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An orphan is an article which has no articles linking to it. Links to articles make them more accessible/findable. Click "What links here" in the left hand column to check. You can make a new article non-orphaned by adding categories, "blue links" and adding the new article to other related articles (e.g., in the "See also" section)
Source editor – edits the wikitext of the article, which uses some special characters, like adding [[brackets]] to create a link to another page, or asterisks to make bullet points. Visual Editor – a tool similar to a word processor, for editing articles without the need to understand any special codes or markup. Visual Editor is the default.
Edit a section of an article, not the entire article (editing of sections is discussed in the 'Editing article sections' section). Click the "history" tab to see if an article is getting a lot of edits; if so, do a series of small (quick) edits rather than trying to do a lot of changes within a single edit.
One client, though quite young, is creating innovative international events. A Wikipedia article about her, Zeo thinks, would be ideal free publicity, and she would be appreciative. Creating the article is a breeze, using text from old press releases, with links to various Web sites about the client, her organization, and her events.
Articles in need of basic copyediting may be tagged with templates, such as {} or {{copyedit-section}}. A list of such articles can be found in a few places. The easiest places to get started are: Category:All Wikipedia articles needing copy edit, a list of articles tagged with copy editing templates.
Articles are submitted and approved by participating editors on the nominations page. Successful nominations are listed on the articles list. Articles on that page can be improved at any time. One article is randomly selected from the list of articles each week, which is placed in the schedule.
2) If a section of an article summarizes what is in another, more detailed article. In Wikipedia, such a section is called summary style, and should be a few paragraphs long. Immediately below the heading of the section is a link to the main article, which contains all the sources.
Link the article: Go to other Wikipedia articles that mention the topic and if a wikilink would add value to that article, add a wikilink to the article. Did You Know : If the article is new, or you expanded the content of an article by five (known as "five times expanded"), the article is eligible for the Did You Know column on the Wikipedia ...