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A Wikipedian prepares to do some cutting. Content removal is the removal of material that provides information from an article, without deleting the article itself. While an entire page can be deleted only via the deletion process (ultimately completed by an administrator), even a single unregistered editor can boldly remove part of a page.
Read the article's talk page, which may provide reasons why the article should or should not be deleted. Check that what you wish to delete is an article. Templates, categories, images, redirects and pages not in the main article space (including user and Wikipedia namespace pages) have their own deletion processes separate from AfD.
The moss project seeks to find and remove the furry green typos that have been growing on Wikipedia articles. It uses a python script named moss and written by User:Beland to automatically find misspellings, mistakes in English grammar, violations of the Wikipedia:Manual of Style, and confusing or broken wiki markup.
If the article is unsourced, but verifiable and doesn't violate any other policies, you cannot delete it. However, if an article contains original research, or cannot be verified, or lacks notability under a guideline, or is a point-of-view article, or any of the other deletion criteria, then you can list it at articles for deletion.
The article message box that appears at the top of an article after you place a prod template includes the reason for the proposed deletion; information for other editors who might disagree with the nomination, including the editor who created the page; the date and time the message was posted, and when the 7 days will be up; a comment for the ...
Citation text. ^ Citation text2. ^ a b c Citation text3. Templates that can be used between <ref></ref> tags to format references {{ Citation }} • {{ Cite web }} • {{ Cite book }} • {{ Cite news }} • {{ Cite journal }} • Others • Examples As noted higher on this page, unless you thoroughly source a page in response to this template, it may more appropriate to switch this template ...
There is no automated way to create a new section within an article. Simply write the section heading as a short paragraph and apply appropriate formatting. When editing in the visual mode, write the section name and use the "Paragraph" button in the toolbar to select the heading or sub-heading style you want to apply to it.
{{Expert needed}} for articles needing expert attention {{Not English}} for articles written in a foreign language {} for bias {} for a short article {{More citations needed}} for lack of verifiability {} for a small article that could be merged into a larger one {} for other issues. Pages with incorrect names can simply be renamed.