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Editing Wikipedia: has general help for editors. Links and references: has help for creating links, or dealing with references; Images and media: how to use images, videos and sound files. Keeping track of changes: how to track the evolution of a page, or follow a user. Policies and guidelines: for community standards.
If your question is about a Wikipedia article, draft article, or other page on Wikipedia, tell us what it is! Check back on this page to see if your question has been answered. For real-time help, use our IRC help channel, #wikipedia-en-help. New editors may prefer the Teahouse, a help area for beginners (but please don't ask in both places).
There is the Help Menu and Help Directory for a listing of help related pages. Wikipedia:Directory: a descriptive list of Wikipedia's directories and indexes. Wikipedia:FAQ: a list of Frequently Asked Questions. Wikipedia:Questions: discusses how to ask questions on Wikipedia. Wikipedia:Tips: how to use Wikipedia in bite-sized morsels.
Help menu – main menu-style help page (old format used on the Help:Contents page). Navigating Wikipedia – a list of help pages for reading the encyclopedia and navigating the site. Joining Wikipedia – a list of basic introductions about how to get started. Editing Wikipedia – a list of general help pages for editors.
The Help namespace (prefix Help:): contains pages which provide help in using Wikipedia and its software, both for users of the encyclopedia and for editors (e.g., Help:Footnotes). However the Wikipedia namespace also contains many help style pages that in some cases contain repeated information or more detailed information. For example ...
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This page exists to help save you and us time, by making sure you're asking the right people before you actually ask. First and foremost, if your question is a general knowledge query not specifically related to Wikipedia, you probably want to visit the Wikipedia:Reference desk, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Where you might want ...
For a page on how to use Wikipedia in bite-sized morsels, see Wikipedia:Tips For advice on writing style and formatting in a bullet-point format, see Wikipedia:Styletips For summaries of some Wikipedia protocols and conventions, see Wikipedia:Dos and don'ts