User:Drocj

Links for newcomers

welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

• Introductory tutorial
• Writing an article
• Community portal
• Tutorial
• The Teahouse (newcomer help)
• Main help desk

Need some ideas of what kind of things need doing? Try the Task Center.

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How to write better articles

• Copyediting:
  • Tony1's redundancy exercises have helped me write easier sentences
  • Drop the howevers: User:John/however
• Avoid WP:SENSATIONALism
• Quick and ugly check to see if your writing is too difficult: The Hemingway App. A readability score (Flesch Kincaid Reading Ease) over >45 is fairly okay. Another rule of thumb: 4S: short words, short sentences, short paragraphs, short articles.
• Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (science): use reviews, don't write them.

Help Pages

Useful templates

• Wikipedia:Neutrality templates, in particular,
  • {{Fringe theories}}
  • {{POV}}—There is a current dispute about the article's neutrality.
  • {{Unbalanced}}
  • {{Undue-inline}}—Inline citation to tag a source which might have been given more prominence than justifiable.
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles, in particular,
  • {{Unreliable fringe source}}—Inline citation to tag a specific sentence that may use a fringe source inappropriately.
  • {{Verify credibility}}—Inline citation for a source that may be unreliable
  • {{Third-party-inline}}—Inline citation to tag a specific sentence that may use a non-independent source inappropriately.

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Understanding the vandal-fighting web

Wikipedia works because of how many people participate in creating and checking its pages. All changes go through a virtual filter--a gauntlet--of intelligent computer and human review. Thousands of people are constantly scouring new changes, and millions of readers keep an eye out for anything that seems off.

Because of this process, research studies have shown that Wikipedia is just as accurate as traditional encyclopedias, but its errors get fixed faster. We are living proof of the coders' motto that "With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". In other words, many hands make anything possible!

1. Edit filter (automatic pattern rejection)

2. CBNG (machine-learning artificial neural network bot)

3. Huggle, Igloo, Lupin's filtered list (human assisted regex/badwords)

4. STiki (cbng residual feed, missed vandalism, subtle vandalism--human assisted metadata and pattern based review)

5. Article watchlists, selective page and topic monitoring by users

6. Pending changes, live version delay, reviewed by autoconfirmed users

7. Semi-protection, prevents non-autoconfirmed users from editing

8. Full protection, prevents non-admins from editing

9. Official readers, journalists and subjects of articles who report mistakes in the news (not good!)

10. Random readers, millions of individuals who fix errors when they come upon them