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Frequently Asked Questions

Getting started
Introduction | Glossary of Wikipedia terms

Policies and guidelines
The Five Pillars | Manual of Style

Browsing Wikipedia
Search for an article | Find articles and site functions

Communication methods
Village pump | Talk pages

Editing Wikipedia
Cheatsheet | Contributing to Wikipedia | Tutorial

The Wikipedia community
Adopt-a-User | Deleting pages | Resolving disputes

Links and references
How to make links | External links | Citing sources

Resources and lists
List of stub types | Pages needing attention | Templates

Images and media
Uploading images | Image copyright tags | Other media

Account settings and maintenance
Change your preferences | Change your signature

Keeping track of changes
Page history | User contributions | Vandalism

Technical information
Tools | The MediaWiki software

Where to ask questions
Help Desk - for questions on how to use Wikipedia.
New contributors' help page - Help for Beginners.
Reference Desk - for general knowledge questions.

To view all of the menus on one page, see the Site Map.

See also: Department directory and Quick directory.

Tip of the day...

Signing your posts prevents readers from getting your messages confused with those by other users. Therefore, it is considered proper "Wikiquette" (WI-kee-ket) to sign your messages on talk pages. To do this, add four tildes (~~~~) to the end of your message. When you save the page, these will be converted to your signature and a date stamp. To sign without a date stamp, use three tildes (~~~) instead. The default signature for your account is your username, but you can customize it in your preferences menu.

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