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articles and to learn to wikify articles. The ease with which new articles can be created, however, can be seen as problematic when users get into "creation mode" and create more stubs than coherent articles. This can even be irritating, if the stub is accompanied by a "I don't know much about this -- would someone who does please write the article?" message. So...if you can't create a stub that's accurate and helpful, maybe you should leave that topic for someone else to do by choice, rather than because they feel obligated to edit.
1524:, 24 - link the few instances where you have actually encapsulated complexity, i.e. where you could have gone on for a page here but decided you couldn't. It's fair to use the same phrase in incidental explanation, where it's not absolutely essential to understanding, but signal that it's not so critical here by not linking it. In other words, when someone actually sees a link, it should be because you thought there was a reasonable chance they would need to follow it.
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Opponents include: 24 - to hell with trademarks - kleenex, xerox, etc., are legitimate verbs if they serve the purpose of illustrating a point, and things like informatics or metadata even more so. But keep your citing within fair use, don't confuse generic and proper use, e.g. don't say MetaData if
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English-language wikipedia, the English form does not always have to come first - sometimes the non-English word is better as the main text with the English in parentheses or set off by commas after it and sometimes not. Non-English words in English-language wikipedia should be given emphasis -
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Do whatever you see fit, if you think it will make
Knowledge (XXG) more useful for readers. Try engaging in such Knowledge (XXG)-related activities that improve Knowledge (XXG)'s usefulness most. You should decide yourself whether it's more important to write articles or to promote Knowledge (XXG),
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benefits from having a copy of the primary source close by) 24 - sometimes the best thing to do is cite and let the reader decide. For instance
Gulliver's Travels is an old book, it's hard to read to find the fun passages, so I plucked them to illustrate the point. If I plucked too mcuh, someone
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Opponents include: 24 - ok, I support this rule mostly. But if the sense in which the words in the title are being used is important, i.e. you are defining them specifically in the context of the phrase, then you should boldface that usage in the text where it matters, i.e. use of any other word
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Opponents include: 24 - hypertext has different rules. Don't provide data easily discoverable on google or bookfinder - but yes do make the references visible in a printout - names of authors should ALL have their own wiki entries, even if totally obscure - that helps us differentiate - also use
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Since this is an encyclopedia, after a fashion, it would be best if you represented your controversial views either (1) not at all, (2) on *Debate, *Talk, or *Discussion pages linked from the bottom of the page that you're tempted to grace, or (3) represented in a fact-stating fashion, i.e., which
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Wikipedians, the beginning of a provocative
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Wikipedians supporting/opposing rules on this page used to be on one, unbroken line. By adding each new name on its own line, it is easy to view the diff of the article to see exactly
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Opponents include: 24 - as a protest - law and physics and economics like to steal short words and make them meaningless to everyone else, e.g. "cause", "Standard Model", "fiat" - we are not writing textbooks here with one point of view of one professor - if a field steals a short word, we should
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The human who is information processing has a capability to store this many items in short term memory. Longer lists, unending prose and unwieldy sentences are uncomfortable for most readers to process. Use all kinds of grouping instead. Use lists, sublists, paragraphing. And use short sentences.
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will want articles on
Knowledge (XXG) about. Put external links in a "links" section at the end of the article. For example, if you're writing an article about Descartes and you know of a great article about Rationalism online, don't link the word "Rationalism" to that article. Put in a "Links"
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Articles with good spelling and proper grammar will encourage further contributions of good content. Proper spelling of an article name will also make it easier for other authors to link their articles to your article. Sloppiness in one aspect of writing can lead to sloppiness in others. Always
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Opponents include: 24 - in my experience people learn jargon far better from good examples, good in-context use. This would be a better rule: ALWAYS include an "i.e." ("that is", restating the thing in different words), ALWAYS include an "e.g." ("for example", giving a more specific case).
2356:, i.e. grounds for banning that go beyond our traditional "sheer vandalism" threshold. If you support this rule, then you support the idea that Jimbo should, in extreme cases after considerable consultation with the community and the offender, actually cut someone off from participation.
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per se and their bare meanings, but in knowledge, information, facts about the items that the words identify. This doesn't mean we want only long articles, or that we don't want "stub" articles--it does mean, though, that "stub" articles should not consist just of a definition of a term.
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2349:-- Explanation: no calling people trolls, no calling people Stupid White Men, no accusations of any kind relating to the character of another person, nor their race, creed, sex, national origin, etc. The only thing that matters is the articles, not the people who write them.
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Phrases to avoid include "recently", "in modern times", "now considered", "is soon to become", and "the sixties"; instead use phrases such as "as of
October 2001" or "the 1960s." Imagine someone is reading your words in 1,000 years time. Will they make sense of it?
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what Axel said 24 strongly - the topic is as complex as it is, period. That said, likely you are putting too much in one article if you find you have just long laundry lists, which probably should only apply to names... also multiple layers or subheadings helps.
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should be moved to e-mail, because the debate is in most cases of genuine public interest. So the substantive debate should remain where it is; the unpleasant personal problems should be discussed, as necessary, privately. (Rule added Oct. 15, 2001.) Cf.
2167:. There should always be an unbroken chain of links leading from the Home Page to every article in the Knowledge (XXG); following the path you would expect to use to find your article may give you some hints as to which articles should link to your article.
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Charles Darwin should not begin with "Darwin created controversy with the publication of the Origin of Species...." It should begin with "Charles Darwin was a 19th century biologist who proposed the modern theory of evolution."
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support a rule, and create wikipedia:Name Of Rule debate pages where we can talk about the merits of the proposed rule. (The latter will help keep this page nice and clean for those people who are mainly interested in the rules themselves.)
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of us wish we'd make an effort to follow. So here's a page containing such rules. Two suggested features of this page are: add your name to a list of the rule's "supporters" or "opponents" to get an idea of how strongly
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Knowledge (XXG) should begin with a line or two that establishes context. These opening lines should include the most basic facts about the subject, including a short description/definition.
1233:(The Open Directory Project database would be excellent for this if it were actually open, and not under AOL's control. A wiki/FDL/public domain web directory would be an excellent complement to Knowledge (XXG).)
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560:.) Knowledge (XXG) articles in the end shouldn't be a series of disjointed comments about a subject, but unified, seamless, and ever-expanding expositions of the subject. (Rule introduced 29-Mar-2001)
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where available. Every Internet resource needs to have author (if known), title (so that the resource can still be located even if its URL changes) and URL, which should be given in plain view (like
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jargon, please don't just write a definition of a word and then stop; please don't just list the different senses that a word has. People who read an encyclopedia are not interested in
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would be wrong. Also, in the title itself, I like linking the words if and only if what the user sees on the other end is going to be wholly relevant to the phrase that I'm defining
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2073:(Doing this is highly non-trivial until Knowledge (XXG) begins to allow searching for phrases and for words shorter than four letters. Once this happens, move me to supporters.)
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larger or smaller than the group of text it refers to. (Very big fonts only make sense if you have a detailed outline structure that needs several levels of headers.)
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that P; contraposing, if it is not true that P, you should not write that P. This might require that you check your alleged facts. (Rule added Sept. 29, 2001.)
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page. The problem with this is that people disagree about what is patent nonsense. So be careful, anyway. It's possible that this makes supporters of this rule "
758:(either rewrite, or start discussion on /Talk), agreed 24 (once you've touched it, basically, you own it, Talk increases the chance that someone will respond),
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When writing an article, put bold markers around the word the article describes. This makes it easier for the casual reader to identify the topic.
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attributes a particular opinion to a particular person or group, rather than asserting the opinion as fact. (3) is strongly preferred. See the
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