User:Bongan

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Tip of the moment... How to link to a category To add a link to a category in an article (as opposed to adding the article to a category) create a normal link to the category page but place a colon at the beginning of it, just after the double opening square brackets. Here's an example: To provide a link to Category:Animals (just like this one), add the text [[:Category:Animals]] where you want the link to appear. (Notice the extra colon at the beginning of the link). Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: Wikipedia:Categorization   Help:Colon trick   Meta:MediaWiki User's Guide: Using Categories   Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}

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Policies and guidelines

• Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources
• Wikipedia:Notability
• Wikipedia:No original research
• Wikipedia:Verifiability

• Wikipedia:Deletion policy
• Wikipedia:Before nominating an article for deletion
• Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion
• Wikipedia:Citing sources
• Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners

Related projects

• WikiProject Stubsensor
• WikiProject Citation cleanup
• WikiProject Fact and Reference Check
• WikiProject Resource Exchange
• Unreferenced BLP Rescue

Cite tools and templates

• List of request references template messages
  • Category:Citation and verifiability maintenance templates
  • Category:Inline citation and verifiability dispute templates
  • Category:Citation templates

• Reftool
• Reftools
• Universal Reference Formatter
• WebCite - Archives a cited web page, providing a view of the page as it was at the time of citation.

Finding references

• Google web search
• Google books search
• Google news search
• Google scholar

• Wikipedia:List of free online resources
• Wikipedia:Goodcharts - A list of links to verify music chart positions and certifications.

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