RationalWiki:Help

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This is the RationalWiki "Help Desk". If you have a technical question or problem, start a new section on the talk page. Good, complete answers to FAQs should be saved in sub-files and linked from here.

NOTE: RationalWiki's department of National, International and Universal Security (NIUS) has rendered some abilities not available to anonymous and/or new editors. This is because we (the mob) are mean and want to dilute the actions of potential wandals. NIUS has determined that reducing the abilities of such persons or bots also reduces the workload on hard pressed Editors, Sysops and Bureaucrats. Complaints may be addressed to anyone at all, 'cause nobody will do anything about it.

Contents 1 Useful Links 1.1 About the site 1.2 Being uberKewl 1.3 Miscellaneous 1.4 Editing Articles 1.4.1 General 1.4.2 Specific Subjects 2 Questions? 3 More Help to Give?

[edit] Useful Links

[edit] About the site What is RationalWiki What's a Namespace? RationalWiki:Community Standards RationalWiki:DysLexicon (Our own special vocabulary.) RationalWiki:Blocking policy New to RationalWiki? List of RationalWiki sysops [edit] Being uberKewl How to work with userboxen How to make a cooler signature How to avoid boredom How to brag about your achievements Templates, what are they? A list of RationalWiki's templates How to make a day counter [edit] Miscellaneous Getting around RationalWiki Creating an account How to handle vandalism Putting articles on the Main Page What's a "watchlist"? Offsite, but a useful tutorial in using wiki markup that we haven't stolen written yet.

[edit] Editing Articles To edit an article click on the edit tab or, if there is one, click on the edit at the side of the particular section header (this makes it easier to find when dealing with long articles or talk pages). [edit] General Goat How to write a RationalWiki Article How to start a new article How to edit politely How to avoid common mistakes Wikipedia's Editor's help files The "Toolbar" [edit] Specific Subjects What's an "edit summary?" Abbreviations used in them Page titling, renaming & moving About special words and symbols How to insert links How to link to specific page versions at wikis What is a Red Link? How to format headers How to show or hide tables of contents How to use references How to add images Image copyright notices A primer on colors All about lists How to make tables A template to help build side-by-side articles Formatting quotations Here's a sandbox to play around in.

[edit] Questions?

If you have any questions, go to the talk page and create a new section.

[edit] More Help to Give?

If you add a page to this index please:

1. put it in [[category:Help]]
2. add template {{Helpnav}} (no parameters required)
3. add template {{keyword|helpkey=parameter}}, replacing parameter with a short reference to identify your page. This is the "name" it will have in the navigation box you see below.

Help pages for RationalWiki
	- RationalWiki -- Blocking -- Standards -- Jargon -- Templates -- Bored -- Listing your creations -- Colors -- Image copyright -- Cover story -- Edit summary -- Summary abbreviations -- Editing etiquette -- Navigation -- Day counter -- Copying code -- Image -- Links -- Links -- Lurking -- Common mistakes -- Namespaces -- Writing a new article -- Titling pages -- Permanent links -- Quotations -- Link colors -- References -- Why register -- Headers and sections -- TOC (table of contents) -- Tables -- Template list -- Toolbar -- Watchlist -- Wikipedia help files -- Wiki language -- Signatures -- Vandalism -- Whitewash (the project) -- Side by side comparison -- Sysop guide -- Userboxen -