWatch:Find Senators and Representatives
Images, media and copyrighted material
Wikipedia pages for adaptation
- w:Wikipedia:Image copyright tags - Wikipedia uses image tagging to denote the use of and licensing of images on Wikipedia. One way they keep a lookout for copyright violations is by looking for untagged images.
- w:Template talk:PD-US - Tag for U.S. public domain.
- Wikipedia:Image copyright tags/Free licenses
- Guidelines for using content
- Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline
- Wikipedia:Public domain - A guide to what is public domain and may be used on Wikipedia.
- Wikipedia:Non-free content - Guidelines for using non-free content.
- w:Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria
- Wikipedia:Free or semi-free non-Public-Domain information resources - a list of places to find free or semi-free content. (maybe rename as "how to find public-domain material?)
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-11-21/CC compatibility - article that addresses compatibility between Creative commons and GFDL licenses. (Should use this to write guidelines on how to mix CC and GFDL content and for information to consider when exploring dual-licensing SourceWatch.)
- Free content article on free content.
- Multi-licensing (may be useful in deciding whether to generally multi-license SourceWatch
- w:Wikipedia:Multi-licensing
- User talk:Ram-Man/MLFAQ - an unofficial, user-authored FAQ on multi-licensing on Wikipedia.
- [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Guide_to_the_CC_dual-license meta.Wikimedia guide to creative commons dual licensing.
- CC in Review: Lawrence Lessig on Compatibility
- GNU on other licenses
How to participate
- SourceWatch:Contributing adapted to Help:Getting started on editing SourceWatch
- SourceWatch:How Fix An Error adapted to Help:How to fix or report an error
- SourceWatch:Find or fix a stub
- Help:Things you can do
Editing help
- SourceWatch:Categories
- SourceWatch:Stub
- SourceWatch:List of common misspellings
- Help:Useful blank tables
Keeping track of changes
Policies and guidelines
References and sourcing
Researching information to add to SourceWatch
Communication methods
The SourceWatch community
Resources and lists
Account settings and maintenance
Technical information
General help
- SourceWatch:Talk page
- SourceWatch:User preferences help
- SourceWatch:Utilities
- Help:SourceWatch projects
- Portal:Community Portal
- SourceWatch:Fair and accurate
- See also Point of view
Technical editing help
- SourceWatch:How to edit a page
- Help:How to start a new page - Revamped by User:Conor Kenny on 8/27/07. Open for feedback and comments.
- SourceWatch:How to delete pages
- SourceWatch:Templates
- Help:Sandbox
- SourceWatch:Sandbox
- SourceWatch:How to rename (move) a page
- SourceWatch:How to rename a page
- SourceWatch:How to revert a page to an earlier version
- SourceWatch:How to use redirect pages
- SourceWatch:Search engine optimization of articles
- SourceWatch:Uploading Images & PDFs
- Help:Advanced editing and technical information
- Help:Classes - Created by User:Conor Kenny on 9/11/07.
- Help:Portal
Research guides
- Resources for studying propaganda
- How to research front groups
- SourceWatch:How to Research Members of Congress
- SourceWatch:How to research U.S. legislation
- SourceWatch:Research using the web
Policies and guidelines
- SourceWatch:Article guidelines
- SourceWatch:Congresspedia article guidelines
- SourceWatch:Manual of Style
- SourceWatch:Naming conventions
Obsolete pages
- SourceWatch:Help (a general help page, needs to be folded into this new Help:Contents page --Conor Kenny 15:05, 13 September 2007 (EDT))
- SourceWatch:Congresspedia help (this page is linked to off the "help" link on Congresspedia pages, but the new help links will all point to Help:Contents, so this material needs to be folded in)
Wikipedia and Wikimedia help pages
I think many of these pages could be simplified - one way to do it would be to create a simpler version for us and link back to the main Wikipedia/Wikimedia pages.
- meta.wikimedia:Help:ParserFunctions
- w:Wikipedia:Colors
- w:Wikipedia:InterWikimedia links
- w:Wikipedia:How to edit a page
- meta.Wikimedia:Help:Link
- meta.Wikimedia:Help:Section
- w:Help:Edit summary
