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Do not edit articles that are closely related to you, such as your school's article, or any articles related to your location and where you live. Do not write articles about yourself . If you are a very important person (or what we refer to as a notable person ), someone else will write an article about you.
Before you start to edit Wikipedia, create an account and login. Logins may not be shared. You may want to create your own Userpage. Click on your username in the upper right-hand corner to create your userpage. Enable Visual Editor--click on the pencil icon on the upper right-hand corner and select “visual editing.”
A four-part, 57-page training intended for students doing assignments on Wikipedia, with more detailed introductions to core Wikipedia policies, editing basics, and more specific editing advice for students. Chapters: Welcome (4 pages); The Core (14 pages); Editing (24 pages); and Advanced and background (15 pages).
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For a guide to editing, see Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia; For an overview of commonly used style guidelines, see Wikipedia:Simplified Manual of Style; 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
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Has there been a case of kids handing out information on Wikipedia? Just curious. I don't see most Wikipedians nowadays being social enough to where they could, without looking like a weirdo, ask for personal information like addresses and phone numbers. SpartaN 09:56, 24 January 2018 (UTC) @SpartaN: hi. The essay is not about only "upon being ...
The sandbox, in edit mode. The text in the box (the edit box) is only an example—what you see will depend on what the other editors have just done to the page. The edit toolbar along the top of the edit box is standard; it provides one-click options for the most common kinds of formatting of content. Also standard is all the text between the ...