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Frequently Asked Questions

Getting started
Introduction | Glossary of Wikipedia terms | Some advice for parents

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 | Dispute resolution

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
Upload 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 - questions on how to use Wikipedia.
New contributors' help page - help for beginning users.
Reference desk - general-knowledge questions.

See the Site Map for all of the menus on one page.

See also: Department directory, Editor's index, and Quick directory.

Tip of the day...

Any user can become an administrator (AKA "sysop"). Admins have no special rights over the content of Wikipedia; they are like janitors. An admin can delete pages (in accordance with Wikipedia:Deletion policy), protect them (in accordance with Wikipedia:Protection policy), and block vandals (in accordance with Wikipedia:Blocking policy). All of these actions can be undone by any sysop. If you have been active on Wikipedia for some time (four to six months with at least 3000 edits is a good guideline), apply for adminship today if you want to help with the housekeeping.

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