On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Sarah <slimvir...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 13:54, phoebe ayers <phoebe.w...@gmail.com> wrote: >> * "how do I delete an article?" and its counterpart: "why was my >> article deleted?" >> * "how do I merge/split an article?" >> * "hey, can I reference a blogpost in this article?" >> >> There are formatting questions that aren't so easy to figure out either: >> * "how do I put a footnote in an article?" >> * "how do I find and insert an infobox?" > > In fact a lot of those issues are spelled out very clearly. See > [[WP:BLOGS]] for whether you can reference a blogpost. See > [[WP:INCITE]] for a quick way to add a footnote. See > [[Category:Infobox templates]] for how to add an infobox.
I am pleased that all these areas have been so well documented (I have a hard time agreeing that AfD is easy to use, though!) Is that true for everything, though? Would it be worthwhile to fix up other procedure pages? I didn't list these particular examples because I thought they were necessarily the hardest problems on the wiki; I listed them because they're common questions and have historically been the source of a lot of discussion. This is by no means an exclusive list :) And guidelines need to be thought of in context too -- how do you get from someone asking about their citation to the guideline above? Is there a clear path? Is it easy to find? Let's think big here about improving the help pages in general. -- phoebe _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
